Ideas for Converting Power Point Presentation in to E-Learning Model.

Mar 25, 2015

I have been tasked with a very huge project for 8 different applications.  I have power points that I am trying to turn in to eLearning. I am new to Articulate and would like to create seperate individuals projects for each topic(navigation, download, update, etc.) in to micro lessons. I want to then bundle all the small courses in to one big course. Is there a way to link several small projects in to one course via a menu or other alternative. I know in Captivate they have Aggregator but I am not sure about Articulate Studio and Storyline.

Thanks,

Shabana

4 Replies
Tim Slade

Hi Shabana,

To keep it simple, there's really two ways you can go about this:

  1. Create several individual Articulate courses and have them grouped together as a single "course" within your LMS. This means that each course is still a standalone course, but grouped together in the LMS. The user will still be required to launch each individual course separately. 
  2. OR, you could create a custom menu in your Storyline course and have it link to several different sections or chapters (Scenes) for each topic. This would contain all of your "micro lessons" into a single course. 

If it were me, I would go with the second option for the sake of simplicity. Attached is a simple wireframe example of how a branched course with a menu might look like. You can use this to understand the back-end structure. 

Let me know what other questions you might have!

Bob S

Hi Shabana,

Tim has shared some awesome advice. And while his second approach is typically the best choice (I agree), there may be situations where you want your LMS to handle this function instead. 

Specifically, many LMS's will allow you set different completion criteria such as "complete 3 of 4 lessons to gain course completion" or "complete X lessons plus review Y resources to show complete".   

If this is a complex piece of software you are training on, and you will have users of varying skill/experience levels that don't all need the same training, that may be worth considering.

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