Flash was phased out due to limitations such as the need for an embedded player, security vulnerabilities, and lack of support from major browsers and Apple devices. These issues made it increasingly difficult to deliver effective and secure eLearning experiences. (Source: Original webpage)
Converting Flash courses to HTML5 ensures compatibility with modern devices and browsers, improves security, and allows for more flexible, scalable, and engaging eLearning experiences. HTML5 supports multimedia content without plugins and is widely adopted as the industry standard. (Source: Original webpage)
Prioritize assets based on their impact on everyday work, regulatory requirements, and business outcomes. Evaluate the cost and timeline of conversion versus redesign, and consider the instructional efficacy of each asset. (Source: Original webpage)
The choice depends on the specific course. Conversion can be a timesaver, but redesign may be necessary to maintain instructional efficacy and leverage new authoring tools. Assess each asset individually to determine the best approach. (Source: Original webpage)
Failure to convert Flash courses can result in loss of access to training content, decreased employee onboarding effectiveness, and inability to meet compliance requirements. This can negatively impact performance and business outcomes. (Source: Original webpage)
HTML5 enables courses to be accessed across devices and browsers without plugins, supporting mobile learning and ensuring content is available to all users, including those using Apple devices. (Source: Original webpage)
The process includes gathering source files, extracting necessary content, and selecting the right authoring tool for HTML5. Mozilla's development blog offers examples and guidance for this process. (Source: Original webpage)
The conversion is urgent and not optional. Organizations should act quickly to keep their eLearning courses relevant and avoid losing valuable resources invested in training content. (Source: Original webpage)
Consider the asset's impact on daily operations, compliance requirements, and financial outcomes. Balance the cost and timeline of conversion with the asset's importance to your business. (Source: Original webpage)
AllenComm offers custom eLearning development services to assess your legacy assets and recommend whether conversion or redesign is best. Their expertise ensures instructional efficacy and alignment with your business needs. (Source: Original webpage)
AllenComm provides performance advisory, custom design and implementation, technical integrations, and talent & staffing services. Their offerings include sales enablement, leadership development, compliance training, employee onboarding, and skills development. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm integrates with LMS, LCMS, LXP, HRIS, CRM, ERP, skills management, gamification, microlearning, video learning, and assessment tools to create a unified learning ecosystem. (Source: Knowledge base)
Yes, AllenComm offers maintainable templates and comprehensive documentation for Storyline courses, enabling customers to independently update and scale their courses. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm provides free guides such as the AI Agent Guide and the Buyer's Guide, offering insights into implementing and optimizing learning solutions. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm serves industries including healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, software, travel, energy, food & beverage, and insurance. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm delivers personalized learning journeys, accelerated design and development, advanced measurement and analytics, adaptive learning, and solutions integrated into daily workflows. Benefits include improved employee performance, cost savings, enhanced learning experiences, future readiness, and proven business impact. (Source: Knowledge base)
Implementation timelines depend on project scope and current systems, but most clients see immediate improvements in learner engagement and reduced administrative complexity once integrations go live. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm offers a straightforward process: schedule a consultation, engage in discovery conversations, access downloadable resources, and leverage advisory services. Their large in-house L&D design team enables quick scaling to meet tight deadlines. (Source: Knowledge base)
Customers like Freddie Mac, American Express, and Bright Horizons have praised AllenComm for user-friendly solutions, simple localized LMS, enhanced admin functionality, and easy access to resources. (Source: Knowledge base)
Customers can expect improved employee performance, increased profitability, enhanced customer satisfaction, cost savings, faster onboarding, scalable sales enablement, and brand consistency. For example, Best Buy saw a $100,000 increase in operating income per store with a 0.1% increase in employee engagement. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm addresses challenges such as ineffective learning ecosystems, uncertainty in technology and integration, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, proving ROI in learning, AI readiness, and employee onboarding and development. (Source: Knowledge base)
Corporate leaders, sales teams, L&D professionals, organizations adopting AI, and new hires across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, technology, and consumer goods can benefit from AllenComm's tailored solutions. (Source: Knowledge base)
