5 Things You Must Know for eLearning Brothers Success
Today we’re going to be looking at five things to know for the most success with your eLearning Brothers account. The Favorites tab Downloads tab Team and Member Libraries A quick tip for searching through libraries Utilizing our eLearning Brothers Knowledge Base ...
You’ve Got Mail! How to Edit Our Email Scenario Template
Looking for a better way to deliver information in an eLearning course that isn't just a boring text block? Want it to be a little bit interactive? Check out the email scenario templates in our newest Template Styles. Everything is built for you, just change the text...
Webinar: How to Make On-the-Job Learning Practical With TREK
More and more organizations are realizing the need for a comprehensive training approach that includes traditional eLearning courses in addition to on-the-job learning experience and coaching by managers. This has often been a challenge to implement. Marty Rosenheck,...
eLearning Open Mic: Camtasia 9 vs Camtasia 18
Introducing eLearning Open Mic, a platform for discussion in a variety of eLearning topics! What’s unique about eLearning Open Mic? We’re opening the floor to YOU. We’ll pick six willing people to join on our discussion panel. Don’t make it onto the panel? That’s just...
eLBX Presents – Catherine Nelson
It's Throwback Thursday and we're throwing it back to this past June when we hosted eLBX, an eLearning Brothers User Conference Extravaganza. Today we are sharing Catherine Nelson's presentation. Catherine is Vice President of Leadership Development for FranklinCovey....
Word on the Street: DevLearn is Coming
It’s true, DevLearn is right around the corner! Are you ready? This annual conference hosted by the eLearning Guild is an eLearning party that we look forward to each year. We'll be on the expo floor, hosting a learning stage, and some of our rockstars are giving...
Webinars to Watch This Fall
Between conferences and webinars, our fall calendar is packed. But that's how we like it because it means more opportunities to connect with eLearning Rockstars in-person and online. In case we don't see you at DevLearn 2018 this October, we'd love to see you at one...
The DevLearn eLearning Rockstars Stage: Now Starring…
Ah, DevLearn. This glorious multi-day event in Las Vegas, Nevada is considered by many to be THE eLearning conference to attend. We take it pretty seriously. We are especially serious about delivering the best booth experience for everyone who stops by our booth—ie,...
Webinar: Get Rockstar Reporting with xAPI Templates from eLearning Brothers!
Our Senior Developer, Bill Milstid, walked webinar attendees through a brief explanation of xAPI and then showed how we have integrated xAPI statements into our new Style templates. What does this mean for your reporting? Only good things! xAPI allows you to get more...
eLBX Presents – Dr. Karl Kapp
Welcome back to our video series from eLBX 2018! Today we are sharing the video of Dr. Karl Kapp's presentation. Karl Kapp is an expert in eLearning, games, gamification. He's a professor and author and all-around great guy. His presentation at eLBX 2018 centered on...
Rise to New Heights With This Safety Training Course
In today’s construction industry, an estimated 2.3 million construction workers perform some type of work on scaffolds—that’s about 65% of the construction workforce! Training those workers on safe scaffolding use is incredibly important. Scaffold training is required...
How to Edit a Classic Conversation Scenario
A conversation scenario is an eLearning staple. Presenting a conversation between two characters—ideally ones that represent your learner demographic—allows you to explore two different perspectives and/or deliver some gentle coaching. All of our new Template Styles...
Power Up With New PowerPoint Styles
Attention, PowerPoint users. Last week, we released 2 new PowerPoint Template Styles! Each PowerPoint Style features 20 files. For our PowerPoint Styles, we focused on data-driven graphs and charts. Rock those monthly reporting presentations! Check out the infographic...
Webinar: User Experience Strategies for Successful eLearning
In this recent webinar, Dan Frazee, Lead Developer on the eLearning Brothers Custom Development team joined us to share his user experience strategies for successful eLearning. He used some really cool projects that the eLearning Brothers Custom team has made for...
eLBX Presents: Angel Green
If you caught our post last week with Dr. Scott Baird's eLBX presentation video, you know that we've decided to share all the presentations from eLBX 2018 here on the blog. While nothing can replace the energy and connections made by attending a conference in-person,...
A Conversation With eLearning Rockstar Rich Vass
Brianne Thomas, a learning experience designer for Capitol One and the woman behind Northlake Professional Group, recently interviewed our Studio Director, Rich Vass. Great conversation and laughs ensured. Thus, we wanted to share some of the highlights here. Rich...
Working With Our “Popular Choice Game” Template Style
Adding a game to your eLearning course is a great way to increase engagement and (sneakily) quiz your learners. That's why we include this Popular Choice game in each Template Styles family. However, all the game mechanics can make it a bit trickier to edit than your...
