Cognota

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Cognota

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.