Cohorts
A cohort is a named group of users that belong together for the purposes of a learning program — for example, a single intake of new hires, a regional team, or the participants in a particular pilot. Cohorts make it easier to keep track of who's part of what, and they're often the unit you'll use when targeting content or reporting on activity.
This chapter covers:
- Managing cohorts — Creating, browsing, searching, and editing cohorts.
- Adding users to a cohort — Putting people into cohorts (and taking them out again).
Where to find cohorts
Open the Cohorts entry in the sidebar under the Resources group. You'll land on the cohort list, which is the starting point for everything in this chapter.
How cohorts relate to users
Cohorts and users are independent concepts that are linked by membership:
- Every cohort belongs to one company.
- A user can belong to many cohorts at the same time.
- Removing a user from a cohort does not affect the user's account or any course assignments — it only changes the grouping.
That makes cohorts a safe, flexible tool: you can experiment with different groupings without worrying about disturbing the underlying user records.