All right, let me view it on LinkedIn. Make sure everything's live. Should be up there. All right. Welcome everyone. Hi. We're so glad that you could join us, and we're excited today to have this demo with Ispring. My name is Holly Owens and I am the host of Head Up Ed Tech, and I love that we have the opportunity here to do a demo of Ispring and get you familiar with this fabulous tool and
their suite of tools. There's so many different things we're not going to be able to cover in the whole session, but we have Anna here with us. She's a senior instructional designer with Eyespring and she's going to share all about eyespring and do a little demo for you. We're going to ask. I'm going to monitor the chat, and April is here as well to monitor the chat. So if you have any questions, please go ahead and put those in the chat for us and we will respond to those.
We are out live on LinkedIn. I just saw it. It's working. Yay. And I'm going to give you the floor, Anna. So have a good time and we'll talk at the end. Thank you. Thank you. So let me quickly share my screen. OK. So just a second. OK, So let me know like in the chat plus or something to let me know whether you can see and hear me well. We can see it. You're good. Awesome. Thank you SO hello everyone.
Once again, my name is Anna Polly and I'm a Senior Course Developer at Ice Print Solutions. So I have nearly a decade of experience in e-learning and I love sharing all the good features and functionalities but ICE Print tools have to offer. So today I also have my colleague April May in the chat. So if you have any questions about Isprin, you're more than welcome to ask us in the chat right away. We will be definitely happy to
help. So for over 20 years, our company has remained dedicated to provide an exceptional learning experiences to its clients, so comprising 59,000 educators and millions of learners worldwide. So you can be sure that Isprin is a global leader in creating award-winning e-learning software. So our offering to Isprin suite, our flagship product is perfect with those looking forward to to create the content quickly, easily and professionally all at once.
So it's perfect for L&D specialists, compliance training managers, freelancers, teachers, college professors and many more because these people really want to deliver content and knowledge and more specifically like in a way but engaged people. And for sure Iceberg is here to help you with that. So Ispring suite is a PowerPoint, add in what works right in this tool. So if you know PowerPoint, you know ispring. And it's really great because the tool has almost no learning curve.
So you can start using it and create great courses right from day one. And if you already have some PowerPoint slides, you don't have to start your online course from scratch. You can just opens a presentation and adds some interactive content that Ice Spring suite offers. So it can definitely be a game changer for many people, especially those who used to
teach this out. This lots of handouts and PDFs and today I want to share my love with you and show you something that didn't demonstrate a lot before. The cloud based side of Iceberg Suite. It's called Iceberg Space. So Iceberg Space is an online course builder and a sharing service, something like Google Drive for courses where you can publish your content and share it with your colleagues to review, or even for your employees for your learners to take.
Now more and more e-learning tools are going online, which opens up brand new opportunities for design, collaboration and showcasing e-learning projects and I spring Space. Turns out among them there's a robust AI assistant and some unique features like a portfolio platform for instructional designers and a review and tool for online courses. So today we will go over the creation of your own course and easy delivery to your learners. Long reads, AI Online quizzes,
portfolio. I will cover it all today. So as I mentioned I Sprint Space has a long grid builder with a built in AI assistant and that's really great in terms of speeding up work. So right now imagine that you don't have to log into third party services anymore. You can use ChatGPT technology right in the product where you create in the course. No more switching between the tabs. You can do it all in one thing. So isn't it so great, right? And before we dive in, I want to
have some insights from you. So let me know in the chat if you're already using AI in your training content or probably you've never ventured into AI for training. So if you already use AI in your courses, you can put plus in the chat or send yes. And if you didn't try AI for your tools for your courses at the moment, you can just put minus in the chat or no. So let me know, but do you think about it? So do you use AI or not?
I will say we have a we have a lot of different people calling in. We have India, Pakistan, Poland. OH, I just want to give you an idea of how many different people we have from across the world in this session right now. Dallas, TX. And my God. Yeah. So I'll let you know if the it's a little bit delayed when the chats come in, but I'll give you what people are saying if it once it comes in.
OK, OK, no worries, that's fine. So As for now, as I can see in the chat right now, at the moment someone someone uses AI and someone does not. So I just hope that this session will help you to incorporate AI and kind of support you to do not be afraid of using AI in your work. So OK, I think that we are ready to begin and I'm ready to show you how ice spring space works. OK so first of all I need to open my ice Spring space account and create a long create.
