New Employee Orientation and Onboarding in E-Learning #389

David Anderson
By David Anderson

New Employee Orientation and Onboarding in E-Learning #389

Onboarding and New Hire Training #389: Challenge | Recap

Employee orientation training is one of the most popular types of e-learning. Onboarding is typically the first training employees encounter at their new company, so it’s essential to get it right. What should you include in onboarding training? What does onboarding training look like? Well, that’s what this week’s challenge is all about.

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to create an onboarding example for new employees. You don't need to build a comprehensive onboarding course. Instead, we want to see different approaches for onboarding new employees.

For example, using placeholder content, you can create your demo for a fictional or real company. Or, develop your onboarding demo for your own e-learning company. Who knows? You may need to onboard some new course designers one day.

Designing Onboarding Using Common E-Learning Interactions

I always enjoyed building onboarding training because of the mix of instructional and interaction design. The course design begins with the content topics and lessons. But when you're ready to dive into development, common e-learning interactions can help you with the presentation design.

Resources

Here are some articles, examples, and webinars to help you with this week’s onboarding challenge.

Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..
  • Personal blog:  If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
  • Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you launch this week's onboarding challenge, check out the personality games and quizzes your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Quiz: Which E-Learning Character Are You? #218

Personality Games and Quizzes in E-Learning #388: Challenge | Recap

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.

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58 Comments
Jodi M. Sansone
over 1 year ago09/25/22 at 9:02 pm (UTC)

Pre-Boarding with ClickFirst Demo: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/389+ClickFirst+OnBoarding/index.html#/ This challenge seemed like a good job for RISE. When I worked in the corporate world one issue we had with new hires is how to keep their interest between the day they accepted an offer and their first day. Sometimes 90 days would pass before they would start. We used to implement a communication plan to keep them engaged. My demo is a pre-boarding communication to get a new hire ready for their start date, with instructions on how to get their pre-employment paperwork out of the way and give them an idea of what to expect when they show up their first week. This lucky new hire is starting a job at an award-winning, hip ad agency. It includes every hip agency values and t... Expand

Jodi M. Sansone
over 1 year ago09/26/22 at 8:26 pm (UTC)
Hi Maren, No, we didn't compensate them because they weren't officially on board yet. We used SL to develop quick-hit communication pieces as part of a broader communication plan. I used to call them "love notes"--just quick messages to let them know they were on our mind. I'd be glad to chat with you separately about some of the things we did if you are creating a communication plan. SL and Rise were just convenient vehicles we used that could be developed quickly and pulsed out. I used SL a lot for things other than training and would be glad to tell you about it.
Jodi M. Sansone
over 1 year ago09/27/22 at 3:07 pm (UTC)
Sure, just email me and we can find a time. My business partner Jill and I sometimes use SL for invitations to big offsite meetings, pre-meeting teaser games, post-meeting follow ups, and change management communications. We just post them on the web instead of in an LMS and we use other ways to track them. We did some fun things for a NYC media company last spring in a "getting back into the office" communication plan.
Ange CM
over 1 year ago10/01/22 at 4:49 pm (UTC)
Fantastic. Welcoming, mindful, respectful, upbeat, engaging and all with a light but solid touch - 'you matter to us as you' comes across as authentic. In my experience of on-boarding modules that is a tough tone to convey and often comes across as inauthentic, or worse, an ulterior motive. For me, this demo is a great example of the reshaping of the employer/employee relationship that HRs are grappling with according to many an article, "as high-skilled workers gravitate toward companies that demonstrate a vision for maximizing the quality of the employee experience". Quote source: https://www.kearney.com/leadership-change-organization/article/-/insights/employees-expect-more-from-todays-changing-work-world-is-hr-ready
Ron Katz
over 1 year ago09/25/22 at 9:14 pm (UTC)

Orientation at COI. (Turn on your audio!!) Demo: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/e547116a-6977-4cdf-84d8-93c60f8be7db/review This interaction follows a new person on their first day with COI. I tried some firsts for me as well as some standards. 1) I created a flashlight type interaction using a very large slider with a cutout. 2) I turned photos into 360 images by duplicating portions of the photo and adding a top and bottom. 3) I imported a previous project and made a few tweeks to tie it into my orientation. 4) I used multiple scrolling panels on a slide to simulate a rolling padlock. 5) I used the new "Print Slide" command to print a slide 6) I used lightboxes to recall a previously designed item and to ease access to an item that might be commonly used. 7) I... Expand

Thierry EMMANUEL
over 1 year ago09/26/22 at 10:10 am (UTC)
Bonjour Heroes. Here's my demo: the first slide (a "linking questions and answers" activity) of a larger onboarding course. The theme is: how to orient oneself in the new company as one orients oneself on a map of the NY subway or London underground or the Paris métro. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/ea5fb833-ca8a-484f-8427-02c8f664ffce/review
Thierry EMMANUEL
over 1 year ago09/28/22 at 8:14 am (UTC)
You are right Ron. The position of the draggable oval on one of the targets on the right changes the states (with lines) of the object of the same color on the left. I also like this interaction. It is more educational to link the question and the answer yourself than other interactions (choose an answer or drag and drop). And in fact, it's super fast to create it from scratch.
Ghaidaa Kotb
over 1 year ago09/26/22 at 4:10 pm (UTC)
Hi all! Here is my submission for this challenge. I chose to focus on wellbeing onboarding and how to work from home. The demo: https://ghaidaakotb.github.io/wellbeingonboarding/ The storyline File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2ThBcAXhrwnbOWFFan28M3QN1OTa3tM/view?usp=sharing This file is inspired by a presentation done by the Wellbeing lab https://www.michellemcquaid.com/wellbeinglabtoolbox/
Daniel Canaveral
over 1 year ago09/28/22 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
Hey Ron! Interestingly enough, I learned there is a dedicated variable for the Zoom to Fit feature that is set to False by default. In the latest version of the demo, I inserted a trigger that changes the state of that variable to True, saving users from having to toggle it themselves (the Fullscreen feature has a variable, too, but it requires the user to manually activate it).
Alison Sollars
over 1 year ago10/29/22 at 3:41 pm (UTC)
A little late, but I got the idea for a customizable demo for remote "welcome" onboarding. It's got some placeholders for different orgs and some things I could've built out more with the email/I9 stuff (example versions) or team stuff, but I think it gets the idea across. I think this would be a nice "welcome pack" for someone to get if it could be personalized (individual or even department, and you could personalize their name possibly without having individual videos), and Remote Onboarding is often bolstered by this kind of thing. It could link to an agenda and resources too etc. But just a sample: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/da1d4d01-8015-44bb-a489-be5ff3fb11af/review
Kelly McCurley
1 year ago03/25/23 at 3:17 pm (UTC)

Recently, my company adopted Axonify as our learning experience platform which naturally led to a reconsideration of the scope, sequence, format and length of our content. Our new hire orientation course was approximately 30 minutes long in a single course. Taking a microlearning approach, I've make the pivot to Fasterclasses for each segment. The first module covers company culture, vision, values and goals. The redesign uses Rise as a shell and has a Storyline interaction that simulates the company's e-commerce app so that learners can "shop" for the company's cultural elements. Companion events for this module include a monthly live workshop to deep dive into the culture and practical applications and an undated planner for the welcome kit that includes the daily questions intro... Expand

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