The amount of time it can take to create an eLearning lesson can vary widely. A simple lesson, such as a short video or quiz, may only take a few hours to create. However, more complex eLearning lessons, like interactive simulations or branching scenarios, can take weeks or even months to complete. Is there a process to speed up development time without sacrificing content? In enters eLearning Templates.
eLearning templates are huge time savers. All it takes is one click to create a course with a custom design, placeholders, animations, and interactive objects. Simply fill in the needed text and media, and it's time to publish!
Using eLearning templates can provide consistency, time and cost savings, enhance learner engagement, and improve accessibility. Using eLearning templates can offer several benefits, including:
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1. Consistency
eLearning templates ensure that each module or course has a consistent look and feel. This helps maintain a professional and cohesive appearance across the entire course or program.
2. Time Savings
3. Cost-Effective
4. Enhance Learner Engagement
5. Accessibility
How do eLearning Templates Save Development Time?
eLearning templates save development time by eliminating the need to create designs and layouts from scratch, providing standardized formatting and a consistent design, offering reusable elements, and allowing for easy customization.
eLearning templates include pre-designed layouts that can be used for different types of content. This eliminates the need to create a layout from scratch for every module or course. These pre-designed layouts include standardized formatting, like font size and style, color schemes, and layout. The eLearning template layouts and formatting provide a consistent design throughout the course or module, ensuring a professional and cohesive appearance. This helps to save time on design and allows developers to focus on creating high-quality content instead.
eLearning templates often include reusable elements, such as icons, images, and interactive elements. These can be easily inserted into different modules or courses as needed. A good eLearning template should be easy to customize to fit the specific needs of the course or module. Customization can be used to update branding and is much faster than creating a new design. Changing the colors, adding or removing elements, and modifying the layout should all be simple changes in a well-made eLearning template.
Creating eLearning Templates in Storyline
Cobblestone Consulting uses Storyline 360 to make creating mobile courses simple. Our seasoned instructional designers build multi-device eLearning easily through our reusable eLearning templates. Our team has an inventory of Storyline templates to share with our clients. You tell us how you want your courses to look and behave and we'll customize our templates to fit your needs.
Want to try out saving a module as a template on your own? Simply:
Build a new Storyline project or open an existing project.
Go to the File tab then click Save As.
Open the location where you want to save your template.
Storyline will save a copy in the location you choose and another copy in your \Documents\My Articulate Projects\Storyline Templates folder (where the Storyline library is stored).
Name your eLearning template.
Use the Save as type drop-down to choose Storyline Template (*.storytemplate).
Click Save.
To share your template with other developers, send them your *.storytemplate file.
All your *.storytemplate files will be located in this folder: %userprofile%\Documents\My Articulate Projects\Storyline Templates
* Recipients will need to import it into their own Storyline template libraries.