Engagement is L&D’s hardest problem: self-paced courses finish in the single digits, and most of what is taught is forgotten within a week. Vergil attacks both — by letting each learner take in a concept through the medium that suits them, then reinforcing it with assessment and review timed to memory itself.
vs. a typical LMS
Most platforms personalize which course you are sent. Vergil personalizes how you learn each concept — the same idea offered in whatever medium suits you, practiced through varied assessments, and reviewed right before you forget.
What it does
Same concept, their medium
Read it, watch it, listen to it, or work through it interactively. The concept stays the same, the way in is each learner's own. That is where the real adaptivity lives.
Many ways to practice
Once a concept is taught, it is reinforced through varied assessments — flashcards, multiple choice, matching, and more — so practice never collapses into one repetitive quiz.
Mastery that can’t be faked
Progress is gated on skill and confidence together, so a lucky guess or a shallow pass-through never counts as learned.
Review before they forget
Confidence in each concept decays along a forgetting curve, so review resurfaces exactly when a learner is about to lose it — not on a generic calendar.
Tuned to the individual
Difficulty is matched to each learner, keeping everyone in the productive-struggle zone instead of bored or lost.
~90%
of training is forgotten within a week without reinforcement
industry estimates
61%
recalled a week later after active recall — vs 40% after re-reading
Roediger & Karpicke, 2006
Any
medium a learner prefers — read, watch, listen, or interact
Media to learn one concept
Questions it answers
- “Why won’t people engage with our training?”
- Give them choice: when learners take in a concept through the medium that suits them, participation climbs.
- “How do I teach very different people the same thing?”
- Each learner takes their own route through the same concept — in their own medium, at their own pace and difficulty.
- “How do I make training actually stick?”
- Mastery is gated on confidence and review is timed to the forgetting curve, so knowledge holds after the course ends.
The science
Three findings do the work: people retain far more from active recall than re-reading, spaced review beats cramming, and autonomy over how you learn lifts motivation. Vergil’s media choice, assessments, and review timing are built on all three.
Sources Roediger & Karpicke — Test-Enhanced Learning (Psychological Science, 2006) · LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report, 2024