Creative Authoring

Scale your Training Programs with Fast LMS KREDO

Meeta Agarwal

Intro Summary An effective eLearning solution enables organizations to overcome the constraints of time and distance in the training sphere. It helps to train a greater number of learners across the globe in a shorter span of time. In this article, we will cover how fast LMS KREDO empowers businesses, governments, and training institutes to scale their training programs. Introduction What exactly is understood by scaling the training program? Let’s look at a scenario. A global food and beverage company has operations in nutrition, health, and wellness products. They employ more than a lakh employee worldwide. They have manufacturing units as well as offices in multiple cities. They have huge supply chains, both as a prefix and a suffix. One of the most powerful ways to permeate uniform standards across all verticals, employees, and other stakeholders is through training. James, their training head, is looking for a highly engaging LMS that can become a chassis for the success of their training goals. Let’s see how an effective learning management system KREDO can help support and scale their training program. Users and User Groups KREDO allows organizations to individually add all their learners and categorize them into groups. User groups can be created based on different verticals, roles and responsibilities, internal and external stakeholders, languages, organizational levels, countries, and more. New learners can be added anytime. Scenario: James efficiently populates the learners’ database by exporting details in bulk from an excel sheet and organizing them into different user groups. In-built Authoring Tool KREDO LMS has an in-built authoring tool with 50+ eLearning templates to create courses for learning in the flow of work. The palette of templates helps to cater to varied learning styles: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic—the VARK model. Assessment templates gauge the learner’s understanding of the concept while administrators can enhance the learning experience by choosing from various color themes and configurations. Scenario: Once the learners’ details are in place, James adds SCORM files for various courses and prepares a list of courses that would be created in the LMS. Localization A large spectrum of learners presents the scope of interaction in various languages. KREDO LMS inbuilt courses can be translated into a wide range of languages. Localization is the cornerstone of an organization’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I). The Language Selector option in the settings lets the learners choose the preferred language for the course. Scenario: James intends to translate LMS courses into Spanish, German, and Arabic to start with, and then move to other languages. Learning Pathways While an inbuilt authoring tool helps shorten the duration of course creation, learning pathways help the L&D team leap into the future. The learning journey is never-ending, and learning pathways allows one to add courses endlessly. And it is not just courses- webinars, classrooms, resources, surveys, etc. can be added to the learning pathways. Yes, all these can be created on a single eLearning platform, KREDO. These capabilities support the blend of eLearning and virtual instructor-led training (VILT). Moreover, there can be multiple customized learning pathways for different users and user groups. Scenario: James creates multiple learning pathways for different countries, verticals (such as nutrition, health, etc.), and departments. He has scheduled online and offline SME sessions in Classrooms. Likewise, he will use surveys, webinars, etc., to deepen learner engagement for more teams across the world. Thus, we saw how KREDO LMS makes distance immaterial and manages time efficiently. Conclusion This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are intelligent report analytics, course presets, and wide integrations to help you scale your training programs and deepen engagement. We train our clients on the features and functionality of the KREDO eLearning platform in 2–3 business days. This includes detailed coverage of the responsibilities of an admin, author, manager, and learner. The KREDO eLearning Platform is rewriting the chapters of technological evolution in the learning industry. It has won accolades and awards in the past 3 years, including the coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold Award 2023 for excellence in “Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation”. To explore the KREDO Learning management system, book a free demo or write to us at <suresh@tesseractlearning.com>

