Where do I start? New to both Lectora and CBT development
February 25, 2013 12:00 AM
OK-just installed Lectora Inspire v11 last week because I've been tasked with developing some training. Not only am I totally new to Lectora, I'm also new to training development. I'm almost afraid to ask this question, but where do I start? Outside of Lectora, I created an outline and have storyboarded a good portion of it. Now I need to get it into Lectora. Every time I sat down last week to get started, nothing felt "right"--like I was jumping right into the middle instead of starting at the beginning and working step by step. So--where do you start? Is there an "order" to the way things should be done? I've completed many of the Lectora tutorials, but they deal with the features of the product, not the fundamentals of course creation!
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for this--let me know. And I appreciate any help or advice you can give. Thanks in advance!!!
Discussion (4)
Get some books on e-learning ASAP. Here is a site with lots of recommendations:
http://www.eproficiency.com/resources_books_on_e_learning_design_.html
Andy--
Thank you for your response. I have already outlined my course and am about 85% done with the storyboards. But when I start messing with Lectora, I immediately get confused!!! Should I set up the structure of the training first, or should I just get everything in Lectora first and then worry about manipulating the format? I've tried it both ways, and neither feels right!!!
Kim
My opinion is beginning to create eLearning is like creating any course, whether it's self-paced or instructor-led:
Identify what content you want to deliver, figure out how you will evaluate the learning, then determine which types of activities will support your evaluation.
Once you have that, you might want to determine how you want to break up the those activities in lectora. The basic Title Explorer display kind of lends itself to that by breaking it up like a book: Chapters, sections, and pages, which you might think of like an outline, each one indented below the preceding. Chapters are your main ideas, sections are the 'chunks' of those ideas, pages have the content.
That said, you may or may not need more than one chapter, you might not need sections at all, nor are they required. Much of this depends on how complex your content is, but primarily is an organizational method.
After that, think about how you want to deliver. Do you want a character leading the learner through? Do you want a table of contents and some slides to click through? Scenario based? Process based?
Again, this is all my opinion. I was used to a different authoring tool when I started using Lectora so it took me a while to get used to the interface and how to organize my pages and ideas, but this is generally how I get started. I'm sure others will have different opinions on how to get started.
I found the recorded webinars invalueable when I started out (and still refer to on a regular basis now)
http://lectora.com/why-e-learning-learning-training-tips/recorded-webinars
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