One of the benefits of using eLearning as art of your learning curriculum is the ability to create a unique digital course that your learners can take. To develop eLearning you use authoring tools, these are tools that developers use to create eLearning courses based off a storyboard. Storyboards contain the learning content and gives the developer instructions on how the course should look and operate. When creating eLearning you do have the flexibility to make it how you wa

When designing and developing eLearning there are a number of things you can do to avoid creating a course that is static and not engaging for the learner. Often at times it is a balancing act between the time it takes to develop an eLearning course and including enough interactivity in the course to make it an enjoyable experience for the learner. Below are some things to avoid when developing eLearning. 1. Poor Navigation Navigation is one of the key things when designing a

I have encountered situations in which there is a request to show a couple of elements with an entrance animation when the corresponding button was clicked. Certainly, it is not a difficult task to accomplish, if you are programming your eLearning module using Articulate Storyline, that is, since you have at your disposition slide layers that have an independent timeline (from the base layer), where you can have a multitude of elements, animations and interactions, and the be

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

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