Around our office, you hear about cars a lot, so much so we even have a cars Slack channel. On our marketing team, we have Tara who’s the Subaru driver so she can make it reliably and safely up to the ski resorts in the winter; Alicia who loves how versatile her Wrangler is; and me, a humble Kia Sorento for carting around the kids. If you are like us, then you probably use your car for everything from hauling around kids, groceries and plants, to hauling the family to see different beautiful parts of the country. The ultimate use case of the tool is in the eye of the beholder.
And Content Controller is a great example of how we apply that idea to our products. The functions for dispatching out content, reporting on learner usage and versioning through content changes stay the same between customers. However, how they end up being used varies greatly. Content providers may use Content Controller to only manage content licenses and deliver their courseware across accounts. An enterprise organization may use it to create a central location for content and send it out to all the learning systems across their internal and 3rd-party teams.
And we’re carrying on the theme of versatility with our latest product, Rustici Generator.
One car, multiple use cases
Rustici Generator, our latest add-on product coming in Q1 2025, brings some handy tools to organize content libraries and help you find what you need when you need it. How that actually pans out depends on how it is implemented, and we’re going to explore two more common use cases.
LMSs and other platforms (or Learning Systems)
Learning platforms, learning tools, you name it, are the lifeblood of eLearning as it stands today. As they have become more of a staple, users have been asking more of their platforms. Customer libraries have become bigger, and larger companies and teams coordinate work through their LMS with ever-demanding workloads while trying to use their tools more efficiently. When libraries grow and larger teams are involved, looming problems begin to appear. It may be reduced visibility into content libraries, team efficiency begins to slow and much more.
These new challenges present a unique opportunity for LMS providers to help influence and improve learning management processes from within their platform. Rustici Generator will be integral to this shift so that LMSs can meet the skills-based and personalized learning needs their customers expect and demand. Rather than taking years to create and implement ways to fill in the gaps in content library data and help users find what they need, Rustici Generator provides a solution to meet the evolving needs of customers.
Platforms using Rustici Generator can allow customers to parse course content to build metadata and skills tags from scratch or fill in any gaps. Not only that, but you can also improve on current search tools to allow for searching within the content itself with Generator’s lexical and semantic search. These features and more let users focus less on routine tasks of personalizing content and more on creating impactful learning courses.
Content Providers
On the other side of the coin are content providers making eLearning for their own libraries, other companies and beyond. Many times, they have their own proprietary LMS focused on providing a unique experience to their industry niche or content. As time goes on, their libraries become unmanageable.
When trying to build out courses and assessments, you are focused on creating something that is going to have the most impact on the company as a whole or the individual learner. This can be done by personalizing courses to the learner, focusing on individual skills to be taught throughout the workforce, and more. However, when cycling through content, finding applicable courses and references can be like finding a needle in a haystack. This especially rings true if you are cycling through many versions where the title or metadata doesn’t explain what is inside.
These challenges are time-consuming and create missed opportunities for driving results. Rustici Generator gives providers and their administrators some of their time back when searching for courses, and more importantly, it potentially makes good data practices simpler to enact.
In the eye of the beholder
As we rev up Rustici Generator, we are excited to see these use cases come to fruition, as well as all the other use cases you come up with once you get your hands on the wheel. We are excited about the possibilities it provides and the iterations to come. If you want to learn more about Rustici Generator, make sure to reach out to our team.
Don’t forget to watch our latest webinar which goes over the product in-depth and how to prepare to start using it. Lastly, please join our Generator email list for news about the product and AI-related content.
