Why You Need to Know Who’s the Boss of the E-Learning Course
February 11th, 2020
You just spent months working on an e-learning project. You tested it. Got feedback. Made adjustments. And now you're ready to launch.
But then the person for whom you've been building the project says, "Before we launch, let's get my manager's approval."
And at that point, things to start to unravel. The boss wants to make changes. The legal team gets involved. Marketing comes into make sure the messaging is right. And so it goes.
This stuff happens. We've all been there.
When building an e-learning course, one of the first things ...
E-learning templates can be a bit challenging. On one hand, they speed up production. And then on the other they may introduce constraints in the learning experience design.
An e-learning course screen has a specific structure. It's usually rectangular and contains text and imagery. The text and imagery are laid out on the screen and is constrained by up, down, left and right placement. Of course, the possibilities for layouts can be endless, but there are probably just a few dozen layouts that make sense for e-learning courses.
Here are a ...
"We have to lock the course. If we don’t, the people will just skip all of the content until they get to the end."
If you build e-learning courses, you probably hear this all the time. But here's why you need to unlock your course.
Being Exposed to Information Isn't the Same as Learning
Just because people are forced into the content doesn't mean they're learning from it. Reading, seeing, or hearing information is just a small part of the learning experience.
Locking the course navigation can only measure a person's access to ...
There's a lot to say about gamified e-learning. I've shared some ideas in previous posts with links to 
I present at a lot of conferences and workshops. I've always thought about having captions during the live presentations. They come in handy for the person who can't hear and needs them. And they potentially add value for the person who can't quite hear everything: maybe the room is disruptive or the speaker talks too fast. Or perhaps, English isn't the first language and hearing and processing is a little slower.
In either case, having a transcript in real time is valuable. Here are a couple of ...
But what do you do if you want some graphics or illustrations to go with your Rise 360 courses?
Check out these open source illustrations from unDraw.co. They ...
I get lots of questions about e-learning templates. Recently, I shared some tips on 
Recently, I did a webinar on transforming PowerPoint content into an interactive e-learning course. One of the tips is to save your PowerPoint file as a video. Here's why I like that tip.
Save PowerPoint as Video
Assuming the PowerPoint slides look good and the content doesn't need to be restructured, why spend a lot of time copy and pasting from PowerPoint into a different application? Save a lot of time by outputting your PowerPoint slideshow as a video.
All of your animations, narrations, inserted media, and slide ...
A couple of weeks ago, David posted a challenge where community members were asked to share their storyboard templates. As you can see, there were 
If you find that you're microphone audio levels are too low, here are some tips that may help.
I record a lot of demos and webinars. With that comes the quest to find decent quality audio. I have a 
Here are three time-saving tips to consider before building your e-learning course.
Determine the Story Size
Many e-learning courses are 4:3 aspect ratio. The other common aspect ratio is 16:9. However, you're not confined to either one of those aspect ratios. What if you want something more like a book? Or perhaps square?
Determine the story size and resolution before you start working on the course.
What we often see is that someone opens the e-learning software and starts ...
Technically converting a PowerPoint file to an "e-learning course" is fairly easy. You can import the slides into 
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