{"id":11559,"date":"2025-04-17T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:40:06","slug":"effective-and-efficient-onboarding-with-thinglink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/effective-and-efficient-onboarding-with-thinglink\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective and Efficient Onboarding with ThingLink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This choice board keeps all the onboarding content in one place and demonstrates the wide variety of content that can be created in ThingLink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/card\/1757771512753947492\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/card\/1757771512753947492\">Open this example in a new tab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.widgets.thinglink.com\/accessibility\/1757771512753947492\">View an accessible version<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Base graphic as well as majority of other graphic content created in Canva.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tag icons and colours coded to guide viewer as to content of tags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tag types include embeds and text and media tags, depending on which suits content best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fire safety training presented as scenario, created with ThingLink Scenario Builder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Coffee cup, book reader and tools tag icons contain PDFs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Animated video of Hannah created using D-ID. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome tag icons use the transparent icon feature. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Aeroplane, microscope, heart, atom, buildings, fire, pencil and transparent welcome (left) tag icons are embedded ThingLinks, added using the embed tag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>All other tag icons are text and media tags. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Microscope tag leads to a 360 video ThingLink. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This format and approach, often referred to as a &#8220;choice board&#8221;, could be used for a wide variety of sectors. In education, it could be the familiar weekly layout of work or homework for a class or an individual student. (This was in fact the original use case on which this example is based, and the brainchild of K-12 teacher Lorrie Salome in 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/home-learning-designs-to-reduce-confusion-and-increase-engagement\/\">Read more here.<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In product marketing and sales, it could be used to allow customers to self-select a product, line or service, both on a website, in an in-store display, or at a trade stand. It could be used to house simple instructions and self-service how-to guides for a wide range of business types. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This choice board keeps all the onboarding content in one place and demonstrates the wide variety of content that can be created in ThingLink. Open this example&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11563,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}