Best Certification for Breaking into Instructional Design field
I am mentoring an Educator (with a Master's in Teaching) and 15 years of teaching fifth-grade science as well as pre-school. This educator wants to transfer her skills to break into the Instructional Design field. What are the best certifications programs for this type of professional?Peer Pod Coming Soon: “New to Instructional Design” — Who’s Joining Us?
We’re kicking off a brand-new Peer Pod for anyone who’s new to instructional design and you’re invited! 🎉 Peer Pods are 4-week learning groups where community members explore a topic together through weekly prompts, curated resources, and shared discussion. Whether you’re a few days or several months into your role, this is your chance to connect with peers, reflect on key topics, and build confidence together. Here’s what we’ll explore: ✨ What to focus on as you get started 📦 Intro to Articulate 360 + course design best practices 🤝 Tips for working with SMEs 💻 Best practices for incorporating AI By the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger foundation and a group of peers cheering you on. 🗓 Start Date: Monday, January 12, 2026 Participants will be added to the private Peer Pod group about a week before we begin. 👉 Want to join? Fill out the registration form. 💬 Your turn: What Peer Pod topics do you want to see next? If you could join a focused 4-week learning group, what topic would you choose? Drop your ideas below so we can build pods around what you want most. 🙌Designing Immersive Phone Conversations in Storyline
Ever have two characters talk in a training module, but it still feels flat; even with speech bubbles, audio, and triggers? This (FREE) Storyline phone conversation template changes that. Whether you're designing for sales, compliance, healthcare, or support, it creates real, layered convos that feel like you're eavesdropping on a call. Animated phone effects Realistic voiceover dialogue Transparent APNG waveforms (way better than GIFs!) Custom triggers for pick-up/end call Clean, modern layout with animated text Watch how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpUcYJRNnE Preview the demo: https://www.redesignedminds.com/Discuss/story.html Download it free: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19AvmE7q3PAUbXoNKIViQtPNqCwUoFDQW/view?usp=sharing If your training includes a conversation, this is how you bring it to life.Who here has an e-learning portfolio?
Hey all—as I've been chatting with community members lately, something that's coming up a lot is e-learning portfolios. I thought it might be interesting to start a thread and have folks share your portfolios in the comments. Bonus points if you add a couple of notes to your comment about what you see as best practices for portfolio creation—if I get a bunch of comments here I can create a summary of best practices for folks who don't have portfolios yet to read! Really looking forward to seeing some of these 🙌Expert Insight Needed!
Hi Everyone! I am a graduate student in an Instructional Design and Performance Technology program. In my Distance Learning Policy and Planning course, we are conducting an informal research investigation on current use of technology in our field. We are tasked with finding out what practitioners are using out in the real world, and how they feel about those technologies. Can you please share the platforms you use and your own personal feelings about these technologies (what works well, what is challenging, etc.) for purposes such as: Delivering instruction or training (such as an LMS) Communication and collaboration Assessments or testing Analytics Thank you so much for helping me learn from your experience!Organising project phases
Hi there! I'm curious to learn how others organise the workflow when creating E-Learning content. I personally find kind of challenging the final revision, in which I need to check that everything in the content is well and adjusted. I was thinking in creating a checklist that could be used as a support but I don't really know what kind of format could really be useful... any idea? How do you usually check that everything is perfect right before delivering?How are you approaching learning creation in your organization beyond “traditional” L&D use cases?
Hey ELH community 👋, We know that learning creation doesn’t live solely within L&D or instructional design teams. In large organizations especially, managers, training, enablement teams, and other departments are increasingly creating their own learning to meet team and business needs. We’re curious how that’s playing out in your organization. If you’re in L&D, what’s holding you back from bringing on more teams create courses in Articulate? Are there particular challenges—technical, process-related, or cultural—that make it harder to open things up? And if you have scaled and democratized course creation with Articulate beyond L&D, what’s helped it work well? We’d love to learn from your experiences; what’s working, what’s not, and what would make it easier. ~ The Articulate Research TeamRedesigning Under Constraints: Condensing 8 Hours of Training into a 1-Hour eLearning Module
In most projects, SMEs provide slides, facilitator guides, or at least some documentation. In this case, I received none. The request was to convert a full-day (7–8 hour) onboarding workshop into a 1-hour e-learning course. Instead of materials, I was invited to attend the live session as if I were a new hire. The onboarding itself was highly activity-based (discussions, reflections, group exercises...). As a training workshop, it worked well, but that's exactly what made the conversion harder. The real challenge was this: How do you compress a full day of experiential learning into one interactive hour without simply digitizing the activities? That alone would have been enough to deal with. But then another constraint surfaced. The original workshop had been designed by an external consulting firm. Leadership later raised concerns about copyright and ownership. I was instructed not to replicate or closely resemble any of the original activities, even the ones that had consistently received the best feedback. That meant redesigning everything from first principles. How I decided what to keep from the 8-hour workshop Rather than starting with the activities themselves, I focused on understanding what the workshop was really trying to achieve. Observing the learning intent behind each activity While attending the workshop, I paid close attention to several things: * What the company expected learners to gain from each activity * What learning goals those activities were meant to support * How participants reacted during the session and what feedback they shared After the workshop, I asked the HR what they had observed from employees who previously completed the onboarding? Which behaviors seemed to reflect the intended outcomes, and where they still noticed gaps? One question I specifically asked was: What behaviors or thinking patterns do you expect a new hire to demonstrate after this training? Once I understood what the training was really trying to do, it became much easier to decide what to keep and what to cut. Have you ever had to redesign training under similar constraints? I'd love to hear how you handled it. And if there's interest in the design side of this project, drop a comment. I'm happy to share more.RISE- Automatic Certificate Creation
I've been playing around with how to create a custom certificate in a Rise course and I've finally found a workaround using an embedded form that creates and delivers a PDF. Check it out: https://share.articulate.com/IcrVo3X-PV5k7x9CMMFkx I've been struggling with this for a long time and I know a handful of you have been too. Hope it helps! ps. I used the AI Assistant to create this mini course based off of the video I recorded outlining the steps, which I also included as content within the course to follow along.
