Creating an eLearning style guide

Gill Chester shares her ground rules and templates for creating an eLearning style guide to ensure consistency throughout.

Consistency in eLearning is really important and is the difference between a professional-looking resource and a Frankenstein-like experience. Having an eLearning style guide is a great way to agree your ground rules. Once these rules are established, your developers can focus on creating effective learning – rather than on the visual design of individual elements such as the size and colour of buttons.

You might want to include:

What the eLearning player will look like, and what will be included
Terminology used, for example, module/course, or how you reference/abbreviate your organisation
Use and location of your logo
Where menus appear and what they include
How you present your titles and subtitles
Fonts used and their size
The colours you use and how you use them
Types of images and how they’re presented
Where instructional text is placed and examples for consistency
How character dialogue should be presented
Consistently used elements such as buttons, markers and icon style
Types of media and how they’re presented

Templated Slides

You could also create a set of template slides that you regularly use in your modules. These might include:

1. Title/welcome
2. Learning objectives/ course content
3. Assessment/quiz
4. Summary and close
5. Exit instructions
6. Character dialogue/ branching scenarios

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Written by Gill Chester

Gill Chester is Lead Developer at Little Man Project, which specialises in developing eLearning for charities. She has over 20 years experience in eLearning development, all within the public and charity sector.

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