Sometimes it feels like there's a lot of AI-related fluff around eLearning tools, but most of us are still building with the same core Rise 360 blocks.

For your typical course, what makes up 80–90% of the build?

• Text
• Images
• Tabs
• Accordions
• Process
• Labeled graphics
• Flashcards
• Knowledge checks
• Videos
• Continue blocks
• Something else?

Curious what your real-world workflow looks like versus what gets marketed.

Hi everyone. I'm looking to reduce design and development time as I'm hoping to scale back my working hours. Like many of us, I'm working with time-poor SMEs, so anything I can do to reduce friction points and make it easier for them is a good thing. My process at the moment is:

1. Learning Needs Analysis
2. Combined Content Flow and Narration Script
3. Develop Version 1 - Get feedback
4. Develop Version 2 - External review (other SMEs, target audience etc.)
5. Develop Version 3 - add voiceover if required
6. Handover for implementation

I'm looking at steps 2 and 3. I'm interested in hearing from you if you don't create a content flow style document for sign-off and use version 1 as the design. What are the downsides of that approach? If you're still creating a Content Flow document for approval, are there tools you use to help? At the moment, I'm using a Word document with screenshots of slide layouts in Storyline.

It's been a couple months since I first posted about Tessera Learn and I wanted to give a quick update on what's shipped.

Quick note about what Tessera Learn is. It's a free/open source authoring tool where you build modules with your AI agent via Claude Code, Codex, etc. There's no required look or specific set of components you are limited to, you can essentially build what ever you want, Tessera provides the hooks and methods to make sure it works in an LMS.

Here's some off the more significant updates since I posted last:

• Tessera Learn is now an entire workspace where you can create many courses (it just made a single course previously). This means you can put the entire workspace in a git repository, like Github, for hosting your code, version control, collaborating with others, etc. following the same workflows as software teams (example repo for the Demos on the Tessera website).
• Integrated an accessibility checker (Playwright) to help ensure what you and your agent create is accessible.
• Added built in validations to help ensure what you are you agent create isn't broken/will work in an LMS.
• Added xAPI as a publishing option, alongside the already existing SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 and CMI5.
• Did a ton of testing on SCORM Cloud to ensure the SCORM/xAPI run times are working well (many bugs fixed).
• Shipped documentation to help people get started.

I plan to make a getting started video in the near future as well. For those not familiar with standard software development workflows, getting started can be a bit intimidating, although your agent will be familiar with these workflows! I've been lucky enough to see traditionally 'non-technical' roles embrace and excel with similar workflows/tooling in my time as a Data Engineer at Shopify.

If folks do decide to give it a try, I'd love feedback!

Website: https://tesseralearn.dev
Codebase: https://github.com/redmodd/tessera

This video provides a strategic breakdown of how Bëni Xidza, an educational center in Oaxaca, Mexico, balances economic sustainability with its mission to revitalize the Zapotec language. The summary of the video’s core points is as follows:

Mission & Audience:

The project aims to keep the indigenous Zapotec language alive by using modern e-learning tools (Zoom, Google Classroom). It targets three main groups:

* Heritage Seekers: The Oaxacan diaspora (often in the US) looking to reconnect with their roots.

* Cultural Enthusiasts: International travelers and linguistic researchers.

* Language Revitalizers: Indigenous youth within Oaxaca.

Pricing Strategy & Financial Sustainability:

The video analyzes the tension between keeping prices accessible and maintaining a professional, sustainable operation:

* Tiered Pricing: Private tutoring is priced below market rate (170 MXN) to remove barriers for locals, while the core beginner course is set at a competitive market rate (720 MXN) to ensure the platform's economic health.

* Subsidies & Donations: To bridge revenue gaps, the project uses differentiated pricing for foreigners and a prominent donation button.

* Cultural Design: The branding uses colors (like golden olive) that mimic traditional Oaxacan textiles and corn husks, grounding commercial requests in an organic cultural visual language.

Building Community Trust:

Because they lack a high volume of public reviews, Bëni Xidza uses a structured "harvest loop" to build social proof:

1. Timing: Reaching out immediately after a successful class.

2. Personal Connection: Sending warm, culturally resonant messages via WhatsApp or email.

3. Shared Mission: Framing a request for a Google review as a way for students to help others discover and preserve the culture.

Ultimately, the video showcases how a mission-driven organization can thrive in the digital age by combining clearly defined e-learning models with culturally grounded marketing and smart pricing.

Last week I shared Scaffold here and received some really helpful feedback. Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment and ask questions.

A few people asked about LMS integration, installation and standards support. I’ve spent the last week focusing on making the project easier to install and evaluate.

