Animation videos for Coaching Scenarios

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The first issue is how are you planning to use them? Does embedding them align with the YouTube ToC documents?

You may need to link to them via a popup, but maintaining the links should be part of your plan. If the YouTube content is only in someone else's playlist, it can disappear overnight. The typical mode of detection is a frustrated learner reporting a problem.

I've spent the last few weeks revising old courses in our LMS, and Cp files that must be republished and uploaded again to the LMS for testing.

One suggestion I'd offer, if you publish to a local webserver, keep a page of resources that has the links from a course & whether they exist in the LMS or inside Cp. You can run link-checkers against this page and test for errors on a D/W/M cycle and make edits pro-actively before course users find the issues.

Hi Maureen,

Interesting question. What type of coaching are you doing?  (Professional business, sales coaching) and when you say animations do you mean simply using the cartoon characters provided in Captivate or hiring graphic designers and animating with After Affects?

In my mind, the medium really is the message. Animations can be really powerful when appropriately used and paired with strong storytelling and professional narration,  but also really gimmicky if used incorrectly. They can detract from your message and impact the overall impression of your training.

I use animations a lot but I use After Affects and Cinema 4D to create them. I would probably never use the stock cartoon characters for anything I did but your situation might be different.

Cheers

Steve