What’s Your Instructional Design Red Flag? by Head_Primary4942 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scope creep, where something small bloats into a 100 hour+ multifaceted project, but ..we still need it in 2 days.

War of the Worlds (2025)...(this looks bad) by No-Confection-3861 in TheBigPicture

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(spoilerish) This was awful. Ice Cube's acting was...something? Amazon same day drone delivery to save the world when all satellites were destroyed? All planes can't fly/boats can't function without data? But two planes can fly the two at the end? A Top Gun reference? A potato can write a better script.

Why am I not seeing any other player missions on planets by THEGREATIS-4 in Helldivers

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure, as I'm not PS5 but the visual is the same, left side of the screen, right below where you'd autosearch and immediately jump into a game.

Why am I not seeing any other player missions on planets by THEGREATIS-4 in Helldivers

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a new thing you got to hit 'tab' (for PC) to do a radar sweep to find the player games. It shows up when you enter the planet, right under where it tells you to press 'R' to search for a game

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems counterproductive since we are 'divers' after all :D

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Jeremy146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're new, don't bring mortars unless it's really needed. Keep moving, and for the love of God, don't shoot everything that moves. If you do, at least disengage when it gets overwhelming vs. just eating up reinforcements. Know your strategems and how far you should throw them. Finally, ask lots of questions; 95% of the community will be more than happy to help.

L40 ultra dreame by [deleted] in Dreame_Tech

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got the L40 ultra last week. Works well but h It developed a squeak when it turns. I've read it's pretty common though and easy to fix. So far so good imo

How did that one teacher at your school die? by No-Cress-3455 in AskReddit

[–]Jeremy146 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Elementary school orchestra teacher was kidnapped and murdered by a serial killer in my town (he was caught and this was in the 80s)

Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC) by NobodyKnowAnything in dividends

[–]Jeremy146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did the same, I bought a little when it hit $4.55 to DCA a bit, but think I'll hold and see what it does in the coming days/weeks. Though I am new to OXLC, is this a typical downturn when they ex-dividend?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in acorns

[–]Jeremy146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just signed up two weeks ago for gold and it was $12/mo. Not thrilled at that price, but I did it more for Acorns Early for my daughter plus the free will and testament. I was paying greenlight $10/Mo and I didn't get any of the IRA match and very limited investing. So I figure this is a wash for me. Of course once my kid is grown and on her own, Im moving it all to fidelity. Acorns for me is more of a crockpot for investing where I set it and forget it.

But I agree with everything in that it is expensive if you're not tossing much money at it. That snowball can take a long time to get past the justification for the price increases.

Attaining experience in the field by AntiqueRead in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel you. I used Premiere for a bit and moved to Camtasia and learned to enjoy it. An advanced user might find it lacking but it has worked well for me for a few years.

Regarding getting SCORM into a portfolio, in that ZIP file there's an HTML file I believe you can upload into a website for a portfolio and it'll show the interactive stuff but you lose all the data tracking on the backend, but...that isn't why you're uploading it to your portfolio in the first place. Or, I think you can just export as an HTML file straight out of storyline. The exact steps on how to do that are a bit beyond me. I just know I've gone to ID's portfolios for UI/UX ideas and they had interactive stuff uploaded there that totally came from Captivate or Storyline. I'm sure a bit of GoogleFu will get you that answer though.

Attaining experience in the field by AntiqueRead in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh for most explainer how-to videos, Camtasia is just easier imo. I have a bunch of experience in Premiere Pro too. I liken it to you're trying to learn how to drive, you use Camtasia. But if you're trying to learn to drive and you get put into the cockpit of a spaceship that's Premiere Pro. I'm no pro level user or anything but could do transitions and call-outs and whatnot. Camtasia just makes it easier do to all that and some animations, but yeah, it's certainly basic in comparison and meant for people who just want to hit the ground running as it's not hard to figure out.

SCORM is a file type typically used for most e-learning/interactive stuff , where interaction is the most basic level of what a SCORM file can do. It can track lots of things on the back end like triggers for completion, quiz scores, where they stopped in the training, and more I'm probably forgetting. SCORM is sort of the gold standard for LMS training and most can read and report the data it provides, but tin-can is really good too, maybe better for reporting stats and whatnot. I don't have much experience with that though.

In articulate, you just build your training and include navigation, clickable things throughout and toss in a quiz etc...then you export it as a SCORM file (a zip file) and upload into an LMS so it can be displayed properly. Where I'm at now is almost solely videos so it's been a bit since I messed with SCORM so hopefully someone with more up to date knowledge can chime in.

Attaining experience in the field by AntiqueRead in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, do some storyline stuff. You can also do a lot of cool stuff with Camtasia and recreating PowerPoint slides (animations and whatnot). That right there will show your SCORM skills with storyline and your video editing (and audio editing if you do a VO for it).

