7 Responses

1. Camtasia

   Hi there

   If your software is relatively easy to use couldn’t you just use Camtasia? We use it a lot for simple software application training?

   Here are some examples (not mine I might add) Click on "videos" left side

   http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

   Good luck

    

   Steve

    

    

    

    

2. Videos

   Hi Steve

    

   Thanks for the link, however, we wanted the training we would offer to be interactional, so that the trainees would be able to write and click on the things that were necessary. I think Camtasia looks really good, but it is more for demos I think.

3. Bitesize

   No worries

   One of my favourite companies is Bitesize. Worth taking a look if only for ideas.

   I like the idea of having someething there when I need it rather than learn a big chunk of Software…

   Most software courses I have been on I have forgotten evertyhing by the time I have reached the bus stop to go home!

   If I was in any way involved with Software Training I would definetely focus on producing easily accessible reference material rather than a Training Course.

   Good luck

   http://www.bitesizeltd.com/

    

4. Articulate

   For me Articulate Studio 09 and there hopefully soon to released Storyline are amazing products, Been using them everyday for the past 5 months and the impress me all the time. Plus with Studio you can take existing powerpoint material and quickly make them into a e-learning unit.

5. Software

   I would agree, but this software is international and there is only me to deliver it at the moment, so an alternative has to be found. We would be doing it in modules, so not quite so onerous I hope.

    

   You never know, it might all fall a bit flat and I end up going out and training anyway.

6. Software Training

   Having been on more Software courses than I can remember I am going to stick my neck out and say…

   Software Training Doesn’t Work…I doubt I can remember with any significance 2% of any thing I have been taught on a Software course.

   It might have been appropriate 20 years ago but these days we are all computer literate and just need a "how to" reference guide in small bite size chunks…

    

7. For Steve

   "Software Training

   Having been on more Software courses than I can remember I am going to stick my neck out and say…

   Software Training Doesn’t Work…I doubt I can remember with any significance 2% of any thing I have been taught on a Software course.

   It might have been appropriate 20 years ago but these days we are all computer literate and just need a "how to" reference guide in small bite size chunks…"

   Well Steve, it looks as though you would conside that my company and I have been wasting our time training thousands of people on our software over the last 7 years! Ye it’s increasingly being asked for and still being received incredibly well. I think maybe your own experience hasn’t been good, but I would challenge the rather sweeping software training doesn’t work! Maybe it just doesn’t work for you?

   The people who attend my training classes are often NOT computer literate, and assuming they are is a huge mistake. The software I teach may be one of only 2 or 3 things they do on a computer IN TOTAL! The delegates are an intelligent bunch including Architects and Mechanical Engineers, and the "how to" guide never tells them WHY they might want to do something, or how to do it better, or the theory behind what it is they are going, or even the things they should avoid doing. I appreciate that lots of training is forgotten straight after the course, but as I always say, if you at least remember that something is possible, you can find out how to do it. You don’t know what you don’t know. People rarely read the instructions before they do something, and they certainly don’t consult the help pages.

   Not very helpful Steve, sorry.