Hi everybody, it’s Brian from iSpring, and in this video, I’m going to do a quick overview
of the iSpring Content Library.
For a long time now, iSpring PowerPoint authoring tools have let you insert a bunch of cool
stuff on your slides, but now we’ve expanded the character library to include all kinds
of other content.
Now you’ve also got tons of slide templates,
backgrounds, objects, and icons to choose from.
The full content library is available by subscription,
but there’s also some free assets you can try out in your courses right now.
After you subscribe and login, you’ll have access to thousands of realistic photos of
characters, objects and backgrounds to simulate different learning situations.
OK, Let’s start with the slide templates.
What you can do with these templates is build a whole course from scratch.
All you gotta do is just replace the text on the slide with your own text,
and you can also replace the images and change the color scheme if you want.
There’s a whole variety of slide templates for different parts of the course,
and information about the company.
Plus, you have a ton of different design themes to choose from.
Another type of template is a scenario.
This is basically a dialogue which simulates a workplace situation,
and again here, you have a lot of different templates to present users with choices,
and show them the consequences of those choices.
It’s always better to learn about consequences in a virtual environment, rather than a real workplace.
Remember that you can replace these characters and backgrounds to make your scenario more
realistic and appropriate for the workplace of the trainees.
Let’s choose this Author’s Text template and see how that’s done.
The template is inserted as a slide in my course, and I can edit it from here.
Let’s add another character from the Character Library.
Here you’ll find over 30,000 character photos of all kinds of different types.
It’s super-easy to narrow down what you’re looking for just by checking these boxes on the right.
There are tons of descriptors like clothing, direction, action, emotion, and more.
Let’s choose Klein, and this standing pose here looks good.
Now that he’s on the slide, we can crop his legs off, and then resize him to fit.
Now let’s swing over to the background library,
and again, you have a whole panoply of locations to choose from.
Whatever industry your training is targeted for, you can be sure to find the right setting
here, whether it’s retail, service, construction, business, or anything else.
And again, don’t forget that you can swap out these backgrounds in those templates
I showed you, and create a whole tailored course in a snap.
OK, now let’s close out of here and check out the objects.
Here, you’ve got a bunch of photo-realistic images of various objects that you might find
in a workplace, and you can use these to spruce up your course.
You can put little notes on a notepad with a text box, or put screenshots of your software
on a device like a tablet.
The sky’s the limit!
Alright, now let’s have a look at the icons.
Again, it’s easy to find what you’re looking for by narrowing down your search.
As you can see, there’s a wide selection of icons and controls that you can use
to give your course a more polished look, and add easy navigation.
Plus, you’ve got other cool stuff like symbols,
items, and markers.
And that about covers it for the Content Library!
See how easy it is?
You just pick what you need, mix and match, and make tiny little adjustments
to make it all fit together perfectly!
To find out more about the different parts of the Content Library,
feel free to check out the other tutorials.