Hi, everyone:

I hope this is the right place to post this.

I'm working on my first Storyline course. Could I please get some feedback? :)

https://storage.googleapis.com/harmeetgrewalseportfolio/The%20Course%20Planning%20Worksheet/story.html

Also: Could you let me know if you think this is worth adding to a portfolio to prove basic competency with Storyline (that was my end goal)? I'm worried about it having an opposite effect: i.e. Employers think I'm not super proficient with the tool because the course is so simple/basic...

Maybe I can add something to take this to a higher level (not sure what that would be atm), but will wait to hear what everyone's comments are before pouring more time into this.

Many thanks! 

Our content is developer-focused. Never had to deal with SCORM so not sure if it's a remnant of the past or a necessary thing nowadays.

What do you wish this new magic tool should do so 80% of your work is handled by AI?

I have a library of elearning courses primarily built in Storyline and a few in Rise. The Storyline courses are made up of onscreen text, video, and English narration. Increasingly I'm getting requests to translate those courses into Spanish, a language I don't speak. I received a quote from a translation service that quoted me $1500 to 3000 per course. This would blow up my company's budget. I am going to look into AI options for speech/text translations but I am wondering if anyone has a recommendation of a site to start with. Thanks in advance.

Hello, hoping I can get some guidance on my somewhat unusual use case!

I am looking for an LMS system to integrate into a website where Influencers (in this case, the external customer) can easily access the courses to learn how to use certain product features. It would need to be easy to navigate but also have milestone quizzes and not feel corporate.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

We current have eloomi for our LMS and a license with Coursera for professional development and additional courses. Eloomi has a new platform that offers courses through Go1 and Coursera. Has anyone used Go1 or seen their courses? This is for corporate learning to supplement what we don’t currently have for internal training and just overall professional development.

Edit: I’m curious becuase we already have the Coursera license separate from eloomi and trying to decide if it would be worth it to do the eloomi new platform license with the Go1 and some Coursera courses or just stick with the full Coursera license.

We create engaging elearning video courses that right now we only host on our own platform (web, mobile app), however, we are getting lots of interest from companies wanted to purchase the content to add to their LMS. We know we're going to need SCORM compliance to do this. Does anyone have experience doing this with video courses, and if so, how did you do it?

We have a small engineering team, but ideally we'd use a tool/software to help us do this, but cost is a factor. I'm aware of Rustici, but are there others that are good? All support, experience shared, and ideas welcome!

Thank you!!

What I want to do:

Students land on a sign in/register page.

They create an account.

They are shown a list of guitar tutors.

They click on one (ideally with ratings, comments and reviews).

They then have that persons calendar and can see their availability where they can book and pay for a time for a private or group lesson via Zoom. Can be done via a Calendly widget.

Are there any LMS’s that can offer this? Or am I better off custom making it within Wordpress?

OK, I have a question for the group here on the best truly open source LMS out there. We are currently using Totara and Moodle to handle the different audiences we serve. But we are looking for other options as Totara is becoming more difficult to update the further from Moodle it gets and Moodle doesn't have the robust tools and reporting that Totara has. One of our developers has suggested OpenEdX as a solution.

With our different audiences and requirements we need a versatile LMS that is flexible and that our developers can update to fit with our changing needs. We handle asynchronous SCORM based courses as well as blended and synchronous courses where we track attendance for face to face as well as webbased course. In addition we have many other needs that I won't outline here as the list is long and at the moment Totara and Moodle have served us well so far. We need it open source to allow creation of addtional tools as needed. It can be hosted on local servers or in the cloud.

Has anyone worked with OpenEdX? Does anyone out there have any other open source solutions they have worked with? If we are going to replace Totara and Moodle it needs to be better that what we already have.

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Their justification:
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Thoughts? Justified or no?

Can anyone recommend a good eLearning software I can use to create a course with different tracks for our urology patients interested in learning about male enhancement, Peyronie's disease, and erectile dysfunction? I've been doing some googling to try to find something geared more towards patient education specifically, but I keep getting directed to software for continuing education for healthcare providers.

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We started to design a webinar series but quickly realized it wouldn't do us much good since the people we would want to attend would be too shy or scared to attend a webinar. So we're thinking an online course would be better for us being able to teach more men.

It seems like there are some who view that locked learning is better because it makes sure that the learner goes through everything in a linear/sequential fashion (assuming that each course topic build upon the previous one). Some think that locked learning takes away the freedom to explore and learn at one's own pace.

What's your take?

Hello,

My small team is looking to achieve two goals related to training that utilize overlapping materials:

1. Internal team member onboarding and training in our culture, policies, products and the processes to deliver them, and internal business processes. We want to do knowledge tests to determine the team member is “certified”.

2. Selling our products and the processes associated with them to external clients via a paid access model. We would want to test the knowledge of the external user and receive the results to know if they are “certified”.

So goal #2 is a subset of the broader first goal, but with a payment gate over the access.

We currently have a Kajabi account that we use for Marketing and email campaigns. Does anyone know if Kajabi is an appropriate platform for this type of internal documentation and process training?

I know products like Trainual are specifically designed for internal process training and you can share content externally, but my understanding is that Trainual cannot give you test results for external users and also doesn’t have built-in payment processing.

We’d prefer to not have documentation in multiple places from a maintenance standpoint.

Any experienced thoughts on whether Kajabi can effectively meet goals 1 and 2 would be appreciated. I don’t want to waste money engaging with a Kajabi expert until I have a solid idea.

Thank you!

