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The Importance of Tracking in e-Learning Courses for Employees

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How e-Learning’s Tracking Ability Can Benefit Your Company

Convert PPT or PDF documents to e-learning courses for tracking progress

Companies that already employ some type of e-learning platform for skills-enhancement courses, will know that tracking their employees’ scores is fundamental to determining whether learners sufficiently grasped the material.

Recently, however, more and more companies are also recognizing the benefits of using e-learning to present standardized in-house content such as onboarding documents, SOPs, guidelines, policies, and regulations — content that has traditionally been presented to employees as either a PowerPoint presentation or a digital or printed PDF or Word document. The tracking ability that e-learning can offer for this type of content is of great value, since disseminating information in a static form makes it almost impossible to guarantee that the content was thoroughly read and understood by all employees — even if you employ manual tracking techniques.

The problem with manual tracking

Imagine, for instance, that you’ve just updated your company’s Health and Safety protocol document to be in line with new company regulations. Manual tracking — for example, having employees sign a document to confirm that they have read and understood the relevant PPT, PDF, or Word document — is not only time-consuming, but also difficult to implement when companies employ a hybrid work system or have different offshore offices. It’s crucial that everyone in the company is on the same page when it comes to policies or guidelines such as these, but how can you be sure that employees across offices, departments, or continents, have all engaged with the same standardized material at a satisfactory level?

Track employees’ progress with interactive courses

The advantages of e-learning tracking

The tracking ability of online courses offers the perfect solution to this problem. A Learning Management System (LMS) lets you track employees’ progress and engagement with the e-learning content — in terms of how much time they spent interacting with the content in each section, whether they’ve accessed all the relevant material, and, through quiz or practice questions, assess how well they’ve understood the information provided.

Yet another important benefit to tracking is that it highlights whether the content of an organization’s documentation around procedures, policies, guidelines, or onboarding material is sufficient. By monitoring employees’ interaction with different sections and activities in an e-learning course, LMS tracking can alert companies to areas where information is lacking and can pinpoint the gaps in knowledge where extra training may be required.

How to convert from static documents to e-learning courses

To harness the power of tracking and the array of other benefits that e-learning can offer your company, you can approach companies such as Laragh, which offer services such as e-Learning Convert, a no-nonsense, cost-efficient offering that takes your existing PDF, DOCX and PPT files, and converts them into interactive and engaging online courses.

So why delay? Convert your SOPs, onboarding documents, company policies, or other in-house documentation to create a trackable e-learning experience.

Have a look at e-Learning Convert, and see which option suits your needs and pocket.

Convert from Flat Documents to Interactive Online Courses

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Laragh’s e-Learning Convert Service Can Make Standardized Corporate Documentation Come to Life

Convert from static documentation to engaging online content

Across the corporate industry, organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the power of e-learning in terms of upskilling and training employees. In fact, e-learning is a great way to streamline, standardize, and track the delivery of corporate material that is often used across various departments and offices.

But have you ever considered converting your procedural company documents – like SOPs, Health and Safety protocols, company guidelines, or onboarding material – from ordinary PowerPoint or PDF files into interactive online learning experiences?

This is the aim of Laragh’s cost-effective e-Learning Convert service, which takes your existing source material – whether in PPT, PDF, or DOCX format – and converts it into an engaging e-learning course. With decades of experience in developing online learning material, we’re well-equipped to provide you with a high-quality conversion product with a fast turnaround – saving you time, money, and effort.

How it works

At Laragh, we understand the time and effort that CEOs, L&D managers, and HR executives put into constructing PowerPoint presentations or PDF and Word manuals, and respect the integrity of the documentation we are entrusted with. That is why you do not need to be concerned that your carefully written content will be modified without your consent. e-Learning Convert – as the name implies – simply converts all content that you approve into an e-learning course that your employees will relish.

e-Learning Convert’s basic service offering includes a free initial proofread from one of our experienced editors to catch those pesky spelling or grammatical errors. Then our team of experienced editors and learning designers work to transform your source material into an engaging and visually stimulating course – easy to navigate and chockful of imagery and interactive features that are designed to actively engage all learners.

