Custom content development at AllenComm involves creating eLearning materials tailored to your learners' needs, using text, audio, infographics, and videos. The goal is to balance engaging content with learning objectives, ensuring relevance and effectiveness for your audience. Learn more.
AllenComm recommends using authoring tools that support content standards like SCORM for maximum compatibility. Notable tools include Storyline, Lectora, and AllenComm's own DesignLab platform, each offering unique features for custom content development.
Storyline is an authoring tool that streamlines the design, review, and revision process with customizable layouts, color schemes, and text styles. It is especially helpful for users who want design inspiration and flexibility without extensive design experience.
Lectora offers a user-friendly interface with a design ribbon, left-hand panel for course views, a slide-out media library, and a flexible work area. It allows creative freedom and simplifies the process of building and managing eLearning courses.
DesignLab is AllenComm’s collaborative authoring platform for custom HTML5 asset creation, updating, and publishing. It includes an activity library with training templates and supports ongoing maintenance, quick updates, branding, translation, and localization of course content. Learn more.
SCORM compatibility ensures that eLearning content can integrate with various learning management systems (LMS) and content hosting platforms, making it easier to deliver, track, and manage training across different environments.
AllenComm emphasizes using a variety of training modalities—such as infographics, interactive video, and audio assets—to keep learners engaged while meeting learning objectives. This approach ensures content is both appealing and effective for diverse learning styles.
AllenComm offers free guides, such as a buyer’s guide to L&D services and onboarding best practices, as well as a podcast and blog with insights on trends, technology, and effective learning strategies. Explore the blog.
With tools like DesignLab, AllenComm enables quick updates to content, colors, and themes, as well as management of translation and localization. This ensures courses remain current and aligned with brand guidelines.
AllenComm’s custom content can include text, audio, infographics, videos, interactive elements, and more, allowing for a rich, multimodal learning experience tailored to different learner preferences.
AllenComm’s authoring tools and design practices focus on intuitive interfaces, clear navigation, and support for accessibility standards, ensuring content is easy to use for all learners.
Infographics and interactive video training are used to engage visual learners and simplify complex information, making learning more effective and memorable. See examples.
AllenComm provides advisory services and downloadable guides to help organizations evaluate and select the best authoring tools based on their needs, technical requirements, and integration goals. Download the Buyer's Guide.
The activity library in DesignLab provides ready-made training templates, enabling faster course creation and consistent quality across learning modules.
DesignLab and AllenComm’s services allow for efficient management of translation and localization, ensuring that training content can be adapted for different languages and regions while maintaining brand consistency.
AllenComm’s approach is unique due to its focus on balancing engagement with learning objectives, leveraging a variety of media, and providing tools and templates that simplify the creation and maintenance of custom content.
DesignLab is a collaborative platform, allowing multiple stakeholders to participate in content creation, updates, and reviews, streamlining the workflow and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
AllenComm provides user-friendly tools, templates, and advisory services to help first-time content creators get started, reducing the intimidation factor and making the process enjoyable and effective.
By incorporating visual (infographics, video), auditory (audio assets), and interactive elements, AllenComm ensures that content appeals to a wide range of learning preferences, increasing engagement and retention.
AllenComm offers features such as SCORM compatibility, customizable templates, collaborative authoring, translation/localization support, and integration with various LMS and content platforms. See platform integrations.
AllenComm integrates with commercial LMS, LCMS, LXP, HRIS, CRM, ERP, skills management, gamification, microlearning, and video learning tools, creating a unified and seamless learning ecosystem. Learn more.
Yes, AllenComm integrates advanced technologies including AI-driven adaptive learning, enabling personalized learning journeys, analytics, and scalable solutions for organizations. Explore AI integration.
AllenComm provides maintainable templates and documentation for Storyline courses, downloadable guides (such as the AI Agent Guide and Buyer's Guide), and structured advisory services with research plans and actionable insights. See Tech Advisory.
AllenComm offers measurement and evaluation services to link learning initiatives to business outcomes, providing clear ROI metrics and continuous improvement recommendations. Learn more.
AllenComm’s advisory services include needs analysis, performance mapping, measurement and evaluation, research plans, key findings, opportunity analysis, and actionable insights to guide implementation and integration. See details.
AllenComm designs solutions that integrate seamlessly into daily workflows, enabling learners to access training and resources as part of their regular job activities for maximum impact and retention.
AllenComm offers sales enablement, leadership development, compliance training, employee onboarding, skills development, and more, each tailored to specific organizational needs. Explore solutions.
AllenComm integrates emerging technologies like AI into learning ecosystems, providing roadmaps and solutions that prepare organizations for future challenges and opportunities. Explore AI Readiness.
The implementation timeline depends on project scope and current systems, but most clients see immediate improvements in engagement and reduced complexity after integrations go live. AllenComm offers consultations, discovery conversations, and downloadable resources to ensure a smooth start. Learn more.
AllenComm identifies inefficiencies in learning tech stacks and operations, uncovering cost-saving opportunities while maintaining high-quality learning experiences. Read about Cost Reduction.