2 Keys to Getting Started With eLearning Brothers
This summer marked the creation of our new Customer Success division and our team has been working hard to figure out ways we can help you get the most out of your account. In addition to all of the awesome templates and assets we have available, we wanted to make...
Webinar: Spy on Our Video Expert While He Edits in Camtasia 18
Yesterday our Video Specialist, Andrew Townsend, held a webinar where he demonstrated his process for editing a video in the newest version of Camtasia. In his step-by-step presentation he covered: Using some of Camtasia 2018's newest features Syncing audio Animating...
eLBX Presents – Dr. Scott Baird
A few months ago, we hosted eLBX, the first eLearning Brothers user conference extravaganza. We were excited to see hundreds of eLearning Rockstars descend upon Salt Lake City for our conference, but we know that there are tons more eLearning Rockstars out there who...
We’re In the 2018 Utah 100 Fastest Growing Companies!
MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) recently published the Utah 100, its annual list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah for 2018. We are absolutely thrilled to share that we made the list! "Each year, we recognize the 100 fastest growing companies in Utah, and...
Editing a Sequencing Drag and Drop Template Style
You can't go wrong with a drag and drop interaction in your eLearning content! We make it easy for you by offering drag and drop templates in all our Template Style sets. In this video, we're going to take a look at the structure of our Starter Sequencing Drag and...
The Paint Has Dried: Take a Tour of Our Edifice of eLearning
Well, It’s been a couple of months since we eLearning Folk packed our bags and boxes and whats-its and moved on over to our new domain. In that time, we’ve come to love this space just as much as our last--if not, even more! So many bathrooms! By now, you probably...
Word on the Street: Webinar Channels That eLearning Pros Love
Have you ever been to a conference, whether it be DevLearn, eLBX, or any of the other amazing eLearning conferences around the world, and walked away feeling invigorated? Is this because of the people you met on the Expo floor? Is it because of the amazing speakers...
Webinar: Stop, Drop & Roll Out These New Safety Courses
Every 24 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire in the US. Would your workers know what to do if a fire broke out at your workplace? Fire safety courses are the answer. OSHA requires employers to provide annual training to familiarize workers with the general...
4 LMS Reports That Help to Create Brilliant Content
Imagine, you’ve just finished a huge e-course. It’s made to be flawless: a deep understanding of a subject, cool visuals, plus, you have 100% perfect grammar. Even if you’re absolutely certain there’s no way to make it better, have a look at this recent post in the...
It’s Time To Talk About Timeline Sliders (A Template Styles Blog)
Who doesn't love a nice little timeline slider in their eLearning content? Well, maybe you don't love the process of putting together a timeline slider. We won't judge you for that. In fact, that's why we include a timeline slider template in all of our Template...
We’re Sort of Crushing on the New “Sort-It” Training Arcade Game
There's a new game in town and we are very into it! Sort-it was just added to The Training Arcade. Sort-It is a Training Arcade game that takes into account multi-levels of thinking. Players are presented with different categories in rows and columns along with a bank...
Webinar: Explore the Learning Design Map
eLearning Brothers was recently honored to host Mohamed El Kholy in a tour of The Learning Design Map (LDM), an easy-to-follow guideline for Learning professionals to use in designing their instructor-led training interventions. Watch the recording below to learn how...
Recoloring Complex Artwork in Illustrator
Say you find an awesomely-realistic vector file from a stock site (like the rose illustration below), but it’s not the color you’re looking for and you’d like to recolor it. Depending on how the file was created, this can be an extremely daunting task, especially if...
eLearning Brothers Enters the Inc. 5000 Hall of Fame
eLearning Brothers joins a select group of companies as a 5-time honoree AMERICAN FORK, UTAH (PRWEB) August 21, 2018 eLearning Brothers announced today that the company has been honored to enter the Inc. 5000 Hall of Fame by being listed on the Inc. 5000 list for the...
Webinar: Control Your eLearning Universe with the Master Suite Toolbox
In this webinar, our Enterprise Account Executive J.R. Lavea outlined the best deal in eLearning Brothers history! Utilize the ultimate collection of eLearning resources; an unparalleled asset library, fully developed customizable eLearning courses, and game authoring...
How We Do In-house Video Interviews (Equipment-wise)
We occasionally create videos for our eLearning courses created by our Custom team. We also create videos that can be found on our Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin pages. Many times these videos are nothing more than talking heads. A talking head shot can be extremely...