The Power of eLearning Templates: Streamlining Course Creation

Sreenivas Gurappu

Introduction Summary Meeting the escalating demand for online learning and training poses a challenge for L&D professionals striving to create eLearning courses faster. Fortunately, the solution lies in leveraging elearning templates, enabling development of eLearning courses through templates within minutes or hours. With optimal use of eLearning templates, one can significantly reduce the time to create the courses and reduce costs as well. Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of learning and development (L&D), the importance of eLearning has surged, especially in recent years. With the rapid advancement of technology, the advent of rapid authoring tools, and the increasing demand for flexible learning solutions, creating effective and engaging eLearning courses has emerged as both a priority and a challenge for L&D professionals and organizations. eLearning templates have become a powerful tools that can significantly streamline the course creation process. In this blog, we will explore the undeniable power of eLearning templates and how they can simplify and enhance your course development process. What are eLearning Templates? eLearning templates are pre-designed slides, formats, structures, or layouts that provide a framework for creating online courses. Available in diverse formats and styles, these templates serve as foundational elements, either as simple slide templates for presentation or as comprehensive eLearning courses/modules with interactive elements, quiz questions, and multimedia content. Most of these templates are customizable, thereby allowing L&D professionals to add their own content while maintaining the consistent and professional design. The Power of eLearning Templates eLearning templates offer many compelling benefits in streamlining the course creation process:. How eLearning Templates Can Streamline the Course Creation Efficiency in course creation is achievable through the strategic use of eLearning templates. Platforms like KREDO, designed to facilitate, promote, and sustain professional growth in corporate workforce by providing quality eLearning content. Selecting templates tailored to content, incorporating interactive elements and adding quiz questions can expedite course creation. Preview the course, make the necessary changes, and save it. Here we go! Your course is now ready to deploy on your LMS. KREDO provides great eLearning templates for streamlining the course creation process. Here are a few of them: Content: KREDO offers various eLearning templates for content presentation, including Welcome, Introduction, Bullet List, Horizontal List, Numbered List, History with Year, Image with Custom Content, Image with Label, Scroll View, Tabular Presentation, Text Image Text, etc. You can also display an external webpage or a video within your content. Concept: KREDO offers a variety of eLearning templates for concept presentation with interactivity, such as Accordion, Carousal, Flip Card, Scratch Card, Tabs, Text Slider, Hotspots, etc. You can also launch an external weblink or download a PDF using templates. Assessment: KREDO offers eLearning templates for Assessment/Quiz questions, such as Agree or Disagree, Drag and Drop, Drag and Fill in Blank, Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Multiple Choice with Images, Select from Dropdown, Sort the Options, Type in Answer, etc. Gamified: KREDO provides some interesting, gamified templates for eLearning, such as Basket Ball, Color Connect, Find a Word, Match the Cards, Shooting Aliens, Shoot the Birds, Spin and Win, etc. Charts: You can present the content in tables and charts using templates such as Bar Chart, Donut Chart, Line Chart, Tabular Presentation, etc. You can also request new templates based on your requirements. By using KREDO, you can even conduct online classroom sessions with the learners. You can create an online event using any of the providers of your choice like Microsoft Teams, Zoom Meetings, or Google Meet. Once you create the event, a link will be generated giving time and duration details. You can share this link in the template. Using the link, learners can attend the online session. By using certain templates, you can also add videos and other resources to your courses and share them with your learners. In KREDO, you can embed videos using pre-designed templates, or else upload your videos directly to YouTube or Vimeo and share the external links in KREDO. Thus, you can provide additional learning resources to your employees. Conclusion The power of e-learning templates in streamlining course creation cannot be overstated. The use of templates saves time and money, enhances consistency and branding, promotes accessibility, and aligns with the best practices in learning and development. Organizations and L&D professionals who embrace e-learning templates can accelerate their course development process while delivering engaging and effective learning experiences to their employees. eLearning templates are poised to play an increasingly significant role in reshaping the future of learning and training. We’ll discuss your challenges and work with your team in understanding your business needs, learner expectations, and technology environments. If you wish to know how our services, KREDO learning platform, and Prodient.io authoring tool can help your organization in developing various eLearning courses and modules, contact us or write to us at suresh@tesseractlearning.com.

