Getting other departments in my organization to get on board with e-learning is a goal of mine. It’s been a little over a month since my organization has been providing web based training through our new LMS. Being the training developer, I have naturally become one of the leading advocates for getting the organization's training content online and available to employees. The new LMS has become a great working model that departments can look at to get ideas about what they can do with web based training. First batch of interest - videos. They use tools like Jing and Camtasia to create videos. MORE >>

Systems and courses timeout. We all know that. logged in session with a computer only has so long with inactivity before the user is considered to have abandoned their session and the system logs them out. While this is well understood to those in the e-learning industry, it can be confusing for some learner so e-learning developers need to handle this time out gracefully. With the way my organization's LMS is setup inside a single sign on portal, the web based training will continue even after the LMS and portal system has timed out. NOT SAVED! Has anyone else run into this problem? MORE >>

As I build up my development skills and try to communicate my skills to others I do business with, I keep asking myself, "am I a Flash developer?" Adobe Flash is a very complicated product and in order to create a Flash application, you need a variety of skills. On one hand, as a software engineer, I am well equipped to write Flash applications. On the other hand, not being a graphics designer, creating applications with amazing animations is not really my strength. So I am quite well equipped to write Flash applications. can use ActionScript to respond to events and work with Movie Clips. MORE >>

The question is “what is the best way to create a video based training course in Saba?” When first answering a question like this, I like to look around for best practices. have a lot of video based content. The videos are 3 to 5 minutes long and I have 40 to 50 videos in a course. In this case, I was unable to find a best practice when it comes to packaging as SCORM to deliver in an LMS. Key Issues to be Addressed The two issues I’m wrangling with are usability versus cost to deliver. want my learners to have a consistent look and feel for video based courses. Each SCO has two pages. MORE >>

I'd like to think my e-learning is so intuitive that there is no need to add help. Pause for applause???) The reality is that no matter how brain dead simple I think it is, there is always a chance that it won't actually be me taking the course. That's right, it will be someone else with a different brain, a different level of experience, and a different familiarity with a web browser. Most of the content itself is actually pretty intuitive, with the exception of learners moving or resizing the window so that previous and next buttons disappear off of it. wonder the video is choppy! need help. MORE >>