Adapting in-person training to online

Sistema B is a global community of leaders who use their businesses to build a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economic system for people and the planet.

Problem:

When we were approached, in the middle of the pandemic, Sistema B was running its Multipliers program in person. Given the challenges of the time, we were asked to build the platform in record time and adapt all the content to an online format.

Solution:

We combined WordPress, BuddyBoss and WooCommerce for an agile setup. In the meantime, we hired freelancers to watch all the recorded in-person course content, and we recorded new lessons, so we could understand how to adapt quickly to the new format. We created a range of support materials, videos and interactive activities for students.

Technologies used:

• LearnDash
• BuddyBoss
• H5P

Fully adapted courses.

We watched the recordings of the in-person courses to build the storyboards and decide how to adapt each piece of content, while creating new lessons to tie everything together in a way that makes sense for asynchronous learners. We adapted the exercises, partly in LearnDash and partly in H5P. We also made some recordings and videos of our own. The courses have been in use since 2022, with two editions a year.

A complete internal course platform:

Sistema B then created Edu, its internal platform, which hundreds of people still use today. We installed and set up all the essential features quickly, so that the team could create their own courses and run the platform without our involvement. That gave them autonomy. And we kept the platform light and easy to use, since the users are not necessarily highly technical people.

A living online community.

We chose BuddyBoss as the community technology because it integrates natively with LearnDash and is easy for platform administrators to customize. We customized it only to match the Sistema B brand and made the adjustments needed for accessibility. In a few weeks, Sistema B had a complete platform ready to use. < See other projects