Off-the-shelf courses are built for no one in particular. They cover generic topics in generic ways, and learners know it within the first few minutes. Custom eLearning development is the alternative: courses designed around your content, your audience, your brand, and your learning objectives. The difference in completion rates, knowledge retention, and learner satisfaction is substantial.
Sutter Group designs and develops custom eLearning for organizations that need training to actually work. Whether you are building a new employee onboarding program, converting instructor-led training to an online format, or creating a complex multi-module professional development curriculum, we bring instructional design expertise and creative production quality to every project.
Custom eLearning is not just custom content dropped into a standard template. Real custom development means the instructional design, the visual design, the interaction design, and the technical build are all tailored to your specific situation.
Every custom eLearning project starts with a learning needs analysis. We work with your subject matter experts to understand what learners need to be able to do after completing the course, not just what information needs to be covered. That distinction, between information transfer and performance change, drives every structural decision in the course.
We script and storyboard every course before development begins, so you can review and approve the full content and interaction plan before a single screen is built. This prevents expensive rework and ensures the course reflects your organization accurately.
Custom eLearning should look like your organization, not like a course shell. We design custom templates, illustrations, and interactions that align with your brand identity and create a learning experience that feels cohesive and professional from the first screen to the last.
We build scenario-based interactions, branching decision trees, knowledge checks, and simulations, whatever interaction types best serve the learning objectives. We do not default to click-through slides when more engaging formats would produce better learning outcomes.
We develop in Articulate Storyline and Rise, Adobe Captivate, and custom HTML5 depending on your requirements. All courses are built to SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or xAPI standards for LMS compatibility, and we handle testing and deployment across your platform.
Associations use custom eLearning for member education, certification programs, and continuing education credits. We design courses that reflect the professional standards of your membership and deliver the credentialed learning experience members expect.
Defense and federal contractors have specific requirements around Section 508 accessibility compliance, security protocols, and LMS platforms. We build for those requirements from the start, not as an afterthought.
From onboarding to compliance training to leadership development, we build custom programs for organizations that need training that represents them at a high standard and produces measurable results.
We are a full-service creative and digital agency, which means your eLearning program benefits from the same strategic and design thinking we bring to brand identity and web design projects. Your courses will not look like they came from a different vendor. They will look like your organization.
From Our Practice
Custom eLearning starts with instructional strategy, not just content production. Explore our full eLearning Design & Development service to see the range of formats we design and develop, and see Virtual & Augmented Reality for how immersive technology extends what digital learning can accomplish. Our work with Areté includes professional development programs built to real organizational standards.
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