Customize Cornerstone Learn (CSX) to Match Your HR Strategy
Cornerstone Learn (CSX) delivers powerful L&D tools. Out of the box, it’s not built around your structure, your brand, or team workflows. Take control of the experience by redesigning key pages, personalizing learning journeys, and adding the features your HR strategy demands.
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“CSX has powerful features. I help you shape them into an experience that works for your structure, your brand, and your goals.”
Turn “it works” into “it’s built for us.”
Build a Better Experience Inside Cornerstone
Out-of-the-box setup
Cornerstone Learn (CSX) gives you a strong foundation, but once your teams start using it every day, the gaps show up quickly. Pages become cluttered, important content gets buried, and branding feels limited. Even small updates take more effort than they should, slowing teams down and making the platform harder to rely on.
A custom fit experience
Your HR strategy depends on clarity, but without the right setup, people lose focus. Content gets scattered, priorities fade, and the experience never reflects your brand or how your teams should work. By combining structure, branding, and control, you turn the platform into something clear, consistent, and built to be used. Not just something people click through, but something they can actually shape and rely on every day.
Learning and Development
Shape learning around how your teams actually grow. Build clear learning paths and focused experiences that guide people step by step, while giving managers the visibility and control to track progress, assign training, and step in when it matters. Learning becomes easier to follow, easier to manage, and something people actually engage with.
Performance and Talent Management
Bring performance and development to life. Create structured views of goals, feedback, and trends, while giving managers the control to act, guide conversations, and support next steps. Turn check-ins into real touchpoints and make development something teams actively work on, not something that gets reviewed once a year.
HR and Content Management
Turn your platform into a place people actually use. Share updates through campaigns, create moments that connect teams, and build spaces where people can interact. Make information easy to find, keep communication visible, and bring everything together so it becomes part of the daily flow, not something people have to search for.
Give every day a clear starting point
Welcome Page
The Welcome Page is where everything comes together. Not just a message, but a structured starting point where people see what matters, what needs attention, and what they can act on right away.
Out of the box, everyone sees the same thing. With the right setup, you create role-based experiences that bring together tasks, learning, communication, and insights in one clear view. People don’t just land on a page, they know what to do next.
It becomes the place where work starts, decisions happen, and people come back because it helps them move forward.
Set the tone
Reflect your company’s voice and values. Make it feel considered and familiar from the first interaction.
Bring everything together
Bring tasks, insights, communication, and actions into one place where people can review, decide, and move things forward instantly.
Turn visits into action
Show what needs attention and enable people to act immediately, assign learning, approve requests, or move things forward.
Make it personal
Design different versions for onboardees, employees, or managers. Each one focused, useful, and easy to keep fresh.
Let progress lead the way
Learner Home
The Learner Home is one of the most visited pages, but often one of the most underused. Out of the box, it can feel crowded, generic, and disconnected from how people actually learn.
With the right setup, it becomes a space that adapts to different ways of learning. Deep dives when needed, quick answers in the moment, and the freedom to explore what matters most. Learning paths, academy pages, events, and recommendations all work together to guide people without overwhelming them.
People don’t just browse. They learn, contribute, and move forward.
Keep it focused
Surface the right learning based on role, progress, and priorities, and make sure it stays visible so people actually act on it.
Connect learning to growth
Link content to skills, paths, and development, making it clear how learning supports the next step.
Know what’s next
Show what’s next and keep learning moving with clear steps, nudges, and visibility that help people stay on track.
Fuel the momentum
Make progress visible through achievements and milestones that keep people moving and coming back for more.
Learn your way
Support different learning styles, structured, on-demand, and in-the-moment, so people can learn in the way that fits them best, whether they’re diving deep or just need a quick answer to move forward.
Turn interest into applications
Career Site & Talent Pages
Your career site is where people decide if they move forward or move on. It’s not just about listing roles, it’s about creating a space that attracts, convinces, and connects the right people to the right opportunities.
The right setup creates a connected experience that reflects your brand, shows what makes your company different, and guides candidates from first click to application. You decide whether it lives inside your platform or on your own domain. Either way, everything stays connected. Content, jobs, applications, and data all work together to support how you hire.
