○ Tips & tricks to optimise your learning journey
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1. Create a Look & Feel
You can make your learning journeys more personal by applying your corporate identity. For example, use a banner, colors and your font to give your aNewSpring environment a personal touch. You can adjust this in the look and feel settings.
2. The MemoTrainer
Let the MemoTrainer help you get the knowledge into the long term memory of the learners. In this article you can read more about (setting up) the MemoTrainer.
3. Set up a (personal) activity advice for your learners
By setting up an activity advice in the template, the advice will be adapted to the learner and the learner will see which activity he should do next based on your settings.
4. Add visual elements to your learning journey
Add icons to your activities to make the learning journey more attractive. Icons can also be used to distinguish the different activity types to make clear what type of activity is waiting for the learner.
You can use your own icons but you can also create icons using the Iconator .
5. Place banners or texts between the blocks
You can also make the overview of the learning journey more attractive by placing banners or texts between the blocks.
In this way you can also make the distinction between the different blocks more clear and give more context to the elements in your learning journey.
You can add a banner or text as an explanation above a block via the Settings button next to the name of a block.
6. Collapse blocks for a better overview for the learners
If your learning journey contains a lot of blocks with activities, it is important that the learner doesn't feel overwhelmed when opening the learning journey. Therefore you can choose to collapse blocks in the learning journey so the learner has a better view.
If you have a lot of blocks, you might want to have those blocks that a learner doesn't have to start yet, are collapsed by default.
You can set this via the Settings button behind a block under the Properties tab.
7. Create sections in Lesson activities
Sections allow you to add an extra level within a lesson activity. This will give the learner more insight into the content of the lesson.
With sections the learner can also see directly in the learning journey what topic is being covered in an activity. The learner can immediately click on them to go to that section in question. A kind of table of contents!
8. Let learners learn from each other
Let learners learn from each other by sharing information with eachother. You can enable the discussion functionality in activities or on the overview of the learning journey.
9. Provide the learner with additional information about activities
You can add an estimated duration to activities so the learner knows how long that activity might take. With this information a learner can easily add an activity to his calendar. This allows the learner to plan their activities and learn more efficiently.
You set this up in an activity via the Properties tab under Default settings.
10. Add a description to the activity
Descriptions tell the learner more about activities than just a name. Add a description to the activity to tell the learner what the activity is about.
You add this description in an activity in the Description bar under the name of the activity at the top of the page.
11. Activate the search widget in the template
Activate the search widget to help your learners find the right content in the learning journey.
12. Activate other widgets in the template
You can use custom widgets to display content parts there. Fill the content parts with information and make it visible in the learning journey.
Widgets can be collapsed or expanded by default. This allows you to give more space to the learning journey or focus more on the widgets.
13. Use conditions
Conditions limit access to activities. When the conditions are met, activities become available for learners.
For example, consider conditions based on time/date, pass/fail or simply add a condition that an activity becomes available after the learner has completed the previous one.