How to Create a Style Guide for E-Learning

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Building a course is one thing. Building it to align with your company’s brand is another.

In this session, we’ll explore reasons to use style guides, how to craft an e-learning style guide, and tips on integrating your organization’s brand into the look and feel of your e-learning courses.

What's covered:

• Why do I need a style guide?
• Types of style guides
• Rise 360: Personalizing the theme
• Storyline 360: Customizing the theme
• Next steps

User Guides

• Storyline 360: Customizing Your Course Design
• Storyline 360: Importing Slides from PowerPoint
• Rise 360: Personalize the Theme

Articles

• What to Include in an E-Learning Style Guide
• The Why and How of Building an E-Learning Style Guide in Storyline
• Why You Need an E-Learning Style Guide
• 3 Ideas for Balancing Branding Guidelines with E-Learning Design
• How to Use a Simple Font Style Guide for Consistent Course Design
• 9 Easy Ways to Deal With Corporate Branding in Your E-learning Courses

Downloads

• Rise 360: An Interactive E-Learning Style Guide
• Storyline: E-Learning Style Guide Template
• PowerPoint: E-Learning Style Guide Template

Resources

• Transfonter
• Google Fonts
• Color Cop

Next Steps

Now that you know how and why style guides are important and some general steps for creating brand guides, it’s time to build one!

• Activity 01: Using your company’s website (or any established brand) identify the core colors, fonts, and image guidelines that make up the brand.
• Activity 02: Using the fonts, colors, and images you identified in Activity 01, create a custom theme in Rise. 
• Activity 03: Create a custom theme in Storyline 360 for theme fonts, theme colors, and save as a template file.