Assessment questions for engagement and trackability

Should you desire, e-Learning Convert is also able to incorporate an assessment feature into your courseware – not only to assess your employees’ understanding of the material, but also to engage them in a more active form of learning. This handy feature is optional but highly recommended to monitor employee progress and identify gaps in knowledge that can then be addressed through further training.

Because the nature of the documents’ content may require different forms of treatment, e-Learning Convert offers a range of package options – for instance, you can decide whether you want a full editorial review of your content or added assessments to your converted course. View the full range of options here.

The Benefits of e-Learning in Onboarding Employees

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How e-learning makes onboarding easy

The increased trend towards online and hybrid work environments has introduced many companies to the amazing benefits that e-learning onboarding programs can unlock, in terms of engagement, learning, and tracking progress. In fact, according to research, 72% of organizations believe that e-learning puts them at a competitive advantage.

Yet when it comes to onboarding, most companies still use passive procedures. New hires are either subjected to a long PowerPoint presentation in a boardroom, or provided with a manual that you hope they’ll read. Certainly, this age-old method of onboarding new hires can be time and cost-consuming, without offering any way of knowing whether your recruits have understood the information provided.

But how exactly does the use of e-learning for onboarding benefit organizations? Let’s have a look.

An exciting start

When orienting employees, you want to create excitement about embarking on a new career. But, as Forbes notes, new recruits entering the workforce are from a generation that is accustomed to the interactive and immersive qualities of online spaces. This makes short e-learning courses – in lieu of a PowerPoint presentation or a stack of documents – a much more welcoming and stimulating experience.

Increased engagement

It’s easy for new hires to become overwhelmed by the amount of information they receive during the onboarding process – SOPs, guidelines, awareness training, best practices, privacy considerations…the list goes on. An e-learning onboarding course offers the opportunity to break down that stack of information, and convert it in a way that is not only logical but easier to digest and engage with in a meaningful way — a process called microlearning. Additionally, the interactive nature of e-learning has great benefits. According to the Cone of Learning model developed by the National Training Laboratory, retention of information is increased through interacting with the material. No wonder studies by Brandon Hall found that e-learning may boost knowledge retention by an impressive 25-60%.

Trackable progress

In order to know whether employees are actually given the necessary training and information, onboarding needs to be trackable. And while leaders want to assume the best of their staff, there’s no guarantee your employees are actually reading the material they’re provided in document form. Once documents are converted into an e-learning course, however, it allows for an employee’s progress to be easily tracked through an organization’s Learning Management System (LMS). Tracking is also a great way to highlight which areas are of interest to employees, as well as where information is insufficient.

Testable outcomes

While there is no way of knowing how much information was retained after a PowerPoint presentation, conversion of the PPTs into an e-learning course will offer the benefit of interactive quizzes and knowledge checks throughout. This allows companies to gauge whether the employees understood the information provided and is a great way to identify gaps in knowledge.

Reduced cost and time

A lot of time and money is spent on training and onboarding new employees during their first few weeks on the job, such as the high cost of printing onboarding material – for instance, PDFs or Word documents. In fact, Training magazine estimates that 80% of print costs go toward the in-house distribution of information. Converting your PDF documents into e-learning courses offers the opportunity to streamline and optimize this process. The fact that online content is accessible via a range of digital devices can also potentially be a great time-saver, since employees can opt to go through onboarding materials outside work hours. Additionally, the same onboarding courses can be re-used across multiple departments, eliminating the need for duplication of effort.

With so many benefits to implementing a digital onboarding program, it seems the main reason for organizational hesitance is a lack of knowledge about operating e-learning platform software. Luckily, there are some e-learning companies that offer cost-effective services to do that job for you. At Laragh, we can easily take your existing onboarding documents (whether in PPT, PDF, or document format) and convert them into an impactful e-learning experience via our e-Learning Convert service. With decades of experience in the field of organizational e-learning development, we can easily convert your existing onboarding material into interactive and easy-to-use e-learning courses. The only question left to ask, then, is what are you waiting for?