If you’re planning your online security awareness training content development strategy, don’t forget PowerPoint. Much maligned as a web-based training tool, it should still have a place in your toolkit for when you need to develop quick and simple training materials – perhaps when you have an urgent message to get out, or when you just need to remind people of how to log in to an application.
The main problems with using PowerPoint as a staple of your development toolkit are that:
- It doesn’t offer you any kind of testing solution.
- It doesn’t allow you to track whether students have or haven’t viewed/completed the course.
There are a number of ways that you can work around these problems. You could:
- Import the PowerPoint presentation into a commercial e-learning tool such as Articulate and turn it into a SCORM format course.
- Save it as a PDF file, and import it into an LMS such as emPower which allows you to add a quiz developed within the LMS.
- Save it as a PDF file, and hand-code a quiz and LMS interface code.
Which is the right way for you is going to depend on your budget, and your level of technical expertise. But, if you choose the right approach, you can go from a set of PowerPoint slides to a simple online course + test in a few minutes.
