Create engaging, bite-sized learning modules that help users learn and apply knowledge effectively. This article combines best practices, instructions, and practical tips from the Learningbank learning experts.
At the end of the article, you'll find step-by-step instructions for using the different features. If you need more information on a certain feature, you can click the links to discover full articles on the feature.
Quick tip💡 You can create your modules directly inside a learning path or via the content library.
Define Your Module’s Purpose
Think about why you’re creating the module, what users should achieve, and how long it should take.
Quick Tips:
Module length: 5–7 minutes is ideal.
Measurable Learning objectives: Use actionable verbs (describe, identify, demonstrate). Avoid vague terms like “learn” or "understand".
In what context: modules live inside learning paths. Consider which modules and events they should meet in the path to avoid filling in too much information in one module.
Why, What, How:
Why: Explain early why the topic matters.
What: Present key information clearly.
How: Focus on practical steps users can take to change behaviour/directly apply what they have learned in real life.
🧠 Choose the Right Module Type
Lesson: For presenting information or media only.
Quiz: Ideal for learning and engaging learners interactively.
Survey: Use when you want feedback without tracking individual users by name.
On The Job Training: is a category by itself; you can dive deeper into what it is here.
Create, Name, and Theme Your Module
Create your module and give your module a clear, descriptive name.
Choose a Theme – Select a visual style for your module to match your organization’s branding and enhance the learner experience. Learn more here: Content Creator: Settings & Theme.
🧠 Customizing slides
Your theme sets the overall design, but you also have to option to customise individual slides for an extra spark. Click on a slide to open the settings panel on the left, where you can adjust background colours, add images, or change transparency.
Changing the theme will not override the updates made on individual slides
Module Framework
Use this structure to keep content engaging and easy to follow:
Introduction: Explain why, what, and duration.
Topic Slides (text, images, videos, flipcards and more): Design for mobile perspective; 1–2 key messages per slide.
Interactions: Mix quizzes throughout, not just at the end. Enable instant feedback under the interaction settings to greatly improve learning retention
Summary: Highlight 3–5 key takeaways.
Outro: Thank Users and write in transition when relevant
💡 Tip: Improve Engagement and retention: Balance content and interactions: bitesize → interaction → bitesize → interaction.
💡 Tip: Geni is Learningbank’s AI content creator: it helps you quickly and automatically create engaging learning content.
Convert old PDFs into interactive modules with a click.
Generate text and interactive content from scratch.
Get help and suggestions from Geni directly while creating
Practical Tips
Utilize Geni: your personal creation assistant
Add images or GIFs: in slides, click the image box and upload from your device or select from the free library.
Preview on mobile: most learners access modules via phones.
Split long modules into parts to avoid overload.
Enable feedback: Reinforce correct answers in quizzes.
Keep slides concise: 1–2 core messages.
Now that you understand the module's basis, we can move on to how to use its features.
Create a module
Once you open up a new module, you should start by setting up the theme and afterwards add text, interactions, etc. You add the slides by:
Clicking the '+' icon at the bottom of the screen
In the pop-up, you select your desired slide type
Fill in the slide how you'd like
Good to know💭 If you use a slide type with '✨' next to it, you generate the slide using AI, meaning that it will already be filled in. You should just need to proofread it and adjust accordingly.
Slide types
Depending on the module type you selected in the beginning, you'll have different slide types to choose from.
For both lessons, quizzes and surveys, you can use text, multimedia and images. For Quizzes and surveys, it is expanded with various interactions. Below, you'll see an explanation of the slide headers so you know in what direction you need to go for your desired outcome.
Text
These slides solely contain placeholders for you to add text.
Images
Should you need an image or image + text, then this is the slide type you need to discover.
Multi media
This section is a slide where you embed a file directly into the platform. This could e.g. be SCORM files, PDF's, sound files, Links or video.
Quick tip💡 You can add links via Iframe for a seamless look.
Interactions
These slides allow you to have users interact with your content. This could e.g. be single choice questions, match category and many more!
