content: <PAGE>
  
  
  ==============================================================================
                                    UNITED STATES
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  
                                Washington, DC 20549
  
                                    -----------
  
                                      FORM 8-K
  
                                   CURRENT REPORT
  
                       PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
  
                           SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):    September 6, 2001
  
  
  
  
                                    DOCENT, INC.
  
                 (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
            Delaware                    0-31537                 77-0460705
  (State or Other Jurisdiction      (Commission File         (I.R.S. Employer
       of Incorporation )               Number)           Identification Number)
  
                                2444 Charleston Road
                           Mountain View, California 94043
  
                 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
  
  Registrant's telephone number, including area code:  (650) 934-9500
  ==============================================================================
  
  <PAGE>
  
  Item 5.           Other Events.
  ------            ------------
  
  Docent, Inc. has been advised that certain of its officers and directors have
  entered into, or plan to enter into, individual asset diversification plans for
  the sale of shares of Docent's common stock. The sales plans are intended to
  qualify under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which
  specifically contemplates and establishes certain legal benefits for persons who
  establish such plans. Each of the individualized plans is separate and distinct
  and sales under the plans will not be coordinated or aggregated. Docent
  anticipates that, as permitted by Rule 10b5-1 and its insider trading policy,
  some or all of its officers, directors and other insiders may establish trading
  plans at some date in the future.
  
  <PAGE>
  
                                     SIGNATURES
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
  the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
  
  Dated as of September 6, 2001.
  
                                    DOCENT, INC.
  
                                    By:    /s/  Arthur Taylor
                                        ------------------------------------------
                                        Arthur Taylor
                                        Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
metadata_documents: [{"type": "8-K", "sequence": "1", "filename": "d8k.txt", "description": "FORM 8-K", "secsgml_size_bytes": 2672}]
metadata_filer: {"company-data": {"conformed-name": "DOCENT INC", "cik": "0001043134", "assigned-sic": "7389", "irs-number": "770460705", "state-of-incorporation": "DE", "fiscal-year-end": "1231"}, "filing-values": {"form-type": "8-K", "act": "34", "file-number": "000-31537", "film-number": "1732510"}, "business-address": {"street1": "2444 CHARLESTON RD", "street2": "SUITE 444", "city": "MOUNTAIN VIEW", "state": "CA", "zip": "94043", "phone": "6509349500"}, "mail-address": {"street1": "2444 CHARLESTON RD", "city": "MOUNTAIN VIEW", "state": "CA", "zip": "94043"}}
text: ==============================================================================
                                    UNITED STATES
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  
                                Washington, DC 20549
  
                                    -----------
  
                                      FORM 8-K
  
                                   CURRENT REPORT
  
                       PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
  
                           SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  
  Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):    September 6, 2001
  
                                    DOCENT, INC.
  
                 (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
  
            Delaware                    0-31537                 77-0460705
  (State or Other Jurisdiction      (Commission File         (I.R.S. Employer
       of Incorporation )               Number)           Identification Number)
  
                                2444 Charleston Road
                           Mountain View, California 94043
  
                 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
  
  Registrant's telephone number, including area code:  (650) 934-9500
  ==============================================================================
  Item 5.           Other Events.
  ------            ------------
  
  Docent, Inc. has been advised that certain of its officers and directors have
  entered into, or plan to enter into, individual asset diversification plans for
  the sale of shares of Docent's common stock. The sales plans are intended to
  qualify under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which
  specifically contemplates and establishes certain legal benefits for persons who
  establish such plans. Each of the individualized plans is separate and distinct
  and sales under the plans will not be coordinated or aggregated. Docent
  anticipates that, as permitted by Rule 10b5-1 and its insider trading policy,
  some or all of its officers, directors and other insiders may establish trading
  plans at some date in the future.
  SIGNATURES
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
  the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
  
  Dated as of September 6, 2001.
  
                                    DOCENT, INC.
  
                                    By:    /s/  Arthur Taylor
                                        ------------------------------------------
                                        Arthur Taylor
                                        Vice President and Chief Financial Officer