A Featured Customer: Biobitesize -
The Customer Showcase this month is BitesizeBio - A community-based platform that brings bioscientists together to share experience knowledge, insight, and wisdom. Bitesize Bio's aim is to promote better science through enhancing scientists' technical skills, scientific fundamentals, personal development and wellbeing in their careers and also the funding of research.
Bitesize Bio support their mission by empowering their community to exchange tips, advice, practical experience, training as well as knowledge and insight from hundreds of scientists worldwide. This information is provided through informative articles, webinars, podcasts -- and courses created by , of course.
Let's look into the ways that Bitesize Bio utilizes their expertise to make useful education and information about training easy to understand, readable and useful for the scientists in their network.
The Home Page
From the moment you land on Bitesize Bio's homepage You'll find their classes listed in the upper right-hand corner of their webpage. This banner will entice users to sign up by explaining what the courses can offer. It promises to help you improve in a specific skill that is important to many academics and scientists, it's hard to not hit the "enroll" button!
Following their course banner are many blog posts, podcast episodes as well as other resources that are available to all who are interested in these. The wealth of information on the homepage entice users to learn the details about their courses - they show the site as a reliable source of information.
In Action
Course access settings allow you to define a set of criteria for how a user gains access to and keeps using your course. The course can be set as open and free without registration, with a single-time payment, subscriptions that renew or even a recurring subscription.
If you set a course as gratuitous, no fee is needed, however the user must be registered/logged in to access. The free access option is the best option when you want to manually enroll students in your course, and then collect their email addresses. By creating an email list it is possible to send newsletters advertising your other course options in the moment they become readily available.
Focus Mode Keeps Learners Engaged
When you enable Focus Mode, your main footer and navigation elements are eliminated from your page. Course navigation is always visible in a sidebar tray, along with course progress at the top on the page. You can control the flow of the course using Next/Previous and Mark Complete, or Back to the course. You can also still access your account from the upper right-hand corner.
Focus Mode is an exciting feature that helps keep students focused on the course, instead of other tabs on their computer. Paired with the gamification of progress bars, you should see higher participation and higher completion rates when you have Focus mode enabled.
Do More with
Bitesize Bio has created a vibrant community of knowledge using , and you can too! There are many ways you can use it on your site. There is a cost-free course that is paired by Focus Mode just like Bitesize Bio is doing to encourage an open sharing of knowledge while increasing the number of emails you receive and your audience.
How can we help you meet the educational goals of your business, students or even your product?
If you're ready to find out more, you can take an experiment through our demonstration. It's possible to experience the demo from either the perspective of a student or course creator's viewpoint in our complimentary demonstration. If you're ready for creating your course, you'll have the option to transfer any work you've created from the demo into the first course you've licensed.