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Custom Content Development

SumTotal can take your content and turn in it into a completely customizable interactive media experience proven to make new product training, management training, new employee on-boarding and client training take on a heightened relevance and speed to competency. Our proven six phase process turns the content you need to get across into a specialized education opportunity which can take an unending number of forms..

Why SumTotal?

  • Deep experience in developing custom learning programs for a variety of industries, business drivers, audiences and content domains
  • A track record of developing custom courseware that results in sustained behavioral change and measurable performance improvement
  • Custom Courseware that assures you of compliance with all Section 508 requirements and SCORM and AICC standards
  • Expertise in all of the leading rapid courseware authoring tools
  • Employment of a multi-step development process that involves you, the customer, in every phase: from content assessment and graphic design, through instructional design and storyboarding, and into course development and deployment.
  • No proprietary branding or wrappers. You own source code to the final course in an unlocked format.
  • Engagement managers who help you manage your stakeholder needs and project risks
  • Specialized Courseware options that integrate seamlessly with all the other talent management software SumTotal has to offer.
  

Our six phase process is based on proven strategies that will address your specific strategic business goals
  • OLT Packages
  • mLearning Courseware
  • vILT Development
  • Blended Courseware
  • Rapid Course Conversions

Online Training Courseware

Every organization has unique employee training needs that are very specific to a product, a process or a standard which cannot be realized by an off-the-shelf training course.  For those specialized training requirements our goal is to provide our customers the gold standard in building robust, interactive, memorable and engaging online learning. 

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We offer three different options for the development of custom online training that suits your needs:

Your content will be incorporated into customized courseware that meets your training goals. Options are limitless.
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This audio-driven sales training course was created for sales professionals. The course makes optimum use of click-and-reveal interactivity and illustration-based, conceptual animations to explain ordinary content in a highly engaging manner that gains the learner’s attention through entertaining animations and audio narration. Therefore, this is a Level 3 course.

This option creates an hour-long Advantage course which features Level 2 Interactivity and Media content.
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This short product training demo was created for optical dispensing professionals. The demo course uses simple interactivities such as click-and-reveal and makes optimum use of conceptual animations. Since content is presented and learners are assessed at the Comprehension level, this is a Level 2 course.

This option creates a thirty minute Basic course which features Level 1 Interactivity and Media content.
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This short, audio-driven course was created for the sales team of a major pharmaceutical company. The interactivity is limited to simple click-and-reveal and mouse rollovers. Learning is enhanced through simple scenarios and real life examples. Most of the screens are purely text and image screens, making this a Level 1 course.

 

 

Mobile Learning Courseware

What makes mLearning so immediately and starkly different from other eLearning methods is the proximity of mobile work to their mobile devices – “Within arm’s reach” means an availability and intimacy to learning never before possible.  SumTotal will create custom mLearning courseware to meet your unique training and development needs.  Today’s mobile workforce is away from their workstation, without internet access and on the move.  SumTotal app-based mobile courses will keep them focused on their training goals, as well as just-in-time job alert and job aids. For more on how your content can be incorporated into custom mobile courseware that meets your training needs, click here.

Virtual Instructor-Led Training

    One of the primary fallacies involved in virtual instructor-led training is that instructor-led training courses can simply be delivered virtually without any thought put into the new learning medium, the role of the instructor, the role of the participant and how the materials need to be enhanced. SumTotal understands the benefits of vILT courses, which allow every computer to become a portal to knowledge, interaction, learning and application. When combined with your organization’s web conferencing services, SumTotal can provide the expertise to turn your content into a virtual, facilitated, online classroom that deploys the full advantages of a blended learning approach without requiring all learners to be in the same physical location. Each of these factors plays into the overall approach, design, and services that may be offered, which can include:

  • Customized materials design
  • Templated approach to development including:
    • Instructor guide
    • Student workbook
    • Slide decks
    • Web application interactivities

Blended Courseware Development

A blended learning instructional method uses an online and instructor-led configuration to ensure the knowledge acquired transfers to on-the-job application. The key element in blended learning is the opportunity to acquire key concepts online and then practice and receive guided feedback in a live session. This solution employs the best practices of self-paced and face-to-face instruction.

Rapid Course Conversions

Rapid Course Conversions help you enable change and increase business agility.

  • Is the LMS a new system in your organization? When deploying your LMS, you can use content and courses you already have. By rapidly converting existing courses for delivery through the LMS, you are able to immediately maximize your investment and demonstrate the benefits of a system that ties all training together in one location for online delivery, tracking, and reporting. 
  • Has the LMS been in place for some time? Converting your existing courses can help re-energize use of the system and potentially increase your user base, as well as reinforce that the LMS is a critical business process. In making your courses SCORM compliant, we ensure that, by residing on the LMS, your courses are immediately accessible 24/7 to your learners, who will have the option to complete training when it is most convenient for them.

The scope of Rapid Course Conversion projects can range from designing a User interface for a PowerPoint presentation, to importing course content to a different authoring tool or initiating a complete re-design of the course materials. No matter the conversion, it is our goal to swiftly make your courseware ready for immediate distribution, accessible to all learners and manageable through your LMS.

Types of available conversions include:

  • OLT to SCORM OLT
  • ILT or PowerPoint to OLT/SCORM OLT
  • CD-ROM to OLT/SCORM OLT
  • Video-based course to OLT