Using traditional learning formats such as PowerPoints, word documents, videos etc. can be one way you can teach your learners about a subject, however, this is not very interactive for learners and can become static for them. Another alternative is to create eLearning courses using authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, Captivate or Lectora. Below are some benefits of adopting eLearning as part of your learning and development strategy. 1. Learner Interaction Wh

Once you have designed and developed your eLearning course you will need a way for your learners to access your training. One way you can do this is by using an LMS or Learning Management System. Below are some benefits of using a LMS to host your eLearning courses. 1. Provides online access After you have created a storyboard, designed, developed, and published your eLearning course you need to host it somewhere so that your learners are able to access it online. A Learning

When developing eLearning your developers will use something called an authoring tool to create your course, however you still need to upload your course to a Learning Management System so you’re your learners can access the course online. Below are some of the benefits of using an LMS to host your course. 1. Provides Access The main purpose of a Learning Management System is to host your eLearning courses so that your learners can access them over a network connection. Once

An LMS or Learning Management System is a software system that allows you to upload, administer and track online courses. Using an LMS brings many benefits, and is a great way to make your eLearning and digital training accessible your learners. Below are some of the key benefits to using an LMS in your organisation. 1. Bookmarking Booking involves allowing learners to take a course, leave, and then resume where they left off. For smaller courses this is not as much of an iss

As the topic of innovation keeps coming up from our clients and our prospect clients, we are wondering if authoring tools like Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate are now enough to fulfill our clients requirements. On one hand, we acknowledge that this authoring tools help us a great deal for most of the eLearning requirements we face day to day, such as transitions, simple animations, click and reveals, quizzing, etc., and also they are very useful for reporting to the L

Is it safe to manually modify the Moodle database? The correct answer would be ‘No’. It’s not safe because you may end up breaking your Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) installation, since, as you may or may not know, Moodle pulls all its data from different tables in the data base. Also, from a developer perspective, it is not ideal to modify core data from the Moodle installation, since the chances of corrupting it are very high and every time there is an update, we

Here at Pathways we talk a lot about SCORM and reporting when we are developing eLearning modules, what standard are we going to use, if it needs to report a score, or only completion, bookmarking, etc. And for the most part, we have concluded that SCORM (or AICC in very few occasions) meet our customers requirements for reporting. As the technology advances, also does the necessity to improve the data that we get from our training, whether it is online training with eLearnin

There are situations in which you have an elearning module that was developed outside any known elearning authoring tool, for example a custom made HTML5 course, or even documents or videos, and you may be wondering how you can successfully wrap them in SCORM. First, you need to make sure that your Learning Management System (LMS) doesn’t have the capability of hosting material other than SCORM packages. For example, if you have Moodle as your LMS, you have the opportunity t

Most of times, if you are developing eLearning modules for big companies (or even if they are small companies), you will have to package the eLearning module in SCORM, whether it is 1.2, 2004 (any of the editions), AICC or Tin Can. Whichever it is, I am sure that the LMS person on the client side, will upload the SCORM package to a staging site and test it, or even upload it to the production site and roll it out to the learners, and once in a while, issues will arise such as

As I stated in one of my previous posts, thanks to the nature of Moodle (What do I need to use Moodle?), we can extend its functionality to perform tasks that we can’t perform with the default plugins (or we can just simply improve certain aspects). Whichever the case, we can achieve that by either installing a plugin from the Moodle directory, or by developing one ourselves. In the case of the latter, Moodle provides us with a great API and documentations so that we can try

If you are in search of an LMS that is robust enough to handle all the employees of your organization, but still want to keep this implementation within your budget, you might have stumbled upon Moodle, an open source Learning Management System that offers different functionality to help shape the training strategy of your company. But what is necessary to implement Moodle in your company?” Well, there are two different paths you can take to implement Moodle: Build your own s

A LMS or Learning Management System is a technology that lets you administer, track and deliver eLearning and web based training. But what exactly is an LMS? An LMS is something that you have probably used before without knowing, if you have taken an eLearning course such as health & safety training this would most likely have been hosted on an LMS. For learners an LMS is essentially what allows you to access eLearning courses from your device providing you have a network con

A Learning Management System or LMS is the backbone for hosting and deploying your eLearning. A LMS is a management system that lets you up upload, maintain and administer eLearning courses, once uploaded learners are then able to launch and take eLearning from a variety of devices, providing they have a network connection. At the moment using an LMS is a common practice in the eLearning industry, however Cloud-Based Learning Management Systems is a technology that might chan

When you are running a business which employs human resources, you need to train these resources on how to use your customized tools, programs or software, offer services, engage with clients, and everything else. Assessing training needs and training employees is one of the most crucial functions for any business. This is where brains behind training content and eLearning developers get together. What you need next, is to follow a checklist to ensure a good quality eLearning

Organizations across Canada are stepping it up; efficiently improving employee performance by investing in modern technology that reflects the ongoing needs of today's learner. With Millennials now surpassing Generation X to become the largest generation in the workforce, top companies understand the importance and benefit of advancing their approach to learning in the workplace. Learning is beyond a keyboard and mouse, or pulling 50 salesmen out of their jobs and into a th

As I stated in one of my previous posts, thanks to the nature of Moodle LMS, we can extend its functionality to perform tasks that we can’t perform with the default plugins (or we can just simply improve certain aspects). Whichever the case, we can achieve that by either installing a plugin from the Moodle LMS directory, or by developing one ourselves. In the case of the latter, Moodle LMS provides us with a great API and documentations so that we can try and code something t

Recently a few folks from the Pathways team, including myself, flew to Vancouver to shoot a 360 video in partnership with St. Johns Ambulance. While I will be writing about that experience in the next few weeks as it was certainly an exciting project to be a part of…for today I would like to talk about a discussion I had with my seat mate on the flight over. About halfway through the flight my seatmate and I got in to a brief discussion about what we each did for a living.

After reading my sweet sweet description of what Moodle is and what it can do, if you are convinced this is the tool for you and your employees, you may be left wondering “What is necessary to implement Moodle in my company?” Well, there are two different paths you can take to implement Moodle: Build your own server and install Moodle Pay a Moodle partner to implement it for you Let’s make it clear from the beginning, in both options you will need time and money. Build your o

Of the many projects we work on at Pathways, one that continues to provide unique challenges and opportunities is a new system launch initiative for which we will be developing and delivering all of the training. (eLearning, ILT, job aids, video, etc.…). This training will be provided to employees all over Canada in each province so while there have been a few unique challenges as I mentioned above, overall it has been exciting! After several weeks of conferences, focus gr

As a former teacher, creating personalized learning for my students was the norm. It included everything from presenting lessons orally, followed up with a hand-out, a reading, or even a video recording of the lesson to creating a learning environment where students could work independently, in partners, or small groups to offering students choice about how they would demonstrate acquisition or mastery of knowledge, skills, and understanding. Personalized learning as a method