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Overview

Cognota

5.0

(10)

Pricing

Starting at $1,499.00 per year

About Cognota

Cognota is the first and only operations platform for corporate Learning and Development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes, allowing training teams to work more efficiently while providing them with much-needed data and insights about their operations.

This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers to get better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can make better, more strategic decisions about learning needs and investments.

For more information visit www.cognota.com.

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Cognota Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,499.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1,499.00

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Cognota Features

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Asynchronous Learning
Blended Learning
Built-in LMS
Certification & Licensing
Learner Portal
Learning Management
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
Progress Tracking
Reporting/Analytics
SCORM Compliance
Tests/Assessments
More features of Cognota
API
Audio/Video Recording
Built-in Course Authoring
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Contact Management
Content Management
Content Sharing
Corporate/Business
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Publishing
Customizable Branding
Customizable Questions
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Employee Portal
Goal Setting/Tracking
Instructor-Led Courses
Interactive Content
Interactive Learning
Media Import
Mobile Access
Onboarding
Performance Management
PowerPoint Conversion
Quizzes
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Self-paced Learning
Self-Service Content Curation
Single Sign On
Skills Assessment
Social Learning
Storyboarding
Synchronous Learning
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Training Administration
Training Companies
Training Management
Video Management
Video Support
Virtual Classroom

Cognota Integrations

Microsoft 365

Dropbox Business

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Google Drive

Oracle PeopleSoft

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Cognota User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.3

Lois K.

Verified reviewer

Research

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Get it done. Fast.

The team is relentlessly positive and responsive. They are eager to partner and listen well to feedback. They are honest when there are limitations and helpful with creating workarounds.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our goal was to build 100+ elearnings, working with global SMEs across the company. The easy interface sped up development, we saved roughly half our development time. Creating standard templates gave us brand-standardized results. The responsiveness of customer service far exceeds any and all prior experiences.

Cons:

Templates and ease of use come at a cost. There are some pieces that cannot be customized. The positives outweigh the limitations, so we are willing to design the elearning options around these limitations.

Jeff B.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

The missing link in your L&D software suite.

The team at Synapse is top-notch. Really engaged, responsive, knowledgable, and focused on continuous improvement. Our VP of Client Success really feels like part of our team, and Synapse has become an invaluable part of our overall L&D process. It's allowing us to work so much smarter and more efficiently.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Synapse really centralized and bridged the gap between training requests and the development of assets. Prior to Synapse, my team tried and failed with other programs and processes to manage training requests, projects, and capacity planning. With Synapse, every employee on the L&D team has insight into what requests we receive, who is working on what, all in a central platform. We have absolutely reduced the time it takes to review a request, script it, and get it ready for development.

Cons:

Would like to see more robust reporting and analytics, as well as the ability to house final authoring files, making it a completely one-stop show for course managment.

Reasons for choosing Cognota

Synapse was the only learning-focused product. Everything else we evaluated didn't actually fulfill our needs to effectively manage training intake, project planning, and rapid design.

Nazli P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Cloud trainer

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cloud based learning tool and i really like its webinar and live session trainings.

Cons:

Its very expensive and that's the only thing i feel no easy solution for middle or low range business.

Christopher L.

Verified reviewer

Retail

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Cognota is a powerful learning program management tool

The Cognota support customer experience teams are extremely approachable, friendly and supportive. The user interface is clean and easy to use. Cognota makes this easy.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cognota's intuitive point and click interface and easy to use design.

Cons:

Very little, The support we have from our Cognota team has been exemplary. Forced to pic, having only some field that can be searched and having to select Boolean operators each time when running searches is just click heavy at times. But not to any great extent.

Reasons for choosing Cognota

n/a

Amanda C.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Great Platform for Remote Employee Onboarding and Training Materials

Prior to Synapse, maintaining an up-to-date training repository was difficult given the number of regional offices located across the country. Now, Synapse has allowed us to create one central hub for all of our training materials and we can rest assured that our staff is accessing the most relevant and updated materials.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Synapse was easy to use and deploy to our remote field staff. The ability to constantly update and refresh our materials without having to switch out any links was very helpful.

Cons:

One thing I would like to have seen is increased tracking and analytics for course usage, beyond the assessment.

Shannon H.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Synapse Brings Visibility to our Global Team

Easy to use, easy to implement - excellent customer service support and training.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Synapse allowed us to track and prioritize all the global learning requests coming across the organization. We are able to visiblty see and report out on all the different work coming our way.

Cons:

I wish we had more options with customzing the user portal to add branding and make it more visually engaging for the end user.

Maddy P.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Cognota Makes Learning Management Easy

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the auto-updating feature. In a highly regulated industry, this makes it easy to update materials and re-assign them via our LMS to keep us compliant.

Cons:

There's not much I dislike about Cognota. However, my one con is that the Design part of the software doesn't have a way to manage courses outside of titles and tagging. I always wish for a way to better organize old courses that I have to keep for compliance purposes.

Mileidy D.

Verified reviewer

Mental Health Care

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Synapse Is Amazing to Create Your Content

Exceptional experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

If you have the content, and would like to put it together in a innovative platform Synapse is the way to go! The customer service is impeccable.

Cons:

It does not let you change the colors of the letters within the system. You can change it in word, and then copy and paste into the system.

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Very user friendly instructional design software

Outstanding

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is incredibly user friendly, and can make even the most novice trainer an instructional design expert. I quickly noticed that Synapse follow the Blooms Taxonomy which we had followed previously at our company. Everything thus far has been fantastic from their sales approach, software implementation, through customer support.

Cons:

Nothing I like the "least" per sea but they are still continuously improving the product. They take customer feedback very seriously and make changes to the software if it makes sense.

Brandon A.

Consumer Electronics

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2017

Extremely easy to use. I liked that they have share links.

I was able to build product training quickly. The share links enabled me to embed the training in my mobile application that my users are on. It was really easy to use and guided me to understand how to do things. I was able to repurpose content that I had in my company into shareable lessons. Awesome product overall!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Couldn't track training. They are apparently releasing this feature in a month or so. I would have liked to see tracking and assessments.

Cons:

It's a new product, so it felt a little light in certain areas. With that said, it served my needs for the most part.

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