The best LMS for K-12 schools

Effortlessly keep courses up to date

Don’t you hate it when, just after you finish creating a course about the politics of the European Union, Brexit happens? Can’t history slow down? Keeping up with new material, in all subjects, can be difficult.

Are you struggling to…

Continually create and adapt courses so they remain relevant without draining your time and resources

Seamlessly integrate courses from ideation to implementation

Juggle dozens of course resources and materials across numerous platforms

Create engaging and individualized courses students will actually want to do

Quickly measure and track your students’ online educational progress, strengths, and weaknesses using more than just grades

Building a connected, personalized learning environment

The formative K-12 years in students’ learning journeys will lay the groundwork for how they learn and develop throughout their lives. Yet, teachers and school systems have lacked the resources to deliver the personalized and collaborative learning experiences students need to thrive, at scale. In any given classroom, the variability in how students learn has made it difficult, if not impossible, to ensure they’re actually retaining lessons. Digital transformation efforts, while well-intended, have only exacerbated the problem as – to date – they haven’t allowed for personalized online learning paths or the ability to meaningfully connect students and teachers, which leaves too many students struggling in silence.

Teachers and students deserve better. They deserve a modern learning platform K-12 designed for personalized, competency-based learning experiences at scale. A platform that leverages innovations like AI and gamification to empower teachers to design lesson plans that inspire their students and make them want to learn. Most importantly, they deserve a learning platform that leaves no student behind and helps teachers and parents ensure students are progressing and excelling at every turn. That platform is CYPHER Learning.

Pre-pandemic, a typical 5th-grade classroom could include students working at seven different grade levels, from 3rd grade to high school – which has likely expanded.

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Award-winning platform for education

In the past year, we’ve received over two dozen awards for our innovative learning technology, including Forbes Advisor’s “Best Overall Employee Training Software” and “Best LMS.” We’ve also received recognition for our work in academia, earning the title of “Best K-12 Remote Learning Partner” in the SIIA CODiE Awards and numerous other awards.

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Supercharged K-12 course creation. In minutes.

AI 360 with Copilot on the CYPHER platform can supercharge the development of K-12 curriculums and content – empowering you to deliver robust new courses fast and ensuring that course material engages and inspires your students. Imagine building competency-based, gamified, personalized content in just minutes!

This lets you:

Create highly personalized courses - using your own uploaded content from sources of your choosing - and launch it just in time!
Control your content’s quality, accuracy, and credibility
Ensure subject-matter proficiency for every student, at scale

AI 360 with CYPHER Copilot

Traditional way vs. CYPHER’s approach

The statistics speak for themselves: Today’s K-12 students are expected to have a low learning retention rate, such as 2% to 3%, in the year 2023 (Nutmeg Education). That’s because teachers and students are plagued with antiquated learning management systems that assume every student learns the same way. They don’t give teachers the tools and flexibility to create and deliver courses and content that map to what each individual student needs or engage them in ways that motivate and inspire. CYPHER is revolutionizing the way K-12 teachers and schools build and administer curriculums and courses. Thousands of schools use the CYPHER platform to empower their teachers to deliver effective and inspiring competency-based courses with personalized learning paths, engaging content, and advanced analytics – all geared toward helping students achieve mastery-level proficiency at every step in their learning journey.

Traditional way

What you get with CYPHER

One-size-fits-all approach doesn’t adapt to the student’s progress

Personalized learning profiles, competency mapping to content, assessments, and reporting in minutes – helping to ensure students understand and can prove mastery-level knowledge of each subject before they move on

You must manually bridge the gap between content development and delivery by using multiple, expensive tools

Unified content development and delivery allow you to create new courses and update courses faster

Rigid, static content formats that leave students bored and unengaged

Incorporation of new media and technologies like gamification to drive student engagement and retention of the subject at even the deepest level of detail

Conventional reporting that provide basic and rudimentary data

Insightful analytics, empowering you to track student progress, identify gaps in students’ knowledge and flag opportunities for improvement

Time-consuming and manual course creation

Automation and AI-powered tools cut course creation to minutes - allowing you to update and disseminate information just in time

Manual and outdated assessments

Adaptive assessments tagged to specific subjects help you understand what the student knows or doesn’t know

Minimal collaboration and connection

Human-centered connections and communities to facilitate peer discussions, group exercises and parent participation to help drive student performance and mastery of a given subject

A modern learning platform that delights teachers and students

See how CYPHER can help you deliver personalized courses and content, at scale:

Create personalized courses fast

INTERACTIVE CLASSES

With CYPHER, course creation is quick and simple. All it takes is a few clicks to set up instructor-led, self-paced, blended, or micro-learning courses that can be easily customized to the needs of your students. And AI 360 with Copilot on the CYPHER platform enables you to create online courses in minutes using both internal and external content.

Combine the power of AI 360 with your unique content

UPLOADED CONTENT

With options to have AI 360 pull exclusively from your uploaded content, you can quickly create courses tailored to the classes you teach. Upload slide decks, PDFs, materials from past years, and more. AI 360 with Copilot will take care of the rest. Create a full course from the materials, complete with quizzes, gamification, competencies, and more.

Develop assignments with ease

ASSIGNMENT TYPES

Choose from a broad portfolio of assignment types to target individual learning needs with interactive assignments. These include quizzes, essays, debates and surveys, as well as third-party assignments using our LTI support.

Measure and track student progress

COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING

Tailor courses to individual students to help them achieve mastery-level proficiency, and align assessments with competencies using advanced analytics tools to determine whether students are on track or falling behind in classes. This way, you can intervene and ensure students who need additional support receive it and keep pace.

Create personalized learning paths

AUTOMATION & ADAPTIVE LEARNING

With automation rules, you can make classes and learning paths more engaging for your students. These rules trigger actions throughout the platform and ensure each student sees personalized content based on their progress. No more aimless clicking through classes!

Make learning fun

GAMIFICATION

Get students excited to learn by including gamified elements in your classes. Students are awarded points and badges each time they complete certain tasks. You can either upload existing badges or create them from scratch with custom shapes, images, text, and colors.

Build and manage a school community

EFFICIENCY

Connect multiple schools from a district under a centralized hub and manage them in a single account. This encourages collaboration between schools and cuts subscription costs by facilitating the sharing of resources at a district level.

Create a parent-safe zone

PARENT ACCESS

Make it easier for parents and guardians to participate in and celebrate their student’s learning journey. With CYPHER, they can access their children’s grades and track their progress online, from any place at any time.

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What CYPHER K-12 customers say

"I have to say that CYPHER is heaven-sent. In the midst of a nationwide quarantine, we managed to maintain the standards of our education that we have built for almost two decades."

Marah Estuesta, Directress, Mindbuilders Preschool

"Assigning tasks is simple, curating instructions for students easier, and evaluating submitted activities more efficient."

Mariel Orosa, Academic Adviser, Berkeley School

"CYPHER enables educators to maximize their technical expertise and knowledge. Boosting productivity and efficiency."

Mark Alexis Ermita, Faculty member, STI Education System

Keep K-12 minds curious and craving more

Gartner K-12 market guide