22 Shared In the e-Learning universe, there are many ways to test your students’ level of knowledge. Quizzes and surveys are among them. However, the well-designed quiz can be a tool of teaching, not just measurement. In this white paper you will learn five secrets that will help you easily build quizzes that not only assess how much your students have learned, but provide opportunities for them to learn more.Read more »

51 Shared With the explosion of digital media and alternative learning platforms, it is easier than ever before to help your employees learn important skills that pertain to their jobs. However, creating e-Learning materials and creating effective e-Learning materials are two different matters. You want to do the latter, right? One simple way to make your content more powerful is to quiz learners along the way so they have to work to access it. This engages them and helps them assess whether they’re actually learning. Here are six types of quiz questions to start using in your e-courses today.Read more »

24 Shared A vast source of knowledge in today’s e-Learning is e-books. Electronic reading devices with e-ink display, such as Kindle, Nook, and others open files in .mobi, .epub, and .fb2 formats. Also, all modern e-book readers support .pdf format as well. They normally don’t support .ppt or .pptx files, or Flash or HTML5 webpages created with iSpring. This brings up the question, "How to convert PowerPoint presentations to .pdf or another e-book friendly format?"Read more »

90 Shared Today, iSpring Suite 8 has been officially released. The new version is 80% more powerful than iSpring Suite 7, and is still available at the very same price. It has been enhanced with three brand-new tools, and full upgrades to nearly all the existing components. With these major enhancements, iSpring Suite 8 is the most powerful toolkit for e-Learning development in PowerPoint.Read more »

6 Shared Recently, a large number of PowerPoint users experienced troubles with opening .pptx presentations that contained Flash objects due to an issue in the previous version of Flash Player (version 19.0.0.185). Thanks to Adobe’s high attention to this problem, this issue has been resolved and the fix is included in the latest official update (version 19.0.0.207). We recommend all MS PowerPoint users upgrade to the latest version of Flash Player and turn on Windows automatic updating if it was turned off before. However, the corrupted PowerPoint files can’t be restored with just an update of the Flash Player ActiveX component. Don’t worry, because we have a solution for that. Read more to learn how to update your Flash Player in different Windows versions.Read more »

47 Shared Have you ever heard the phrase "the Medium is the Message"? What Marshall McLuhan meant when he coined the phrase was that the message that you are trying to teach is influenced by the medium that contains it. Put another way, PowerPoint is the medium and the e-Learning is the message. The medium - it’s quality of presentation, mobility, responsiveness - all impact the effectiveness of e-Learning. If the medium - the PowerPoint presentation - isn’t very good, it will impact the training that a self-directed learner will get. And not in a good way!Read more »

68 Shared iSpring’s flagship all-in-one e-Learning authoring tool, iSpring Suite, has been recognized as a High Performer by G2Crowd business software review website in their Course Authoring category. This news comes just after the release of iSpring Suite 8, the latest version of the software, which packs even more authoring power into one toolkit for fast and easy online course authoring.Read more »

43 Shared While everybody is celebrating October 21, 2015, where, according to the "Back to the Future" movie series everybody is riding hoverboards, wear auto-fitting & drying clothes and Nike skechers with automatic laces, we will create some e-Learning stuff with timeline interactions and send "Hello" to Marty Mc.Fly in all possible times. Continue reading to learn how to create a Timeline interaction in PowerPoint and use it in your courses.Read more »

18 Shared Now that e-Learning is all the rage, you’re no doubt tempted to create your own courses. And why wouldn’t you be? They’re cheap, they’re simple (once you get a few tricks down) and they provide your workers with the instruction they need to do their jobs well and help your company succeed. To that end, we thought it might be helpful to round up some resources on creating your first e-Learning course. Whether your goal is to create lessons for use in the office, at home or on the road, this mini-guide will cover the basics of getting your first e-course up and running.Read more »

8 Shared Before finding instructional design software, it’s good to have an understanding of exactly what instructional design is, and some of the methods involved in implementing it. Instructional design is a project management term used to describe the process of planning and implementing a system of training for business and education. This is done by assessing learner needs, determining learning expectations and outcomes, and then designing the method by which the training will take place. Many frameworks for instructional design exist, ...Read more »

11 Shared It’s amazing how many ways one tool can be used. Melissa Renner, who works at the Allen County Public Library, took advantage of iSpring’s functionality to create training modules on safety instructions in case of a tornado - and much more! We are happy to reveal her story of discovering and utilizing iSpring capabilities to teach people how to save lives.Hello! My name is Melissa Renner and I am the Staff Training Specialist at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Read more »

12 Shared Education can’t function without proper assessment tools. We bet that as a teacher you regularly create tests or quizzes to evaluate your students’ progress. Why not automate this process, and make it much faster and easier?More and more teachers worldwide save their time and energy by delegating test assignment and grading to ... Read more »

26 Shared Language acquisition is a complex process, requiring several approaches to successfully attain fluency. This article will discuss five concepts which can be applied for language teaching with a rapid e-Learning authoring tool. There are plenty of authoring tools available with this functionality. For the purposes of this article, we will use iSpring Suite (based in PowerPoint) as a concrete example. Here’s a few tips for launching your language training:Read more »

