A Featured Customer: Biobitesize -
The Customer Showcase this month is Bitesize Bio - an online community that connects bioscientists to exchange experiences knowledge, insight, and wisdom. Bitesize Bio's goal is to help scientists achieve better results through enhancing scientists' technical skills, scientific fundamentals the personal development of their employees and well-being in their careers and also funding.
Bitesize Bio support their mission by giving their users the ability to communicate tips, suggestions, practical experience, training information, insights, and knowledge from scientists around the world. They provide this information via useful articles, webinars and podcasts , and even courses created by , of course.
Let's look into the ways that Bitesize Bio makes practical education and information about training accessible, understandable and concrete to their scientists' community.
The Home Page
From the moment you land on the homepage of Bitesize Bio You'll find their classes featured on the top of the page. This banner will entice users to enroll by revealing what the courses can offer. With a promise to improve on a skill which is essential for many scientists and academics, it's hard to not click the enroll button!
Following their course banner are numerous blog posts, podcast episodes and resources open and available to all who are interested in these. The wealth of information on the homepage entice users to learn what courses they offer and showcase the website as a reputable source of knowledge.
In Action
Course access settings let you define a set of criteria for how a user gains and retains access to the course. The course can be set to be completely free, without registration, with a one-time payment, recurring subscription, and so on.
In the event that you make a course absolutely free, there is no cost needed, however the user is required to sign up or log in for access. The Free access mode is an ideal option if you wish to enroll manually students in your course and capture their emails. If you have an email address, you can send out newsletters advertising your other course services when they are readily available.
Focus Mode keeps learners engaged
If you turn on Focus Mode, your main footer and navigation elements are taken off the page. Course navigation is always visible in a sidebar tray, along with course progress in the center of the screen. Control movement through the course by using Next/Previous, Mark Complete, or Back to the course. It is also possible to access your account from the upper-right corner of the screen.
Focus Mode is a fun feature that helps keep students focused on the course, and not other tabs on their web browsers. In conjunction with the gaming of a progress bar, you should see higher engagement and completion rates with Focus mode turned on.
Do More with
Bitesize Bio has created a vibrant community of knowledge using the platform, and now you are able to join in too! There are many ways you can use it on your website. There is a cost-free training course, paired by Focus Mode just like Bitesize Bio is doing to encourage open knowledge sharing all while capturing emails and growing your reach.
How can we help you meet your educational goals for your company, students, or product?
If you're eager to find out more, you can take a test drive with us in our demonstration. You can experience from a learner's or a course creator's viewpoint in our complimentary demo. Once you're prepared to try the creation of your own course, you'll be able to take any of the work you've created in your demo to your first approved course.