Training - Onsite or Online

We've been training other how to be e-learning designers and developers for over five years. Let us train you and your team how to take your e-learning in-house.

Are you a beginner? Don't think you're technical enough? No worries. With Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio or Unison, you don't need to be technical to create e-learning. If you can fill out a form, you can create e-learning courses.

Are you a Flash developer? As a Flash developer you can take advantage of the powerful customization and extensibility capabilities in the Rapid Intake eLearning Development Platform. Check out the courses below on customizing and extending.

Rapid Intake training courses are designed to teach you everything you need to know to create e-learning courses.

Course Titles

• Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform™ or Unison™

• Customizing Course Interfaces in Flashform or Unison

• Extending Flashform or Unison to Create Custom Reusable Page Templates and Interactions

 

Pricing for Onsite - Ours or Yours

Want intensive training in person with one of our instructors? Come to our training facility, or we'll come to you. The fee for this kind of training is $2500/day. You can have up to 8 participants attend. If we visit your site, we also expect you to pay for any travel and shipping expenses. Each additional participant is $250.

Pricing for Online - Webinar-style Training

We offer each of our workshops via web-conferencing. Participants connect on the phone for audio, and through web conferencing technology so they can watch what the instructor is doing on the screen. This style of training is mostly demonstration and does not involve the same amount of hands-on participation. The cost for this training is $200/hour for groups of up to eight people.

NOTE: We highly recommend hands-on onsite training for the intermediate and advanced courses that involve using Adobe Flash to customize and extend Flashform and Unison.

Scheduling Training

To schedule training, please contact us. We'll give you a training quote and schedule a time that works for you and one of our excellent instructors.

Testimonials

"Instructor very knowledgeable, very good examples. The hands-on was great and the book was awesome. Expectations were exceeded." - D.C. from Alltel

"WOW! Yes, my expectations were exceeded!" - S.F. from NovaStar

"Excellent! Relaxed, yet thorough." - D.M., independent contractor

"Expectations were absolutely met! It was an awesome class and I learned lots. A lot of info packed into 2 days, but it was great. I especially appreciated the course architecture [topics]." - L.S. CUNA Mutual

"First rate. I'm a fairly knowledgeable Flash/ActionScript user and I walked away with much valuable new information." - P.J. from New Mexico State University

Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform or Unison

Do you want to learn to build e-learning courses in Flash, but don't want the steep learning curve? Flash can take months or years to master. Learn to use Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution. You can learn to use it in just a few hours!

This beginning course teaches you how to rapidly create SCORM conformant Flash-based courses using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and  Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution. After this single class you will be able to create an interactive Flash-based course that will run on any SCORM-conformant LMS.

NOTE: Flashform and Unison are built on the same rapid development platform. You rapidly create Flash-based interactive courses using a similar process for both. However, Flashform is a desktop application, and Unison is a web-based application that allows more collaboration. What you learn in this class will apply to both solutions.

At the end of this practice-packed workshop, you will be able to:

• Create a new project
• Add topics and pages
• Choose page types that fit the content
• Integrate streaming audio and video
• Convert PowerPoint presentations into e-learning content
• Add interactive activities
• Add a knowledge check review
• Add a test
• Update the context-sensitive glossary
• Package the course for the LMS
• How to use technology to collaborate online with SMEs and other project stakeholders

As a part of the course, you will receive a trial version of Flashform or a free trial account for Unison.

Prerequisites: None. You do not need to own or know Flash to use either Flashform or Unison.
 

Customizing Course Interfaces in Flashform or Unison

This intermediate course teaches you how to customize Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution using Macromedia Flash.

As you finish this practice-packed workshop you will learn how to create a completely custom course interface (course style). This includes learning how to: 

• Change the layout and the buttons
• Change the Index display
• Change the Media Controller
• Change the Narration and Glossary display
• Understand and Modify some Player Functions
• Modify page templates
• Integrate customized page completion strategies
  
  Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Adobe Flash and the pre-conference workshop Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Solution. No Actionscript background necessary.
  

Extending Flashform or Unison to Create Custom Reusable Page Templates and Interactions

This advanced course teaches you how to extend Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Web-based Rapid eLearning Development Solution.

In this hands-on, practice-packed workshop you will learn to create reusable Flash-based interactions that can be shared with other Flashform and Unison users. In this workshop we cover these topics:

• Understanding the XML structure of existing page templates
• Creating new custom XML-based templates
• Creating the user interface forms to accompany custom XML-based templates
• Sharing custom templates with other team members

Prerequisites: Intermediate knowledge of Macromedia Flash. Intermediate knowledge of ActionScript and XML. If possible, you should also have attended the pre-conference workshops Rapid eLearning Development Using Flashform and Unison and Customizing Flashform and Unison.