Design journal

Good news! I’ve finally been able to access both pieces of software I am using to design my project, the learning management system and Articulate. I will talk about my experience with both. The LMS has finally been started after executing the contract at the beginning of September. We are using Litmos. I have been learning its capabilities and using it, like doing bulk upload of learners and putting them into teams. The LMS also came preloaded with 250 learning modules of decent quality. Unfortunately, they are completely uncategorized, so I will have to go through each one to put it into a category and also activate them. This is a huge flaw with the software, and I have advised my peers in sister portfolio companies not to use Litmos for this reason. I don’t have time to tag 250 videos and neither does anyone else. I also have put together my first learning module using the software. The results were not spectacular. It really looked like amateur hour! Moodle, the free LMS, deliv...

At my job, I am currently supervising thirteen training projects across all different departments: sales, engineering, professional services, customer support, marketing, and human resources. My design project is to build a manager training program for our new managers. I haven't been able to start to build it out past designing the first four modules because the LMS provider my company contracts with can't roll out the software until the beginning of October. I'm stuck in a holding pattern as I wait for that software to on-board. So I guess the biggest challenge at this point in the design process is working in a corporate environment versus working in my own classroom where I would have more control over the process: in a corporate environment, the design process is dependent on other people's schedules and budgets, which often don't align with mine! But in the past two weeks I've had to use and learn a few other pieces of software which I'll detail here...