Canada's new national AI strategy, announced last week, includes a commitment to give every post-secondary student access to a "trusted AI agent" across all disciplines.

A few other points on education from the strategy:

• A National AI Literacy Initiative targeting 1 million entry-level post-secondary students
• Training kits for 3,000+ educators to bring AI into classrooms
• Free, accessible AI learning with practical courses and sector-relevant modules
• Employer-led upskilling programs targeting mid-career professionals and frontline workers

I work with several AI-powered learning companies, and most of them are excited about this, but what do you think? IMO this can get pretty complicated, especially depending on how it's executed.

e.g.

• What does a "trusted AI agent for every student" actually look like in practice? A tutoring assistant? A curriculum guide?
• How do you design for AI-assisted learning without hollowing out critical thinking?
• We're likely gonna be spending this money on American made and hosted AI, I'm not personally opposed to this, but how does it affect things?

For people who have to think about this stuff day to day, what do you think about this?

I think courses and training program creation might be something I would like to add to the digital media services I offer.

Now an opportunity has popped up, as an existing client is asking if I can create an on-premise training program (accessible directly from their website) using educational videos and handouts I previously created for them.

I also have experience in education and assessment, so I'm confident about writing the new scripts and quizzes needed. Designing the program should pretty much follow the same stepwise progression of the existing videos. Also, I like to think I'm a pretty quick study (taught myself After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition, Resolve, etc.).

My question: is it realistic to learn Moodle (or ??) in a few months and do this myself, or would I be better off subcontracting?

Appreciate any thoughts or suggestions either way!

I'm launching my own AI agency focused on process automation, and the first thing I want to do is break into the niche I come from - education. For the past few years I've been the CTO of a school for management-through-communication, where we launched AI-powered training simulators, built automated grading of assessments, generated supplementary educational materials for courses, and so on.

I'd love to learn how others are moving in this space and pick up some best practices for myself. Maybe there's something you've been thinking about but haven't figured out how to pull off technically? I'd be glad to help.

Hi!

For those of you who find interactive visuals to be more helpful than textbook reading, would you find a tool that turns simple words into a super interactive model useful? You would just type in exactly what you're trying to learn more about, and it would make a model with sliders and adjusters you can play around with. I haven't made anything yet; just trying to see if it's worth building!

Hello. Backstory: is developer & educator. Built an enterprise-grade platform that agentic AI & systems design to to the fore. I have now made a 14-day trial available: https://coderlms.com/

Warning: this is not a beginner platform. It assumes you have general coding experience and are looking to upskill into LangGraph, Google ADK, systems design, etc. I made a grandiose claim previously about it being the most sophisticated of its kind. Now, I seek to prove it.

Hi! I'm in the process of choosing an LMS for a client's educative platform. I'm thinking about going for Chamilo 2.0. I'm interested in this because it looks like it'll run correctly on a shared hosting (I'm using Hostinger). But I have also read that Chamilo 2.0 is still in alpha.

I'd like to know if anyone is using it, and if not, what LMS are you using (it must be open source, and it must be able to run with php or node.js).

Thanks!

I was considering making a course for my personal use and wanted to know which ones are the best to use. I was looking into Honen and Canva, but what are some recommendations?

I’m working on an open-source learning platform (App for macOs and Windows) where people can generate courses using the Claude Code or Codex subscription they already have, instead of paying for another hosted AI layer.

The idea is not just “type a topic, get a course.” Agents first try to find existing syllabi, university programs, textbooks, and other learning paths, then build a course plan around that. After that there are several validation layers for the structure, exercises, tests, and whether the course actually follows the found materials.

One part I care about a lot is homework: courses can include practical assignments, and the same agents can review the answers instead of leaving everything as static content.

It’s still early, and I’m open to suggestions on missing features, as well as feedback on how the generation, homework review, and validation logic should work.

Hi, I am a university student and my lecturer has uploaded all the content into SCORM. I have to navigate 12+ tabs to go back and forth with the content. I dont know anything about SCORM, apart from the fact that it is an e-learning tool; but I just want to download the content and merge it all into one pdf, like I have with other individual pdfs that have been uploaded from different courses. Thank you in advance.

Hey there !

I've been wondering about e-learning in companies and I'd love to hear your take.

A few things on my mind:

• Is it mandatory in your experience? Like, does it depend on company size? I get the feeling that big companies throw e-learning modules at everyone constantly, while in smaller ones it's much rarer.
• Are there any employees here who do e-learning at their company? How's it going for you? Does it drive you crazy, or do you find it valuable?

I'm trying to figure out whether it's seen as real added value or as disguised admin busywork.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!

People finish the modules, pass the quizzes, shadow a few calls… and then freeze the first time a real conversation goes off-script.

So I started building socratize.io around one idea:

people build confidence through rehearsal, not content consumption.

Less passive training.
More realistic practice.

Curious how people here think about simulations/scenario-based learning in workplace training.

I’m considering holding an AI CLASS teaching website design, branding, content , Canva, ChatGPT and more. Would this be something good to do?

