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Employers & CPDPotentially is a learning platform for professional development.
Universities, professional bodies and employers use Potentially to build and run their development programmes, and to keep one record of everything their people do, inside the institution and outside it.
Courses · Workshops & series · Development record
Frameworks · Appraisal & PDR · Reporting
Development record2026
Workshops attended 9
Captured from outside 6
First aid at work Renewal due
Connect every step of the L&D cycle.
Potentially builds and hosts the learning, takes the booking, records the attendance, issues the credential, runs the review, and reports on all of it.
Every step feeds the next, and the last one feeds the first.
- 01Build
- 02Book
- 03Attend
- 04Credential
- 05Evidence
- 06Review
- 07Report
Build and run your own programmes.
Courses, workshops, seminars, series and full programmes, built by your team and delivered under your own branding. Any team can publish its own, and everything lands in one catalogue that your people search and book from.
Every course, conference and certificate, in one record.
Your people don’t only learn on your programme. Potentially keeps conferences, courses from other providers and certificates from their own work in one development record, and that record is reviewed, not just filled.
When someone asks for numbers, you have them.
CPD returns for the regulator. Mandatory training completion for the auditors. Take-up by department. The numbers come from the system that ran the development, so they arrive already reconciled.
A year, from two sides.
Maria is a lecturer. Otto runs the development programme at her university.
Meet Otto
Runs the staff development programme
Insight Compass · self-assessment
Otto sees where staff feel least confident, and plans the year around it.
Writing for research impact
Workshop · 2 hours
DraftLiveOtto writes a workshop in the morning, and staff can book it that afternoon.
Waiting list
FullThe workshop fills up, and a waiting list opens on its own.
Your team · training this year
Heads of department see who’s done what, without asking Otto for a report.
Exporttake-up-by-department.csvOtto is asked to report on the year, and the numbers are already there.
Otto’s year · swipe through
Meet Maria
Lecturer, and one of the staff Otto’s programme is for
Booked
Writing for research impact · Tuesday 14:00
Maria finds a workshop she didn’t know existed, and books it.
Certificate added to Maria’s record
Maria photographs a conference certificate on the train, and it lands in Maria’s record straight away.
First aid certificate
Renews in six weeksA reminder tells Maria her first aid certificate runs out in six weeks.
Development record · this year
Workshops attended9Captured from outside624 / 35 hours
At Maria’s appraisal, her head of department can see the whole year.
Maria’s record
PortfolioCertificatesBadgesMaria changes jobs and keeps her whole record.
Maria’s year · swipe through
Explore Potentially's features.
See the full feature list ↗- Visual course builder — content, video, quizzes, reflection, file uploads
- SCORM import, running alongside content built in Potentially
- Content bank — build once, reuse across programmes
- Recurring events and multi-session series, managed as one booking
- Capacity limits and waiting lists that release automatically on cancellation
- Check-in that records who actually turned up
- Certificates and badges issued on attendance
- External CPD capture — photograph or upload the certificate
- Expiring certificates flagged, and the person told in time
- Evidence portfolios, submitted for review
- Self-assessment against any framework, several running in parallel
- Appraisal and PDR, run on your own process
Running at national scale.
Jisc runs its Building Digital Capability service on Potentially. Teaching staff, library professionals, researchers and students each work through a question set built for their role, and each receives a personalised report linked to a curated resource library.
The service runs in Welsh as well as English, with specialist question sets for accessibility, inclusion and effective online teaching.
“The platform contributes to a more open, inclusive culture. All staff discover opportunities, build career portfolios, and align development with strategic priorities including EDI, teaching excellence, and wellbeing.”
Westminster runs its annual Performance Development Reviews through Potentially.
Where Potentially LXP makes a difference.
University staff development
Academies, teaching excellence, leadership pathways, fellowship and performance review — for all staff, not only academics.
Researcher development
Graduate schools, doctoral colleges and doctoral training partnerships. Every provider in one catalogue, mapped to the Vitae RDF.
Explore researcher development ↗Membership organisations
CPD schemes for members: hours and points against an annual requirement, transcripts for submission, and credentials issued on completion.
Employers and apprenticeships
Apprenticeship delivery, graduate schemes, technical upskilling, and competency tracking against professional standards.
Potentially can connect to your current systems.
An hour or two of your IT team’s time. Most organisations pilot within four to six weeks.
Your HR system
Staff records, structure and line managers come in on a regular file feed, and completed training is written back. Proven with CoreHR.
Single sign-on
Through the identity provider you already use.
Your LMS
Optional LTI 1.3 connection to Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle or D2L. SCORM content runs natively.
Calendars
Bookings sync to Outlook and Google Calendar.
- Standards
- EU data hosting
- GDPR compliant
- WCAG 2.2 AA (self-assessed)
- LTI 1.3
- SCORM
- Open Badges
- White-label branding
See it for yourself.
Thirty minutes. We’ll show you Potentially set up for the way you run development — course building, event management, the development record and reporting.