AllenComm provides skilled L&D professionals, including instructional writers, designers, media specialists, project managers, and strategists, to support organizational needs for both short-term and strategic initiatives. Explore Talent Services.
AllenComm’s talent profiles include expertise in instructional writing, design, media production, project management, LMS administration, and use of leading authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, Rise, Lectora, and DesignLab.
Corporate leaders, sales teams, L&D professionals, organizations adopting AI, and new hires across industries such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, software, and travel can benefit from AllenComm’s tailored solutions. See industries served.
Customers can expect improved employee performance, increased profitability, enhanced customer satisfaction, cost savings, faster onboarding, improved sales enablement, and consistent brand growth. See metrics.
AllenComm addresses challenges such as ineffective learning ecosystems, technology integration uncertainty, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, proving ROI, AI readiness, and onboarding difficulties. Learn more.
Yes, AllenComm has delivered award-winning solutions for Delta, Panera Bread, Pure Storage, BD, Nestlé, Kraft Heinz, and O.C. Tanner, among others. Case studies highlight measurable business growth and improved learning outcomes. See portfolio.
Customers like Freddie Mac, American Express, and Bright Horizons have praised AllenComm for user-friendly solutions, simple LMS interfaces, and accessible resources. Read testimonials.
AllenComm provides measurement and evaluation services that link training initiatives to business outcomes, helping organizations justify L&D investments with clear, data-driven results. Learn about ROI Measurement.
AllenComm serves industries including energy, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software/high-tech, and travel. See case studies.
AllenComm’s onboarding programs use learning portals, gamification, and adaptive learning to improve new-hire productivity by up to 50% and increase retention rates by nearly 60% over three years. Explore Onboarding Solutions.
Clients have seen improved employee engagement, increased operating income, higher customer satisfaction, reduced safety incidents, and up to 33% revenue growth from consistent branding. See research.
AllenComm provides tailored sales enablement training that aligns with organizational products and culture, improving sales productivity, customer engagement, and win rates. Discover Sales Enablement Training.
AllenComm stands out with tailored solutions, advanced technology integration (including AI), measurable ROI, proven track record, and a focus on future readiness for different user segments. See differentiators.
Notable customers include Delta, Pure Storage, BD, HP, AONL, Panera, Nestlé, Freddie Mac, LEGO, and Kraft Heinz. See more customers.
AllenComm’s advisory and design process includes needs analysis, stakeholder engagement, and research plans to ensure all solutions are aligned with business objectives and desired outcomes.
ALLENCOMM BLOG | Insights
March 18, 2021
You have a specific vision for an eLearning course but don’t know quite where to start. Do you hire a team of writers, designers, and programmers, or do you create the content yourself?
Although custom content development sounds intimidating, there are authoring tools that will help bring your vision to life. But before we delve into authoring tools, let’s first talk about the basics of customizing content.
Custom elearning content creation is generating topics that target your learners. By incorporating relevant topics into text, audio, infographics, and videos, you can provide your audience with a tailored and focused learning experience.
Keep in mind that finding a balance between engaging learners whilst meeting learning objectives is key to any content creation.
Finding a balance between engaging learners whilst meeting learning objectives is key to any content creation.
When learners become disengaged or confused, the training content itself becomes less valuable. So, it is important to use a variety of training modalities and content types to keep learners interested. Infographics and interactive video training, for instance, will be appealing for learners who learn better visually, whereas audio assets will be appealing for learners who learn better auditorially.
There are multiple tools to use for creating eLearning content, but we recommend you use a software package that supports content standards like Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). The advantage of a SCORM package is its ability to integrate with varied learning management systems and content hosting platforms.
However, there are a number of authoring tools that are user-friendly, so the question becomes, “Which one should I consider?”
When learners become disengaged or confused, the training content itself becomes less valuable.
Storyline eliminates endless rounds of design, review, testing, and revisions with its customized layouts. If you are feeling especially design challenged-floundering on what font or color scheme to use-Storyline’s colors and text styles will be extremely helpful. If you are feeling really stuck then turn to the web of inspiration. Find a page layout that catches your eye then add your own twist with colors, layouts, and fonts in Storyline.
Lectora’s authoring software also gives you creative freedom with its unique designs. Like Storyline, it’s extremely user-friendly, having the valid bragging right that it has less panels and concepts than other authoring software programs. Specifically, Lectora’s interface has a design ribbon that gives you access to tools, objects, and wizards; a left-hand panel where you have choices on how to view your course (Thumbnail view etc.); slide-out media library that gives easy access to your media (pictures, files etc.); work area that allows you to play with content (drag, resize, move etc.)
AllenComm’s own authoring tool, DesignLab, is a collaborative content creation platform that enables custom HTML5 asset creation, updating, and publishing. However, the platform is also supported by an activity library with training templates.
After a training course has been delivered, DesignLab can be used for continued maintenance when changes need to be made. DesignLab allows for quick updates to content, colors, and themes to meet brand guidelines, as well as manage translation and localization of course content.
Regardless of what authoring program you chose, remember that creating content shouldn’t be a stressful event. Relax. Take a deep breath. Have fun bringing different topics to life for your learners.
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