Customers often face fragmented learning ecosystems, uncertainty in technology selection, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, difficulty proving ROI, lack of AI readiness, and ineffective onboarding processes. AllenComm addresses these with personalized solutions and advisory services. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm stands out through customization, advanced technology integration (including AI), measurable outcomes, and tailored solutions for different user segments. Their proven track record includes partnerships with Delta, HP, and LEGO, and award-winning solutions. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm offers tailored solutions, expertise across segments, proven ROI, innovative technology, and a history of award-winning partnerships. Their focus on measurable outcomes and customization makes them a leader in corporate training. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm's standout features include customization, advanced technology integration (AI, adaptive learning), measurable ROI, tailored sales enablement training, effective onboarding tools, AI readiness, and scalable learning ecosystems. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm has partnered with Delta, Pure Storage, BD, HP, AONL, Panera, Nestlé, Freddie Mac, LEGO, and Kraft Heinz. Their portfolio showcases success stories across multiple industries. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm's portfolio includes Delta's onboarding solutions, Panera's leadership program, Pure Storage's 'Simply Pure' program, BD's clinical practice training, Nestlé's award-winning sales curriculum, Kraft Heinz's leadership training, and O.C. Tanner's gamified engagement solutions. (Source: Knowledge base)
Industries featured include energy, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software/high-tech, and travel. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm offers measurement and evaluation services to link learning initiatives to business outcomes, helping organizations justify their L&D investments with concrete metrics. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm's tailored training programs enhance motivation, engagement, and productivity, leading to improved job performance and organizational success. Effective onboarding can improve new-hire productivity by 50% and increase retention rates by nearly 60% over three years. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm integrates emerging technologies like AI into learning ecosystems, preparing organizations for future challenges and enabling personalized, scalable learning experiences. (Source: Knowledge base)
AllenComm identifies inefficiencies in learning tech stacks and operations, uncovering cost-saving opportunities while maintaining high-quality learning experiences. (Source: Knowledge base)
ALLENCOMM BLOG | Insights
March 4, 2021
It’s easy to think of eLearning courses only in the context of what the learner sees. Clients review content and employees absorb information. It’s also important, however, to know how your tools work as well as what they do. The world isn’t static, and you need to be as flexible as possible to keep your business at the forefront of your industry.
A good example of how the earth keeps turning under our feet is the 2020 conversion of Flash to HTML5 as the near worldwide industry standard. Flash has been around since the 90s, and became commonly used across the web to view videos and play games. With Flash’s ubiquity, it’s easy to understand why many people were underprepared to make the move to HTML5 despite computer industry experts arguing for the change for years.
The move was definitely warranted. Flash came with a variety of limitations and gaps in performance. The need for an embedded player, serious security issues, and some of the most common browser’s refusal to support the tool made Flash a less and less popular choice for developers. One of the biggest downsides, however, was Apple’s lack of support. Think of how many of your colleagues are holding iPhones right now and the issue becomes clear.
Flash came with a variety of limitations and gaps in performance.
If some of your eLearning programs were built in Flash, the change would have immediately impacted your ability to conduct employee onboarding or offer performance support on-the-job. Though this may not be applicable to all of your current training assets, deciding what subjects need to be prioritized isn’t cut and dry. You will have to balance the cost and timeline of converting an asset with its impact on performance. Moreover, it may be easy to recreate some of your old assets in HTML5, but other content training assets will require creating a customized eLearning activity. Your business processes are unique and may have unique training development needs. So, here are some general questions you should ask to help make your choices when converting training:
Make your choices wisely. Throwing darts to decide your strategy can’t be an option.
A big decision in the process of transforming old training assets will be whether to convert or redesign. Which option is best will vary based on the individual course, but converting where ever possible has the potential to be a major timesaver. It isn’t wise, however, to make conversion your default method. Each course or set of assets will have their own needs. Use your best judgement from a training project management perspective or rely on custom eLearning development companies to decide on a case-by-case basis whether conversion or a complete redesign is your best option.
Your business processes are unique and may have unique training development needs.
You may be tempted to convert Flash to HTML5 assets quickly, but it’s more important that your training content maintains instructional efficacy. Ideally, a redesign will improve the impact of your training by creating customized eLearning activities with the improved capabilities new authoring tools have to offer. Mozilla’s development blog provides excellent examples for your team to think about such as getting source files together, extracting the content that needs to move, and finding the right authoring tool for your new eLearning.
The Flash to HTML5 conversion isn’t optional or something for the distant future. We have to take it seriously and move quickly to keep our eLearning courses relevant to the new world without Flash. Significant resources have gone into making these courses relevant and available to employees. You’ll want to make the investment to stay current and move forward, and avoid losing valuable resources.
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