How to get started.
The Organisational Development team can support you with a range of tools to bring your knowledge and learning content closer to all council staff.
Support is available from initial concept stage and content creation to choosing the right format for your course as well as help with the latest accessibility guidelines. Classic online courses or blended learning modules can be created to help you as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) bring a learning concept to life.
There are three main steps to getting your course onto LEON:
- You will need to learn how to write an engaging, interactive and accessible online course so your learners will gain the knowledge and skills you want them to have.
- Create a PowerPoint presentation with the content of your course.
- Request that the course is developed.
Writing an e-learning course
We have developed several resources and an e-learning course to explain how create an e-learning course of your own. These include:
- Organising your content and writing the text.
- Adding images and interactivity to keep the learner interested and engaged.
- Understanding accessibility, which we are required by law to include.
- Testing learners knowledge.
Please complete all of these resources before you start to write the course.
- Introduction to accessibility (e-learning course).
- Guidance for developers.
- Writing an e-learning course (e-learning course).
Creating your content in PowerPoint
When you are ready to start writing the course, we have a PowerPoint template that will help. At the beginning, make sure you include important information, such as an overview and the learning outcomes.
- Try and not cram too much information on each slide.
- Give each slide an appropriate title that reflects what is shown.
- If you are including your own images, diagrams, etc., make sure they are clear and easily seen/read. Very small images when magnified don’t display well.
- Include any video or audio files (or voiceovers).
You have likely completed other e-learning courses (e.g. mandatory training). Using what you’ve found doing these courses, add things that kept you interested and remove lots of screens with nothing but text. Maybe present the course from a different point of view. Rather than just give the learner lots of text and facts, start from a problem they have and explain how to overcome it.
- Download a copy of the Powerpoint template.
Requesting the development of a course
Before a new course can be added to LEON, it must first be approved by the HROD managers. Every month they have a meeting where requests can be added to the agenda and if approved, then the course can start to be built.
The request form asks you to detail why there is a need for the course, who is the intended audience, etc and must be approved by a Third Tier Manager. When completed, email it to organisationaldevelopment@argyll-bute.gov.uk along with the completed PowerPoint file.
- Download the e-learning Request for development form.
Help
If you need help with creating the course, completing the request form or just want to have a chat about a prospective course you would like to create, please contact our HROD Helpdesk via the link below and submit a ticket using the HROD Enquiry Form. You can send the enquiry as an Employee, Manager of Employees, or Non-Employee.