A Learning Management System that Empowers through Creative Authoring

Meeta Agarwal

Intro Summary Are you looking for a learning management system and/or an authoring tool? What if you get both in one? Yes, KREDO is a convergence of both an LMS and an authoring tool. In this article, we explore how the LMS KREDO can empower you to author your own courses. Introduction A learning management system (LMS) is the chassis for efficient delivery of digital courses. It basically helps in managing course scheduling and the learner analytics vis a vis the courses. Along with providing a simple user interface, an LMS helps to manage users, and integrate with content aggregators and external systems like meeting platforms, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) and more. But what if an LMS allows you to author your own courses without the need for coding? Yes, KREDO is a learning management system which is also an authoring tool. Moreover, anyone from the organization can build courses keeping in mind the various teaching and the learning theories. Let’s look at how one can create engaging courses on KREDO learning platform. Templates Hunt A repository of 50+ templates helps one to express the content in various ways in order to cover all the four main types of learners based on their learning styles: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic – the VARK model. There is an option to add audio script too. There are static content templates (bullet, image with text, history etc.) that give structure to the whole course. These can be interspersed with the interactive templates (accordion, hotspots, carousels, flip cards and more) that one can play around to deeply engage the learners. Create formative and summative assessment with question-based templates to gauge learner’s understanding of the knowledge. These templates can also be used to gain learner’s attention and stimulate recall of prior knowledge as laid out in Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. The brain activity oscillates between high to low frequency. A wise use of these templates helps to create short modules punctuated by interactivity and assessment to prevent learner’s attention from going astray. Configurable settings, color schemes, easy to use image editor help to create industry specific content using diverse strategies. “Design is intelligence made visible”, said Alina Wheeler. Design and color scheme is vital for an effective user interface. There are a set of color themes to choose from. However, one can also create one’s own combination of colors for the course. Continuous Learning The process of learning is a flowing river, and having a learning path is ideal for a continuous learning journey. Create learning paths and add courses to it by a simple drag and drop feature. These courses can be scheduled on different days across the learning path. Add resources, webinars, meetings to the path for an amazing learning experience. Memory Boosters Recall, repeat and reinforce! One of the salient aspects of any learning journey is to keep revisiting the knowledge to deepen the understanding and thereby its reinforcement. Memory boosters are courses that explain the salient aspects of the course to help memorize what has been already taught. Remediation The only way to fail is to give up. KREDO’s remediation feature will not let you give up. Relearn the concept, repeat till you master it. The number of remediation attempts can be pre-set. Localization Globalization, remote working, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives has seen the confluence of employees with varied language, working for an organization. Providing training in the language through which they communicate with the customers is of paramount importance. KREDO allows one to translate courses in multiple languages to help widen the reach of the course to employees across geographical boundaries. The administrators can enable the Language Selector option in settings to let learners choose the preferred language for the course. Knowledge Check & Assessments Eliciting performance and assessing performance as stated in Gagne’s theory is vital to the learning process. Knowledge checks and assessment are a few ways to gauze the learning outcomes. The outcomes include the recall and understanding of the concept as well as its application to real situation. Realistic scenarios and case studies can be incorporated in the assessment templates to help learners build decision and task based competence – Tier 5 and Tier 6 of the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model (LTEM). Get the benefits of both the LMS and the authoring tool in KREDO. These were a few features that empower one to author courses on an LMS. Conclusion A dynamic, empowering, competent, and effective learning platform is critical for achieving a company’s training goals. Enrich your corporate training strategy using the learning platform KREDO. Build a culture of learning by creating dynamic courses for an unparalleled learning experience with KREDO – Simple to Create, Smart to Express, Effortless to Learn. It is a confluence of technology and communication, creativity and simplicity, purpose and fun, individual empowerment, and corporate excellence. Reinforce knowledge or add more information for any skill set across various industries through KREDO. Anyone can do it. If creating a culture of learning in your organization is your priority, contact us or write to us at suresh@tesseractlearning.com