5 Tips for Creating Effective Visual Design for eLearning Courses

Let’s face it. It isn’t just what you say in your eLearning training courses, but it’s also how you say it. It’s about the colors, even about what people are wearing in the pictures in your employee training that tell the entire story. In fact, the days of the HR director and the subject matter experts (SME's) talking for hours on end are over, that is, if you aim is to help your trainee get the most out of the important training materials.

Written by Torri Ellman, Vice President of Operations for eLearn Training Systems, a southern California-based training systems design firm, here are five important tips for creating an effective web-based training program. These five tips will help your team create the most visually appealing, on brand computer based training course that will get educational materials delivered effectively to your audience, with a focus on comprehension, retention and better performance when it counts.

1. Branding – It is important to follow the brand standards guide. If there is not a branding guide in place then you must view several samples of their marketing collateral to get a good feel for the type of preferred design, such as, where is the organization emphasis? Is it on colors, photos or typography?
2. Photos – Are you using stock photography or your own photos? If you are using stock then make sure the people in the photos are dressed in a way that fits the dress code. Also make sure to have enough diversity in gender and ethnicity.
3. Matching – Always make sure that your graphics convey the same message as the text. Photos, graphics and animations in eLearning are there to keep the learner engaged and to lend visual cues to enhance the learning process.
4. Keep It Simple – Keep the look interesting but uncluttered by not using unnecessary graphics. If there is too much for the learner to look at, it will take away from what they should be learning and retaining.
5. Keep the Executive Team in the Loop – Check in with the management team in charge of the training program from time to time with samples. This helps to ensure that the project remains on track because it’s always better to know sooner rather than later if the management team wants to change directions on the look of the course.

Let eLearn Training Systems Design Your Web-Based Training Program
Another option is to hire our team of experienced training systems designers to design your training system for you. Dedicated to heighten the learning experience for your staff, we put all the pieces together by developing engaging audio and visual components, using a full video crew when needed, flash design experts, content experts and professional programmers. eLearn Training Systems can help your company train more people to be better, more competent employees faster than you ever thought possible!

About eLearn Training Systems
eLearn Training Systems (ETS) develops online training systems for companies, schools and organizations. ETS specializes in re-designing “paper and ink” training materials into an automated and user-friendly online or computer based training (CBT) system, integrating current teaching modalities to heighten the trainee’s performance. For more information about eLearning and online education, visit: www.elearntrainingsystems.com

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