Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to get to know each of you over the next few weeks! 👋 I'm Alyssa, the Training Program Manager at Articulate. I've been so fortunate to be a part of the Articulate team for the past 10 years, and I love teaching our customers new and creative ways to use our tools.

I'm located in Bellingham, WA 🌲 but I'm a native Texan at heart. I share my home office with two cuties, Basil (airedale terrier) and Remi (wirehaired pointer). I'd love to see photos of your pets, as well!

I'm excited to dive in to the AI Assistant with you soon! 

Hi, Alyssa and the rest of the cohort! My name is Elizabeth, and I'm currently working as a contract learning experience designer and developer - one of my favorite ways to experience lots of different people and projects. I love telling people I've worked in eLearning since the late 1900's - and it's true! We used to send it out on CDs for employees to complete at a dedicated workstation.🤔It's been great to see the evolution the industry has made in that time and the amazing tools we now have available to us.  

I live just south of Denver, CO ⛰️ and love the sun, the seasons, and the wide variety of outdoor activities here. No pets unless I include my husband, who works in his home office just across the way from my home office. I'm a big fan of board games when I'm home, and live theater and comedy when I go out.

Hey everyone! I'm Nadia - I'm an instructional designer at Kaiser Permanente (official title: Design & Documentation Consultant). I'm located in Virginia but work with multiple states. Within my role, I design and develop trainings + resources for our call center teams. 

I joined the cohort to get a better handle on AI since I use Articulate primarily within my work. I'm excited to learn all the tips and tricks!

Meet Murray (pup) and Milo (cat) in a rare picture of them together! Milo mostly just tolerates Murray, but they're both great!

Hi everyone, my name is Nathan and I work at Southern California Edison as Learning Tech Advisor, managing our company's Articulate account. I'm also an avid Articulate user and am excited to learn how the AI Assistant can enhance our learning solutions. I live in beautiful Monrovia, CA but wish we experience some sort of seasonal weather besides HOT, kinda hot, and heavy rain for 1-2 weeks...

Looking forward to learning from and connecting with you all.

Afternoon! My name is Jason. I work for an environmental engineering firm in Long Beach, CA, and am the L&D Manager. I'm also the only course developer on a team of two. I'm excited to learn how to use the AI Assistant now that it is part of our subscription. Any help I can get to enhance or speed up my development time is welcome.

Hi Alyssa, My name is Karen and I'm based in Australia and work for an Electricity Entity as an instructional designer.  My projects are primarily designing training for electrical trade skills, health and safety and corporate compliance activities.  I joined the Articulate AI Assistant cohort to learn how to use AI to create engaging content and write effective prompts to achieve what I need. 

Meet my favourite co-worker, Baylee!

Hi, I'm Carolyn! I'm currently an instructional designer for customer service training at Uline. My team & I create & maintain digital & in-classroom training programs for about 1,000 Customer Service Reps across North America (we have locations in the US, Canada & Mexico). I joined the cohort to sharpen my skills & become more familiar with all the cool new AI features!

I live & work in southeast WI & this is my rescue mutt Kingston!

Hello! This is my first Articulate Online program, though I’ve been ATD‑certified in Articulate for more years than I care to admit. I’m loving how AI is making our jobs as learning developers so much easier by creating case studies, personas, and explaining content to us.  I am excited to explore how it can support my day‑to‑day work—building learning for the Tax and Advisory service lines globally at Grant Thornton International.

This is Assistant Jack, he is my administrative assistant and work‑life balance coach (sleeping on the job, most of the time).

Hi everyone! I'm Kathy, joining from the Denver metro area. I work in Learning & Development at Blue Origin where I focus on content and curriculum design, training delivery, and program management. Day-to-day that means I'm building leadership development programs, designing eLearning, and figuring out how to get the right learning to the right people at the right time.

I joined this cohort because AI is where it's at right now. In L&D especially, the pace of work demands that we move fast, simplify, and automate wherever we can. I'm here for practical skills I can apply immediately, specifically around using AI with Articulate to move quicker, reduce errors, and improve the quality of what I'm putting out.

Looking forward to learning with everyone!

Hi everyone, I’m excited to learn alongside you in this course. I’m based in Australia and come from an education background, so I’m still relatively new to instructional design. I currently work for an airline company developing online training resources for staff. Over the past two years, I’ve built my skills in Articulate Storyline, though I feel there’s still so much more to explore across both Storyline and Rise. I’m taking this AI Assistant course to better understand how I can use AI to enhance course design and development. Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning with you all over the next two weeks.    

This is our dog Lulu, whom we adopted two weeks ago. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by how quickly she’s settled into her new home and become part of the family.