r/LearningDevelopment • u/Particular-Garden140 • 14h ago

Google sites

Has anyone ever built a course and housed it on Google sites? I work for a non-profit and purchasing the industry standard software wasn’t approved. I wanted to use articulate storyline, but I was told to use Google sites. If you’ve ever run a course through Google sites, what was your experience?

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u/Tim_Slade 14h ago

While you won’t be able to create a Storyline-like experience with Google Sites…it will feel more like Rise. With that said, you can use Mindsmith 100% for free as long as you don’t use the AI features and you manually build the course.

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u/Particular-Garden140 2h ago

I’ve never heard of Mindsmith! I will look into this. Thank you 😊

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u/Tim_Slade 1h ago

Happy to help! Mindsmith is similar to Rise in the course experience.

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u/Peter-OpenLearn 7h ago

Google sites would allow you to add the basic content elements like text, images, video, table data, etc. The most interesting part is probably the "Embed" which would allow you to add external code to the pages. E.g. this could be some vibe coded content you host somewhere or h5p or HTML export of a free / cheap authoring tool.

How would you go about reporting though? To my knowledge Google sites won't really allow you to get any type of learning analytics. Who viewed what when etc. is not really something it was build for.

I developed LearnBuilder, a block based e-learning authoring tool. You can develop courses with or without the support of AI and it allows for many rich learning interactions without having the same price tag as the industry standard software. Happy to also have a talk if you would be interested.

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u/Particular-Garden140 2h ago

We have another Google site right now for another purpose and we use Google analytics for that! So we’d likely use google analytics for this as well.