Hi all,

Before I start - I am not an instructional designer, I ended up working in a training team which is part of bigger marketing team, I am a decent UX/UI and data viz person.

Now to my question. Are you guys freelancing by making elearning courses? If so, what is the range of how much you ask for a course, what are the conditions and how do you get your gigs? Agency, UpWork? As I said this is fairly new to me but I saw the elearning that my colleagues make or outsource to agencies and I can definitely make that level of content. Which got me wondering if I could turn this into a side hustle that would help me with mortgage.

Thanks for all the help and support!

Hi all, I authored an elearning course two years ago with Articulate. We didn't need to create any further courses and so let the subscription expire. I now need to amend the content of the course so wondered if there are any free editors that I can upload the file to and start editing. I can find plenty of free authoring software providers but they would require me to start over in the course creation.

If anyone has recommendations it would be most appreciated

Is there an authoring solution that will allow me to create both digital textbooks and elearning courses in the same platform? My experience is that authoring tools either specialize in digital textbook development (Kitaboo, Kotobee, PressBooks) or elearning course development (Articulate, Captivate, and many others). My company needs a solution that will allow us to write long-form, chapter-based, reflowable, interactive textbooks on the one hand but also repurpose a subset of the same content to create derivative modular elearning courses. Does a solution for this exist?

I cannot use the cloud (security policy) so was wondering if anyone was using a server based LMS. Even an old iteration would be worth considering but I’d prefer something that’s still supported.

Hi all,

I've been looking into an LMS platform for my healthcare business. I need to recreate our new hire training (currently PPTs) and a few other trainings for my new hires so primary use will be internal. Down the road I may be looking to create some sellable courses to the public but not a priority at the moment.

I've looked into Thinkific in the past but haven't felt 100% comfortable with it. Our website is wordpress hosted so I've just recently started looking learnpress, lifterlms, etc.

I would like to be able to have a login on my website and send an invite my new hire. I also need to be able to see reporting data such as who has completed their courses, where they are in the process, etc.

Hello,

I am currently in the last semester of my master's in instructional design and technology at CSU Fullerton. The last semester requires students to complete a 5 chapter paper and create a 4 module instructional product. Part of the process requires feedback from working instructional designers. If you are willing to provide your valuable feedback on my instructional product, please view my product below, then fill out the Google Form with your feedback. Thank you for your time!

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Is there a good website out there that honestly compares these various online course hosting platforms? All I can find are 'comparisons' on the sites of the individual hosts, where magically their own product always comes out on top.

I am starting a small ancient-language business and am especially wondering about which functions are included with each product. For example, learnworlds seems much cheaper than Kajabi - but then I guess that's because it offers fewer functionalities?

Any advice appreciated (and yes, I am as new to this as I probably sound:-).)

Hey Reddit!

Are you working on a non-commercial or social project that could benefit from a Learning Management System (LMS)? Look no further than Openlearning.edu.vn! They're offering free setup and support for Moodle instances, a popular open-source LMS platform.

This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone building educational initiatives, training programs, or online communities for social good. With Moodle, you can:

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• Create and manage courses
• Deliver learning materials (text, videos, quizzes, etc.)
• Track student progress
• Facilitate discussions and collaboration

Here's the best part: https://Openlearning.edu.vn will help you set up your Moodle instance for free, as long as your project is non-commercial or social in nature. They can also provide support to get you started and answer any questions you have.

If you're interested, check out Openlearning.edu.vn for more details. They seem like a great resource for anyone passionate about online learning and making a positive impact.

P.S. Have any of you used Moodle before? Share your experiences in the comments!

I had a lot of problems recently with Payment integration with stripe and cardconnect. Anyone here with simmilar problems ?

So i've been away from making educational content for some 10 years and now I want to go back to it...

I used to use Flash and ActionScript but now looks like it's articulate, so after I checked it out it looks very approachable for my tech lvl, so Im putting my cards on coding like webdev a bit more so I don't have to rely on articulate content.

Another thing I noticed is that a lot of instructional designers come from a teaching background, whereas I had digital design and multimedia training. One job I applied and failed asked me to actually write the course content which to me was unexpected (I used to only make things move and interaction to work on the screen)

I also see that XR is looking promising for the next years at least, but unsure if that's gonna last so I'm not getting training for it just now.

I want to know who should I follow (i.e. i just found out Devlin Peck) and what communities should I join to understand what standards I need to get up to if I'm going to start reapplying for jobs.

Portfolios, companies, any kind of resources you could give it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance to everyone who chips in

Hi,

I am trying to find a solution, to host SCORM files and then use an URL in Moodle.
We don't want to upload the SCORM files into Moodle.

We would like to host the SCORMs in a server, that would "unpack" or generate a SCORM viewer URL that we could use the Moodle activity: URL

Does anyone have any idea or guidance on how this could be achieved?

PS: We have about 5000 SCORM files.

Hi, I am making a short artifact with SL and I have a background image on my slides. When I preview the slides, the background image does not appear. It is just a white background. Everything else works.

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I tried setting the pic as background through Design > Background Style > Picture --- this is grayed out and disabled!

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UPDATE: It was an SVG and didn't work. I change to PNG and it worked. Thanks for the responses.

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Any ideas?

When do you think : wow! This is definitely above average!

Is it possible to stitch your slides into one page of scrollable content? What I'm after is basically how Rise publishes content but I need the better customisable options that Storyline provides. I thought I'd found a solution using https://infinite-scroll.com/demo/full-page/ javascript plugin but storyline publishes one single html file so it can't be used in the way I was expecting. If each page was a separate html file then I might have a shot.

Would love to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off. Thanks.