Courseware improvement

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:

• Limit font to two fonts (one for titles/one for body)
• Make sure that the contrast ratio is high enough for the text to be accessible (Grey text on grey background). Equally, a lot of people find reading white text on dark background difficult to read - I saw an example of it in your course).
• Some text is placed way too close to the edge of the screen. If accessed on mobile devices, some parts of the text/buttons may be hard to access. 
• Do not overload pages with text - leave some white space around the text and graphical elements
• Make sure that clickable elements (icons) stand out
• It is best to set a style guide for the eLearning, to make sure that the elements with a specific function, look the same - i.e. buttons, icons etc.

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?