"I like to see something about why the course was created, what problem was solved, or why they made the choices they did. It can be helpf..."

"I think a lack of a portfolio is a red flag. I definitely look at portfolios and study both the examples and how they are explained."

"I agree that SCORM compliance should be on your requirements list.   I also recommend you review this article series on Five Steps to E..."

"It depends on the situation, but generally I would say it's the instructional designer's job to do the research. When you do a needs anal..."

"It sounds like you may need to try to reassess the real goal. Is it really to "retain the information," or is it to change behavior? If t..."

"How do you expect people to use the information? Is it something they will read cover-to-cover, or is it a quick reference where they loo..."

"Take a look at Duolingo, a free site and app for learning languages. On the website after you register and do a lesson or two, click Word..."

"Video can be used for modeling physical skills. If you think about different physical skills, then search YouTube, my guess is that you'l..."

"I like the process Jane Bozarth outlines in this article: From Classroom to Online: Think Transform, not Transfer.  It's easy to just tak..."

"There is no single right answer, but there are a couple of industry benchmarks you can use. Bryan Chapman did a study several years ago ..."

"Glad to help. For future questions, you might want to try posting to the Adobe Captivate forums or join the LinkedIn group for Adobe Cap..."

"Sometimes you can get some weird glitches if you copy slides, either because you missed some Advanced Action, object name, or variable th..."

"It might be a problem with how you copied the slides with the questions. Can you try hiding the first and third slide, then previewing t..."

"I don't have one. As you said, it depends on a lot of different factors. I have a spreadsheet that I use for myself with basic ratios for..."

"The best way to show that you know what you're doing in lieu of experience is with a portfolio, like Jackie mentioned. There are a few o..."

"Animating the characters probably won't add any actual value to the learning over having static images of characters. Especially since th..."

"It depends on what you want to do. If you want to stay in a classroom but work with adults, then training can be a good career switch fro..."

"I second everything Nicole said. One other role that you might need is a Subject Matter Expert or SME. Even if you have documentation on..."

"Do you feel confident in your ability to estimate how many hours it will take to learn the software and develop the course? If so, you ca..."

"Lieve Weymeis has a number of examples on her blog. They're not beautiful, but she's focused on showing the functionality, usually with f..."

"Check out Will Thalheimer's book that was just published on the subject. It was just published yesterday, so I haven't gotten my copy yet..."

"I found Joel Gendelmann's Consulting Basics to be very helpful when I first made the leap to consulting, especially because he includes s..."

"Could you go through this old curriculum and identify places where adding an interactive practice would have a lot of impact? That's a sh..."

"My favorite one (this is an actual quote from a client): "I have checked the link but when I click the buttons not much happens." Not m..."

"I saw a suggestion a while back (I think on the LearnDash blog?) to put a link on every page of the LMS labeled "Report content errors or..."