So, in the spirit of holiday season, here are a few creative tips from our funloving team of experts.<\/p>\n
1. Make short, free courses and share them!<\/h3>\n
Why should you do that? It won\u2019t do you any good! Or will it?<\/p>\n
Giving things for free builds engagement with existing and potential customers.<\/strong> It is an excellent way, not only to promote your courses but also to grow your online community and generate new leads.<\/p>\n You can easily share the first sections of your training,<\/strong> full of helpful information and guides on how they can actually become better on what they\u2019re interested in, helping them achieve something. This way you will:<\/p>\n So make your voice heard, share something for free!<\/p>\n Angelos, The job of a copywriter is to write clear, concise and easy to read sentences.<\/strong> And the best copywriters do this by imagining they’re writing to an 8th grader.<\/p>\n What does this have to do with your courses?<\/p>\n You could be hurting your learners’ motivation, engagement, and even their performance through poorly written course titles, descriptions, instructions, and content.<\/p>\n How do you get your writing clear, concise and easy to read? Follow these guidelines:<\/p>\n Eleni, When you start creating your content you face issues like \u201chow can I make this look fun?\u201d, \u201cwhat can I do to engage my learners?\u201d Reuse content you already have like documents, presentations, videos.<\/strong> Embed content from YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>, Prezi<\/strong><\/a>, and other web sources.<\/p>\n Create original content using the powerful built-in editor, and add advanced interactivity by copy-pasting specific links in the code view area.<\/p>\n (Add a fun fact or copy an interesting article by using an eye-catching image)<\/p>\n There you go!<\/p>\n Maria, A Google Chrome plugin that adds the following mass actions to your portal:<\/p>\n 1) coursestobranch – You can add all courses to a branch or remove all courses from a branch. Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Install it on your browser and it will automatically add these features to your<\/strong> TalentLMS portal<\/strong><\/a>. Marios, 3 + 1 things to keep in mind before customizing the theme of your learning portal:<\/p>\n People will spend long periods of time looking at their screen, and your portal.\u00a0<\/strong>Ideally, choose soft shades of grey for the \u2018Background\u2019. Avoid going full white (#FFFFFF) it strains the eyes! Some of my favorites? #F3F3F3 & #F7F9FA (with a gentle splash of frosty cyan goodness!) The same applies for \u2018Box Content\u2019! Subtle is better – and avoid full white!<\/p>\n Decide on either a warm color palette or cool color palette, and be consistent.\u00a0<\/strong>Colour affects the way we \u2018feel\u2019 about things. To ensure a consistent feel throughout your portal, one of the basic decisions you can make is to choose colours from the \u2018warm\u2019 side of the spectrum (This includes, but isn\u2019t limited to: reds, yellows, oranges, browns, cream-coloured, eggshell et al.) which makes a portal feel more hearty, safe, and nest-like, or \u2018cool\u2019 colors (Those are your blues, cyans, greys, whites, minty greens, indigos and more) for that sleek, professional, cool-as-a-cucumber feel.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be afraid to go bold on elements that you purposefully want to stand out.<\/strong> Bright and bold colors are back \u2018in\u2019 and are great picks for \u2018Main Button\u2019, \u2018Secondary Button\u2019 [Make sure to choose colors that clearly differentiate Main\/Secondary: I like to do colors for Main buttons and soft almost white colours for Secondary button], \u2018Box title\u2019, \u2018Catalog Header\u2019, and \u2018Grid Header\u2019. A great resource is Google\u2019s Material Design color palette, not everyone agrees they\u2019re the best but everyone agrees they\u2019re a great place to start picking colors from http:\/\/bit.ly\/2nEkpMt<\/p>\n BONUS ’cause you\u2019re the best and read till the end:<\/strong> Happy holidays, and stay shiny!<\/p>\n George, Switching to a Learning Management System offers many benefits, but it can be tricky convincing decision makers who often lack time, budget and knowledge of what it can offer. Over the years we have noticed a few common objections when considering online learning which can actually be transformed into benefits on TalentLMS:<\/p>\n Save Time and Money Learn anywhere and anytime<\/b> Interactive training Easy to include users and courses Aligned with business needs Analytics and reports Chris, Increasingly more people want to create courses for mobile consumption.<\/strong> TalentLMS<\/strong><\/a> offers mobile apps extensions to help you deliver your courses to a mobile<\/strong><\/a> audience. However, if you are serious about mobile delivery you should pay attention to the following suggestions.<\/p>\n Test on mobile while building:<\/strong> The Content creator on TalentLMS is open-ended, which means that it can produce content<\/strong><\/a> that looks good on mobile but does not guarantee it. In order to make your courses look best, you need to build them, having in mind the mobile delivery from scratch. Constantly check how they look while you build them.<\/p>\n\n