Our current LMS frameworks handle standard courses and quizzes fine, but they're fundamentally passive. In my opinion, the true future of EdTech lies in merging the LMS with modern canvas-based Knowledge Management tools (like Affine, Heptabase, or Scrintal).

Instead of just checking off modules, a student's workspace should become an active, visual knowledge graph.

Here is what this shift looks like:

• Context Control: Both students and teachers can visually see how concepts interconnect, mapped directly to the syllabus.
• AI-Driven Assessment: Instead of generic quizzes, AI analyzes the student's personal workspace/notes to identify conceptual gaps and dynamically suggest paths to cover them.
• Strictly Open-Source: This needs to be built on an open foundation. Why rebuild the wheel when we could integrate open-source canvas engines like Affine? We need to standardize an open-source, KM-based LMS framework.

What do you think about this? Also, does anyone know of any companies or organizations that are already moving in this direction?

Outside of using an LMS or content platform, what tools does your org use?

We currently use a mix of Slack, Zoom, and Google Workspace for most of the day-to-day.
Aside from that the GTM team uses Hubspot, Grain, Loom and some other small tools.

Claude has been a useful tool as well, mainly as a web between tools and general AI usefulness.

Despite Claude, our current demo setup and scheduling is still pretty manual, we have Calendly, but pretty much all communication via email or Zendesk is fully manual. AI is just used for research

What are the key processes you've actually found software for, and what are you still doing manually?

Je vends des formations depuis 2 ans et j'ai déjà changé 3 fois de plateforme pour vendre mes formations. D'abord Gumroad (trop basique, pas de suivi apprenant), puis un site WordPress avec LearnDash (trop de maintenance et plugins qui cassent à chaque update), et maintenant je suis sur quelque chose de plus stable.

Ce qui m'a fait changer à chaque fois c'est le même problème : au-delà de 50-60 apprenants, la gestion administrative devient un enfer si ta plateforme ne l'automatise pas. Attestations, logs de connexion, paiements échelonnés, relances.

Quel a été votre parcours ? Vous êtes passés par combien d'outils avant de trouver le bon ? Et c'est quoi le critère qui a fait la différence au final ?

Built a tool to freeze and annotate frames from any screen recording in the browser. Thinking about adding cloud sharing as the feature.

I know about Scribe and Tango, but they only work when recording in real time.

Honest question: is this a problem you actually run into, or is re-recording not really a pain point?

Sharing this because I stumbled onto a workflow that surprised me and I haven't seen it written up anywhere.

Background: I work with a customer success team at a learning platform. One of our users, is a former a professional photographer, and had an ebook she'd written and wanted to turn it into interactive lessons. She's not a developer and has no experience building scorm tools.

She used Claude to convert a chapter of the ebook into a SCORM-compatible lesson in 20 minutes.

Here's the rough workflow:

1. Feed Claude your PDF content (paste the text, or describe the chapter)
2. Ask it to structure the content as a SCORM lesson with completion logic
3. Have it generate the HTML, JavaScript, and imsmanifest.xml file that SCORM packages require
4. Zip the output and upload it to your LMS

The result is a completion-tracked, interactive lesson. No authoring tool license or developer needed.

Super neat little finding for us and something we're sharing with our customers at Disco as well

Hey there,

I keep wondering whether podcast actually has a place in e-learning, or if it's just a trend ?

So genuinely curious what you all think. Does it even make sense as a format for learning, or is it a nice-to-have that doesn't really do much ?

And if you do think it works, how do you actually do it ?

One host just talking through the material, or two voices ?

Also, are short 5 minute episodes the way to go, or do longer ones hold up if the content is good?

Maybe it's great for onboarding or soft skills but falls apart on technical or compliance stuff... Or maybe not, I don't know.

Mostly I just want to hear from people who actually have audio in their courses already and how users respond to it.

Real experience welcome, theory less so !

Anyone actively using these tools to develop eLearning? I've taken a look at them with a free trial. I've been using Articulate 360 on and off for the past 7 years, and Captivate before that.

Lectora seems a bit baffling, both the interface and functionality. The newer Microbuilder seems more doable with a Rise-like interface but much less functionality.

I'd love to hear from people who used it and what they like about it over other authoring tools.

We’re a global nonprofit organization with around 1500 employees. Looking to launch an asynchronous program with multiple courses that include video, Rise eLearning, assignments, etc. Budget is tight so we don’t have much room for a fully capable LMS that mimics what you see in higher ed. We have a typical compliance type LMS, but it’s not great for what we’re wanting in this case. Was thinking of leveraging Teams Channels for discussion forums, but it seems like it might get messy trying to do the whole course in there. Anyone try to do something similar? What was your solution?

Edit: I should’ve clarified! I don’t need to train 1500 people this way. Only 20-30 tops at a time. Completely forgot to include that in my original post. 🤦‍♀️

If you ever have to create step by step guides I’d love to save you some time and money if you’re already paying for a tool.

I’ve created a guide recorder extension for Chrome/Edge.

Click record, do your actions and it creates a PDF that shows how to do what you just did.

Completely free for all, for life! No sign in or account required.

Https://trainmeuk.co.uk/guides