What is ECB and why use it?

Why use ECB at all? If you have some learning that you want to get out to a lot of people in your organisation in a quick, consistent and measurable way, then Easy Course Builder (ECB) is for you. It’s possible to get knowledge and skills distributed throughout your whole business in as little as 15 minutes. It’s quicker than making a brew for the o...

Writing a Great Course Script

Overview To ensure you produce a top-quality course, which really gets the message across, you need to first think about how you structure and write your script. It’s all related to good design! You might find this guide useful: What is ECB and why use it? The hardest thing with creating a course is scripting it well and gathering all the relevant c...

Creating a new course in ECB

Courses are created and previewed in the course builder staging area - this is your development area, your studio if you will. This is where you can create and adjust courses until you’re ready to put them out into the world, for your learners to complete. It’s only when you deploy, or publish, to your live area that courses can then be seen on the ...

Creating modules and defining course structure in ECB

Once you’ve created your brand new course, you need to select it from the Course List, then Create new module. Add the title, then Submit. Courses are made up of modules, containing a maximum of seven items and one tracked quiz. Within those items are pages – which can be text, reveal, video, or an untracked quiz. We’ll find out more about these lat...

Building a text page in ECB

To start building your text page select the blue pen icon next to it. Enter a Page Title (in the course this appears at the very top of the screen after the item name) and a Page Heading (which appears above the main body text in the course). Asset Type - Select which type of asset you want to appear on the page. It can be a still image or a video. ...

Building a reveal page in ECB

Reveal pages are pages where not all the sections are visible all at once but are revealed gradually. They’re a really good tool for breaking up related information – much better than having lots of separate text pages. And always remember the rules for writing course content – keep it brief, easy to read (plain English), and easy to understand. To ...

Build a video page in ECB

To start building your video page, select the blue pen icon next to it. Enter a Page Title (in the course, this appears at the very top of the screen after the item name). You also have the option to include introduction and summary text, or you can leave these blank and the video will just appear on its own. If you don’t want any intro/summary, the...

Setting up your Vimeo account

Before we can even begin, it’s important that you have access to your own Vimeo account from https://vimeo.com The free account is great, but it won’t do everything you’ll need. We recommend that you pick their Starter plan (from https://vimeo.com/upgrade-plan ) as a minimum because you’ll need access to their custom video player. So, you’ve created...

Writing Good Quiz Questions

Overview Easy Course Builder (ECB) is a great tool for you to create and design your own online learning materials, but to ensure you produce a top-quality course, you need to think about how you structure and write your quiz questions. This links back to the idea of good design, which we talk about more in What is ECB and why use it? Learning how t...

Building a quiz page in ECB

A good quiz is vital to the success of your course, and what the learners learn. If you’ve produced great learning, the quiz should be easily passable, and your learners will really feel a sense of achievement. You might find this guide useful: Writing good quiz questions Don’t waste all your time and effort of having great content, and then failing...

Previewing and checking your course in ECB

So, you’ve created your course script and uploaded the assets, and built it in ECB. How do you see what it’s going to look like for your learners, and make tweaks before you take the plunge and make it live? Good question! Here’s exactly how: From your course list, underneath the course title, select the blue text Deploy. Then choose Preview Course ...

Why won’t my ECB course load?

So, you’ve created and published your brand new course, you go to launch it, and at some point in the course, you see this dreaded message: Why does this happen? It happens because the course player cannot decode something that’s in the page. If you were to look at the corrupted page in your browser you’d see an error, something like this: What do I...

Archiving a course

So, you’ve been using the Upskill People Learning Platform for a while now, and your workforce is just thriving on it! But you will find instances when a course they’ve all completed becomes obsolete and no longer needed on the platform, and another will have to be completed in its place. At this point, you might ask “what happens to the old one?”, ...

Duplicating a course in ECB

Why would you do that? So, you’ve created and deployed a course and it’s received rave reviews! Some of the feedback you’ve had is “this is great, and it would be good for our international partners to see this. However, they have different rules so could you just tweak what you’ve done just for them?” One way would be to build them a new course fro...

Exporting and importing a course using ECB

Why would you do that? Following on from our previous guide Duplicating a course in ECB , you might also want to make your changes using a different Upskill People learning platform – it could be that this course is going to be translated into a different language, which is why you duplicated the English version of the course and you just need your ...