June - 2020

Jun 30, 2020
2 min

Using Brightspace to customize elearning to the learners

At Centennial College, they see a huge range of students, and with them comes a huge range of learning styles. Each student comes into their programs with a unique background and skillset, which will inform how they learn in their new environment. Their shift to using Brightspace for a larger part of their curriculum can help the teachers enable their learners to customize their elearning experience. One of the ways Brightspace allows a learner to take control of their learni

Jun 25, 2020
2 min

Accessibility gets better in Articulate Storyline

Here at Pathways Training and eLearning, we have always worked with our clients to achieve the level of accessibility they require for their eLearning projects, keeping AODA standards in mind (for those of you who don’t know, when it comes to AODA for web applications, these have to be compliant with WCAG 2.0). For the most part of our experience, it has been a positive experience making courses accessible, not to say that we haven’t had challenges but we have always been abl

Jun 23, 2020
2 min

Quick Programming Tip: How to (temporarily) Circumvent Rendering Issues in Storyline

We all work with Articulate Storyline to develop fully interactive, animated eLearning modules, and whether we publish it to web, LMS or 360 review, we all love to see all our efforts come to fruition after long hours of work. In my case, very rarely (probably no more than three times since I’ve been using Storyline), I have been asked to publish the eLearning module as a video. Although it is possible to do so with Storyline, one might wonder why not develop the video in ano

Jun 22, 2020
4 min

What Can We Learn About eLearning and Distance Learning from the Kids?

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entitled “Bad eLearning - The Kids are Not Okay”. With our Education Minister announcing last week that September could look like a blended learning solution, I asked my son (who is a grade 7 student in the Toronto District School Board), his opinion on online learning/eLearning and any suggestions he had from improvement given his experiences. I was also curious to see what recommendations he had, because novel ideas often come from children,

Jun 19, 2020
2 min

Quick tip to editing your training videos in Adobe Premiere

When editing your training videos, there are certain things you can do to add a bit more style to the flow of the video. One of them is to add transitions between takes (or segments). If you have different clips showing several angles that you want to show in one scene, or simply different scenes that relate to your training, you can join them by using transition effects, to make those changes appear in a more smooth way (think of the transitions between scenes in any of the

Jun 18, 2020
2 min

Your LMS and data security

All of our clients who have some kind of user portal that requires a login and password need to be aware of possible weaknesses in their security, and ways to make sure they don’t fall victim to data leaks. Hackers don’t just target large corporations; many are looking for easy prey. Also, security attacks aren’t just about stealing your organization’s strategies, customer data, or processes, sometimes they’re ransomware attacks, or stealing user information. Because so many

Jun 16, 2020
2 min

Drag and drop elearning activities in Storyline

If you elearning is not required to be keyboard accessible, drag and drop activities are a very useful interaction for learners to show what they have retained. In Storyline’s built-in graded questions, there are some activities that are essentially different kinds of drag and drop – word bank, matching drag and drop and sequence drag and drop. The matching drop-down and sequence drop-down variations of the previously mentioned kinds of drag and drop interactions are for keyb

Jun 9, 2020
2 min

Tips on how to modify photos for use as elearning backgrounds

When selecting images to support your elearning, you may find you don’t have space to include imagery along with the titles, text, buttons a

Jun 8, 2020
2 min

Getting to work using Brightspace

Recently, Pathways was selected by Centennial College to create all the training for a program using their learning platform Brightspace, to cater to international students that, due mainly to the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, can’t physically make it to the classroom. This is yet another example of how this virus has altered our day-to-day life, but even more importantly, this is yet another example of how technology can ease the transition to our “new normal” and open

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