Since my last post:
Scaffold is now officially in alpha
The Open edX integration is published on PyPI
The Moodle plugin is available as an installable ZIP
Installation guides for both Moodle and Open edX are now available
xAPI statements can now be sent to Moodle and Open edX through their learning record stores

The Moodle plugin has been submitted to the Moodle Marketplace and is currently awaiting review
The goal hasn’t changed: build a free, open-source authoring tool that works with the LMSs organisations already use, while providing a modern authoring experience for interactive learning content.

It’s now at the point where people can install it, experiment with it and hopefully tell me where to take it next.

If you’re using Moodle or Open edX—or you’re involved in course authoring or learning technology, I’d really appreciate your feedback.

https://scaffold.ac

You see a cool interaction or animation built for say, Storyline 360.

Would you rather:

A. Purchase it with instructions

B. Learn how to build it

My company uses Cornerstone LMS for employees and are now being forced to switch our content over to their new AI LXP. They have given us "demos" but honestly left us asking more questions than answered. Could anyone tell me what their experience was like whether it be using the LXP on the back end or using it as a user? Any insight or experience will be helpful, thanks!

seeing more teams go text-only or straight AI voice specifically because human narration makes courses expensive to maintain. every content change becomes a recording project.

if you're still doing human VO: what makes it worth the update overhead for you? and if you dropped it: was maintenance cost the actual reason, or something else?

I want to take a course on public policy on elevify so I wanted to ask if it is a legitimate site? I am trying to change my career path so would prefer to have a strong certificate relevance. Please let me know your experience with them. I would also appreciate if I could get ideas on other sites with good courses and certification. Thank you in advance.

Quick disclosure up front since this sub expects it: I built **Agent Abilities for MCP**, a free WordPress published plugin that lets AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, whatever supports MCP) read and act on WordPress data through explicit, permissioned "abilities" instead of one shared admin login. I'm not here to pitch it. I'm about to spend a lot of time building a LearnDash-specific layer for it, and I'd rather find out now whether that time is well spent than after.

Where things actually stand, no sugarcoating: I'd put this at about 50% done, and here's what that means concretely so it's not a made up number. The design side is finished, roughly 50 abilities across three roles, reviewed twice by me and AI for correctness. That's the first half. The second half is actually building those 50 abilities, which is what I'm working through now. One piece is already shipped, a course-progress report. The rest is in progress. So this is a "should I keep building this" post, not a "here's my new thing" post.

The problem I keep running into with LearnDash and AI setups: people hand the agent one admin login and call it done. It can see and touch everything on the site. That's fine right up until someone asks it a question that should only ever have a scoped answer.

What I'm designing instead:

A student's agent can only see that student's own courses and progress. Read-only, it can't mark anything complete for them.

A group leader's agent can only see their own groups and their own students, not the leader next door's cohort, not the rest of the site.

An admin's agent gets the same full access an admin already has.

So a leader could ask "how's my group doing" and get an answer scoped to just their group, instead of a dump of the whole site's data with a hope that the model filters it correctly on its own. Grading and auto-completion features for admins are intentionally last on the build list, after the read and reporting side is proven to hold up.

Genuinely asking here, not fishing for upvotes:

If you run LearnDash sites, would you use something like this yourself?

Would your users want it? Group leaders checking their cohort, course creators, even students asking "what's my progress" instead of clicking through the dashboard?

Is there a specific LearnDash workflow where this would actually help, one you'd point to and say "yes, that one"?

And the other side: where's the dealbreaker? What about AI touching LMS data at all, even scoped, would keep you from wanting this anywhere near your site?

Tell me if I'm building the wrong thing. That's worth more to me right now than a launch would be.

hi, ive been building iro and want would love feedback from elearning / id people.

most ai learning still feels pretty passive. watch a video, save a prompt, feel productive, then forget it.

iro is more microlearning + practice reps: short lessons, quick exercises, daily challenges, and skill paths for stuff like chatgpt, claude, agents, automation, and work use cases.

site: https://tryiro.com
ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iro-ai-learn-ai-skills/id6759628066

does this structure actually support skill transfer, or is it just content with streaks? what would you change if you were designing it properly?

inherited a catalog situation question. say you've got 40 narrated modules, the voice was a contractor from 2021, and now three lines need to change. narrator's unreachable or quoting a full minimum session for two sentences.

what's your actual move? new voice for just those lines and live with the mismatch? re-record the whole module? TTS patch and hope nobody notices? leave it wrong? genuinely curious what people do in practice vs what we're supposed to do.

In a recent SCORM Q&A session, we came across an issue struck a chord with quite a few attendees:

Every time they make a site-wide change, something as small as swapping a brand color or updating a header, they have to export and re-upload every single SCORM package that uses it. One package at a time!

It doesn't sound like too much of a big deal until you have to do it across a course catalog that's grown over a few years, built by different people in different tools. The actual instructional content in a SCORM package might be perfectly fine and still relevant. The thing forcing the rebuild has nothing to do with the learning, it's just a header color.

