AllenComm Portal Newsletter #2
We like to keep you up to date on advances in technology, innovative ways to use existing technology and how your portal can enhance your training. Keep reading for interesting new work, updates you should know and news from our end.
Gamification
A well-designed game can better engage users, and help them learn even when they don’t think they’re learning. If you are using games in your training content, you may wonder how gamification in the portal is different. Here are a few highlights of how a game in the portal might differ from a game within a course:
- The user doesn’t have to access the course to play the game. This means a well-designed game can be used outside of the context of the course to continue reinforcing learning.
- It can be reusable. We can design the game structure so that it can be used for different purposes—in different areas of content or different learning paths. The game logic is the same, but the content of the game is different.
- It can be portable. The game can live in the portal, but could also be accessible as an app on a mobile device.
In our next newsletter, we will feature a game design that will be available to you as part of our core product. Leave a comment below with how you think portal gamification can work with your content.
Performance Support
The portal is a great place to provide performance support in addition to training content. Providing access to information or tools to users at their moment of need is what performance support is all about. A great performance support design reduces time-to-competency, which is a compelling driver to incorporate it into your strategy.
We are designing and building portals that are heavy on performance support for some of our clients, and we’ll highlight some of those in the future. Until then, let us know if you’d like to talk about expanding your use of the portal to provide performance support to your users.
The Allen API
Next quarter we’ll be rolling out a blog and infographic to give you a bigger picture about xAPI and other eLearning standards. Wondering how you could leverage our API in your portal implementation? Get in touch.
Let us know what you’d like to hear about in the next newsletter, and if you have a use case or case study you’d like to share with other Allen portal clients, drop us a note!