11 Shared iSpring’s Knowledge Base continues to grow by leaps and bounds. This time, we’ve got some eye-opening news for Mac users, and a comprehensive article running through your options for sharing PowerPoint over the internet. Let’s have a look: Read more »

11 Shared Users of iSpring Learn are already familiar with the concept of Groups for organizing content and assigning permissions. Now, the iSpring team is proud to announce that this concept has been revamped and optimized for an even more flexible and intuitive experience. Now, instead of pigeonholing your account users into groups, you can assign roles to them which more broadly define their activities in the LMS. Read more »

31 Shared When you’re designing an online course, there are many things that can go right and wrong. Sure, you could potentially spend hours, weeks, or months perfecting it - only to have a poor turnout of students or bad reviews. We’d be lying if we told you it was easy to build your first course. However, once you build your first online course - it gets much easier. To get started, we’ve rounded up 5 instructional design tips to make you look like a pro. Read more »

27 Shared Are you pumped up for the Learning Solutions conference in sunny Orlando? We certainly are. It’ll be awesome to see old friends and new faces stopping by our booth to chat. For us, the hot topic around the watercooler these days is the upcoming release of iSpring Suite 7.1, a revolution in content conversion, hosting, and sharing. If you plan to be in the neighborhood, we’ll be excited to see you at booth #307 so we can tell you more about these hot new features: Read more »

21 Shared E-Learning provides a wealth of benefits for adult students in the corporate environment. With Internet-capable devices routinely available both in the workplace and at home, adult learners can choose the setting that works best for them. But with the flexibility of mobile learning comes myriad distractions — chores, family members, pets, social media and more. For better e-Learning, companies should make sure adult learners understand the benefits of minimizing distractions to get the most out of educational materials. Providing mobile learners with some guidelines can help them achieve optimal results in their mobile learning efforts. Read more »

24 Shared We value the opportunity that social media provides us to stay connected and informed. When it comes to being productive, however, social media has a bad connotation. We love to use it to procrastinate. Read more »

22 Shared An educated workforce benefits employers in multiple ways. Research shows that educated workers are more productive and are less likely to be injured on the job. Clearly, employers have a strong stake in providing continuing education for their workers. Read more »

52 Shared Those very new to working with PowerPoint as an authoring tool find it easy to fall into the "load content" trap. It’s tempting - and PowerPoint makes it so very easy - to want to start copying and pasting content from source material into slides. Or to just take existing classroom PowerPoint decks, adding some clip art or other decorative elements, and uploading it as "training". I advise new learners to put their hands in the air and step away from the computer. What if you were told you had to take an online course on "leadership" or "customer service" or "forklift safety", "sales strategies", or "ethics in patient care"? Would you want to see a bunch of slides with nothing but bulleted text and some marginally-relevant photos? Of course not. Read more »

5 Shared We've heard the cries of most of the world stuck in snow storms and we are here to help! We are releasing a new product - iSpring Summer*! The public beta for iSpring Summer is out today, April 1st. Read more »

12 Shared This year, Learning Solutions Conference and Expo 2015 was even bigger and better than ever before, with 100+ concurrent sessions and a trifecta of keynotes, featured panels, and learning stages. The Expo was a pleasure for us as always, and we were excited to bring some of our latest innovations to share with attendees. With 64 vendors and 1600+ attendees, there was plenty of action for everybody! We were pleased to see the way that many long-time iSpring users and newcomers alike reacted to the news of iSpring 7.1 and iSpring Cloud, the brand-new hosted presentation sharing platform. Read more »