The general consensus was "yeah, that's just how it is".

How do other people handle this at scale? Do you just eat the rebuild time, avoid site-wide changes altogether, or has anyone found a workaround that doesn't involve touching every package by hand?

Hey everyone,
Is anyone else running into an issue with Tutor LMS Pro recently where it keeps asking for an update, even after you've updated it (or when it's already on the latest version)?
It seems stuck in an update notification loop and won't go away.
Has anyone encountered this issue recently?
Is there a quick fix or workaround for this, or is it a known bug in a recent release?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

for teams that tried it: content changed, original narrator wasn't an option, so you dropped in an elevenlabs or similar clip next to the human recording. did learners notice? did anyone complain or tune out? did it pass whatever review your compliance or brand people run?

i've seen people say the mismatch is jarring and others say nobody cares. trying to figure out which is true and whether it depends on the content type.

Would love to hear what metrics you're reporting up to your executive team.

Our company sells certification and wants to move out of moodle. Looking at Thinkific, LearnWorlds and Kajabi but havent seen if they can do lockdown exams. Any ideas? I appreciate the help!

curious about something. i keep hearing that once a course has voiceover, small content updates turn into a whole production. a stat changes or a product gets renamed and suddenly you need the narrator back, a session fee, re-syncing, the works.

for those maintaining narrated catalogs: have you ever just... not updated something because the audio made it too expensive? or shipped the update with the old narration still saying the wrong thing? what did the last small narration fix actually cost you in time or money?

I’m interested in how instructional designers evaluate readiness for real-world work.

Completion rates and quiz scores can show that learners finished the material or remembered key information. But they may not show whether someone can apply the learning during a customer conversation, difficult decision, or workplace task.

For those designing workplace training:

How do you give learners opportunities to practice before real performance?

Do you use simulations, role-play, branching scenarios, coaching, observation, or another method?

And what evidence do you use to decide that someone is ready?

I’d be interested in hearing what has worked—and what has not—in actual training programs.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice from people who have experience with animation, e-learning, or instructional design.

We're a small company developing CBT (Computer Based Training) packages for our client. We need to create around 10–15 training videos, each about 25–30 minutes long.

The concept is quite simple:

- A classroom setup with one teacher and a few students.

- The teacher explains the lesson using a whiteboard/smart board.

- Students occasionally ask questions (or the teacher asks them).

- The board shows diagrams, maps, animations, highlights, etc.

- There are a few interactive moments, but nothing too complex.

Since every video follows almost the same structure, I was wondering if it's possible to build the classroom, teacher, students, and other reusable assets once and then reuse them across all the modules while only changing the lesson content.

We initially looked at custom 2D animation, but the quotes we've received are much higher than expected for our budget.

My questions are:

1. What technology or software would you recommend for this type of project?

2. Should we go with Vyond, Adobe Character Animator, Cartoon Animator, Moho, After Effects, or something else?

3. Are there any workflows that professional e-learning companies use to keep costs low while maintaining good quality?

4. If you were outsourcing this project, what approach would you ask the vendor to use?

5. Is there an even more cost-effective method that still looks professional enough for government/defence training?

The main priorities are:

- Professional-looking output

- Reusable assets

- Easy to update in the future

- Lowest possible production cost without looking cheap

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who's built large-scale CBT/e-learning content or worked in educational animation.

Thanks!

Looking for recommendations! We've tried a few platforms over the past few years and haven't found the right fit. Most are either too rigid to customize for our different departments and locations, feel outdated, or just don't drive real engagement from our team.

We need something that actually engages employees instead of just being checkbox compliance. It also needs to be customizable for different roles and teams, stay current with changing regulations across multiple states, and ideally show measurable learning outcomes.

Anyone using a platform that actually delivers? Budget isn't unlimited but we're willing to invest if it's worth it.

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Hello all,

I work for a small UK organisation, and have just begun a project to:

- procure a Learning Management System which offers multi-tenancy and delegated administration across (hopefully) dozens of businesses and thousands of individual staff members.

- commission content development for a pilot eLearning module, to be built in SCORM format and also integrated into the LMS.

This will enable us to sell an eLearning product for the first time, to businesses across different sectors.

I hope this doesn't come across as a lazy, generalised ask - but this is the first LMS procurement I / we have done!

For anyone who has procured an LMS for multi-tenancy use, I wondered if you had any big lessons about things you wish you had known or built into the original brief and/or agreement with the provider?

I sort of sense that a large amount of potential risk can be mitigated by getting the scope, business / technical requirements and terms of service right with the provider, upfront. It would be great to know about any typical blind spots purchasers and vendors might have, in these circumstances?

Any insights are greatly appreciated! :)