So to do this I will use a Spring suite icon on my desktop, go to pages on the left menu and go to create. OK so I have two screens today so don't be afraid if they suddenly will open browser tab from nowhere. It was just opened on the second screen. So OK so here we go. This is our long grid so also known as article interactive articles. So long grids and ice cream space that you can use for
manuals and instructions. So the development process takes place online right in a browser and doesn't require the installation of any other programs. So you can just have a link to your iceberg space account and you will be able to work from everywhere like from Windows, Mac. You just need to have a browser and Internet connection. So today we will create a long grid about mentoring in the workplace.
But first I will show you how AI can help you create content for your long grids and articles directly in iceberg spades. So I don't know about you, but sometimes, sometimes I struggle to start a new course like then you have zero just from the very very scratch, so there's just blank page and me and I did just don't know where to start. But we can use AI to help us with that, right? So let's go ahead and see how it
works. So first before starting my course I need to choose a title and sure let's ask our AI assistant about possible titles. So I would put my cursor here and click on plus and go to SII. So next I will need to type my
request. So I have pre made requests just to save our time for today and so I hope that you don't mind if I will just copy and paste it. So our request for today will be suggest some titles for mentoring in the workplace course and just hit enter and here we go, some interesting titles that cover different topics, if just for some reasons you don't like. Like any of the suggested titles, you can go ahead and click try again and AI generate some new titles and new options for you.
So there are definitely plenty to choose from. And as with any other AI tool, you're more than welcome to experiment with the AI Assistant so you can specify a prompt like Suggest 3 Engaging Titles for a Mentoring in the Workplace course. So let's click enter to run AI and look at all the options we got. So some of them will definitely grab the learner's attention. And if you satisfy it as a result and want to add this to your long read to your article, you can just click where it says
add in the pop up window. So here we go. I think that if we were going to use this one, let's go ahead and add it as a title right here. We'll use this one now, it's nice to have the content of the course, right? So we will create an outline and to do that we will highlight our title like this, click AI in the pop up menu, Scroll down to the very end and click Versus Create Course outline and here we go. So it seems as per now that we have quite relevant course
content course outline. So I will just go ahead and add it. But for sure if needed you can review it as an expert and coordinated with the customer. But what if we need some additional things to be covered in the article, like such as learning objectives or assessments or etcetera? That's definitely not a problem. We can just we can just ask AI to add them to our outline. So if you need a specific assignment for your course, you can ask AI to write it and to do it for you.
OK, so let me show you how it all works. So for let me quickly create a request for AI. So this will be our request. So write an assessment to be completed one week after the first lesson of the course, the power of mentorship, which aims to help the learner to understand the basics of mentoring programs in the workplace, their benefits and how to be successful mentor or mentally. And as we can see, AI created an assignment. So we have some tasks here that
my learners have to answer. So when you're ready to stop, you can just click stop and Add all all of the tasks to your long grid like this one. OK, after that you can definitely double check it that your SME to make sure that all the tasks are relevant to your queries. OK, but what if we don't want to just create an assignment? What if we need to have something more interactive? In this case, I would love to recommend you to create a quiz. And AI can help you with quiz questions too.
So if you already have the text of the lesson and you want to create a quiz of this text, this text you can just copy and paste the text to the page like add it to your long read. So let me quickly do this. I will add some text from my pre made document and we need to have some questions so I will select the text in the pop up window menu. Go to AI and select create quiz questions and here we go. As you can see we have the all the question type and we also
have the question answers. So now you don't need to think about it what question you would you need to create for your course. So for sure you may not find all the questions and answer choice is perfect but you can edit them if you want to. But in general As for me, I think it will save you a lot of time while creating the course. So for me at some point in my life it was definitely a lifesaver. So Speaking of the text in courses, there's another important feature which is added
to ICE spring space. Now you can simplify the language of the text. So let's say you have a pretty difficult question text which you need to make sure what everyone like every learner will understand. So how you can simplify it? First of all we will insert the text, we will highlight it, go to AI and select simplify language. So As for me this is of
particular importance. So when it comes to courses, because our task as instructional designers, as teachers, as trainers is to convey the topic as clearly as possible right for each student just because we want them to learn and remember content better. And in this case you use simplify language option. So let's go ahead and add this text. So now this is our result and this is the original version.
