Tips for creating training courses and curriculums

Use Adobe Presenter and Adobe Captivate® to create content for courses. Presenter is suitable for the creation of rapid e-learning content using Microsoft PowerPoint. Adobe Captivate can be used for creating training materials that must contain complex branching and simulations.

At the course level, set client-side maximum retries to one and server-side maximum retries to any number. (Set server-side maximum retries to unlimited if you want learners to have as many attempts as they need to pass.)

Add curriculum items directly into curriculums, not into folders.

When adding content from the Content library directly into a curriculum, the content is automatically converted to a course and tracking is enabled. For example, when you add a PDF file to a curriculum, that file becomes a course and tracking can be done down to the page level (you can see if learners looked at 7 out of 10 pages or all 10 pages of the file). In addition, a curriculum resource folder is automatically created and any curriculum-specific courses (that is, content automatically converted to a course for this curriculum) are placed in the folder.

Communicate with your learners about how to take courses and curriculums, especially any specific settings you have used. For example, tell them how many times they can attempt to pass a quiz. Also, if you change a curriculum after making the curriculum available, such as adding or removing items, inform your learners.

Ask learners to open an item or course in only one browser window and to close that browser window when they are done.

When planning to make a large curriculum available, do a test first. For example, ensure that your Adobe Connect system (network, servers, database, etc.) is set up properly and has sufficient resources to manage the volume of learners scheduled to enroll in the curriculum.

Minimize changes to your courses and curriculums after you have made them available to learners.