During my career, I have been a key contributor to the development and creation of six training curriculums. This includes strategizing, conceptualizing, storyboarding, scripting, pondering, producing, and delivering each curriculum to our company’s resident learning management system.
At the time that these curriculums were developed, the company had just purchased a new LMS that was dubbed Journey, and this was supposed to be the next big thing. All customers were eventually going to be migrated from their respective learning management systems over to Journey. This would mean migrating thousands of organizations, millions of users, and eventually sunsetting about ten products. See, that’s why I wrote “big thing” in bold; this was going to be HUGE! The team I was on, Training & Solutions, was tasked with creating training for, well, everyone. Employees, the sales team, customers, that guy down the street who makes wheelbarrows out of newspapers; everyone.
Each curriculum consisted of:
- Produced under the Vector Solutions Academy emblem
- Video promo to advertise the training to employees
- Introductory video
- Video-based training courses (the smallest had four while the largest had 23)
- Focus on microlearning
- Knowledge checks
- Fact sheets
- Quizzes and a final exam
- Certificate of completion
- Exclusive listing in the course catalog
- Promotion on internal webinar called Ingenuity@Work
The Vector Solutions Academy was established as our official emblem for producing the curriculums. I designed the logo, but the corporate graphic designer fine-tuned it.
The lessons were a collaborate effort of the Training & Solutions team. Each member was responsible for storyboarding the lesson, and then I would write the script, record my voiceover narration, and edit & produce the final video product. The videos were then loaded into our resident LMS, which came preloaded with its very own course builder. This gave us the freedom to establish a structure for how the curriculum was presented and tracked.
Here’s a screenshot of a prototype version of a typical course slide:
And here’s a sample video of a microlearning-based lesson that would appear in the curriculum:
We occasionally produced longer trainings as well as webinars, but the company was really making a concerted push toward microlearning, which is a training method I fully approve of. Here’s a course listing of the sales curriculum where you can see that we made every single minute of training count:
PDF fact sheets would also be provided within the course that touched on the essential points of the curriculum. In the case of the Sales Curriculum, we focused on customer pain points and the solutions that our software can provide. Fact sheet was designed and produced by yours truly:
The curriculums were designed to be completed within 90 minutes, at which point the user would receive a certificate of completion, also created by yours truly:
I no longer have access to the completion data, but these curriculums were a massive win for the company as they provided structured training and guidance for how to use what was, at the time, the most important piece of software that we had to sell. I’m super proud of what we accomplished.
More samples can be provided upon request.