So as you can see the text became shorter and the algorithm rephrased the sentences and replaced difficult or strange terms this easy to understand anonymous. So as per now, I think it's much easier to understand the text now. And for sure you can also ties things up by adding a few training strategies to guide ispring AI assistant. So if you want to explain some difficult concepts or methods to your learners, you can use prompts like I don't know explain this lesson as if I were
a 10 year old. So this can help you simplify and explain some. Complex subtopics in a way that is easy and fun to understand even though kids. So this is a kind of general tip which you can use with any AI tool. And I also have some good news for everyone who's working with different languages. So our AI speaks a lot of them. For example, we can ask our AI to write some steps in developing A mentoring program in Spanish. Oops. So let's run our AI. Let's add text at our request.
Go AI and go to Ask AI. OK, I'm so sorry, I'm not definitely not perfect in Spanish, I love this language but I'm not that perfect. So if anyone can confirm but if this is the right translation let us know. But from the general our you I think it's looks pretty good for me. OK, let's stop and move on to the next Ice Spring Space feature. So for sure AI is just one of the features that Ice Spring
Space offers. So it has a wide range of small but important features that help you create really engaging and professional looking online courses and just in matter of hours. Now I will go ahead and show you the course which we are going to create right now. So let me open it up. So we will go ahead and create a long, a long read an article, this video with some flash cards which are interactive so our learners can click on them and
review the explanation. Hey, we will have some text here and for sure we will have a quiz at the end. OK, good. Now let me go back to my account. Go back here. OK go to all materials. I will go ahead and click on create and select page. Now let me quickly introduce you to our long grid builder. So here on the left we have the outline here. All the chapters will be up here. I will be able to add some more chapters here or edit the current chapters here.
In the middle they have the main Edison section, so where we are going to add some pictures, text and etcetera. And in the upper part of the screen right here you can see the different options like settings for your long grid expert to scorn package and add collaborators which are going. These settings will be very useful after you create your
course. So first of all let's create an introduction slide 1st and I will quickly like copy and paste the text for my introduction slide from my pre made documents. So this is how it will look like and we will go ahead and make a long grid. OK, so I will go ahead and add the title and I will also go ahead and add some text. OK good. So if necessary you can add a subtitle and tag right here. So right now let's work on formatting of our text.
So here I will select this list, go to text and I will select bullet list. This one. OK, so this is how my list will look like. Now it's time to add a cover image for this page. So I mouse over my title and click where it says cover image. OK, let's go ahead and select this picture. Awesome. Here we go. Now at the bright top corner right here you can see some options which allow you to edit the cover. So if necessary you can change it.
You can add background cover color and set it opacity. I will set it to for you or you can also delete this cover image if you don't want to have it at all. So that's it for the introduction slide. Now let's go ahead and add a new chapter. So to add a new chapter I will move to outline and click on the Add chapter option right here. So as I did before, I will go ahead and quickly copy and paste the title and add some text.
Here we go. So now the next thing that I'm going to do is to convert this text to call out to have it highlighted to make sure that my learners will pay attention to that and for sure to spice this text up. So if we don't have just a text that's all over this boring text, no. We will make it fun and easy to learn. So we selected the text, go to text and select call out. Here.
You can change its color, select one of the available options or add a new one right here and you can change the type of the call out. So let's say you can make the tension or the question, I will choose this one. I will change it to the yellow to orange, yellow color colors so people have it for the entire long grid. OK. And the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to select this text and we're going to change its formatting as well.
So we go to text again and in this time I will select ordered list, this one, OK, here we go. If necessary you can change the color of these numbers, but we will do it at the very, very end. So no worries, we will fix it but a little bit later. OK now the next thing which I'm going to do is now I'm ready to add a video to my long grid. So how you can do this? You can click on plus Scroll down and select the video. So you can upload your own MP4
video right here. The other option So I have the video uploaded to YouTube and I'm ready to embed it. So how I can do this? I have a link to this video then I will just insert it to my long grid. And here you can see three options in the pop up window. So you can create link preview, create embed and just insert it as a text. I will go ahead and click create in that. So oops, oops. See it means that the video will be inserted directly into my
long grid. So my learners will be will be able to watch it directly in the course. They don't need to be redirected to any other tabs in their browser. Everything is here OK, they are done. Visit next chapter and this the second chapter and now it's time to add another chapter. So to add the next tab I will click where it says add the chapter once again as we did before and I will go ahead and add title for sure and add some text. So this part this page will be about flash cards.