The Perfect eLearning Template for Back to School Season
It's that time of year. You've either been dreading it, or counting down to it. It's back to school for teachers, students, and school staff. Whichever camp you're in, we have an eLearning template that will get you in the mood for learning—or teaching. It's called...
What People Are Saying About Customizable Courseware
In May of 2017, we launched a product that changed the eLearning industry—Customizable Courseware. Now, no one has made that day a global holiday in recognition—yet—but our customers have let us know how much they love Customizable Courseware. And because we got into...
We’re on the List (of Top eLearning Blogs!)
We have some fun news to share with you today! We're feeling a lot like rockstars because our blog was recognized on a few different lists! And no, we're not talking about Santa's naughty list. We try to serve up content for everyone, from Articulate Storyline...
Webinar: Time Saving Tips in Lectora Online
eLearning Brothers recently hosted Jennie Valley, Trivantis Community Manager for a great webinar, during which Jennie shared her favorite ways to save time with Lectora Online. When deadlines loom, these are the tricks you want in your back pocket. First, Jennie...
Embracing A Principle-Based Model of Instructional Design
As an instructional designer, I’ve often wondered why so many organizations place such a heavy emphasis on adhering to instructional design processes such as ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation) or SAM (Successive Approximation Model), when the...
Blend Outside of the Box – Part 1
Most people think of blended learning as mixing up eLearning with Instructor-Led Classroom Training (ILT)—and they’re not wrong. That’s why eLearning Brothers Customizable Courseware comes ready to mix and match in both formats. However, blending up learning...
Put These Webinars On Your Calendar
Our webinar series is all about bringing you helpful eLearning development information—so you can do your job easier and faster. We've had some really great webinars in the past, covering everything from instructional design to graphics to writing tips and career...
How to Party Like an (eLearning) Rockstar: eLB Summer Party Edition
Look, I don’t want to tell you how to rock, but since you asked—for the purpose of this blog, let’s assume that you did indeed ask—here are a few pointers as tried and tested by your eLB friends. Set the Scene First, if you’re planning on partying like a...
2018’s 10 Most Popular PowerPoint Assets (So Far)
Our PowerPoint templates are loved far and wide. It’s true. They are some of the most downloaded templates in our library! In fact, just in 2018 we’ve already had 14,000 downloads from our PowerPoint library alone. So today I want to take a look at the ones that have...
Career Advice From an Instructional Designer
We recently hosted Dr. Scott Baird, founder of Griffin Hill, for a great webinar called Instructional Designers, Protect Your Position – Advice From Dr. Baird. The webinar was packed with helpful career advice and suggestions, and sparked a ton of discussion on...
Webinar: Instructional Designers – Steal from HCD to Engage your Learners
Building engaging Learning experiences starts with knowing who you are building them for. But what do you really know about your target learning audience? In last week's webinar Josh Bleggi, our Learning Designer, borrowed three tools from the world of Human Centered...
This Fire Safety Course is Hot
In the United States… A fire department responds to a fire EVERY 24 SECONDS One structure fire is reported EVERY 66 SECONDS One civilian fire injury occurs EVERY 34 MINUTES One civilian fire death occurs EVERY 2 HOURS AND 35 MINUTES Remember good ol’ Smokey Bear...
Webinar: Welcome to Your eLearning Brothers Account
Last week. we had our Customer Success Manager Clara Cummings in a webinar discussing how to get the most out of your eLearning Brothers account. Whether you are brand new to eLearning Brothers templates and assets or a seasoned veteran, learning how to quickly...
Word on the Street: A Time and a Place for eLearning
In a fast-paced world that constantly demands new and better things to make our lives easier and more efficient, we have found ourselves in the heart of an interesting conundrum. When it comes to learning—both in a classroom and at a desk—is new technology (or even...
Slips, Trips, and Falls: Safety Training Is Here to Catch You
5,190 workers were killed on the job in 2016. That averages out to more than 99 a week or more than 14 deaths every day. Those are sobering statistics. If you want to keep your workers safe, you need to educate them on safety guidelines. “Isn’t that OSHA’s job?” you...
HCD Meets ID: Part 2- Developing Learner Empathy
As I discussed in my last post, Human Centered Design (HCD) provides us with a valuable process to assist us in empathizing with our learners so we can better meet their needs. For this post, I’d like to focus on the core of how to achieve this—developing empathy for...
We’ve Got Your Back: Template Styles Support Videos
Not sure how to use our new Template Styles? Each Template Style is like a little family of layouts, interactions, quizzes, and more all designed to work together. But all the choices might seem overwhelming at first. We want to help you make the most of these Styles...