Questions and answers
Course production: from manual work to courses built from your own material
How courses are produced the traditional way, and what changes when the knowledge sits in one place and courses are built from the same source.
How is a course produced the traditional way?
Usually in several steps involving different people. A subject-matter expert explains or sends documents, a course producer writes a script and builds the course in a tool, someone reviews it, and then everything is translated and rebuilt for each language. Every step hands over to the next, and a lot of time goes into waiting, interpreting and redoing.
Why does manual course production take so long?
Most of the work is not pedagogy, but finding the right source material, summarising it, writing questions and rebuilding the same content in every format and every language. Subject-matter experts also spend time explaining things that are already in the organisation's own manuals and procedures.
What is the problem with building courses by hand?
The course becomes a copy of a source document that later changes. When a procedure, a manual or a regulation is updated, someone has to remember which courses are affected and change them one by one. The result is courses that are out of date without anyone noticing, and different versions of the same thing in different languages.
How does NXT's way of producing courses differ?
We start from the organisation's own material instead of an empty script. The content is gathered in one place, structured, and becomes the source for courses, knowledge tests, manuals and answers. A course is a view of the knowledge, not a separate copy. Subject-matter experts review and approve instead of writing everything from scratch.
Does AI replace the course producer and the subject-matter expert?
No. AI does the heavy preparatory work, such as sorting material, suggesting a structure and producing drafts. People decide what is correct, important and relevant. The subject-matter expert reviews and approves before anything is published, and we build the training on experience from over 30 years of work with training and course production.
How do you make sure the course matches the company's own rules?
By building the course from approved material and making every part of the content traceable to its source. When the source changes, you know which courses are affected. This makes it easier to show that the training reflects current procedures, for example in quality and compliance work.
How do you make courses in several languages without redoing everything?
Write and approve the content once and translate from the same source. Glossaries keep terms consistent between languages, and a change in the source carries over to all language versions. You do not have to keep track of a separate course for each language.
How do you know employees have actually understood the course?
With a knowledge test linked to the course and based on the same source. The questions can be generated from the material, and you can see who has passed and where many get stuck. That is clearer evidence than simply seeing that a course has been opened.
What happens to the course when a procedure or regulation changes?
You update the source, and the courses, tests and manuals based on it can be updated from the same place. You do not have to chase through every course by hand. The person responsible reviews the change before it goes out.
Do we need our own learning management system (LMS) to get started?
No. We can deliver courses to an LMS you already use, and we can also offer a learning platform as part of the solution. We also help you structure the information and build a complete training solution if you want one.
How do you get started?
Start with a limited task, for example an area where the same questions keep coming up or where new employees take a long time to get up to speed. Send us the material you have, and we will show how it can become a course. You do not need to have your structure ready first – we help with that.