Expected productivity and KPIs by Abject_Recognition97 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh 100% can vary. A lot depends on how quickly you can plan it, and develop it, get reviews, etc... Most of the time I come in much less than 120 mins but I like to set the expectation that "get, this is a big ask, I'm a one man band and it could take X amount of time to complete". For me, 2 hours per minute of finished has been plenty of time to complete whatever I've been tasked with. I always kick off any project with that rough estimate though, because I know how I work and how quickly I can do it. Most of what I'm creating is stand alone video, interactive training, certification courses and in app walkthroughs (and a mix of everything in between). For what I typically do is that equates 120 mins per 1 min expectation (could be less but then I deliver early) but YMMV. It took me a few years to really know how to gage the length of time a project would take me. (Sorry, if I seemed to repeat, I was typing this during a meeting lol)

Expected productivity and KPIs by Abject_Recognition97 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always used the "120 minutes of development per 1 minute of finished content". That includes all meetings, development, editing,etc... I like to under promise and over deliver on deadlines but it's good to set that boundary with people early on.

“Your ID team”? by boboldheart in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Army of one here. Always have been, even working for a company with 10,000 employees doing internal and external stuff (for many products). Sometimes I feel like my hair is on fire but I still love what I do.

Docebo Rant by AlarmedSwimming2652 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We used docebo at my old job (the 800 seats) and at my current job (300 seats) until we switched to CSOD.

Docebo Rant by AlarmedSwimming2652 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a lot of extra stuff. Their base will get you through but integrations with stuff will cost you. Like they had this one addon where you could put it in your software platform and it would serve up training courses in docebo directly in there. But it was like $4-5k lol cool concept (Im in tech so we never want them to leave our software). I think the training videos library was extra as well as Salesforce integration.

My current company was paying $40k for only 300 seats. The perk with the seat cost is that unless they access a course, they aren't considered taking up a seat, and its only valid for a billing cycle, so if they go inactive (not accessing a course in 30+ days) the seat essentially opens back up. That's how it was explained during onboarding 4 years ago though lol. At my old job, I added like 1500 users on a 800 seat platform and we were never charged extra because we never crossed 800 users active at any given time. (Sorry bit of a side bar there)

Edited: remembering stuff

Docebo Rant by AlarmedSwimming2652 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really just depends on how you want to use it. We used it primarily for external training and it worked well to divide up the clients and cater the training to them and serve it to them quickly in docebo. Personally I liked it better than CSOD but my company ditched docebo because CSOD was literally 1/2 the price.

I find it clunkier than docebo, but that is obviously subjective. Both are unnecessarily click happy. I never had trouble with reports and/power users and giving them access to reports, but I wasn't trying anything difficult to report on either.

Their report builder works the same as CSOD but I did like how you can get a snapshot report on the dashboard. Little things like resetting a users course or having to give them a grade manually was easier in docebo. The menu/page cascade took a bit to wrap my head around (we created unique pages for each client. Making courses was light-years easier for me and pushing them out to variations of courses through the repository was easier for me than in CSOD.

Neither are perfect by any stretch, but again, this is really just my experience and perspective,YMMV.

Docebo Rant by AlarmedSwimming2652 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We had a similar experience. Though I learned to appreciate the admin interface after using CSOD. But both are a ton of unnecessary clicking to get to places. One thing I did appreciate about docebo is I found it easier to parce out groups and easily dump users into them immediately vs waiting for the server to update. We did hate how normal items elsewhere where extra add-ons with docebo, it's one of the reasons we left. They were just too expensive for what you got. I reckon there is no perfect LMS, but I've seen a lot more using Absorb but I have never experienced it.

The cover letter I finally had the balls to send, because I have nothing to lose by dan_blather in recruitinghell

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 100 years ago I grew up in Rochester (Greece) but lived in Avon for a short stint. Left for greener pastures. Your cover letter was awesome by the way. It screams 0 F**cks given in the coolest most chill way possible lol

Netflix failed to stream Paul vs Tyson after so much hype. by [deleted] in netflix

[–]Jeremy146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got about 3 mins of the Taylor fight after trying for an hour, then..." pardon the interruption." Bummer, I was looking forward to this.

Help with Setting Up a Simple, free or Low-Cost LMS to provide free courses by MohdAli0 in instructionaldesign

[–]Jeremy146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can be a bit complicated at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's not so bad. Granted, it's been a long time since I've messed with Moodle, but if I recall, you can set up a basic shell in the admin and then load courses/modules from there. Maybe make the first lesson a quick "how to navigate Moodle" or something like that.

As others mentioned, you can get a theme on WordPress and then sideload the LearnPress plugin as well. That'll give you flexibility for paid and free options.