TrainingVC’s live classrooms just got even better! BigBlueButton, the open-source provider of the learning management platform’s classroom integration feature, has responded to customer requests by releasing a new version with six major features: Recording: The recording of a session now includes audio, webcams (all of them), chat, presentation, and desktop sharing. Layout Manager: BigBlueButton now […]

The Animation Toolbox has been developed for RTO’s to use as a resource to support delivery of seven competencies towards Certificate II and III in Screen Production (Animation Strand). This Toolbox is designed to provide both background information for the animation production process as a whole, and information, demonstrations and activities for building the skills […]

eWorks’ content development team offers some words of wisdom about managing e-learning content development projects. Managing the development of e-learning content can be a challenging balancing act of educational outcomes, interactivity and aesthetics, and technical considerations. Even the simplest course can contain hundreds of ‘moving parts’ where problems may occur, entailing additional time, work and […]

eWorks has recently launched its new training schedule for the first half of 2014. The program consists of a range of events that will both: guide new users through a wide range of introductory topics on best practice e-learning delivery, and help those who have already taken their first steps into digital delivery to go […]

Hot on the heels of the E-learning Industry Awards comes another prestigious award nomination for eWorks. Natalie Collins, Deputy Chief Executive of Media Access Australia, has nominated eWorks and the E-standards Accessible HTML5 Video Player for a Deafness Forum of Australia Captioning Award. What are the Deafness Forum Captioning Awards? As the name suggests, the […]

A new publisher has joined VET Commons! Enhance your Future (EYF) is offering 19 units from the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care as SCORM-packaged learning objects: Work within a relevant legal and ethical framework Ensure the Health and Safety of Children Provide Care for Children Promote and provide healthy food and drinks […]

eWorks’ Accredited Consultants are training, learning and development specialists. The Consultant Program allows us to work with industry thought leaders to champion our award-winning learning solutions. Let’s meet Francis Kneebone, eWorks Accredited Consultant and an accessibility advocate. Why design for accessibility? Design for accessibility first. It’s far too important to ignore and too hard to […]

2014 has been a busy year for eWorks and it’s not surprising when you consider just some of what we’ve been up to… We won! Deafness forum captioning award eWorks and the E-standards Accessible HTML5 Video Player won the Deafness Forum of Australia’s online captioning and digital innovation award. Development and provision of the video […]

eWorks’ Accredited Consultants are training, learning and development specialists. The consultant program allows us to work with industry thought leaders to champion our award-winning learning solutions. It’s time to meet Allison Miller, eWorks’ newest accredited consultant. Read on to find out how to increase student motivation, and why Mahara rocks. Do online students cheat? Offering […]

Since 1998, the OZeWAI conference has brought together people from all over Australia and the world to share experiences and advances in web standards, with an emphasis on inclusivity and accessibility. Over the last few years delegates have met in facilities among the beautiful trees on Latrobe University’s Bundoora campus in Melbourne’s north east. This […]

Sarah Dodds is an award-winning instructional designer. She transforms ideas, content, information and problems into meaningful learning experiences that engage and involve learners. Here Sarah offers clever strategies for cutting out the drivel and sticking to your key messages when designing compliance training. Perhaps not as difficult as you think? Avoiding compliance training—no can do […]

Bernadette Parry is the Client Support Coordinator at eWorks. Her role involves juggling all sorts of client-focused tasks including start-up TrainingVC training, advanced Moodle training and support desk services. If you have ever wondered how to pronounce Totara, or how it fits into the LMS world, Bernadette might just have the answer. What is Totara? […]

Flexible Learning Toolboxes are stand-alone e-learning resources that cover a large range of topics, from aged care to plumbing and horticulture to food safety. Teachers and trainers can use more than 120 Toolboxes, helping them to deliver approximately 190 qualifications and supporting over 2,000 units of competency from a wide range of nationally-endorsed training packages. […]

We’ve all been there. You sign in to a webinar or web conference that you are either attending or (even worse!) presenting, only to find that the audio isn’t working. Your heart starts to race and you try to fix it, randomly checking your PC and control panels all the time knowing that you’re too […]

Sarah Phillips is a Senior Educator VET Assessment Specialist at Chisholm Online. She specialises in developing assessments for the online environment and has a background in e-learning that stretches for ten years. If you are thinking about developing your own online course materials, Sarah can help you avoid some common issues and pitfalls. Online course […]

Debbie has been actively involved in e-learning since mid-1990—when she moved from being a traditional educator into the e-learning space—and never looked back. Debbie’s focus is on the application of quality driven outcomes through stringent project management processes in the development and delivery of online learning. She is a firm believer that digital learning delivery doesn’t need to be difficult. […]

Rodney Spark is the executive director of eWorks and chair of the E-standards for Training Expert Group (EEG). Rodney focuses on improving the flexibility and quality of learning through the application of information and communication technologies (ICT). Here, Rodney shares his views on the digital journey from his first encounter with computing to the emergence […]

Emma Fraser is a teacher and the head of literacy at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne Education Institute. The Institute works in collaboration with young people, families, schools, and education and health professionals to ensure that children and young people continue to engage in learning and remain connected to their school community throughout their health […]

Bronwyn Lapham works within E-standards for Training, an activity eWorks manages for the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training. This project includes the annual research, development, review and ratification of the E‑standards for Training - the technical standards for the vocational education and training (VET) sector. As promised in the recently published blog post: Web conferencing […]

Lisa Wait, eWorks’ newest Accredited Consultant, has held key roles leading national digital education initiatives for government. Her passions include instructional design, educational strategy and digital resource development for schools, VET and industry. Earlier this month we heard about the importance of structuring an appropriate team when it comes to online course development, now let’s […]

By now you will know that Allison Miller is a big fan of Moodle. She has already shown us how to reduce cheating, demonstrate professional currency, take advantage of forums, and even consider a Mahoodle. Now we learn what makes Moodle’s Gradebook so special, and why it is such a shame that so few users […]

Marlene Liontis is the director of Lion Global HR Pty Ltd and a member of eWorks’ team of Accredited Consultants. She also founded her first e-learning company in 2009 and learned a huge amount about learning management systems in the process. Now she is keen to share what she learned in an effort to make life easier for […]

Jo manages a range of e-learning content services including Flexible Learning Toolboxes and the VET Commons online community. An enthusiastic and passionate e-learning advocate, Jo specialises in design and delivery that focuses on take-up, usability and engagement - so helping learners to learn. But how do we measure this learning and provide evidence to auditors quickly and easily? Once […]

Rob Davenport works in web design, development and Moodle admin at TAFE SA and has a background in lecturing web design and multimedia. Like many of us Rob has been frustrated by how complicated it can be to manipulate video and use it for assessment - so he and his colleagues at TAFE SA have been […]