Common learning use cases.
How organisations use Cognise to run learning at scale.
Cognise supports a wide range of organisational learning needs, from onboarding and compliance to capability development and internal programmes. Each use case is delivered within a single system, with consistent structure, visibility, and governance.
Onboarding and induction.
Deliver a consistent onboarding experience that gives new starters clarity from day one.
Cognise supports structured onboarding across roles, teams, and locations, ensuring mandatory and role-specific learning is delivered in the right order.
Learning can be assigned automatically based on role or group, with clear visibility for L&D and managers to track progress and completion, without manual follow-up.
Summary:
Structured onboarding pathways
Automatic assignment by role or group
Clear progress and completion tracking
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Mandatory and compliance learning.
Deliver compulsory learning with confidence and clear accountability.
Cognise supports structured delivery of mandatory and compliance learning across roles, teams, and the organisation, ensuring requirements are consistently met.
Learning can be assigned based on role or requirement, with clear timelines and visibility into completion and overdue learning, reducing risk and manual follow-up.
Summary:
Role-based and requirement-based assignment
Clear completion and overdue tracking
Audit-ready reporting
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Contractor and extended workforce learning.
Deliver required learning to contractors and external staff with control and visibility.
Cognise supports onboarding, compliance, and role-specific learning for contractors, volunteers, and temporary workers, while maintaining clear access rules and organisational boundaries.
Learning can be assigned based on role or engagement type, with visibility into completion and requirements, helping organisations meet obligations without over-exposing internal systems.
Summary:
Controlled access for non-employees
Structured onboarding and compliance learning
Clear tracking and reporting
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Technology and systems rollouts.
Support staff through technology and system changes with structured learning.
Cognise enables organisations to deliver clear, timely learning alongside technology rollouts, ensuring people understand what is changing and what is expected of them.
Learning can be targeted by role, team, or location, and delivered in phases to align with rollout timelines, providing visibility into progress and readiness across the workforce.
Summary:
Targeted learning aligned to rollout stages
Delivery across large or distributed workforces
Clear visibility into completion and readiness
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Role based capability development.
Support specialist roles with focused learning aligned to role expectations.
Cognise can be used to deliver structured learning for specific roles, helping people build capability consistently and stay current as requirements evolve.
Learning can be updated as roles change, with clear visibility into progress and readiness across teams.
Leadership and manager development.
Support managers with structured learning and practical tools to lead capability development.
Cognise enables organisations to deliver focused learning for managers and leaders, covering areas such as onboarding new staff, compliance responsibilities, performance conversations, and leading through change.
In addition, managers are provided with a dedicated dashboard that gives visibility into learning for their direct reports. From this view, managers can see assigned learning, progress, and completion status, helping them support their teams without taking on administrative burden.
Managers can reinforce learning through timely actions such as assigning learning, acknowledging progress, and sending reminders, ensuring learning remains visible and supported within everyday leadership practice.
Summary:
Structured learning for managers and leaders
Manager dashboards with visibility into direct reports
Simple actions to support and reinforce learning
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Internal programmes and initiatives.
Support organisation-wide programmes with structured, consistent learning delivery.
Cognise enables organisations to run internal programmes such as change initiatives, strategic priorities, policy rollouts, or capability uplift programmes within a single system.
Learning can be delivered in phases, aligned to programme milestones, and targeted to specific audiences, ensuring messaging and expectations remain consistent as initiatives evolve.
Progress and completion are visible across teams and the organisation, giving leaders and programme owners confidence that learning is being delivered and understood.
Summary:
Structured delivery aligned to programme stages
Targeted learning for different audiences
Clear visibility into progress and completion
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Events and blended learning.
Connect face-to-face events with structured learning in one system.
Cognise supports blended learning by linking in-person or virtual events with pre-work, supporting materials, and follow-up learning, creating a complete learning experience rather than a one-off moment.
Attendance, participation, and related learning activity are tracked alongside other learning, providing a single, reliable record for L&D, managers, and the organisation.
This ensures events contribute meaningfully to capability development, onboarding, or compliance rather than sitting outside the learning system.
Summary:
Pre-work and follow-up learning linked to events
Attendance and completion tracked in one place
A single record of participation and learning
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Customer and partner learning.
Extend structured learning to customers or partners where required.
Cognise can be used to deliver controlled learning to external audiences using the same structure, access rules, and tracking applied to internal learning.
This allows organisations to support customer or partner capability, onboarding, or accreditation programmes while maintaining consistency, visibility, and governance.
Summary:
Controlled access for external audiences
Structured programmes and accreditation
Clear tracking and completion visibility
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One system for all learning scenarios.
See how Cognise supports onboarding, compliance, capability development, and organisational programmes in one platform.