We answer some frequently asked questions about content creation within the Bridge learning platform.
How Easy Is It to Create a Course Within Bridge?
Very easy. Do you know how to use a word processor like MS Word or Google Docs? Then you can author a course on Bridge’s Essential authoring tool. It really is that simple!
We offer two course creation options, so you can build eLearning programs to suit your organization’s exact requirements:
1) For Basic eLearning Authoring: Bridge Essential Authoring
Bridge comes pre-packaged with Bridge Essential Authoring. This built-in authoring tool is simple and accessible. Administrators are able to provision any Bridge user to author content in Bridge Essential Authoring, empowering admins, authors, managers, and subject matter experts to create learning content.
- Keeping learners engaged with quizzes is a breeze. Easily add multiple choice, sorting challenges, and vocabulary questions. Bridge Essential Authoring can even auto-generate and randomize questions, saving you time and effort while ensuring your learners are retaining information.
- Courses can be completed on any smartphone, tablet, and desktop devices, giving you peace of mind that learners can complete their training on the go and on any device.
- Bridge will automatically generate course descriptions and skills tags the power of AI. Course recommendations will appear in a learner’s learning library based on their job title and the skills they want to develop.
The tool even comes with robust reporting capabilities, including course enrollments, completions and overdue courses, with the ability to export a CSV file or schedule automated delivery of reports.
2) For Comprehensive eLearning Authoring: Advanced Course Authoring
If you’re looking for a little more power, interactivity and customization in your authoring tool, Bridge Advanced Course Authoring is right for you. This sophisticated tool has all the functionality of Bridge Essential Authoring, plus a host of powerful course creation features.
- Use AI to generate an entire course, including a course title, text, images, and layout, with the ability to select a tone.
- Take advantage of intuitive drag-and-drop dashboards to bring the course of your dreams to life!
- Easily brand entire courses with beautiful preset themes or upload your own fonts to customize content in line with your organization’s guidelines.
- A VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) audit gives you peace of mind that you’ll be able to offer the highest level of accessibility.
- Courses are super easy to translate and manage. Easily export XLIFF files for a human translator or take advantage of AI-powered translation. Build several language layers into a single course, so you can cut down on unnecessary complexity and save your team from stressful course management busy work.
- Take advantage of xAPI data to continuously improve the learner experience.
- Say goodbye to manually extracting and importing your courses—you can easily download SCORM packages or publish directly to the Bridge LMS.
I love that building courses and programs is intuitive. Designing a slide with a video and question prompt was easy to learn. What I appreciate is the template allows for those of us who are building a program to focus more time and energy on our actual content rather than needing to figure complex, confusing ways to display and deliver it. The customer service is top notch for questions when they arise too.
Molly S.
Small-Business
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Does Bridge Have an AI-Powered Content Creation Tool?
Bridge Advanced Authoring does. It comes with seamless OpenAI integration. This allows you to create AI-generated content from scratch including text and images. You can also quickly translate individual modules or even entire courses, and review and refine your content in a jiffy too.
Bridge Essential Authoring uses AI to generate course descriptions and skills tags, but it doesn’t offer full AI-assisted content creation, so you’ll need to opt for Bridge Advanced Authoring if you require this feature.
It’s to easy to create content and edit directly in Bridge. Other LMS’s I’ve seen make admins jump through hoops to make edits or relaunch.
Verified User
Marketing and Advertising
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Is it Possible to Create Courses in the Bridge LMS By Uploading Content From External Resources?
Yes! Bridge supports a variety of file types to help you give your learners access to effective eLearning without creating an unnecessary admin burden for your L&D team.
With Bridge Advanced Media, Seamlessly upload the following:
- Documents like PDF, DOC, DOCX, and RTF
- Slide decks like PPTX and PPT
- Audio files like MP3
- Images like JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, and SVG
- Video files like MP4, AVI, and WMV
- Spreadsheet and other data records like XLSX and CSV
- Documents with code, such as JSON
- Compressed folders like ZIP and SCORM
Having one source of training content and a standardized format helps reduce strain in implementing and creating new content.
Verified User
Food Production
Can Bridge Automatically Assign Courses to Users?
Yes—Bridge lets you segment learners across your organization into different smart groups in just a few clicks.
You can then set automated enrollments for each group, eliminating the need to manually and painstakingly assign courses. Easily create groups of learners to complete learning at a particular time, or base grouping on other relevant data like their job titles.
Setting rules for a different group is a breeze in Bridgel! Users can automatically be added to groups according to criteria such as department, title, or manager.
Bridges biggest strength is its flexibility. We have been able to leverage almost every function of Bridge to bring learning content to our team members quickly and at scale. The Smartgroups and Categories are a great way to organize content and flow courses to specific groups across the organization.
Ryan Freeman
HR Training Specialist
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How Do I Track Course Performance In Bridge?
Very easily! Bridge LMS offers a range of powerful analytic features. With our intuitive dashboards, you can:
- Track course enrollments (including completion rates and training program status) at a glance with simple charts and graphs.
- Keep on top of usage and engagement with metrics on logins and skill mastery.
- Choose from a range of reporting templates or create custom reports using configurable filters, such as learner type, user groups, course type, progression, due dates, and more.
- Automate report distribution so you can keep stakeholders across your organization up to date without creating a big administrative burden for your team.
Bridge helped us solve a lot of gaps that we had with our previous LMS. The biggest one was managing such a large organization (1000+ team members) with only two trainers. Its almost too easy now. We also wanted to give managers the power to pull their own reporting and to make that both easy and efficient. The analytics section of Bridge is really a great feature and allows you to customize and automate reporting.— Ryan F., HR Training Specialist
Ryan Freeman
HR Training Specialist
Is it Possible to Create a Course Catalog Within Bridge and to List Courses Under Categories?
Of course. You can easily create, view, and manage categories and add the right learning content as required.
When a category is assigned to a group of learners, the courses associated with that category will be available to group members.
Space is not an issue with Bridge. We have over 600 courses! categories and sub-accounts help keep everything organized.
Verified User
Transportation
Does Bridge Have a Course Marketplace With Pre-Made Courses?
Yes. You can take advantage of a number of industry-leading courses. Bridge comes packaged with readily available content on soft skills, compliance fundamentals, and leadership capabilities to get you off to a good start.
If you need more options, you can easily take advantage of an OpenSesame integration and choose from over 40,000 courses. With over 1,500 pre-curated lists and more than 40 languages supported, you’ll never be short on training content to suit your organization’s needs.
Bridge is easy to administer because it simplifies creation and management of my training modules. It integrates well with different sources which allows me to import content for use.
Verified User
Hospital & Health Care
Is it Possible to Group and Sell Courses In Bundles Within Bridge LMS?
Yes. Bridge offers seamless Shopify integration, enabling you to monetize your courses. It’s worth mentioning that you don’t need to sell your courses through Shopify for external learners to take advantage of Bridge.
Bridge is the ideal learning solution for the extended enterprise. Thanks to multi-tenancy capabilities, you can easily give learners across your extended enterprise access to the content they need.
The system makes it easy to have content that is consistent between our customers, co-workers, and other 3rd parties. It helps save our trainers time without creating too much duplicated work. When I had a question and our training manager was busy, it was easy to chat with Customer Support and get a quick answer to save my team time.
Verified User
Computer Software
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