Feedback
When using interactions in your quizzes, it might be nice for users to be able to know which questions they got right and which ones they should spend more time studying in the future. To do this, you follow these steps:
Click the slide containing the interactio,n and a side menu appears.
From here, you go to the Feedback section
Choose Right/wrong answer feedback, and fill in the fields for feedback.
Good to know💭 All interactions come with an image to the right by default. To remove this, click the slide to get the side menu to appear, and under Image, you can either change the placement or remove the image entirely.
General settings
Going to settings and looking at the first tab:
Tags – Internal labels that help administrators organise, filter, and manage content (not visible to learners).
Estimated completion time – Displays an approximate time to complete the module, helping learners plan their learning and set expectations.
Long scrolling – Enables a continuous, scroll-based layout instead of page-by-page navigation, improving usability and mobile learning experiences.
Immersive Reader – Adds accessibility support by allowing learners to have text read aloud and displayed in a more focused reading view. More on AI in the next section of this article.
On-the-Job Training (OJT) – Supports practical, workplace-based learning by enabling modules designed for real-world tasks and manager sign-off. Read more here.
Geni and other AI features
In the content creator, we have a bunch more AI features to choose from that will both help you in your daily work creating content and also help users learn more efficiently.
Here's the options available:
Create with Geni
Transform old PDFs into new interactive modules in seconds, complete with learner interactions.
Write with Geni
Quickly generate content on a topic, including text and interactions; you can even ask questions while creating.
Ask Geni
Rephrase or improve text to make it more professional, concise, or polished with AI assistance.
Immersive reader
Let users listen to modules aloud, ideal for desk-less workers or hands-free learning.
Suggested by Geni
This feature is not available to content creators; however, it is nice to know about it anyway. What it does is that it can suggest skills and certificates to your Learning paths and Plans - both using the ones you already have, or suggest brand new ones.
Themes
The Theme settings in the Content Creator allow you to control the visual design of a module. A theme defines elements such as background colours or images, text styling, and overall layout, ensuring a consistent look and feel across all slides.
Here's how you set it up:
Open your module
Go to settings and select Theme.
Select an existing theme from the Appearance tab, or create a new custom theme directly within the module
Choose a background colour or image
Set text and visual styling
Preview your theme
Apply the theme
Languages
The Languages settings allow you to build a single learning module in multiple languages to match users' language preferences. Instead of creating separate modules for each language, you can manage all versions from a single place.
Create a module in your standard language
Go to Settings in the top‑right corner of the module and select Languages (or click the language label in the module header).
Add a new language
Fill in translations manually, via Excel or using the auto translator
Publish when ready
Tips💡
Always complete the standard version first to avoid overwriting changes.
If you accidentally start in the wrong language, change the module’s language in settings rather than deleting it.
Rewards
Rewards motivate users, boost engagement, and give immediate feedback on performance.
Options:
Score pop-up – shows learners their quiz score instantly.
Medal or certificate – gives visual recognition or a printable certificate.
You add it in the module Settings > Rewards section of a quiz-type module.
Rating
The Rating setting lets users provide feedback on a module they’ve completed by giving it a star rating and optional comments. This turns learner responses into data you can use to assess and improve your content.
Open the module in edit mode
Go to Rating settings
Turn on the rating feature
Publish the module
After a rating is sent, it can be viewed in the module overview
Preview
It is recommended that you preview your module while building it and also at the very end, so you know exactly what users will see. Remember to check how it looks from different devices so you know how it looks on both phone, tablet and laptop.
You can also decide to build directly in phone view so you can see what users will see while building. This is great to know for organisations where most users access the platform via phone.
For more knowledge on modules and creating content, you can dive into our FAQ right here.
Recommendation for Multi-Media elements💭
Videos:
All videos are converted by us to Codec: H.264 (x264) Bitrate: ~2200kbs
This is to achieve compatibility for all mobile web browsers.
We do not change the aspect ratio but recommend max res: 1280x720.
SCORM:
We recommend not using SCORM that are bigger than 2GB. For the best user experience, it is always a good idea to use smaller SCORM files, thus breaking them into smaller parts if it takes more than 5-10 minutes to complete.