Competency-based learning
Develop real-world skills at scale
Building mastery and real-world skills
Competency-based learning (CBL) helps learners build knowledge and demonstrate mastery one skill at a time. CYPHER combines AI-powered skills mapping, personalized learning, adaptive pathways, and mastery tracking to help trainers and organizations create learning experiences that develop real-world capability and confidence in those they train.
Whether you're preparing learners for future careers or helping employees build critical skills, CYPHER makes competency-based learning easier to create, manage, and measure.
“CYPHER Learning is not your typical “way inside the box” parochial learning tech. This is a supercharged next-generation technology platform that rocks competency and skills-based learning.”
Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer of Brandon Hall Group
Create and map competencies
Generate competencies with CYPHER Agent, access the extensive CYPHER library (thousands of pre-loaded competencies and job roles), or upload your own specific competencies. CYPHER Agent can automatically map competencies to learning content and assessments—saving hours of manual work while ensuring every course supports the skills that matter most.
Instantly identify competency gaps across your course. After tagging the content and assignments with competencies, coverage analysis highlights how well your course covers the competencies. This is a great way to identify weak spots in the course content and help to ensure each competency is being taught and assessed during the class or training.
With options to have CYPHER Agent pull exclusively from your uploaded content, you can quickly create courses tailored to the content on which you teach and train. Upload videos, PDFs, and other proprietary materials. CYPHER Agent will transform them into complete learning experiences with assessments, competencies, gamification, and interactive activities—all grounded in your own knowledge and brand.
Crafted competencies live in the resources library, ready for reuse across multiple courses. Beyond individual classrooms, these competencies can be easily shared among teachers within a school or district or extended to trainers and teams in an expansive enterprise setting. This ensures efficient collaboration and maximizes the impact of well-designed competencies across diverse educational and training environments.
Personalize every learning journey
Customized learning paths
Guide every learner through personalized learning paths that adapt to their progress, helping them master each competency and fostering continuous development. Learners can advance at their own speed, empowering individuals to concentrate on specific areas, ensuring mastery of each competency before advancing.
Adaptive learning automation
Implement automation to strategically unveil or conceal content based on learners’ progress and skill level. This maximizes content relevance and boosts engagement. Define mastery rules to unlock advanced modules, ensuring a dynamic learning progression. For example, if a learner achieves more than 80% on a competency, you can unlock an advanced lesson. If they stay between 30 - 40% for more than 10 days, set up a rule to send learning recommendations.
Certification and badges
Automatically award certificates and badges upon the completion of competencies or courses. Certificates and badges can be customized to meet the unique needs of your learners. This recognition serves as motivation for learners while acknowledging their mastery in particular areas, enhancing their sense of achievement and progress.
Manage and measure mastery
Track competency development in real time with dashboards and mastery insights. Identify learners who need additional support, monitor progress, and measure readiness with confidence. As learners progress, gain insights into their mastery levels and grasp of concepts through the mastery grid, pinpointing their stronger and weaker areas. Elevate learning experiences with comprehensive progress monitoring and targeted support.
Learners gain clear visibility into their , helping them understand strengths, identify development opportunities, and confidently work toward their goals. Learners can strategically focus on enhancing specific competencies relevant to their desired roles, ensuring targeted skill development. As they consistently demonstrate mastery, they build a robust foundation for career advancement. This proactive approach to competency-based learning serves as a valuable tool for learners to shape their professional journey.
Diverse assessment tools
Select from our array of 16 assessment tools, including quizzes, assignments, and projects, to gauge learner competency and mastery. Align assessments with specific competencies for targeted and effective evaluation. Tailor your assessment approach to ensure relevance and precision in measuring learner proficiency. This strategic assessment process enhances learners' overall skill development, fostering continuous improvement and better preparing them for career advancement and mastery in their chosen fields.
“One of the things that we are really excited about is being able to tie the state or national standards as competencies. This shows schools evidence that students are meeting standards.”
“CYPHER has helped create a more prepared, capable, and reliable team. We’ve seen stronger competency in key workflows and accuracy has improved significantly.”
“It has really helped us make sure that everybody is on the right track in mastering, or at least acquiring, fundamental knowledge and skills before they proceed to the next module.”