Hi Everyone - I have a need for Multilingual Articulate Experts to
recreate rapid eleaning training modules, originally being created in English, in EU Spanish, French and
German - to start with; probably more languages as we get deeper into
the project. If not here, does any one have suggestions as to where I
should post this job opportunity? Thanks so much!
My company does this. We have experience in Studio and Storyline (as well as other well-known names). We use linguists knowledgable in the subject matter, and our in-house DTP departments do the Articulate work.
If you'd like a proposal or more information, please let me know.
Thanks for responding to my query. It's soft tech language and I will have it translated before it gets to whomever is doing the dev work.
Can you send me a link to previous work/clients and at least 3 client referrals please. As well a schedule of fees, per hour for the re-design in each language developed in Articulate. I don't have the finished courses yet, but do know that they are approximately 30 slides each, with Engage interactions, quizzes, and will have animations as well as audio.I have a client meeting tomorrow and would very much appreciate having this information from your company at your earliest convenience.
Did you know you can write your course in Storyline and export it out for translation and then import it directly back into Storyline? If you think about the localization to be done on the front end during the design rather than the back end you will save a lot of time/resources.
During your re-design, any chance you can move to Storyline to use the translation export functionality? Just a thought.
I just did a course which is initially being localized into 13 languages now. If you 'd like some design pointers to save yourself some translation costs, message me.
I had no idea about that Jennifer! wow - that's handy. I did not develop this course, and it was done in Studio- i think - I'm asking that nowI so appreciate the heads up! Is Storyline going to build the same ' course' as if it was done in Studio - work the same way for the users and on the LMS? Now you have me wondering if I should have it redone in Storyline then export for the 3 languages and import back into it . That can't be done in Studio? Any guidance would be so hellpful!!
You should have no problem developing the course in Storyline - it's actually a bit easier to use (I think). The one caveat is that if you have Engage interactions you will have to start those from scratch (I think) and develop them in Storyline.
The pros of moving to Storyline are: you can publish in HTML5 and view your course on a mobile device or an iPad and you can export out for translations and easily re-import.
The cons of moving to Storyline are: you'd have to rebuild the whole course (or most of it) and still have localization costs.
The cons of staying with the Articulate suite: you can't publish in HTML5 (yet) to view the course on a moblie device or iPad, you can't export out for localizations.
Personally, I'd have someone who is experienced in both tools to do a cost analysis to see which would have better long-term results. One question to ask is: when will this course be refreshed? If it's in a year then stay with Studio and move to Storyline next year when you do the refresh. If the course isn't refreshed often, it might be worth it to move to Storyline.
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My company does this. We have experience in Studio and Storyline (as well as other well-known names). We use linguists knowledgable in the subject matter, and our in-house DTP departments do the Articulate work.
If you'd like a proposal or more information, please let me know.
Hi Sissy and welcome to Heroes..
This is a great place to post.
Best to include such things as:
1> Timescales.
2> Location, (static or remote).
3> As many project details as you can.
If you want to keep details relatively "closed", just ask people to use Private Messaging.
Hope this helps, and once again welcome to Heroes.
Bruce
HI Angelos,
Thanks for responding to my query. It's soft tech language and I will have it translated before it gets to whomever is doing the dev work.
Can you send me a link to previous work/clients and at least 3 client referrals please. As well a schedule of fees, per hour for the re-design in each language developed in Articulate. I don't have the finished courses yet, but do know that they are approximately 30 slides each, with Engage interactions, quizzes, and will have animations as well as audio.I have a client meeting tomorrow and would very much appreciate having this information from your company at your earliest convenience.
Thanks very much.
Sissy
I sent a direct message.
Hi Sissy,
Did you know you can write your course in Storyline and export it out for translation and then import it directly back into Storyline? If you think about the localization to be done on the front end during the design rather than the back end you will save a lot of time/resources.
During your re-design, any chance you can move to Storyline to use the translation export functionality? Just a thought.
I just did a course which is initially being localized into 13 languages now. If you 'd like some design pointers to save yourself some translation costs, message me.
Best to you!
Jennifer
I had no idea about that Jennifer! wow - that's handy. I did not develop this course, and it was done in Studio- i think - I'm asking that nowI so appreciate the heads up! Is Storyline going to build the same ' course' as if it was done in Studio - work the same way for the users and on the LMS? Now you have me wondering if I should have it redone in Storyline then export for the 3 languages and import back into it . That can't be done in Studio? Any guidance would be so hellpful!!
Best,
Sissy
Hi Sissy,
You should have no problem developing the course in Storyline - it's actually a bit easier to use (I think). The one caveat is that if you have Engage interactions you will have to start those from scratch (I think) and develop them in Storyline.
The pros of moving to Storyline are: you can publish in HTML5 and view your course on a mobile device or an iPad and you can export out for translations and easily re-import.
The cons of moving to Storyline are: you'd have to rebuild the whole course (or most of it) and still have localization costs.
The cons of staying with the Articulate suite: you can't publish in HTML5 (yet) to view the course on a moblie device or iPad, you can't export out for localizations.
Personally, I'd have someone who is experienced in both tools to do a cost analysis to see which would have better long-term results. One question to ask is: when will this course be refreshed? If it's in a year then stay with Studio and move to Storyline next year when you do the refresh. If the course isn't refreshed often, it might be worth it to move to Storyline.
Lots to think about and consider.
Hi Jennifer,
I'll send you a private email for the EU Spanish translation.
Regards,
Belen
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