Update for Online Courses with Workplace Simulations and Virtual Tours

Louise Jones October 13, 2022

Increase the effectiveness of your online training with multimedia interactive simulations and virtual tours. eLearning course content creation is easy with ThingLink!

Your new employees won’t lose their way with this brilliant new feature. Our new navigation functionality is available now to improve online training experiences and orientation activities, perfect for new hires.

High-quality workplace simulations with multimedia hotspots became increasingly popular in corporate training /  online learning courses during the pandemic. Interactive and accessible ways of showcasing a place, space or situation have continued to increase in popularity, because they are proven to be highly effective. 

What can online training for employees be used for?

We’ve seen a real surge in immersive tour type training content created for online courses or elearning, particularly in essential compliance training for onboarding new employees or as a refresher activity. In employee training, interactive workplace simulations are seen as cost and time saving assets enabling organizations to be more efficient and effective.

We have listened and acted upon suggestions from our elearning / employee training training courses customers and providers. Our latest update enables you to add an interactive floor plan or ‘mini map’ that shows the exact location of the view on the simulation or tour. 

An example of online employee training

Check out this demonstration of a multimedia workplace (factory construction site ‘digital twin’ created with Unity) example used in online training below and here. What’s really nice is you can also click on the hotspots directly on the floor plan to transition to that scene / factory floor area.

How to create online training like this

To try this feature, create your own floor plan as a base image for a scene and add your 360 multimedia scenes using the Tour Tag. Then simply add your floor plan scene ID in the settings panel. Read more in our brilliant walkthrough support article

Many elearning or online based training courses are specifically designed to be completed as stand alone, on-demand learning experiences. Our improved functionality can increase the effectiveness of employee engagement in elearning / online training leading to better information or skills retention.

It’s so easy to create your own online training!

The ease of the authoring experience has been noted as a stand out feature of ThingLink. Once created your simulation or virtual tour can be embedded into your learning management system (LMS) or training platform. It can also be used in scenario based learning with branching questions creating gamification. Your training materials can be viewed on any platform or mobile device, meaning they can be accessed anywhere and anytime.

Links to other great articles about using virtual tours in elearning / online training courses.

• Ten reasons to get ThingLink’s elearning solution
• Learn how to create interactive content 
• Create impactful employee training programs with scenario based learning
• Five great examples of interactive online content
• How to create virtual tours
• Onboarding ideas – online employee training sessions
• What are ‘Soft skills’? ThingLink to demonstrate Meta Skills
• Scenario based learning for corporate training
• Ideas for learning programs 
• ThingLink integrations and apps that can be embedded
• ThingLink free Certified Creator Course – An example of training modules in action