So in my opinion, flash cards are excellent way to make the e-learning process more engaging and enjoyable so your learners can click, can interact. This is the content and it's make it much easier to understand the information and much easier to suck it in, right? So what are we going to do in this chapter? We'll talk about how to pair employees properly and what questions HR should answer before starting the pairing
process. So I want to add a question on one slide on one side of the flash card and to other side I will add a picture that illustrates that question. So let's go ahead and add some flash cards. So to add a flash card, I will click somewhere on the page on the empty space and click on the plus button. Now let's Scroll down, Scroll down, Scroll down and go to flash cards. So by default we have three cards, but we need to have four for my course.
So to add a new flash card you need to click versus Plus. Now we I want to have two cards in a row. So I will click this next button right here and change it to two cards per row. So perfect now I can change the front side and the other side of the card. So here I have some text and colors but I need to have pictures here. So how we can change this type of the flash card? I will click versus text and select image. Great. Now it's time to add pictures. I will choose one from my pre
made documents. OK the third one. And last but not least OK awesome. Now it's time to change the backside of the of the cards so to flip them over the click here versus front. And now I just need to add my questions. OK, so let me quickly do this. Oops, delete unnecessary formatting. OK, so bear with me for a moment. I will quickly do this. OK, two more cards to go. OK and one more OK, awesome.
So now I want to change the background color of the cards and to do this I will click I will select all the cards, click all cards fill and I will go ahead and select orange like this one. So for sure there's some other available settings. Something like the the formatting, opposite text, and changing the positions of the cards. I will also click on three dots, three dots right here and I will quickly change the width of my cards. So take a look.
More more cute, more accurate. OK and here we go. Now we have our flash cards done and it's time to move on to the next chapter. So I will add the chapter once again as I did before. And in this chapter, trust me, I will have a lot of text and I will be happy to show you how you can spice it up, how we can attract the learners attention to some specific parts of the text. So how you can do this? OK, pretty pretty excited about this so let me quickly copy and paste the title for sure.
Add some text here and here and here and we need more text, right? So no worries, I got you. And here and we also have have it here. OK, so this is definitely a lot of text, it's just kind of hard to understand and to to read from the very beginning to the very end. So how we can spice it up? So here I have for example sentence and of course I wanted to make it into a call out. So I will select the text, go to
text and select the call out. So here I will go ahead and change it to the bulb style like this one. OK make sure that we have the orange color is selected. So this is one of the ways to make your text a little bit more special. The next thing which we are going to do, I have a subtitle about SMART goals and of course I want to highlight it somehow. So how? What are we going to do about this?
I have a subtitle right here. I will select it, go to text and I will select header T So now we definitely have some visual hierarchy and we understand that this is a subtitle, a place which requires special attention. So now then we have a description of the SMART acronym. But to make it more vivid, let's add some illustrations of each letter.
So how you can do this? I will show you just a sample like for two for two letters not for all of them just to save our time but he will understand the method and how you can do this. So I will click on plus Scroll down and select two columns. Now here in the left on the left column they will have a picture. So click on plus Scroll down, select image and select the aslet letter. And now it's time to add some text here. OK, awesome. So here we go. Let's do the same thing for the
2nd letter. Click on Plus, Scroll down, select two columns. Click on Plus again, add an image from my primary document and let's go ahead and add a text. OK here we go. So I believe that you got this logic so all you need to do is just to add 2 columns for each letter. I will do a little frost so just don't so it will not anyhow disturb us. And the next thing. So after this theory part about each letter described I want to give some examples of well defined goals.
