Anglia Co-Op commissioned vIT to produce educational materials to enable rapid training of large numbers of remote users of their new ABSIT on-line ordering system.
Key requirements were for the materials to be easily understood by people for whom English was a second language; for it to easily be distributed through the corporate intranet; and for the production to merge video, still images, PowerPoint slides and HTML seamlessly into a coherent piece.
vIT employed Microsoft Producer software (now sadly discontinued) as the shell for the project. Microsoft Producer allows content of different types and from multiple sources to be synchronised and displayed through a browser, without the need for special back end server software. The ability to make the training non-linear was also a key factor in the decision to use Producer.
Live action footage, shot in a store in Ely, was captured over a period of two days and showed typical user scenarios. This was then edited and synchronised with the PowerPoint slides and other images to produce the structured piece. An HTML scene navigator was included to allow users to jump between training sections. Animations were created using Adobe After Effects compositing software.
The training was also made available on CD which was distributed to all stores.