For the duration of New Zealand's lockdown we are offering weekly online workshops to help you get a jump on your online course development, as well as some socialising with other content authors around the country. So if you're finding yourself look up at a mountain of content to build into an online platform, come along and get some tips on how to efficiently author courses.

In this eTraining workshop, Lauren redesigned a module to show you how to use our tools to create engaging content for your learners.

Creating interesting modules that are going to engage your learners can be hard. Modules end up looking the same and get boring quickly, reducing effectiveness. In this eTraining, we covered how to gain inspiration from your surroundings to develop new and exciting modules like these.

Our module summary pages recently received a bit of an overhaul to give our users an even smoother learning experience. Summary pages are an important part of our users' learning process. They give learners the ability to review their work on a module allowing them to learn from mistakes, and reward successes. Giving someone the ability to review their work on a module not only adds in an element of reputation, but also allows them to check that they are happy with answers they have provided throughout the course. You've got to love that feeling of seeing heaps of green ticks when you've reached the end of challenging module.

Micro-Learning is all about delivering bite-sized learning that’s going to allow your learners greater opportunity to receive and absorb your information. Micro-learning is easy to deliver with Bracken, at the latest eTraining session Cara Negri discussed the benefits and best practices of micro-learning, as well as provided some insight into how Bracken can help you facilitate this.

Our latest features; xAPI and LRS have enhanced our tool kit to allow us to create tailored solutions that allow businesses to incorporate online content they’ve already created or use their favourite tools from other systems.

Our eTraining sessions are an awesome opportunity to catch up with our team and other businesses to discuss all things eLearning.

We have added the ability to add pre-set Shapes to Bracken pages. The shapes can be resized, rotated, and styled in the same way that Cells can. To insert a new shape: On the Bracken toolbar, click theMedia tab. Click the Shape dropdown. Choose the desired shape from the palette. The shape is inserted in the default location on the page. We’ve chosen a selection of what we consider to be the most useful and frequently used shape pre-sets. Adding more is possible.