First impression
Highlight roles, stories, and what makes your company stand out, so candidates immediately see why they should stay and explore.
Beyond job listings
Create pages that give context, your culture, your way of working, and what people can expect, so candidates can see if it fits before they apply.
Effortless application
Remove friction from the process with clear steps, tailored flows, and a setup that keeps candidates moving instead of dropping off.
Always connected
Stay visible beyond the visit with campaigns, updates, and touchpoints that keep your roles top of mind.
The perfect match
Connect the right people to the right roles with an experience that turns interest into strong applications and better long-term hires.
DKV Mobility case study
One Milestone at a Time
DKV Mobility didn’t rebuild its platform overnight. Instead, they improved it step by step, starting with high-impact areas and expanding over time. What began as a generic Cornerstone setup evolved into a structured, branded experience that supports employees across onboarding, learning, and performance.
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0%Mandatory training completion rates
driven by automated tracking and reminders
Oliver Krabbe
Senior Specialist Digital HR
DKV Mobility
Standard wasn’t made for you
A platform that feels like it was made for your team
Out of the box gets you started, but it rarely fits how your team actually works. The real value comes when you shape it around your structure, your priorities, and your way of working. This is where your platform becomes something people recognize, use, and rely on every day.
Octily Content Editor
Change it up
Shape your pages in real time. Update content, adjust priorities, and keep everything aligned as your platform evolves.
MicroApps
Take control
Turn insight into action. Assign learning, approve requests, and move work forward directly from the page.
Browser Notifications
Stay connected
Reach people when it matters. Bring them back with timely updates, reminders, and nudges, even outside the platform.
Articles and News
Start the conversation
Share updates where work happens. Enable comments, reactions, and real interaction so communication becomes part of the experience.
Chatbot Studio
Support on the spot
Provide instant answers and guidance while people work. Remove friction and help people move forward without searching.
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Always organized
Keep priorities clear. Help people focus on what matters with structured tasks and a simple, distraction-free setup.
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Connect it all
Bring systems together behind the scenes. Connect data, tools, and workflows so everything works as one experience.
Octily Creative
Undeniably you
Bring your platform to life with visuals, campaigns, and character design that reflect your brand and make the experience feel human and engaging.
Your Cornerstone CSX Customization Journey
How it Works
Whether you’re updating one page or reimagining the whole platform, your customization journey starts with a clear plan. We keep the process focused, collaborative, and built around your strategy from the very first step.
Discovery and Proposal
We begin with a conversation. You share your goals, we explore your setup, and define what success should look like. Then we create a proposal with options tailored to your team and priorities.
Design and Build
This is where ideas take shape. We design and develop your custom pages, flows, or components. You’ll see concepts early, give feedback throughout, and know exactly where things stand.
Review and Launch
Once everything’s ready, we test together, make final adjustments, and support your go-live. After launch, we’re here if you need help evolving your setup over time.
Questions that usually come up
Frequently Asked Questions
Time for a custom Cornerstone Learn experience
Shape how your platform looks and works
Bring your Cornerstone Learn platform to life in a way that actually fits your team, your structure, and how everything comes together. Start with one page or rethink the full experience. It’s built to grow with you.
“Sometimes, our clients have requirements which go beyond the standard of our solution. In those cases, Octily helps us to make the impossible… possible.”
Thorsten Rusch
Director Solution Consulting – DACH, Nordics & Eastern Europe
Cornerstone OnDemand
Analytics & Reporting
Get a clear view of your platform and know exactly where to step in. Build HR dashboards and reporting tools, track key metrics, and turn reporting into clear, actionable insights that support better decisions across HR, learning, and your teams.
Brand Identity
Brand your Cornerstone platform and HR pages so they feel like your company. The way it looks. The way it sounds. The way it feels. That should carry through every interaction, helping employees engage more naturally and move through tasks with less friction. Across layouts, content, colours, and structure, everything feels consistent and easy to recognise across Cornerstone Galaxy and similar HR platforms.
Octily Content Editor (OCE)
Build custom pages, manage content, and add features across onboarding, learning, and daily use. Designed for Cornerstone Galaxy, CSX, Saba Cloud, EdCast and similar HR platforms.
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