Courseware improvement
Nov 22, 2022
Early next year I need to consult through our business to determine content changes for our Inductions.
As part of this process, I'm also considering a bit of a design resign refresh and would be interested to know if anyone has any ideas on how to improve what we have now.
I have included one of our Inductions into this post and would be really interested / grateful in peoples feedback / recommendations.
Thanks in advance.
Anthony.
4 Replies
The first place I'd start would be to make sure the design is aligned to your corporate brand guidelines, if you have any?
Things like fonts and colours should be covered in there as a minimum. Updating those if required might be enough to refresh the look and feel.
If you have the scope to delve a lot further in to this and spend more time, you could consider creating and following a grid system to provide a consistent structure to your courses, but that may well be overkill depending on your priorities.
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for sharing the course.
I totally agree with David. Few additional points from me:
See this article: https://community.articulate.com/articles/e-learning-style-guide
Hi Anthony,
I would add more motivation factors in every section. And make the course more task-oriented instead of a huge information pack. A conversational design by adding a character coach and making users feel like someone in this course talks with them, instead of reading cold compliance rules. Having the virtual coach ask questions that users will care about in their daily life to make them think before receiving the information that they need to know.
BTW, the tone of the text might be better using spoken rather than written ones, especially if the target audience is truck drivers.
Maybe think about some feedback to the user to let them know how much they have completed and how much more they still have to do. Consider visual menus that get ticked off as they are completed. Let the user know how many sub-sections are in each section. I liked the little quiz questions - maybe a fun results page?