Below you will find 5 Web-based training Do’s and Don’ts:
1. Storyboard
Make sure your storyboard is signed-off before development. A good analogy I like to use is baking a cake. Your storyboard is your cake recipe or batter. After you put the cake in the oven, if you want to change it, it’s possible, though messy and never turns out right. Therefore, development is delayed.
2. Audio
If you need audio in your course, there are free robo-audio or human narrators. If you decide to use a human voice, have an audio script written out before the narrator records the audio. Make sure that the narrator follows the script and doesn’t ad-lib! Ad-libbing can cause a real mess if the eLearning developer needs to include synchronized, closed-captioning text in the course.
3. Graphics
If using images or illustrations, make sure they look consistent.
4. QA
If your organization allows it, Google spreadsheet is your friend when it comes to a free, easy way to track QA changes by multiple reviewers in a spreadsheet. Using this, or something similar, will save you time, as developers won’t have to search through their emails to find all of the QA changes.
5. Review
When reviewing an eLearning course, there can be up to three rounds of QA reviews. These are Alpha, Beta, and Final. Make sure to allow enough time in the review schedule for the reviewers to be able to review the course and the developers to make the changes. Also, not everyone works on the weekends, so take weekend dates on the calendar into consideration when scheduling.