If you are managing a large E-Learning development\nteam, chances are that Productivity is one\nof your top of mind challenges <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Productivity translates to dollars and every content head is\nconstantly looking for ways to improve productivity and cycle time. While\nproductivity is a multi dimensional issue and involves factors such as training\nand processes, your development platform\nis easily the single most important determinant of your team\u2019s\nproductivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broadly speaking there are four major ways in which your\nAuthoring platform can help improve productivity. When used in tandem, these can help to dramatically improve the productivity\nof your team. The four major areas are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The use of templates\ncan considerably enhance the productivity of your development team. Templates\nhelp improve productivity in multiple ways. Templates minimize the effort\nrequired for layout design programming and testing . Templates also help jump\nstart development by allowing Non Technical \ndevelopers like Subject Matter Experts and Instructional Designers to directly work with your Authoring System\ninstead of using Word or Power Point. This immediately eliminates one\nstage of the development process speeds up development considerably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, a word of\ncaution \u2013 It is simply not sufficient for your development platform to provide you a set\nof templates. As a developer you will constantly have needs that available\ntemplates don\u2019t meet. Therefore while selecting a platform it is\nessential to check whether the platform\nenables you to create your own custom templates to add to the default template library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You also need to assess\n the programming support that the platform\nprovides. This is essential for Template creation. Platforms that provide full programming\nsupport will provide you all the flexibility you need to create the templates\nthat you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another feature that can dramatically improve the productivity\nof your team is collaboration. Collaboration\nmeans that multiple users can work on the same project at the same time. Collaboration allows you to do parallel development that can\ndrastically bring down your cycle time. \nHowever, this is not the only way that collaboration helps.\nCollaboration also provides a host of other benefits . Some of these are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply speaking Global Options that allow you to make or\nimplement changes to a course globally instead of having make the changes\nrepeatedly at the module or page level. Some examples of Global options are\nThemes, Buttons, Window Height, Module Names etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, it is of\ncrucial importance that the Global options be flexible. That is that while\nthe options are implemented globally one\nshould have the flexibility to change them at module and page level if\nrequired. Very often you need specific\nfunctionality or behavior at a page level and if you cannot override the global\noptions it can be a major constraint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time savers are features that seem minor but in reality can\nsave you enormous amount of development\ntime. One such example of this is the\nPreview . The ability to preview while developing without publishing the course can be an\nenormous time saver. If you need to\npublish a course in order to view it can\nadd significantly to your development time. \nImagine for instance that you that\nyou want to view and test the 20th<\/sup>\npage of your course. Without a preview \nyou will need to publish the course, \nnavigate through 20 pages, view\nthe page, return to development mode ,\nmake the required change, and then\npublish again, and navigate through 20\npages. to make sure that the changes you made show up correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many other\nsuch examples of Time Savers which can contribute significantly to improving\nproductivity. Some of the major ones\nare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are managing a large E-Learning development team, chances are that Productivity is one of your top of mind challenges Productivity translates to dollars and every content head is constantly looking for ways to improve productivity and cycle time. While productivity is a multi dimensional issue and involves factors such as training and processes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t