\nHead of Growth<\/p>\n2. Improve Your Writing<\/h3>\n
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\nCopywriter<\/p>\n3. Create an interactive course (without using SCORM or xAPI content!)<\/h3>\n
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\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theurlyouwant.com\"><img src=\"{image url}\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nYou can make your hyperlinked text a color as well as being underlined to give emphasis with this css code:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\na:link {
\ncolor:red;
\ntext-decoration:underline;
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\na:visited {
\ncolor:red;
\ntext-decoration:underline;
\n}
\na:hover {
\ncolor:red;
\ntext-decoration:underline;
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\na:active {
\ncolor:red;
\ntext-decoration:underline;
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\nCustomer Happiness Specialist<\/p>\n![\"6](\"https:\/\/www.talentlms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TLMS_20171218_1200x314.png\")
<\/p>\n4. Happy Christmas(s) Actions! (Ho ho ho)<\/h3>\n
\n2) userstobranch – You can add all users to a branch or remove all users from a branch.
\n3) userstocourse – You can enroll all users in a course or unenroll all users from a course.
\n4) coursestogroup – You can add all courses to a group or remove all courses from a group.
\n5) usertobranches – You can add a user to all branches or remove a user from all branches.
\n6) usertocourses – You can enroll a user in all courses (happy user) or unenroll a user from all courses (sad user).
\n7) usertogroups – You can add a user to all groups or remove a user from all groups.<\/p>\n
\nNote that this is working currently only on TalentLMS URLs (e.g. myportal.talentlms.com)<\/p>\n
\nTechnical Support Engineer<\/p>\n5. Choose colors that work!<\/h3>\n
\nAdobe has created a lovely color tool which can help you define your whole palette with a few clicks and an algorithm that draws on basic color theory and principles. You can find that here<\/strong><\/a>– go nuts and experiment!<\/p>\n
\nUI\/UX Designer<\/p>\n6. Pitching the need for an LMS<\/h3>\n
\n<\/b>It may take some time and a couple of meetings to make the decision, but from there on an LMS will only save you time and money. There will be no need for travel, accommodation, booking venues and taking employees out of work to attend seminars on the other side of the country. TalentLMS allows learners to complete training in their own time and at their own pace.<\/p>\n
\nLearners can complete their training on TalentLMS from their desktop at work or home, from their mobile devices while they are on the bus or train (TalentLMS also has native iOS and Android apps). This gives the learner the flexibility to complete the training in their own time, without affecting their precious personal downtime or productivity at work and missing project deadlines because they had to attend training that week.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Online learning has evolved and can now be fun and interactive. Transform your informative training to make it fun and engaging for the learner with the TalentLMS inbuilt editors, use the gamification features to promote healthy competition between learners to do better than their colleagues on the leaderboard and get that first position reward.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Can be set to synchronize users with HR systems directly, so your HR team does not have to do this manually. TalentLMS inbuilt editors have been streamlined to make it very easy to include the content you want to deliver, without being a tech wizard.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Each organization is different and has different training needs. TalentLMS has inbuilt features to help reflect the training structure of your organization and make relevant training available. Whether new legislation comes in that affects everyone in your organization\u00a0or only users in a particular team or location, we can help automate the delivery to the relevant users only.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Detailed analytics and reports to share progress and overall compliance of learners on training delivery. TalentLMS also includes custom report options to tweak the information to get exactly what you need to share with the management.<\/p>\n
\nHead of Alliances<\/p>\n7. Build effective mobile courses<\/h3>\n