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Thought Industries TotalCtrl Academy

If you use Thought Industries, you'll love TotalCtrl.

Train your customers and partners at scale.

Thought Industries is an enterprise learning platform sold and priced as its own system. TotalCtrl's Academy gives you branded courses, SCORM/xAPI import, certificates, a public site on your own domain, and enrollment approval — included in the suite where your customers, contacts, and CS health already live.

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Courses, Modules & Lessons
Structure training into courses made of sections and lessons. Lessons can be rich HTML, an embedded video, an imported package, or a native quiz. Publish when ready; learners track progress lesson by lesson.
SCORM & xAPI Import
Play SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI (Tin Can) packages exported from Articulate Storyline/Rise, Adobe Captivate, iSpring, and most authoring tools. The player reports completion and scores back automatically.
Quizzes & Assessments
Build real assessments — single choice, multiple choice, true/false, and short answer — with per-question points, per-answer feedback, and explanations. Draw a random subset from a question bank, shuffle questions, set a time limit and attempt cap, and grade by partial credit. No external tool needed.
Gradebook
See every learner's best quiz score across the course in one grid, with attempts and pass/fail. Learners get an instant breakdown of their last attempt with feedback.
Certificates
Issue a branded completion certificate with a unique serial automatically when a learner finishes. Customize the heading, brand color, and signature; learners download a PDF.
Brand Kit Theming
Make the academy look like your brand, not ours. Apply your tenant Brand Kit — colors, fonts, logo, and button shape — to the public academy site and the course player and quizzes. Or keep the simple academy color. Your call, per academy.
AI Authoring
Draft a whole course outline from a topic, write lesson content from a title, and generate quiz questions from your material — all with the AI model your workspace selects. Review everything before it is saved.
Course Studio
Generate an entire course from knowledge you already have — Help Centers, API Hub docs, web pages, or uploaded files. Course Studio drafts the outline, writes every lesson grounded strictly in your sources (or enriches small gaps on request), and adds knowledge-check quizzes. It runs in the background with an up-front AI Units estimate and a per-run cost cap, then hands you a private draft to review and publish.
AI Course Tutor
Optionally give learners a chat assistant in the course player that answers questions grounded only in that course's content and cites its sources. Off by default, enabled per academy — with a usage report showing top questions and active learners.
AI Insights
One click on a course report turns enrollment and quiz data — including the questions learners miss most — into a plain-language summary with concrete suggestions to improve completion and comprehension.
Members & Guest Access
Invite learners by email — external people join as single-app guests scoped to your academy, never a billed seat. Add existing workspace users with a role, too.
Public Academy & Custom Domain
Publish a public, branded academy site at your own slug — or serve it on your own subdomain with one-click DNS verification. Or keep it private and invite-only.
Enrollment Approval & Reporting
Optionally require approval to enroll, with a pending queue. Per-course reports show enrolled, completed, and average progress, with CSV export.
Academy → Customer Success
Course completions fire platform events and orchestration triggers — update a CSM health score or kick off a follow-up the moment a customer finishes onboarding training.

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Why switch

It's not just a Thought Industries replacement

One subscription, 30+ apps
Stop stitching together a dozen point tools. Academy is one of 30+ apps you get on every plan — no add-ons, no per-seat surprises.
Your data, actually connected
Everything shares one dataset, so work flows automatically — a won deal opens a project, logged hours become an invoice, a ticket pulls from your help center.
AI woven throughout
Drafting, summarizing, and search powered by AI across every app — not a bolt-on you pay extra for.

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