E-Learning Translation Services

EXPERTS IN E-LEARNING TRANSLATIONS

E-learning isn’t just about well-localised translations, or effective brand communication. It’s also about familiarity with the authoring tools you use to get your message across. We’re well-versed in the most popular eLearning platforms. We understand how Lectora, Captivate, and Storyline build the learning tools you publish. We get Camtasia and iSpring. And, perhaps most importantly, we understand how these tools can be used together to create an integrated training course featuring quizzes, scoring, instructional videos, audio, interactivity, and animation.

The design environment isn’t lost on us, either. Our translators can work with your designers to build localised versions of your training materials that fit the screens they’re meant to be seen on. So, if you have an app that’s due to go live on your employee’s mobile devices or a training suite that’s scheduled to roll out in time for the opening of the new office, we’ll make sure the translated text is the right length. Not all training content is text-based. It’s important to choose locally relevant characters to illustrate your training topics. Your choice of character can also underline company values, for example, global reach and equality. The speech assigned to these characters has an even greater potential for misinterpretation than the text. It must be convincing for a local audience, culturally sensitive, and still able to adhere to the integrity of your brand.

The most trusted eLearning authoring packages often give you the option to create detailed, multi-faceted course components that drastically change the way they behave based on the actions of the learner. Where these actions, or their outcomes, are text- or language-based, it’s important that they are relevant within the target language and culture. In other words: the outcomes of a player’s actions in a learning game, or their answers in a quiz, must be conveyed in a way that makes sense to the player. This can be a difficult balance to achieve in eLearning tools that deliver their courses in multiple languages, often to employees from very different social or cultural environments. Working together, we can help you create a source tool that is translatable in many territories, and relevant to all. Or we can address localisation issues at a later stage in the process, carefully translating outcome scripts or text into content that is sensitive to the social and political expectations of the target culture.

Training tools don’t work without feedback, and many authoring packages deliver spreadsheets or reports based on the input of course users. For the tool to provide useful insights, this feedback must be as clear, unambiguous, and locally relevant as the content of the course. Here too, our translators can deliver translations that clarify course results on a global or local level. Build one global training tool from scratch, with our translators on board to advise and perfect. Or tackle your existing tools, and bring them in line with local expectations.

We recommend proofreading for all e-learning translation projects. Proofing is a key component of successful translation, ensuring absolute accuracy both in specialist terminology and standard wording.