Kickstart Your eLearning Project

Learn how to set up and successfully manage an eLearning project that meets your learner and organisational objectives with this new one-day course.

By the end of the course, you will have a broad understanding of the current thinking and best practise in eLearning, enabling you to make informed decisions about the direction of your project. You will also know what happens at each stage the eLearning project life-cycle, enabling you to commission eLearning or develop your own with confidence.

Course Overview

Starting an eLearning project can feel overwhelming—especially if it’s your first. This workshop gives you a clear framework to plan your project, align your team and make design decisions that support your learners.

Through discussion, reflection and practical planning, you’ll explore the key stages of a successful eLearning project—from learner needs to launch. You’ll leave with a clear plan of action and the confidence to move forward.

Why Take This Course?

  • Clarify your goals, learners and content from the beginning
  • Understand what makes great eLearning—and what to avoid
  • Identify key stakeholders and manage expectations early
  • Plan your project timeline and key milestones
  • Build confidence to brief designers or develop content in-house

Who is this course for

L&D professionals, trainers, project leads or subject matter experts planning a new eLearning project—whether using internal tools or commissioning external suppliers.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online | Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • Define clear, learner-focused objectives for your eLearning
  • Map out the stages of your project and what’s needed at each step
  • Build a basic content structure or storyboard
  • Identify risks and plan for common challenges
  • Decide what tools or support you’ll need to make it happen

Curriculum & Key Themes Covered

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Workshop Themes

  • Evaluate your ideas in the context of eLearning’s history and past challenges – capitalising on your knowledge of what we know does and does not work.
  • Think more laterally about the learner journey and where learning interventions can take place.
  • Develop ‘guerrilla’ learning experiences that save budget and meet learner needs just-in-time.
  • Describe the standard eLearning development cycle from start to finish and have a good idea of the project management required through each key stage.
  • Find your way around a large eLearning project in an authoring tool, to be able to make simple text edits, understand the publishing and output options.
  • Write a brief for external developers and effectively appraise their responses.
  • Understand the level of commitment for internal staff, costs and timescales involved when commissioning work from external providers.

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

Testimonials from Happy learners

Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Why choose Happy?

Because Happiness Works

Joy leads to success, every time,

Expert-Led & Hands-On

Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

B Corp Certified & Proud

We don’t just talk about impact — we live it. As a B Corp, we’re committed to making workplaces better for everyone.

Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.