You’ll notice on your personal course listing page that we’ve provided a “Share” button at the bottom of your course listings. When you click on this button you can instantly share a link to your courses via Facebook, Twitter, Digg, MySpace and a number of other social destinations which means... more
As a follow on from yesterday’s post which introduced our latest new customer feature – personal course listing pages – here’s some further detail on how to incorporate your personal course listing page in to a website or blog. Can I insert my course listing page in to my blog... more
Until now the only way to advertise the courses Litmos customers had created and wanted to sell was via their own website. But things have changed. Today, we’ve released a feature which now gives each and every one of our customers their own personal course listing page! But it doesn’t... more
Have you ever wondered whether a trainee is logging in to their online training account, but just avoiding doing their courses? Or maybe you’re curious to know if they have ever actually logged in? In this case there may be a valid reason why they haven’t – maybe their login... more
Distinguish between need to know and nice to know. Focus on need to know, only.– Shannon Wallner is an Instructional Designer, you can follow her on Twitter @SWallner Take some time off ‘designing’ and just observe how students use technology. Then exploit what you have seen. The result will be... more
Litmos Version 3.0 is aimed at improving the user experience for course administrators. Over the past few months our development team have been working closely with usability consultants to bring increased clarity to the Litmos User Interface (UI). It’s all about making the Learning Professional’s life easier by making processes... more
This is the 2nd post in my “Online Course Design Tips” series and today’s expert advice has been very kindly contributed by Instructional Designer Jason Willensky: Old news: Make sure your learning objectives are clear and measurable, then make sure that your content and assessment align with your objectives. The... more
We talk a lot about Instructional Designers, Trainers, Teachers and SMEs. While each claims to have what it takes to design effective online training courses, I had yet to run in to an Interaction Designer (IxD) making these claims. A recent encounter on Twitter has shown me how they flip... more
What a start to the year! It looks like ‘change’ and a proactive, ‘can do’ attitude will be the theme of 2009. The emergence of hope and positivity in these times of economic recession is a welcome sight. Speaking of change, read on, because Litmos has a few of their... more
Camtasia Studio 6 is a brilliant screen recording tool that allows you to create professional teaching videos which you can then upload in to your training courses. If you want your students to see what you’re doing on your computer, just use Camtasia to record your screen, mouse movements and... more
