Creating interactive e-Learning with Rapid Authoring Tools

Learning is a continuous process in our work environment. To save time, effort and money, Rapid Authoring tools are often the preferred by many L&D managers to create e-learning content quickly and cater to the ever-increasing need for customized content. E-learning companies too include rapid authoring in their bouquet of e-learning services.

With a wide range of rapid authoring tools to choose from, Articulate Storyline has been one of the most popular ones in recent times for rapid e-learning development. If you have available learning content, it can also be transformed into standardized e-content with the help of rapid authoring tools. Presentations created in PowerPoint can be also transformed into interactive e-learning – with very little effort. Subject Matter Experts can themselves contribute to e-learning development using PowerPoint and this can serve as the starting point. In addition to converting the entire content with ease, rapid authoring tools like Articulate Storyline also help build interactivity into courses. Attractive graphics, audio as well as video can be added to the course to make it multimedia rich and hence, more impactful to the learner. And all this at a fraction of time, compared to traditional e-learning development cycle.

How to a PowerPoint presentation into an E-course with Rapid Authoring Tools?

• Identify chunks from the presentation to create ‘chapters’ for the e-course
• Aim to create a course with 5 or less number of chapters. If the content is more, consider creating multiple courses to avoid presenting the learner a lengthy course, which will be ineffective.
• Each chapter should ideally consist of a maximum of 10-15 pages. Web pages can be of any size – 2 or more slides can be consolidated into one page to decrease course length.
• Avoid using phrases or one-word descriptions and use full sentences instead.
• Utilize the ‘notes’ section of a PowerPoint slide to include external links, optional exercises or step-by-step detailed instructions. These can be included in the e-course as drop-downs, which the learner may or may not access- as per need.
• Graphics can be easily developed using PowerPoint and can make a course visually appealing and the content more effective. Rapid authoring tools can pick up graphics from the content and place them as per their assigned position on each slide.
• Tests and evaluations are an important part of any course. Most popular e-learning tools like Articulate Storyline have inbuilt assessment tools like question pooling, randomization and scoring that help garner learner progress.

With a keen interest in the field of rapid learning, G-Cube has rapid authoring experts who can help you create scorm complaint e-learning from your existing repository of presentations with the help of the latest e-learning tools. To know more about rapid authoring tools and for your rapid authoring needs, write to in**@gc**********.net