eLearning Production Tip!

Ok, we promised a tip or two so here goes nothing. For those of you getting ready to build your first elearning course you may or may not realize it all starts with the storyboard. That's where your original concept/topic gets organized into something either presentable to a vendor for Flash production or simply serves as a platform for others to participate in the storyboard building process. Whatever the case may be and here's the tip part - make sure to use some type of screen numbering system so that when you are migrating from the storyboard program to a web program like Flash you will have a way to quickly reference which screen/slide your working on. This is crucial if your course is being built by a vendor. Just imagine calling your vendor and saying something like, "you know that paragraph in the electronics section"  I think we need to tweak it. You want to be able to say, I want to make a change on screen 2-04, second paragraph and the change is...  believe me, this will save you countless hours especially if your course is of any length or complexity.