Teacher and student onboarding simplified

Onboarding for all backgrounds and needs

The start of a new school year is exciting and nerve-wracking for both students and teachers alike. Both teachers and students may struggle to navigate unfamiliar educational situations. Students might grapple with understanding academic expectations, accessing crucial resources, or acclimating to the school's culture. While initial orientation programs are designed to introduce essential information, they often fall short in ensuring comprehensive understanding. Onboarding, however, is a continuous support system for students and teachers throughout the academic year. However, without the right resources, effective onboarding can require considerable time and resources.

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Develop effective onboarding programs without draining significant time and resources

Provide a connective hub to foster connection and belonging as students and teachers acclimate

Create a program that is standardized enough for consistency but personalized to account for diverse cultural, neurodiversity, and language needs in your teacher and student onboarding

Track and measure your onboarding program’s impact to maximize value and make adjustments where necessary

Onboarding vs. orientation

Orientation, the more common approach in academic institutions, is vital in introducing teachers and students to their new learning environment. It acquaints new students and teachers with school policies, procedures, and facilities. However, once the scheduled time lapses, the orientation ends, regardless of whether all initial objectives were met.

Onboarding, on the other hand, is a more continuous, comprehensive, and individualized process. It not only involves acquainting the new students or employees with the policies and procedures, but it also helps them acclimate to their new setting. It facilitates the development of skills and relationships and ensures a smooth transition into one’s new atmosphere.

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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 2022 Awards and numerous other awards.

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The benefits of establishing a solid foundation with onboarding

Transitioning from basic orientation and into a comprehensive onboarding process can have lasting positive effects on both students and teachers.

For both students and teachers, the transition into a new educational environment is pivotal and can affect their personal and professional development. For students, it allows them to adjust to not only academic requirements, but the social and emotional aspects associated with the new stage of their life as well. Onboarding new students can have a massive impact on retention, persistence, and long-term success.

Teacher onboarding provides candidates with a solid foundation and can help with everything from acquainting them with basic resources to helping them grow and improve to improving retention rates. According to a 2022 study, 44% of teachers quit in their first five years. However, effective onboarding can improve retention by 82%.

Overall, embracing a comprehensive onboarding approach fosters a culture of support, growth, and engagement for both students and teachers, ultimately laying the foundation for a successful educational community.

A modern learning platform for teacher and student onboarding

See how the CYPHER platform can help better acquaint teachers and students with their learning environment

Facilitate connection and inclusivity

Creating a connective online hub

COLLABORATION TOOLS

Features like forums, chats, and groups facilitate easy communication and collaboration among students and between students and teachers, enhancing the sense of community and peer learning. CYPHER stands out as the sole platform offering a real-time communication universal translator for support of 50+ languages for improved onboarding of ESL students.

Add a human touch

WEB CONFERENCING AND MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

To avoid the LMS feeling impersonal, CYPHER Learning emphasizes adding human elements. This includes organizing alumni talks, mentorship accounts, and adding pre-recorded videos for welcome messages and instructions. Active involvement in class chats and video conferencing adds a personal dimension to the digital experience.

Equal learning opportunities for all

ACCESSIBILITY

The platform is designed to be accessible, catering to students with different learning needs and preferences, which is essential for inclusive education. Accessibility features include: screen reader support, MS immersive reader, voiceover, accessibility themes, and more.

Develop and track skills

Streamline enrollment and administration

AUTOMATION

CYPHER is the only platform built around sophisticated automation from the ground up to heighten efficiency and scalability. Automatically enroll teachers and students into groups to create a more welcome learning environment and introduce peers, and automatically enroll new accounts into onboarding courses.

Easily monitor and assess student performance

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

With 50+ built-in and custom reporting options, teachers and administrators can track student and teacher progress in real time, providing immediate feedback and assessments. This data-driven approach helps to identify areas in the onboarding process that need improvement or clarification and provides a quick but comprehensive viewing of if people are staying up to date with onboarding.

Interactive learning environment

GAMIFICATION AND ASSIGNMENTS

Increase connection by teaming up students and teachers to earn points toward gamified material and break the ice. With CYPHER’s periodic leveling, points frequently reset to encourage participation and motivation.

Personalize onboarding journeys

Customizable and personalized onboarding journeys

LEARNING PATHS

Educators and administrators can create personalized learning paths for students and teachers. This allows for differentiated onboarding experiences for seasoned students and teachers versus new ones.These paths can include interactive and engaging materials like videos, campus navigation tips, and essential information about the institution, library access, study skills, career advice, and health support.

Combine the power of AI 360 with your unique content

UPLOADED CONTENT

With options to have AI 360 pull exclusively or primarily from your uploaded content – PDFs, videos, and more – you can quickly create courses tailored to your organization’s onboarding needs. Create a full student or teacher onboarding course from the materials, complete with quizzes, gamification, competencies, and more.

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Supercharged teacher and student onboarding. In minutes.

AI 360 with Copilot on the CYPHER platform can supercharge the development of student and teacher onboarding content – empowering you to create onboarding that is relevant to your organization and easily keep it updated. Have a new policy or need to add an onboarding section on DEI? Just upload your new policies or additions and let AI 360 create entire modules or courses from the content.

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