Tag: instructional design
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Wake Up Your Audience with Interactivity
A presentation should not feel like something the audience has to struggle to stay awake, especially in a remote environment. Adding a little interaction can keep people involved, improve attention, and help you see whether anyone is actually following along. 1. Run a Live Poll Tools like Slido, Mentimeter, and Poll Everywhere let the audience…
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How to Make Teacher Training Worth Their Time
Teachers are a different training audience than most corporate groups. In many corporate settings, employees have some incentive to look engaged. They may want a manager to see them participating, asking questions, or taking notes. Teachers usually care much less about looking engaged for the presenter. If they do not see how something applies to…
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RENVORIN Solutions LLC Launches in New Jersey
RENVORIN Solutions LLC Launches in New Jersey Hillsborough, New Jersey — August 10, 2026 — RENVORIN Solutions LLC has officially launched as a New Jersey-based company providing technology, training, media, and design services for schools, businesses, and organizations. RENVORIN brings together expertise in app design, instructional design, professional training, school and camp communities, streaming studio…
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Should You Use Audio in a Slide Deck?
Audio can enhance presentations but often complicates them due to technical issues and distractions. Effective audio should serve a clear purpose, like reinforcing key ideas or signaling transitions. Background music is challenging and can hinder focus. Always be prepared for failures, ensuring the presentation works without audio. Use sound judiciously to support, not overwhelm.
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Multiple Choice Is Boring: 5 Better Ways to Measure Learning
If you’ve ever built learning experiences and training modules, you’ve probably ended it with ten multiple choice questions because that’s what everybody does. Question 1. Check. Question 2. Check. Question 10. Congratulations, you’ve clicked enough buttons to prove you’re a cybersecurity expert. The problem is that multiple choice questions mostly measure whether someone can recognize…
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Canva or Adobe Express? Which One is Better?
Instructional designers are most useful when they can make their own graphics, edit videos, build slide decks, create job aids, take screenshots, and somehow become the unofficial design department too. Tools like Canva and Adobe Express can make those everyday tasks much faster and easier. Both have free and paid versions, but are the upgrades…
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Your Best Training Tool Might Already Be Free
Managers think that workplace training needs expensive software with dramatic animations and enough buttons to launch a satellite, without even considering using free training tools. Somebody mentions Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate and suddenly a small business is pricing software that costs more than the break room fridge. Most employees do not care what platform…
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Your Company Broadcast is Not the Super Bowl
Somewhere along the way, people started acting like a company live stream needs a control room, six producers, a countdown clock, and someone named Brad yelling, “Take Camera Two!” It does not. You can start with a laptop, a camera, a decent internet connection, and something useful to say. That is all. A company broadcast…
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Your Slide Is Not a Document. Please Stop Treating It Like One.
There is a special kind of panic that happens when someone opens a slide deck and the first slide has twelve bullet points, three paragraphs, two screenshots, a footnote, and a quote in 9 point font. That is not a slide. That is a cry for help with a title. Text on slides can be…
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Could This Meeting Have Been a Lunch Date?
Before you schedule a meeting, pause for a second and ask yourself a deeply important professional question: Does this need to be a meeting, or am I just nervous about sending a clear, concise email? Meetings are not evil. Some meetings are useful. Some meetings solve problems, build trust, clear up confusion, and stop everyone…
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