A leading information management solutions company wanted to do something a lot of training teams eventually face: expand beyond instructor-led training (ILT) and build out a real eLearning catalog.
The problem was, their lead curriculum developer, while deeply experienced in instructional best practices and ILT, had never built an eLearning course before. Expanding the program meant learning a whole new discipline from scratch, on top of an already full plate.
The challenge
Instructor-led training and eLearning aren’t the same skill, even for an experienced designer. ILT leans on live facilitation, discussion, and in-the-room adjustments. eLearning has to stand entirely on its own — the structure, pacing, interactivity, and assessments all have to work without anyone there to fill the gaps.
For a curriculum developer starting from zero, the honest first question was: where do I even begin?
The solution
The company already had other content creators using LEAi, so rather than build the first eLearning course the traditional way, through manual storyboarding, the curriculum developer decided to put LEAi to the test.
After a short session with the LearnExperts team on eLearning fundamentals and how to adapt their existing process, they got to work building the company’s very first eLearning course.
A few things stood out almost immediately:
- Importing existing material was far easier than expected. Dropping their content into LEAi and applying the training structure took a fraction of the effort they’d braced for.
- The “blank page” problem disappeared. LEAi’s generative AI smart templates automatically generated learning objectives, demonstrations, exercises, and test questions — solving the exact “where do I start” question that had been looming over the project.
- Publishing was seamless. The finished course went straight from LEAi to the company’s LMS.
The results
The time savings were dramatic. Building the same 10-chapter eLearning program using a traditional storyboarding approach was estimated at over 365 hours.
With LEAi, the curriculum developer built the full course, including review cycles, feedback implementation, and SCORM output, in less than half that time, while packing in more learning features than the storyboarding approach would have delivered at all.
“LEAi was able to deliver more learning features in half the time when compared to storyboarding.”
The course has since launched to strong reviews from learners. The company is now building out a full eLearning program to sit alongside its ILT catalog, and has added 10 more users to LEAi to support the growing portfolio — a clear vote of confidence from a team that started this project without an eLearning course to its name.
