Wednesday Oct 19, 2011
Training with Rapid Publication and Editing
How to edit your courses quickly after they are published!
As we said in a previous post, your courses don’t have to be perfect, and the beauty of creating and offering courses through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform is that you can edit content at any time, and your learners will be able to view those changes immediately.
Not only will publishing content give you confidence to continue doing so, it will also encourage your learners to use the content and provide feedback. This way, you will know if your courses should go in a different direction, if they are helping and what your learners need more of. Publishing content will help you understand how to publish better content, or enhance organizational policies, procedures and services.
So while you want to be sure your course will offer development for your learners, you do not need to over-think the process. If you realize you do not like how you worded a particular article or if you want to add a new video to the course that shows a new path in performing a task, you can easily edit and add content after the course is published. You can also quickly publish stand-alone content related to a certain category.
For example, if there is a common question that your users have been requesting help in, you may just want to create a quick screencast for that 1 minute solution without creating an entire course, and this should take you less than 10 minutes to complete and publish. Taking 10 minutes to quickly create and publish a screencast can save your employees hours helping their fellow employees or the organization’s customers. Don’t over think this one minute video; just publish it. Tweak it later if you need to.
In KeyStone OnDemand, your users’ viewership as well as quiz completion are tracked and they are not able to receive a certificate until they have reached 75 percent in both areas. So what happens when you add content to a course in KeyStone OnDemand, but your learners have already completed the “75 percent” viewed and quiz scores? Does their completed percentage decrease because there is new content in the course?
No, once learners achieve a certain percentage it will never go lower. They can go and review the updated content, and their percentage can increase, but the new content will not cause them to loose their status as complete.
If you want to update content later, your viewers will only be affected positively. You cannot go wrong here. In KeyStone OnDemand, you can always publish something to get people started, then you can go back later to edit or fix the details you want to polish up. So get started now with that course you have been holding out on.
Editing
If you use KeyStone OnDemand, editing is easy. You can edit content you have created or courses we have created that you have purchased licensing for. For example, if you decide you want licensing to our Project 2010 Course, you can edit any of the articles in the course to fit your specific organizational needs. Some tasks have multiple directions you can go, and there may be a specific way you want your users to learn how to do a task, so you can edit our courses to your liking.
To quickly edit your courses or ours, here are a few simple steps to take:
1. Open the article you would like to edit;
2. Click Edit;
3. A message will appear, and click “Create Copy and Edit;”
4. Edit your content and save the updates for your users to see.
We hope this gives you the confidence to publish that video or article you have been waiting too long to publish.
