GoAnimate Video Tutorial: How To Use Transitions This GoAnimate Video Tutorial shows how to change your scene transitions. Transitions are a great way to add some personality, to help create a mood, or to show off the magic of video. The post GoAnimate Video Tutorial: How To Use Transitions appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

How To Create A High Impact Learning Function The Towards Maturity Benchmark™ helps organizations focus on improving performance of the Learning and Development team. We do this by helping compare the outputs of an organization’s learning strategy with their peers. More importantly, the Benchmark helps Learning and Development (L&D) leaders compare their tactics for achieving those outcomes against the top performers. The Towards Maturity Index™ is the lead indicator at the heart of the Towards Maturity Benchmark™ process. Organizations in the top 10% of the index are twice as likely to achieve the benefits they seek from a modernized learning strategy and in 2014 reported 30% fewer barriers than their peers. We asked some top performing organizations for their tips on how to create a high-impact learning function. This is what they said: Involve learners up front by understanding their requirements. Create opportunities for all to access (we included learning zones for our manufacturing plants). Run a pilot that focuses on both technology and user engagement. Ensure senior management give visible support from the beginning. Align the organizational development plan with the business plan. Engage the business, listen and set up in-touch strategically aligned Organizational Development (OD) - Learning and Development senior steering groups. Develop an Organizational Development - Learning and Development operating model to align with the business plan and develop a Learning and Development Toolkit and up skill Learning and Development professionals to deliver impact. Lead from the front - build opportunities for your Learning and Development team to accelerate and expand their capacity (to avoid being overlooked by the community you serve). Model community and sharing and influence leaders to embrace it too. Start adding value to your learner community by curating useful existing content in meaningful ways. Consider how to build once and share across a variety of platforms - give staff choice by placing your learning in their own hands so it is accessible to them when and where they need it. Create interactive job aids and templates to provide support and encourage consistent application of learning at the grassroots or at the moment of need, on the job. Use existing internal social sharing platforms to not only share information and formulate discussion, but also to access global tools and templates. The DNA of a Top Deck L&D Team infographic below shares some of the data from our Benchmark about the characteristics of Top Learning organizations: This infographic shows us how those in the top 10% (the Top Deck™) are getting more benefits from a modernising learning strategy. Find out how to become a Top Deck Learning Team Download your free copy of Modernizing Learning: Delivering Results (2014) today at http://towardsmaturity.org/article/2014/11/05/modernising-learning-delivering-results-2014/ Thanks to the following Learning and Development leaders for sharing their top tips with us: Sarah Lindsell, Director, Global and UK Learning Technology and Transformation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Kandy Woodfield, Director of Learning and Enterprise, NatCen Social Research; Jane Daly, Head of Head Office L&D, Marks and Spencer; Stuart Miller, Global IT Director, Worldmark. The Towards Maturity Benchmark™ The Towards Maturity Benchmark™ is a useful tool to help you understand how effective your Learning and Development strategies are and how you compare to peers and top performing learning organisations. If you are keen to find out how effective your Learning and Development team is, make sure you benchmark this year: it’s open until 31 July. More than 3,500 organisations have taken part to date, so there is plenty of data for you to benchmark against. Start Your Benchmark This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Eliademy Video Tutorial: Private Corporate Learning Space In 2 Minutes This Eliademy Video Tutorial explains in 2 minutes how you can master Private Learning space. One of the features of Eliademy Premium. Eliademy is a free online classroom that allows educators and students to create, share and manage online courses with real-time discussions and task management. You can create your account right away at https://www.eliademy.com The post Eliademy Video Tutorial: Private Corporate Learning Space In 2 Minutes appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

