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Anyone built e-learning courses for trade industries like property maintenance?
Hey Damprot — Andrew and Carl already nailed the tool choice, so I'll add the media side, since visual ID training lives or dies on its images.
Your surveyors are already your photo library. They photograph sites daily — start collecting those photos now, sorted by defect type: dry rot, wet rot, rising damp, active woodworm, plus "looks bad but is fine" counter-examples. Real site photos beat stock and AI images for this, because your techs will recognize the same damp walls and joists they're trained on. One standardization pass: same aspect ratio, consistent brightness, nothing blurry.
Two practical moves that pay off fast:
1. Build the quiz images as Pick One freeform slides (Andrew's suggestion), but label each image's source and severity in the feedback layer — "Dry rot, advanced — note the cuboidal cracking." The feedback is where the actual teaching happens, not the question.
2. For chemical safety and report writing, skip the slides-as-text-document trap. A 60-second phone video of a senior tech doing a treatment correctly beats five bullet slides, and a flawed sample report that learners have to mark up is a better report-writing lesson than any template walkthrough.
Start with the defect-identification quizzes. That's the module your team will use first and share most.
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