Creating Interactive Courses With Native Authoring

Every business needs to train its employees on crucial systems, company culture, and other aspects of the organization. To facilitate this, e-learning tools and learning management systems are widely used across many industries. A good LMS will keep employees up to date with the latest information, how to use a SaaS software system and much more. But creating those courses can be challenging. An LMS with native authoring can be helpful for accomplishing this goal. If you're looking to create an interactive and engaging course, using an LMS with native authoring is the right way to go. 

What Is Native Authoring?

Native authoring is an e-learning, web-based tool that lets people create their own content and interactive materials for their courses. Creating a course for enterprise learning takes a long time. For a simple 20-minute course, it can take up to 80 hours to create. That's a lot of time and effort. With a native authoring tool, users can take a lengthy process and turn it into something much easier (and a lot more efficient). With native offering, you can easily incorporate multimedia elements into your courses. Whether it's a video, audio, interactive quizzes, or fancy interactive courses, native authoring empowers users to enhance the learning experience in creative ways.

Create High Quality and Relevant Content

Native authoring tools are built into a platform and effectively make authoring new content convenient for the user. That means the potential to create learning content directly within a system that's both high quality and relevant to the company is pretty high. Relying on subject matter experts within the organization, companies can use this tool to design and develop more appropriate educational materials for their teams. That can save money in the long term, increase efficiency, and engage employees on the most relevant aspects of the business. Moreover, the accuracy of the content is much higher because it's being created by experts who know exactly what they're talking about!

Scale Your Content 

A native authoring tool can help you save time. But more than that, it can help you collaborate and transform the face of enterprise learning at your organization by letting you scale your content. Native offering tools allow you to modify, create, and update content in a centralized location. With that comes more collaboration and the ability to scale the content to your team's needs/goals. It's also easy to streamline content creation using these tools because you don't have to go outside the LMS to do it. Keep in mind that the output is also native to the LMS (file types are proprietary to the system and can't be used with others), so scaling it does require a bit of technical expertise and familiarity with your company's current LMS or LXP system.

Creating Materials For E-learning 

Using a native authoring tool is like having a magic wand that lets you manifest whatever you desire into existence. Not only can you create helpful articles and blogs, you can also create videos and interactive tutorials. Since video is a fantastic way to engage learners, the ability to tailor video to your team's goals becomes quite crucial to the learning experience. You can also experiment with audio, surveys, and quizzes to see what works best for your teams. Most native authoring tools also feature templates, outlines, and multilingual functions to help further personalize the experience. Using built-in html, css, and other tools, you can also customize your branding to give the material your company's unique—and personal—touch.

Certifications For E-learning

After creating your courses, you'll also want to use your native authoring tools to set up certifications for your teams. Certifications demonstrate competency and let employees show off their knowledge, expertise, and skills. To set up certifications, start by identifying what should be certified, along with the skills required to be certified as competent. Then, create the right assessment, set up completion criteria, design the certificate, and deploy the certification test in your LMS. Whether you're using them for assessment, personal development, or career advancement, certifications are an essential part of any e-learning platform. And with native authoring, they're easier than ever to create and deploy.