Not happy with my first attempt of a course. Help critique please.
Feb 21, 2013
First, this forum has been a lifesaver for someone new at this, so thanks for all the posts.
I am trying to create a new hire training course for my team. I've gotten a lot of slides and quiz questions written but still need to write the script and naration. The problem is, I feel my course isn't interactive enough and feels too much like powerpoint.. I feel like I need to completely start over; but not sure where to start or how to improve. Would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Rip this thing apart if you don't mind.
The course objective is to provide basic product knowledge for fine jewelry before an associate would start on the sales floor. I've removed some brand media so you could see pages that are missing pictures for this shared version.
Thanks for anyone willing to help guide me to get this to the next level.
Here is the link:
http://tempshare.storyline.articulate.com/p17jus19fe1ors1gnfokv8d71t0h1/story.html
Darren
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Hi Darin,
It's interesting to see another retail course our there. I use to work for Kohl's Department Stores and Macy's...and worked on many projects like this.
In all honesty, the course looks really good thus far. I'd love to see how it sounds with audio. I think for the most part, there's a lot of areas where you have an abundance of text on the screen...remove that from the screen and make it your narration. You then can replace it with any stock photography you guys have. At Kohl's we'd go out to the stores and take a ton of photos that we could use in our courses...I'm sure you guys do the same thing.
Also, it looks like their is some significance for the use of red (I assume a branding color?) If that's the case, I can only think of two retails that use red heavily in their branding. Either way, I'm sure their is a ton of opportunity to incorporate other branding elements (a target or star for example...if your from either of the retailers I'm thinking of). See where you can expand upon the branding, imagry or fonts. Otherwise, I think your making great headway.
Also, by the way, great use of interactivity!
Feel free to messages me if you want to discuss any further ideas. Having a retail-eLearning background, I have a ton more ideas.
-Tim
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