A Guide To TalentLMS Pricing Plans And Options For eLearning That Fits Your Needs Take TalentLMS, our Cloud powered Learning Management System offering, as an example. It’s always available, and there’s no need to install, upgrade, or backup anything. For you, there’s just the fun and productive part of creating and running your courses. Eager to start? That's great, for in this article we’ll examine the available TalentLMS pricing options, so you can pick the one that matches your needs. Free Learning Management System Price-wise, it doesn't get any better than this: Our free tier is meant as a way to demo TalentLMS, but it can also be used as a very capable Learning Management System if you're a very small company or organization that is OK with the "up to 5 users" and "up to 10 courses" limit. Unlike some other "free" plans that come with strings attached, our free plan doesn't have a time limit, and also doesn't require you to enter your credit card details to create an account. TalentLMS Plans Our programs come in "Standard" and "Unlimited" versions, which differ in the amount of courses, users, and features that are supported. TalentLMS standard plans limit the total number of registered users based on a hard limit (e.g. 25 users for the Small Standard plan). You can delete a user to free a spot for another one, but you can't have more users than your plan supports. Unlimited plans, on the other hand, allow for an unlimited number of users to be registered, but support a base number of "active users" per month (e.g. 25 users for our Small Unlimited plan). With an Unlimited plan you can have as many active users as you want by paying a small fee for each extra active user. All plans are offered in annual and monthly billing options. Since the former are cheaper, they are recommended for all users, unless they only need to run a Learning Management System for a few months. As for support, our team offers support for all account tiers, including the free one; this being the Cloud, backups, monitoring, and service updates handled automatically for you. And with that, let’s have a look at our standard plans: Standard Small. Our small plan is great for, well, smaller companies or organizations (under 30-50 employees). Paying just $29/month (annually) is an extremely affordable way to have your own eLearning deployment that can support unlimited courses and up to 25 users. Basic. Next up from small is the basic plan, which comes to $99 per month (for annual billing) and allows the same unlimited courses, but increases the supported users up to 100, and adds Single Sign-On, so you can integrate it with your company's or organization's intranet. Plus and Premium.  For larger businesses, but still in the realm of SMEs, there's our "Plus" plan, which for $199/month offers unlimited courses for up to 500 users, Single Sign-On support, and custom reporting. For a larger business that has to support a few hundred of employees (or students) and wants to do it on the cheap, "Plus" is the package we would recommend. Premium, the top of our Standard plans, has the exact same features as Plus, but for $349/month it doubles the amount of users you can train to a thousand. Unlimited Plans.  Our 4 Unlimited Plans allow you to register an unlimited number of users, with pricing based only on the number of active users that login to your eLearning portal each month. Depending on the plan, there's an amount of active users that can be connected each month. Beyond that capacity, there's a charge of $4 for each additional active user. These plans are great for companies or organizations with a large potential student base but that only train a small part of it (e.g. want to eventually train 500 users in your organization, but only need to train 50 of them at a time). It's also great for companies wanting to sell courses, as you can let an unlimited number of users register (e.g. open a demo account) and only be charged for students that actively use your eLearning service. The 4 Unlimited Learning Management System plans are: Small Unlimited, which offers 25 active users per month for $79/month. Basic Unlimited, which offers 100 active users per month, Single Sign-On support and custom reports, for $179/month. Plus Unlimited, which is the same as Basic Unlimited but ups the active users to 250, for $279/month. Premium Unlimited, which doubles the active users to 500 for $379/month. Annual Vs Monthly billing The quoted prices all refer to the annual billing option, which offers a hefty discount compared to month-by-month pricing, but requires you to pay for a whole year ahead. We believe that annual billing is the best (and more cost-effective) option for all kinds of businesses and organizations that want to run an eLearning service. That said, if you need the flexibility to run an eLearning portal for just a couple of months or so, our monthly billing might be the better option for you. Prices for monthly billing vary from $39/month for our Standard Small plan (compared to $29/month with annual billing) up to $459/month for our Standard Premium option (compared to $349/month). Conclusion Ready to deploy your own eLearning portal? Take TalentLMS for a demo ride with our Free LMS plan create or visit our webpage to select the plan that best suits your needs (and wallet). And if our standard plans are too small for your enterprise or organization, contact our sales department to learn about our custom eLearning plans. