Create, Customize, and Combine Courses and Curriculum Efficiently with Infobase Learning Cloud

The updated Authoring Tool provides customers with the requested features and rich enhancements to improve customization and speed of course creation.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Infobase Holdings today reinforces its commitment to improving curriculum efficiency by launching its improved authoring tool, based specifically on customer suggestions and feedback. The Infobase Learning Cloud’s most requested enhancement responds to needs from educators, instructional designers, and professionals leading professional development at their institutions.

Driving Curriculum Efficiency for Student Retention and Educator Professional Development

Driving Curriculum Efficiency for Student Retention and Educator Professional Development

Educators and professionals have long utilized the Infobase Learning Cloud’s agile authoring tool to create relevant courses and curricula that suit the unique needs of their classrooms and learning environments, either to reinforce student retention or to aid in employee onboarding, upskilling, and credentialing. The popular platform allowed owners the flexibility to expand their existing courses by tapping into Infobase’s library of hundreds of on-demand authoritative, accessible courses and modules for learners at any level, as well as accessing thousands of videos and resources created and vetted by a team of experts.

Responding to Educators Needs
Infobase stands behind an 80-year tradition built on trusted, efficiently curated content. With the swift release of the new Authoring Tool, Infobase demonstrates it’s attention to user needs and course creation.  “It was important for us to conduct empathy sessions and focus groups to gain a complete understanding of how our educators, instructors and users create, curate, copy and edit courses,” explains Paul Skordilis, CEO of Infobase.”  “I am proud that the Learning Cloud team could deliver the solution instructors need to perform their jobs effectively and quickly.”

Create Courses More Easily and Effectively

The Infobase Learning Cloud’s new Enhanced Authoring Tool has all of the same and familiar functionality of the custom authoring tool users have grown to love and rely upon, plus a host of new features, including the ability to:

  • Utilize a new and improved design and UX
  • Access support for additional resource file types: xAPI, HTML
  • Copy existing custom courses
  • Add a course thumbnail
  • Add course hours
  • Add categories for Applications, Types, and Platforms
  • Use a new parameter for search and organization: Standards
  • Automatically generate shortened easy URLs for the courses created
  • Add Do It content (which allows students to apply what they’ve learned to their unique set of circumstances) in addition to LearnIts (microlearning segments and full courses)

What Is Infobase Learning Cloud?

Infobase Learning Cloud is a flexible solution that builds information literacy and essential skills for success in today’s digital world. With hundreds of outcome-based courses across 50+ topic areas—from digital literacy to career development—it supports students, educators, and lifelong learners across schools, libraries, and workplaces.

Check out the press release on PR Newswire.

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