The 10-step eLearning content creation process - traditional vs. tts performance suite

Creating eLearning content in large enterprises often feels like trying to move a mountain, laborious and time-consuming. From setting precise learning objectives to gathering feedback, it can often feel like you’re navigating through a dense fog that requires extensive resources and coordination, making it easy to get lost amidst the many tasks at hand. Traditional eLearning creation methods like Articulate Storyline typically take weeks, sometimes months, as subject matter experts (SMEs), instructional designers and stakeholder teams all need to be involved in the approval process, because things aren’t as easy as they seem.??

However, the introduction of tts performance suite has flipped the script on how businesses create and deliver eLearning content . With the addition of AI-powered content creation tools, companies can now develop engaging, scalable training materials 80% faster. Let’s walk through the 10 key steps in the eLearning content creation process and compare the traditional methods with tts performance suite.?

1. Set clear role-based learning??

• Traditional approach: Ah, the classic merry-go-round of meetings, endless back-and-forth with stakeholders to agree on specific, measurable goals. It all requires alignment across teams, making it time-consuming. With Articulate, users often lack a centralised storage system and a built-in document management feature, making it challenging to keep track of objectives and revisions.?

• With tts performance suite: The Curator tool allows you to structure role-based learning around your unique processes directly within the platform, saving time while ensuring that the objectives align with business goals. Plus, the Analytics Dashboard provides insights to refine and optimise content and context as you go.?

• Timeline: Minutes, not days. Simpler, faster, better.?

2. Understand your learners?

• Traditional approach: The good old surveys, focus groups, and interviews - by the time you’ve gathered and analysed the data, everyone’s moved on to the next big thing. It can take weeks to get a proper sense of your audience's learning needs. Not ideal, is it? Gathering insights from Articulate often relies on manual processes, lacking real-time analytics. There’s no built-in mechanism for immediate feedback, leaving you guessing about learner needs.?

• With tts performance suite: Rating and feedback forms let you skip the endless guesswork. Combined with Analytics they give you instant insights into learners’ behaviour, preferences and where they need content. With a simple field edit, you can tweak your content on the fly, ensuring it’s relevant, engaging, and hits the mark every time.?

• Timeline: Instant, available content at users’ fingertips. No need for endless reports.?

3. Inventory existing content?

• Traditional approach: Manually sifting through a mountain of outdated content, reviewing endless documents, and deciding what’s worth keeping is a really painfully tedious work and eats up weeks of time. Users face challenges with document allocation and version control, as Articulate does not have a centralised management system for multiple designs, leading to inconsistencies and difficulties in tracking updates. Not exactly thrilling, is it? Not to mention all the other useful content the user needs that lives in a SharePoint, the Helpdesk system or any repository you have.?

• With tts performance suite: The Curator enables easy inventory management, organising content into a streamlined library. You can manage multiple versions, ensure consistency, and quickly update materials to stay relevant. The one-click version control ensures content remains consistent and up-to-date across the board. And make the content you have elsewhere all available in context for the user.?

• Timeline: Hours instead of weeks.?

4. Choose the right instructional design?

• Traditional approach: Fancy a bit of gamification or microlearning? Well, traditionally, you’d be in for several rounds of back-and-forth with instructional designers, endless tweaks to storyboards and visual aids that seem to take an age to perfect or go out of date before you’re even ready.?

• With tts performance suite: The double punch of Producer and Creator tools speed things up like a well-oiled machine. Whether it’s interactive, scenario-based, or microlearning content, you can whip it up with a few clicks. Customisable templates mean you’re not sacrificing engagement or consistency while making things faster and simpler.?

• Timeline: Days, not months.?

5. Develop engaging content?

• Traditional approach: Creating engaging content the old-fashioned way? That’s a bit of a slog. You’ve got to manually craft multimedia, get interactive elements just right, and coordinate with various teams, which, of course, adds to the delay.?

• With tts performance suite: Leveraging AI-powered tools like ChatGPT for text, DALL-E for visuals, Amazon Polly for text to speech and seamless video integrations from YouTube or Vimeo make content creation a breeze. It’s faster, it’s automated, and (best of all) it doesn’t compromise on quality.?

• Timeline: 80% faster content creation.?

6. Use of authoring tools?

• Traditional approach: Oh, the joy of wrangling authoring tools like Articulate or Adobe Captivate. They’re cheap at first glance, until things get complicated and you realise they’re not. Cue compatibility issues, delays and a general sense of déjà vu as you wrestle with redundant processes. Not to mention the time to competence of these tools.?

• With tts performance suite: Producer is our proprietary all-in-one authoring tool. It’s got everything you need, from user-friendly interfaces to collaboration features and ready-made templates. No need to juggle a handful of different applications anymore, it’s all here, in one neat package and anyone can be a content creator.?

7. Incorporate video elements?

• Traditional approach: Adding video, audio, explanations or animations manually? It’s like piecing together a puzzle in the dark, it takes forever and adds heaps of extra time to your content creation process.?

• With tts performance suite: Forget the hassle. Every field is automatically a hot spot. You can embed multimedia straight from Vimeo, YouTube, or wherever you fancy. Animations, video clips, iframes and visuals, all integrated with just a few clicks. It's seamless and painless, giving you more time to focus on the fun stuff.?

• Timeline: One day of work, not a whole week of headaches.?

8. Implement assessment formats?

• Traditional approach: Designing assessments that match learning objectives can be complex and requires multiple rounds of approval. The lack of a comprehensive concept for corporate knowledge transfer in Articulate can hinder the effectiveness of assessments, making it hard to ensure alignment with learning goals.?

• With tts performance suite: No need to reinvent the wheel. Pre-built templates for quizzes and evaluations make the whole process fast and simple. Plus, you can track learner progress in real-time and tweak assessments on the go.?

• Timeline: Just a few hours, not days of chasing approvals.?

9. Pilot testing?

• Traditional approach: Piloting a course usually feels like running a marathon. You’ve got to set up a separate test group, gather feedback by hand, and go through endless rounds of revisions before the final launch sees the light of day. The manual feedback process often delays iterative improvements, making it difficult to refine content quickly and effectively.?

• With tts performance suite: With Producer you can test your work as you go and then with WebAccess, you can launch test courses in no time, and get instant feedback from your stakeholders. Quick and easy editing mean you skip the long feedback loops and get straight to publishing courses.?

• Timeline: Immediate feedback, rapid iteration.?

10. Integrate Learning Management Systems (LMS)?

• Traditional approach: Integrating your content into your LMS often involves technical support, picking the right SCORM format, maintaining the LMS of course, all takes a lot of time and effort.?

• With tts performance suite: We have APIs with top-tier LMS platforms such as Cornerstone and SuccessFactors Learning, along with Deep linking capabilities for quick and seamless course integration. This eliminates the need for manual tasks like importing and exporting content, allowing for real-time updates directly within the Producer user interface?

• Timeline: Instant integration.?

If you're curious about how the tts performance suite can transform your eLearning content, let's chat! I'd love to hear about your experiences with traditional methods. Just drop me a message.