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why eLearning Maintenance Can Be Time Consuming And Frustrating When you begin a new eLearning project, always make sure you think about how you intend to maintain it into the future. There are 3 common challenges that can come to frustrate you down the track: Controlling changes and future versions. Make sure you agree on a scope of changes before starting a new product. For example, will changes be made on an annual or bi-annual basis? Will text, media, resources, and links need updating and if so, to what extent? How will you manage the project files on an ongoing basis? And do you have the resources and budget for future changes? Republishing and testing. Don’t forget that any changes and additions will require a thorough testing of the whole module. That means if you’re publishing a SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) package, you’ll need to run it through testing to make sure everything conforms and works. Deploying to Learning Management System. If you manage your client’s Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Record Store (LRS), you’ll need to factor in deploying the module(s) and then testing again in the environment. The added costs and resources required to maintain eLearning cannot be ignored. To streamline your eLearning maintenance, you should consider using a tool with inbuilt cloud publishing. How To Maximize eLearning Maintenance   Let’s look at 3 ways modern authoring tools with inbuilt cloud publishing -like Elucidat- can help you maintain eLearning more efficiently. Changes can be logged and managed within the tool. This reduces the need to maintain separate documentation. Project files are all together in the cloud. This removes the burden of maintaining files on your network and allows access to anyone with a login to work on the project. Changes can be pushed to the Learning Management System without the need to republish project files and redeploy them. Let’s look at some real world examples of how Elucidat’s cloud publishing feature can help you efficiently maintain eLearning courses without draining your budget. 1. Product training: Product name has changed. Imagine your marketing team changes the name of a product and you need to make the change to your eLearning in several instances that have been translated into different languages. This would generally mean you either go through and change each instance by hand or you write and run a script to make the changes across all the courses. In both cases, you’ll need to republish the courses, retest, and redeploy. With Elucidat, instead of redoing it all and then re-uploading, you can quickly make the change to the product name at the Course Master level and the changes will be automatically pushed to all the courses that belong with that Master. What’s more, these changes can be pushed directly to courses on a Learning Management System. This saves you heaps of time because you don’t need to republish or redeploy the courses. 2. Induction training: Fire safety procedures have changed.   Your fire safety procedures change. Only one resource in your eLearning needs updating, but you have to re-do it all! With Elucidat, you don’t have to redo it all. Since all the project files are kept together in the cloud, you just need to replace the single resource with the change. Provided the file name remains the same, that’s all you have to do! No need to republish and retest the whole module: the change is automatically pushed out to your Learning Management System. 3. Compliance training: Company policies need to be updated. Imagine your information-security and fraud-awareness courses for the whole business need to be updated on an annual basis and whenever there is a change in the law or policy. If you don’t proactively make these changes, you’ll be legally liable and your business will be at risk. Typically, you’ll need to change the course material and the accompanying assessment. Once this is done, all your staff will need to confirm they have understood the amendments and for auditing purposes, you’ll need to report this in your Learning Management System. With Elucidat, all of this can be managed simply and quickly in the ways described in scenarios one and two above. What’s more, using Elucidat’s system of badges, you can attach an achievement badge to the course updates. This is useful so you can track which of your staff members have taken the new course and passed the assessment. When a learner visits a screen or answers a question (or set of questions) correctly, an achievement badge is awarded and the test results tracked in your Learning Management System. Summary: Cloud Publishing Can Save You Time On eLearning Maintenance Tools with cloud publishing can save you time and money because they intuitively help you run and maintain eLearning courses more efficiently. All your files are kept in one place. Your projects are always up to date and available to everyone with a login. Changes can be made once at the Course Master level and then pushed out to all courses that are built from the Master (including courses with translations). Changes are automatically pushed out to SCORM courses in your Learning Management System. This saves you the time and cost of having to separately republish, test, and redeploy. Learn more: Take a tour of Elucidat to see how it can save you time on eLearning maintenance This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Eliademy Video Tutorial: How To Make Money With Online Courses In this Eliademy Video Tutorial we explain in a new 2 Minutes Lesson how instructors can make money on Eliademy by selling their online courses. Eliademy is a free online classroom that allows educators and students to create, share and manage online courses with real-time discussions and task management. You can create your account right away at https://www.eliademy.com The post Eliademy Video Tutorial: How To Make Money With Online Courses appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.

GoAnimate Video Tutorial: How To Import Images This GoAnimate Video Tutorial shows the different options available when importing images and some guidelines to ensure your videos look their best. The post GoAnimate Video Tutorial: How To Import Images appeared first on VivaeLearning: The Best Free Video Tutorials Online.