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Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
"We have to lock the course or people will just skip to the end." Sound familiar? Locking navigation is a common default in e-learning, but it solves the wrong problem. This post explains why, and what to do instead.
Locked course navigation is one of the most common e-learning frustrations, and it usually comes from good intentions gone wrong. This post breaks down why courses get locked and offers three practical ways to give learners more control without sacrificing your objectives.
Locked course navigation is one of the most common requests in e-learning. But measuring screen time isn't the same as measuring learning. There's a better approach: shift from measuring exposure to measuring understanding.
The instinct to lock every screen in a course is understandable. If learners can skip freely, how do you know they learned anything? The answer is in the assessment, not the navigation.
Leslie Robinson's comedy video about mandatory training went viral for a reason. The comment section turned into a catalog of every broken e-learning pattern. It's worth reading as a design checklist.
