How to Add Learning Games to Your Lectora Course

Discover how Lectora® empowers you to create interactive, personalized eLearning experiences—with built-in branching, custom scripting, and seamless integration of games from The Training Arcade® to boost engagement and retention.

Lectora®, a top-tier authoring tool is most well-known for its level of interactivity. It’s the perfect eLearning playground for videos, scenarios, and responsive eLearning. With Lectora, you can easily track and understand your learner’s behavior through the use of actions, conditions, variables, and triggers. The conditional branching and sequenced event features allow you to create a more robust, dynamic, and personalized learning experience. It’s definitely an out-of-the-box type tool- you can write your own scripts, and add custom libraries, fonts, and CSS. It’s incredibly flexible.

Lectora offers easy collaboration with your team. Automated versioning tracks all revisions and you can also create multiple course versions adjacent to other authors.  

Effective assessments and randomized testing are easy to build in Lectora. You can easily import or export your question files, allowing you to create question banks and answer keys easily.  

Games Make Your eLearning Course More Effective

What makes a Lectora eLearning course even more engaging and interactive? A game, of course! At ELB Learning we always say that games should be an integral part of your training strategy. Games should be thought of as a really important tool in your training toolbox.  

Learning games, such as the ones from The Training Arcade®, embedded in an eLearning course, provide a perfect micro-assessment that encourages learners to stay engaged. Furthermore, your learners will interact with the content on a much deeper level, ensuring that the course material will be retained. The more often they play the game with your content, the more they retain the knowledge. The Training Arcade’s analytics dashboard provides useful data that can help a trainer fully understand where the learners may be struggling and where they may need to pivot their instruction. 

You can also use games post-training by emailing a game to assess knowledge retention of the content. Have teams compete against one another and offer prizes for top scorers. 

It’s easy to embed a game into a Lectora course. Once the game is created, copy the URL inside The Training Arcade® dashboard. Then navigate to Lectora and access the insert tab on the top left. Select the “web window” button. When the window appears, paste the URL into the URL field and select OK. You can then resize the window to your project and publish it in a web browser or use the preview option.

Here’s an interactive tutorial. 

Adding any of the games from The Training Arcade® into your Lectora course will most definitely make your training more fun and ultimately more effective. 

Learn more about The Training Arcade here.