22 Shared Need to find an interactive timeline maker to help you organize information into a linear structure? Timelines are linear organizers that help students to understand and illustrate the passage of large blocks of time. While the obvious application would be in a history class, teachers and educators from all disciplines and in all levels of education can benefit from teaching with timelines. Whether investigating events on a historical continuum, studying the evolution of a social and/or cultural phenomenon, or used as a tool for long-range planning, timelines are an excellent visual for helping students recognize ... Read more »

58 Shared The calendar reminder for a member of the sales team dings: "Work on e-Learning sales module 3" pops up on their phone. The employee sighs: they are thinking that they have so much else to do, so much else on their plate. They are thinking they can’t possibly take the time to work through another module right now. What would motivate them in a positive direction? Seeing is believing If a person sees the value in what they are doing, if they see direct, real-world impacts, and how the training relates to their career goals, they will find the time to participate. For example, sales are motivated by many factors including the need to succeed, to meet quotas and, obviously, the incentive of monetary reward. By creating a direct link between sales success and training, a self-directed learner will have more stake in participating in the process.Read more »

32 Shared Sometimes even the most engaging presentations are not interactive enough. The reason is that they follow a fixed path instead of meeting individual needs. In this article, we will show you how to create non-linear presentations that encourage audience participation. What is a non-linear presentation? Non-linear presentations allow you to navigate through material without having to follow a strict order. They give presenters the ability to jump over slides, depending on what information is most relevant in a certain situation. Non-linear PowerPoint presentations resemble a website, in that one slide can easily lead to another,  the way hyperlinks work on the Web. Glide through your content in any direction to present ideas in greater or lesser detail and avoid demonstrating irrelevant information.Read more »

18 Shared It's that time of the year again - year end reviews, bonuses and, for many companies, it's survey time. Employee Engagement Survey (EES), that is. What is an EES? An Employee Engagement Survey is designed to check in with a variety of staff that are occupied in different roles about how engaged they feel at work. "Engaged" refers to the ways and extent to which the employee is committed to the organization. The results give management a bird’s eye view of how the employees are feeling about their work environment, their roles, their peers, and their professional development opportunities. Having that baseline is important, particularly if the executives are envisioning making changes in the organization.Read more »

31 Shared Mobile learning is becoming more and more popular, so our friends from Cell Phone City Advocacy prepared a post where they share statistics on the usage of mobile phones among kids and best practices for e-Learning with smartphones. There was a time when parents argued whether a child should own a phone or not, or at what age owning a phone is appropriate. That time seems so distant now, when children ... Read more »

12 Shared Training in the workplace - whether through e-Learning, on the job or otherwise - is essential. There is often a gap between the skills young people acquire in school and those that they need every day to do a job. Some of those are soft skills, like effective communications. Others are hard skills, such as dealing with a particular piece of proprietary software. An employee, whether new or seasoned, can always improve, grow and change, but only with the full support of the employer, executive and/or management team. Read more »

13 Shared Multiple choice quizzes are one of the most widespread examination methods. They’ve been helping teachers to test a large number of students quickly and efficiently for over half a century now. Today new technologies have arrived, and both academics and trainers from all over the world have even more opportunities. This article demonstrates the main advantages of multiple choice quizzes and gives some tips on their creation.Read more »

9 Shared Simon Harris is a Principal Consultant at Logical Model, Ltd., and a 3-year iSpringer. Over those three years, Simon has watched iSpring grow immensely in capabilities, while still keeping its rock-steady quality and ease of use. Simon has also enjoyed a productive relationship with iSpring Support engineers, who have always promptly provided him with fast and easy solutions. See what Simon has to say about iSpring below: Hi, my name is Simon Harris. I am a Logical Model, Ltd. Principal Consultant. We develop and deliver project management training across a broad range of market sectors, from not-for-profit to banking, insurance, finance and even defense.Read more »

14 Shared Since the release of iSpring Suite 8, the positive reviews have been flowing in. This all-in-one toolkit has been enhanced with several more features that make it easy for anyone to find exactly what s/he’s looking for. Discover how iSpring Suite 8 has impressed professional teachers and e-Learning industry experts by reading these reviews from each: Read more »

15 Shared There is no business done without negotiation. Whether it is small talk with an associate or a conversation with a high-profile customer, success relies heavily on strong communication skills. While some people seem to have the gift of gab, others need to learn first. This article demonstrates how to train and test communication skills, using modern tools for business conversation simulations.Read more »

11 Shared Anna Leicester was kind enough to share the following case study about her experience creating an online revision resource in PowerPoint with the help of iSpring. Even a complex topic such as myeloid leukemia can be fully covered in an engaging format with audio narrations and PowerPoint effects perfectly synchronized and preserved for playback on any device over the Internet: iSpring: Tell us a little about yourself. Anna: I am a Faculty of Life Sciences graduate of The University of Manchester. Following the completion of my final year project (which I completed using iSpring) with the faculty e-Learning team, I now work with them to create, deliver and support active and engaging learning with our students.Read more »