It’s showtime! But actors don’t just rely on their own performance – set, prop, and costume design, as well as the structure of the show itself, play a starring role in engaging the audience.
While instructors are the lead performers of phone code uganda the virtual instructor-led training, you don’t have to carry it all on your own. Working with a slick, beautifully designed PowerPoint (your ‘set’) makes you look super professional, boosts learner engagement, and makes your job so much easier. As well as being a great tool to help you explain complex concepts, slides can be used as signposts through the session, signposting activities, icebreakers, and Q&As, to make sure your learners understand exactly what they have to do. Find out more about developing effective visual training content here: Effective visual training content and How to create visual presentations and eLearning.
We also recommend creating a facilitator guide for each virtual instructor-led training session, to support you and your instructors through the session and to keep you on time. By laying out the animation layers of each slide (the ‘clicks’) alongside the speaker notes and giving extra information on how to run any activities, you can make sure you and any other instructors are comfortable and in control throughout the session.
Some shows use volunteers to maximise audience engagement. In face-to-face training, interactivity happens naturally and it’s easy for learners to jump in with discussion and questions. But multi-channel face-to-face communication becomes mono-channel in the virtual classroom. Learners are much less likely to ask questions while the instructor is talking, and you have very few indicators to spot if you’re losing anyone. So, opportunities for interactivity need to be intentional and built in regularly. By writing interactivity in from the start, you’ll also ensure that interactivity adds to your session, rather than distracting from it!