So and of course I want to highlight them. So what are we going to do to achieve this? So once again we go to plus, Scroll down and go to divider. I will change the divider type to line this circle and here we go to at the text for mantis. Now let's change the divider the divider color to orange like this and change the list. The type of the list do the ordered number as we did before. So I select the text, go to text and select ordered number
ordered list. OK and let's quickly do the same for the second goals. Scroll down divider, change the color, change the type and add the text. Do the same thing as we did for the goals Select, highlight the text, go to text word list like this one. OK, And now we have one more chapter and it will be the quiz chapter. OK, quiz. So Iceberg Space goes beyond knowledge sharing and lets you
assess learners. So we have a brand new feature in iceberg space, but allows efforts to add quizzes to long grids and enable scoring. And I think that everyone loves quizzes. I mean appers and trainers because they can show you the real results of your learners. So here just a few reasons why I consider it to be a great feature. If you don't mind, I will share my opinion. So first of all this enables a shift in effective assessment of learners comprehension and
retention of the material. Also, this feature offers valuable data for account administrators so they can check learners understanding of the material, helping them make informed decisions about future learning paths. And for sure, assessments and courses motivate learners to study the material more carefully Who want to fail the quiz, right? So how you can add quizzes? You can click on the plus, Scroll down to the very end and
click versus quiz. So on Ice Spring Space quizzes have five question types, multiple response, multiple choice, short answer sequence and matching. But let me point out what the ICE Spring Suite desktop version have. Has fourteen types of questions for every usage case here in ICE Spring Space. As I mentioned before, they have tools for quick course creation and these five question types will be I believe will be enough to lead efforts for learners attention.
So now I will go ahead and create my quiz. Just this was one question just to show you how it will work. It will be multiple choice. So the first part of the quiz is a title screen. Here you can add some instructions, add some video or picture up for the quiz, or let your learners know something about how many times they have to take this quiz. For this quiz I don't need to have title screen, so I will just hide it right here.
So I will delete one of the default questions because I don't need it. And now I will quickly add the question itself and add several answer options. So if needed you can add some additional answer options. But three will be good for me. OK, one more awesome. Now make sure that you selected the right answer. This is the right our right answer. The next thing is the feedback. So I will add a feedback for correct and incorrect oops, incorrect answer.
This is a message with with will appear for your learner after they gave the answer. So you can cheer them up or congratulate them with the right answer. And the last slide is a result screen. So here you can add some custom feedback. In two cases, if your user passed or failed the quiz. OK, now it's time to set up settings for the settings of your quiz. You can set up a number of attempts. You can set up the passes core and some other question, answer options, quiz options.
So I will just quickly change the passes core and set the number of attempts to three. OK, I will click versus done and here here is my quiz. So after all the pages, all the chapters were added. Now we need to work on some general long green settings. So how we can do this? So I will click on the icon right here to set up the settings for my long create. So first we will set up a design for this course. So I will go to the design tab right here and change the accent color to orange.
So I told you before, but if we are going to change it and this is how you can do this. Also I will change the font for the heading and body text so I will change it to Robot Hose Lab with the both options. OK so definitely done here. Now it's time to go to the Main tab and select Sequential. So it means that my lawyers will need to view chapter by chapter. It will not be able to quickly skew them and Fast forward. And I will also make my long grade scored like graded.
OK, now we're done. I will click on Save, make sure that everything looks good. Awesome. Let's quickly preview our long grid to see how it will look like on different devices. So this is definitely how it will look on your computer, on your desktop. So our flash cards? Awesome. But now let's move on to the smartphone view and let's see how it will look like on smartphones. OK, our flash cards looks amazing and works exactly as we wanted. OK, And for sure our quiz.
OK, now it's time to share our course, right? So if you want your colleagues to have a chance on to work on your course, you need to click Versus, collaborate, click Add Collaborators and select the colleagues that you want to share with access to you. OK, click add. So now they will have access in their ispring space account and they'll be able to edit your course and you will be able to work together at the same time. But how we can share with the
course with our learners? How I don't want them to edit this course, right? I just want them to take it. It can be done in a couple of seconds. So you just need to click where it says share and make sure that make viewable the link option is selected. Now you have a link to this course and you can send it to your learners if they have. As soon as they follow the link, they will be able to take the course.
Additionally, here we have the embed code option so you can embed your language to your course into your website or blog. And now it's time to move on to the next part of our webinar. But if you have any questions, let us know in the chat, but we'll definitely be happy to help. Or if you want to share your expressions, some features that you like, any reaction, you're more than welcome to share it. So last but not least, feature I want to show you today is a course portfolio.
