Advantages of Custom Course Development
Excellent off-the-shelf online courses certainly help you save plenty of time & money. However, all businesses always have the need to train their employees in all the specific policies, procedures, skills and information unique to their particular company or situation. The advantages of creating custom online courses include:
- Create content not available from generic off-the-shelf courses
- The built-in Course Authoring in your LMS saves you time and money
- Provide courses and assessments unique to your business needs
- Easily monitor all training activity to measure results and see ROI
- Avoid expensive travel and work disruption from typical classroom training
- Save significant time, money and improve employee productivity
- Use any of your existing training documents, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, videos or other media
- Use any of the thousands of available YouTube or other free videos to create a trackable custom course
Should you hire a professional course developer, create courses yourself in-house, or both?
This is an important decision that depends on many factors.
In-House vs. Professional Development
When To Consider In-House Course Development
- You have on staff (or can afford) your own professional course developer
- You have (or can afford) professional course authoring software like Articulate Storyline or Captivate
- You are only creating simple course layouts and have other staff available to do it
- You have (or will get) an LMS with easy-to-use course authoring built-in
- You will not need courses exported to SCORM and used in any other LMS
When to Consider Professional Course Development
- You don't have or can't afford to hire your own professional course developer
- You need help planning and implementing some or all phases of your training project(s)
- You don't have professional course authoring software like Articulate Storyline or Captivate
- You need more dynamic, sophisticated course layouts and have no staff with that expertise
- You need to develop courses that can be exported to SCORM and used in any LMS
- Can't afford to assign course authoring to staff with other important duties
The best solution is often a combination of both.
We'd be glad to can help you make informed choices that best fit your needs and budget, so please don't hesitate to Contact Us if you need some advice.