Learning design and content authoring tips and tricks

Choosing the right type of imagery for your eLearning courses is key to creating an engaging and visually appealing learning experience. Read on to find out how consistency, page hierarchy, and good-old-fashioned simplicity can help, in this extract from our guide ‘How To Create Visually Stunning eLearning: Design Tips That Work Every Time.'

Creating assessments and quizzes is a testing topic (sorry!). We’ve assembled 13 tips for question types, question banks, and question framing in this blog post. Use them to make your eLearning assessments and quizzes more effectively check knowledge—and change learner behaviors.

Unsure of what direction to go with your course theming? Find out how to make every course in your library look appealing and consistent with brand guidelines: Read this extract from our guide ‘How to Create Visually Stunning eLearning: Design Tips That Work Every Time’ and learn how your brand, and your learning platform’s style templates can come to the rescue.

Sick of seeing flat, dull courses that leave learners feeling uninspired? Want to make your content stick in the minds of your learners? Then it’s time to leverage interactivity in your eLearning. The tools available may be simple, but try these five pointers and watch engagement rise.

Nobody sets out to make bad visual design, but knowing what it looks like will guard your courses against the occasional slip-ups that undermine even the finest work. Discover how to spot 7 common visual design mistakes in this extract from our new guide, ‘How to create visually stunning eLearning: design tips that work every time’.

The measurement and tracking of eLearning isn't just a bit of housekeeping to do at the end of your digital learning process. In this chapter from our ebook 'From Tool Selection to Measurement: 6 Steps to eLearning Authoring Success 🔗' we explore why they are a new beginning for your wider L&D strategy.

The time and effort you invested in planning face-to-face training needn’t go to waste. With the end of pandemic-related lockdowns uncertain, your classroom materials can be reappropriated with virtual classrooms, video and eLearning courses. Keep reading for a look at how online learning can best help you deliver great training.

A mixture of face-to-face training and eLearning can offer the best of both worlds. However, right now, only the latter may be available to you. Read on for tips on how to retain the impact of classroom learning while benefiting from the advantages of a digital learning environment.

Subject matter experts (SMEs) have a deep understanding of specific areas. And whether it’s helping customers and clients or sharing their insider knowledge with peers, SMEs play a vital role in your organization. Let's look at how you can identify internal SMEs and capitalize on their expertise to create and share knowledge across multiple channels.