Don’t worry! If you have the subject matter expertise (e.g. picking and packing procedures in your warehouse) and know what learning outcomes you’re looking for, we can take care of the rest. And if you don’t have ready access to an expert, we can help you find someone.

Our multi-disciplinary team includes scriptwriters, designers, illustrators, video producers, programmers, translators, voiceover artists, and project managers.

We can hand-hold you through the entire process so that you get what you need, whether that be corporate training, safety training, full online courses or something else.

As we’re in the business of selling our own Coursebeam LMS, you’d think we’d say Coursebeam, right? Well, not always. The truth is that there is no single ‘best’ learning platform. The requirements vary so much across sectors that it’s much better to ask the question: which platform (and supplier) is best for us?

To illustrate the point, contrast the requirements of a manufacturing SME with 50 employees and those of a University with 20,000 students and staff. In the latter case, the requirements are focused on supporting the delivery of academic modules to campus-based students, with some hybrid and remote delivery too. Systems have to offer functionality around assignment submission, including automated plagiarism checks and integration with lecture capture systems.

These features are largely irrelevant to a manufacturing SME, who will generally be looking to host and track compliance-related self-study e-learning courses for their staff, with the ability for managers and HR to view reports on progress.

In some cases, a key requirement might be the ability to sell and manage subscriptions to courses. Platforms that are intended primarily for workplace training may be excellent in some respects but lack this functionality.

If you think you may need customisation and/or integration with other systems, you should ask prospective suppliers how flexible they are in this respect. It tends to be the case in this sector that the larger a vendor becomes, the less flexible they become as well, trying to keep their platform essentially the same for all users.

That’s not how we operate. We move mountains for clients to help them get exactly what they want.

Generally – but not always. We’ve been working in e-learning since the 90s, and in that time we’ve seen many much-hyped technical innovations go from Next Big Thing to forgotten relics. (Laserdisc, anyone?) This gives us a sense of perspective, along with our collective 40 years spent working on e-learning in Higher Education.

We’re in the business of selling e-learning systems and services such as training courses – but we don’t believe that this approach works in all situations. In the workplace, a hybrid combination of face-to-face delivery and ‘pure’ e-learning is generally still the best bet. (Note: our Coursebeam LMS allows you to manage your programme of face-to-face training as well as your e-learning provision.)

To be effective, self-study e-learning courses (whether off-the-shelf or bespoke to an organisation) need to adhere to our 10 golden rules:

• Break courses down into manageable modules (20-30 minutes of study time) in order to engage learners.
• Set out your key Learning Outcomes and ensure your script maps onto them.
• Take into account the fact that your learners will have different preferred learning styles – and that, on average, 20% will be neurodiverse.
• Assess against the learning outcomes.
• If you assess something, cover it in the course.
• Design with accessibility in mind.
• Graphic design and illustration should be consistent, of a professional standard, and appropriate to the audience.
• Courses should always be proofread before launch.
• AI can be helpful in the initial stage of content creation but text generated should always be checked, especially where courses involve legislative compliance.
• Personalising courses with original video (for instance, brief topic introductions) can be a great way to make courses more engaging.