Structure eLearning Content

When you’re trying to train your staff, you might take the route that many businesses before you have taken in the past—eLearning. This is a process that can involve creating a comprehensive but relatively simply online course that can be accessed at work, featuring materials and often some sort of quiz that can put their knowledge to the test.

There’s much more inherent flexibility than that, however. This means that the way you ultimately go about arranging and structuring this is up to you, creating room for you to do so with maximum efficiency.

Percentage to Pass

In the example given above, the employee can repeatedly go through the training program and attempt the quiz until they get a score that you deem satisfactory enough to allow them to continue. In many cases, employers might even require them to get 100% right, due to the low-stakes nature of having to sift through the slides or learning materials again if they fail, this high bar might not seem as strict or unfair.

However, what this might do is create a situation where your employees aren’t really learning anything from the material. In a multiple-choice system where failure has no consequences, it’s only a matter of time where guessing random answers is going to pay off into a successful result. So, while it might be time-consuming and boring, there’s a good chance that someone could eventually pass without actually having to learn anything at all, which isn’t at all the situation that you were hoping for. The content needs to be engaging, relevant and to the point, even if the information itself is relatively dry but essential, and formatting it in a way that it isn’t a wall of text might help people to better absorb it.

Intranet Systems and Remote Work

The way that some people might design their company’s eLearning content could be through intranet systems that feature all the relevant materials and resources for their business. This could be the way that employers access it regardless of the work environment, but it might present you with an opportunity to be flexible when it comes to remote work.

You don’t want your remote working structure to prevent your staff from all being on the same page, and through these kinds of platforms, they don’t have to. The fact that you can update these intranet systems from anywhere means that you can add new content to these platforms if your employees are required to update their knowledge, as might be the case for GDPR matters, if that’s relevant to what you do.

Specialist Knowledge

There might also be times when the knowledge you need certain staff members to make themselves more aware of could be very specific to what they do. For example, you might be introducing a new security system to your business, perhaps one revolving around modern options like managed detection and response solutions. Then, in order to get the absolute most out of this, you might want all your relevant team members to quickly develop a thorough understanding of how this works. After all, it’s not just enough to have a capable and powerful tool at your disposal, you also need to have skilled staff members to operate it.

Easily Accessible Information

Even if the content is structured in such a way where once they’ve passed the quiz at the end, they never need to look at it again, that might be reinforcing the idea that the goal was never for your employee to actually learn anything at all. You’ll want the information to be structured in such a way where it leaves an impression, as mentioned earlier, but it should also be retrievable. If your employee completes their eLearning content as is required of them and then goes about their job with you for a while, there might come a time when they need to know something that was covered here. If it’s easy for them to go back and have a look at these different sections to brush up on their knowledge, rather than expecting them to retain it all indefinitely, you’re encouraging them to use the content and actively learn from it.