So an instructional design portfolio is an important tool but allows instructional designers to demonstrate your skills and for sure it helps them build their professional practice. So if you want to do more freelance work and I am looking for a job or want to submit your work for awards, you will need an eye-catching online presence with samples of your best work. So let me know in the chat if you have a portfolio not or if you're thinking of creating it.
I will be happy to hear about this. So I Sprint can definitely help you visit Portfolio. So let's go ahead and create it together. So I will click where it says close and go back to my Ice Spring space account. Now I will go to settings on the left menu, Scroll down and make sure with the Portfolio option is on. OK click on Save. Now let's go back to content. So after you make sure that you but Buffalo is enabled, you need to upload your content.
So here on ICE Spring space you can upload some scorn packages. This which was created this any app, phone tool which you're using. You can also upload videos, some PowerPoint presentations. And for sure if you already have ICE Spring Suite, you can just publish your courses to ICE Spring space. OK, so I will go ahead and upload to My Portfolio some of the long some of the courses which I created before. So just to show you how it will
look like. So OK, you uploaded your SCORM packages, your courses, what's next? You need to go to your profile like in the top right corner right here and go to My Portfolio. So now I will quickly edit the profile. So I will go to edit and quickly add information about portfolio. So I something but I forgot my last name but I just want to quickly add this information to save our time.
OK good job the e-mail here. You can also add some work experience and I definitely recommend you to do this because you are when you create a portfolio you need to specify all the relevant experience which you have. The start date I don't remember December 2016. Oh God time flies. I was like currently employed and click add add some information about me. So you can definitely add some information about the techniques which you use in your work, some instructional design methods.
You're more than welcome to share this information and all the information which is relevant for your industry, Let's say about awards certifications. Don't be shy, shy and bright like a diamond. This is your moment where you need to show yourself. OK, add a picture, save and click on save. Now let's go ahead and add a cover image. Great and add the project oops to My Portfolio. So I will add this one about the feedback. OK, so let me quickly add a description of this course is a
little bit outline and see time. I also highly recommend to add you some, but you going to add some objectives, some goals which were set before creating this course and show what part you did here to highlight it. To spice it up, let's go ahead and add a cover image. So this is about the feedback
and click save. Now to add more projects you need to click where it says add project to portfolio select the course uploaded to ice to your ice spring space account, add description cover picture and that's it. OK, now the next thing which we're going to do, we go to shed to settings, select an accent color, select the font as we did before. I will select the same ones which is be selected for our long grid and click save.
Now to share your portfolio you need to click where to share, make sure that sharing via link is available and send this link to your colleague to review your portfolio so you can do it even better or to send it to your clients and customers so they can review all your great work. Here we also have the option for messaging so let me show you. So if I open My Portfolio as a customer as a client I will see it's a message button.
So here I can send a message to instructional designer which I like and they'll be able to connect without any third party services. So that's all that I wanted to show you in ice spring space. And one more thing that I want to share with you is that we really want to invite you do a session is one of our is our consultants. So you can get the best of our tool and see how it can help you to create courses which cannot be forgotten by your learners.
So if you want to get some helpful tips on how to enhance course creation and take your e-learning to the next level, I would like to invite you to a live consultation. To discuss your projects and talk about how one of our award-winning solutions can help you. So you can just follow the link in the chat or scan the QR code to register for a session. So that's all for me. You did a great job. That was really awesome and I
love the portfolio piece. That's amazing, especially for new, you know, people transferring over into the ID field. That is super useful. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah. So I don't know do we have any, I don't think we had, do we have any questions in the chat. We were kind of going along April and myself sharing some links and things. I want to let the audience know that this will be available as a podcast episode, also a video episode for.
So if you want to review it from on edipedtech and that will be released in the next couple of weeks. But Anna, thank you so much for coming on and demoing these tools for us and showing us about cloud and the portfolio piece and all the AI and the different things you can do. We appreciate it. We've thank you so much. It's always a pleasure to do podcast with you. So really, really. Enjoyable. We have a lot of fun, don't we? Yeah, but definitely. So thank you so much for having me.
Absolutely everyone have a great Friday and a great weekend and we'll see you again soon.