You as author

I dont add any personal branding or name to a clients course. None of my courses have any contact details for my company, the clients paid me to build a course for them not to advertise myself.

You may want to ask the client if they are happy for you to add your name, if they say yes i would add it on the company contact details page.

Sorry, my original post wasn't clear. The course isn't for a client, it's a course that I've developed for the organisation I work for. External clients of my organisation are signed up to pay us to do our online training course.

I was thinking of it a bit like if you author a book, you put your name on it. I admit that 50% of my reasoning is that I would like people to know I wrote it. However I also would like to put my name and the name of the other person who consulted on the content, with our qualifications after our names, as it gives legitimacy to the content because we both have appropriate qualifications in our field of expertise.

If you are the SME then I would put your name on the course, I dont really like the idea of adding the designers name to a course.

I would do this in a subtle way - if at all, perhaps an "Authors" tab.

If they want to click they can.

I would try and make things so that whoever looked at the course either 1> did not need to know about you or 2> if they did, then that familiarisation with your credentials came before the course in some way.

Good question - I guess that I just feel my name is out of place in the content, that's all.

Bruce

We usually put the name of the SME(s) on the course.  Often it is on the title screen of the course.  Old habit that stems from presentations which continue to be shown here on a daily basis.   I wouldn't mind putting it at the end as Credits.  Or even as Bruce suggested an Authors/Credits for of tab.

I have colleagues who always include a credits slide at the end. Personally I could go either way as long as there is some way that people taking the course can ask questions and provide feedback. The method, whether it's via a credits slide with names and contact information or a "Contact Us' form (my preference) isn't as important having a way to communicate.

Including credit screens might give SMEs a greater incentive to participate and take ownership. Of course you'd also have to give them "producer" credits

Reminds me of some mockups I'm doing for a blog post on using credit screens. Here's an example:

@David...

As you forced me to do it I must remind you about this.

Bruce

An Author tab could work indeed. You could also build something similar to the Presenter feature in Articulate studio

I guess to a large extent the answer to this is all based around what your motivations are - to get the SME some "kudos" exposure, to produce for a client etc.

In my case I prefer to stay in the background, and let the "kudos" come from repeat engagements

Bruce