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There's a difference between a course and a slideshow. A slideshow presents information. A course changes behaviour. A slideshow has "Next" buttons. A course has decision points. A slideshow tests recall. A course tests judgement. A slideshow is forgotten by Friday. A course is remembered because it felt real. We build the second kind. Every course we create starts with a storyboard — not a template. We write scenarios where learners make decisions and see consequences. We design assessments that test whether someone can actually do the thing, not just recognise the right answer. And we test every course in SCORM Cloud before it ever touches your LMS. If your team needs a course that actually works, not just one that technically exists — that's what we do. usevollume.com #CustomElearning #CorporateTraining #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #Elearning

Choosing a custom course vendor is harder than it should be. Everyone's portfolio looks polished. Everyone says "interactive." Everyone promises SCORM compliance. But when you dig deeper, you start to notice who actually understands learning design — and who's just reskinning templates. Here are 7 things we'd look for if we were hiring a course vendor (yes, we're a course vendor telling you how to evaluate course vendors — take that as you will): Swipe through. Save this for your next RFP. #CorporateTraining #LearningAndDevelopment #InstructionalDesign #Elearning #VendorSelection #TrainingDesign

A company spends $150,000 on compliance training. 6 months later, employees can't remember what it covered. The course technically checked every box. SCORM-compliant. Tracked. Completed by 97% of staff. But when someone asks "what did you learn?" — silence. This is the gap between training that happened and training that worked. Here's what decision makers should be asking before signing off on any training project: → Does this course design teach or just inform? → Are learners making decisions in the course, or just reading? → Is there scenario-based practice, or just a quiz at the end? → Will our team remember this 90 days later? The difference between a $150,000 slideshow and a $150,000 learning programme is in the design, not the tool. If you're evaluating training vendors this quarter, ask them to show you a storyboard before they show you a demo. That's where you'll see whether the course actually teaches anything. #CorporateTraining #LearningAndDevelopment #TrainingROI #InstructionalDesign #Elearning

"Should this be a full course or just a quick module?" This is the single most common question we hear from L&D teams starting a new training project. The answer isn't always obvious — and getting it wrong wastes budget, time, and your learners' patience. So we built a decision framework. 6 questions. Each one points you toward microlearning, a full course, or a hybrid approach. Swipe through and save this for your next project kickoff. #MicroLearning #CorporateTraining #InstructionalDesign #Elearning #LearningAndDevelopment

Unpopular opinion: Most e-learning is just a slideshow with a quiz taped to the end. And everyone knows it. The learner clicks through 40 slides of bullet points they could have read in an email. Then they answer 10 multiple-choice questions that test whether they can remember what was on slide 17. They pass. They get a certificate. They forget everything by Friday. We've somehow normalised calling this "training." Here's what's wild — the tools to build genuinely engaging learning experiences exist right now. Branching scenarios. Realistic simulations. Interactive case studies where learners make decisions and see consequences. AI-generated narration that doesn't sound like a robot reading a legal disclaimer. The technology isn't the bottleneck. The bar is just set absurdly low. When "complete the course" is the only metric that matters, the incentive is to make the course as easy to complete as possible. Not as effective as possible. Not as memorable as possible. Just completable. The result: billions spent on training that technically happened but practically didn't. What if we measured whether people actually changed their behaviour after the course instead of whether they clicked through all the slides? That one shift changes everything about how you design training. What's the most "slideshow-with-a-quiz" course you've been forced to sit through? Curious what the record is for most slides. #Elearning #CorporateTraining #InstructionalDesign #MicroLearning #LearningAndDevelopment

Someone on your team just asked: "Does it need to be SCORM-compliant?" And half the room nodded while silently Googling what SCORM actually is. No judgment. SCORM is one of those things everyone in L&D talks about but surprisingly few people can explain clearly. So we broke it down into 10 slides. What it is, how it works, SCORM 1.2 vs. 2004, what it tracks, common issues, and when you actually need it. Save this for the next time someone asks. ↓ Swipe through below ↓ #SCORM #Elearning #LearningAndDevelopment #InstructionalDesign #CorporateTraining

Before you brief a course creation partner, answer these 5 questions. It'll save you weeks of back-and-forth and thousands in revision costs. 1. Who exactly is the audience? Not "employees." Be specific. New hires vs. senior managers need completely different training. Define role, experience level, and what they already know. 2. What should learners be able to DO after this course? Not "understand cybersecurity." That's too vague. Try: "Identify a phishing email and report it within 60 seconds." Observable. Measurable. Specific. 3. How will this course be delivered? LMS? SCORM? Mobile-friendly? Self-paced or instructor-led? These decisions shape the entire build — and changing them halfway through is expensive. 4. What existing content do you have? PowerPoints, SOPs, video recordings, SME interviews — anything that already exists. This reduces scope, cost, and timeline. Don't make your vendor start from zero if you don't have to. 5. What does success look like? Completion rate? Assessment scores? Behaviour change on the job? Knowing this upfront ensures the course is designed to achieve it — not just designed to exist. Save this for the next time you're scoping a training project. Your vendor (and your budget) will thank you. #LearningAndDevelopment #CorporateTraining #InstructionalDesign #CourseCreation #TrainingDesign

Most people think course creation starts with slides. It doesn't. It starts with a conversation. Here's the actual 5-step process we follow at Vollume to turn a client brief into a fully interactive, SCORM-ready training course. Swipe through to see each step — from the first call to the final QA check. (Save this if you're planning a training project soon.) #CourseCreation #InstructionalDesign #Elearning #SCORM #LearningAndDevelopment

Your compliance training doesn't need to be boring. It just needs to be real. Here's the thing — compliance topics aren't inherently dull. Cybersecurity breaches are dramatic. Data privacy violations have real consequences. Workplace safety failures are genuinely alarming. The problem isn't the subject matter. It's the delivery. Somewhere along the way, "compliance" became synonymous with "click next, read a wall of text, pass a 5-question quiz, get your certificate." That's not training. That's a checkbox exercise. What if instead: → Your cybersecurity course opened with a realistic phishing scenario your team might actually encounter → Your data privacy module put learners in the seat of someone who just mishandled customer data → Your safety training used real workplace footage instead of clip art Same topics. Completely different experience. We design compliance training that people actually remember — because it mirrors real situations, not textbook definitions. What's the worst compliance training you've ever sat through? Genuinely curious. #ComplianceTraining #CorporateTraining #LearningAndDevelopment #Elearning

Companies spend $370 billion a year on corporate training. And 70% of employees say it didn't improve their job performance. That's not a training problem. That's a design problem. We broke down the 5 most common reasons training programs fail — and what actually works instead. Swipe through to see all 5 (and save this for your next training redesign). ↓ Full carousel below ↓ #CorporateTraining #LearningAndDevelopment #InstructionalDesign #Elearning #TrainingDesign