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Instructional Design - Analyse - Step 1

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:15:00 GMT

If you’ve ever jumped into designing a course without really understanding the job behind it, you’re not alone. Most of us have. But here’s the thing: the very first step in the original ADDIE model – and I’m talking about the real deal, the 1975 Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development (IPISD) – wasn’t about learning objectives, digital tools, or delivery modes. It was about getting to know the job. Properly.

Training's Golden Ticket.

ash@canopi.com.au (Ashley) — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:23:00 GMT

A friend of mine rang the other day and wanted to know how to get training a seat at the boardroom table, so I made her a video. Stacey, this one's for you.

Enable SCORM within Safari

seansabry@gmail.com (Sean Sabry) — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:00:00 GMT

If you are using Safari on MacOS or IOS to complete your learning, you may experience issues loading SCORM courses. This is due to a setting in Safari that prevents cross-site tracking. Follow the steps below to toggle off this setting so you can view the courses.

eLearning - A guided tour of what's possible

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:38:00 GMT

I'm often walking clients and prospects thought the best of our work to show them what is possible and what we and our clients have been able to achieve.

If you'd like to see how we managed to get 1.6 Million Learners then I'm happy to share my secrets with you.

I will never Use VLOOKUP again - Something better came along

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Wed, 24 May 2017 03:39:00 GMT

If you're like me and had to merge spreadhseets of club members, with training records or any other for of matching records you've probably laboured away with VLOOKUP in Microsoft Excel, only to find that its a fickle beast.

Well, I've found a solution, its a bit harder but way better that VLOOKUP and gives you rock solid matches on multiple columns.

Read on, your life will never be the same.

SCORM: Short-term solution - long term nightmare?

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Tue, 23 May 2017 05:51:00 GMT

Many Student Management Systems and even some Content Management Systems like WordPress can now launch SCORM courses. Whilst it's seductive to think that you can just ditch your LMS and launch SCORM courses, there's still a lot to consider.

Don't get me wrong. When it comes to SCORM I'm a fan, but it's about the right tool for the right job.

Janison CLS content templates and WCAG Standards

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 03:49:00 GMT

Not enough is made of the WCAG features of the Janison CLS, and sure some of the responibilities for WCAG compliance is that of the authors but the CLS is one of the very few that is capable of meeting WCAG AA compliance out of the box.

But that is for another Blog :)

This blog is about list the content templates and what level of WCAG they can comply with if people put in the effort.

Digital Learning - Christmas reading list

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:20:00 GMT

Merry Christmas to all of our customers, suppliers and friends.

As the year draws to a close, and since I can't send presents to you all, I thought I'd put together a bit of a Christmas reading list to keep you all amused when the family gets too much :)

Our top tips for great digital learning design

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:13:00 GMT

It’s easy to get distracted by the content when designing a new digital learning experience. However, force feeding content slabs will just induce your learners to sleep not study. Digital learning needs to be visually engaging and stimulating. But that costs I hear you say. Well – not necessarily.

Sports Administration jobs set to grow!

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:39:00 GMT

A recent report from a leading industry research company flags that sports administration jobs are set to grow.

Nathan Cloutman, from IBISWorld: “Sports Administrative Services will be another growth area (with revenue growing at an annualised 4.3% over the next five years), and while not nearly as glamorous as the professional sports star dream some school leavers may have, it’s a more secure career path for most. The expansion activities of major sports leagues in Australia are driving further participation at the local level, boosting industry revenue generated through competition fees.”

Single Server Sign On (SSO) - Part 1

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 05:26:00 GMT

In this article we look at how an organisation can start to unify some of their IT systems and reduce the number of times a person’s identity is stored within the organisation. The most popular execution of this is Single Sign On (SSO).

Single Server Sign On (SSO) - Part 2

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 04:46:00 GMT

Now that you have read the primer on SSO it’s time to think through some tougher concepts in a real world situation.

Naming conventions

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:47:00 GMT

Keeping everything organised while you're developing your online course can become problematic as you often end up with hundreds of files, pages and resources for each course.

Internal VS External development

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:20:00 GMT

I'm often asked by clients if they should develop their own content, or pay a developer to make it.

LMS - Open Source vs. Proprietary, or Moodle/Totara vs. Janison CLS

greg@canopi.com.au (G McLoughlin-Wilden) — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:29:00 GMT

My name is Greg McLoughlin-Wilden and I've been designing and hosting eLearning solutions since 1995. In that time I've used about 15 different LMS's and have played with about another 20 or so.