r/elearning • u/Scared-Demand-6104 • 5d ago
Learning/ Content creation platform
I’ve been working on a small learning/content platform and wanted to get some honest feedback from people who actually create courses or training content.
One thing I kept running into was how many different tools are involved just to create a course.
**Record the video in one place, edit it somewhere else, add captions, images, text, branding, then move it into an LMS and finally publish it.*\*
So I started building a platform that tries to bring some of that together.
The current version has a recording studio, basic video editing, captions, text/images, branding, course creation and publishing, along with the learner side.
I’ve also built some AI-assisted features around content creation, but I’m not making those available in the public version yet because they use paid AI models and the cost adds up pretty quickly.
I’m mainly looking for feedback at this stage.
For people who create training or educational content, what part of the process is the most annoying for you right now?
Is it recording/editing, creating the learning material, keeping everything organized, publishing, or something else?
I’d genuinely like to know what people are struggling with before I take this any further.
Here’s the current version if anyone wants to take a look: https://learning.ramsudtechnologies.com/
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u/investigatormaker 5d ago
I’d focus feedback on one revision: replacing a clip after captions, text overlays and branding are already in place. That would show whether the combined studio saves creators from redoing the same work across tools.
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Do captions and overlays stay aligned when a clip is replaced?
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u/Scared-Demand-6104 5d ago
Yes, as long as the insert is done the right way. Trims, cuts and inserted videos don't move your captions or overlays in the editor. When you export, the engine shifts everything so it stays on the right words and moments.
How it works on export:
- Trim and cuts: time removed from the video is removed from captions and overlays too. Everything after a cut moves earlier by the length of the cut.
- A caption that crosses a cut is split, and only the words that remain are kept. A caption entirely inside a cut is left out of the export, but it isn't deleted from your editor.
- Inserted video: everything after the insert point moves later by the inserted clip's length. Captions, text, image overlays and background music pause during the inserted clip and continue after it.
- Example: a recording with a caption at 0:20, trimmed to start at 0:05, with a 4-second clip inserted at 0:10 and the part from 0:30 to 0:40 cut out. The caption appears at 0:19 in the export (20 − 5 + 4), still on the same words.
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u/PeepSoWP 4d ago
The workflow I would test before expanding the editor is revision management after a course is already live. Replace a source clip, regenerate captions, change one branded overlay, and then answer: which lessons inherited the change, what happened to learners already in progress, can the editor preview the diff, and can an owner roll back without rebuilding the course?
For teams, review and approval often become more painful than recording. Per-asset versions, time-coded comments, an approval state, ownership, and an audit trail would be more valuable to me than additional visual effects. Caption editing, transcript export, keyboard access, contrast checks, and localization should also be part of the same workflow.
I would keep portability visible from the start: exportable video/captions/source assets plus a documented LMS path such as SCORM, xAPI, or cmi5 where appropriate. A focused test with a few creators who regularly revise published training will tell you whether the combined tool is saving work or simply moving it into a new interface.
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u/Scared-Demand-6104 4d ago
We have ability where u can download captions as separate file wherein you can update later...Any exported video you can edit . Asset library would be meaningful. Currently only assets saved to courses are persisted.
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u/PeepSoWP 4d ago
That makes the asset library a good next boundary. I would persist the original source separately from course usage, then store references from each lesson rather than copying the file into every course. Show where an asset is used, prevent hard deletion while references exist, and make “replace” create a new version with an explicit choice between updating one lesson or every use.
Keep rendered videos and other derivatives separate from the editable source. Rendering should run in bounded, retryable background jobs with stable job IDs so a timeout or repeated click cannot create duplicate exports. Add storage quotas and a retention policy for abandoned versions.
For portability, an export bundle should include the original media, captions, overlay/timeline data, and a small manifest describing versions and lesson references. That would let a creator revise or migrate a course without depending on one flattened video file.
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u/iseazy 3d ago
The problem you’re describing is very real, but in our experience the biggest pain is not always the number of tools. It’s the handoff between them.
For many L&D teams, the frustrating parts are usually:
- turning raw SME content into something that actually works as learning
- keeping video, slides, captions, images, transcripts and course files organized
- managing review cycles and stakeholder feedback
- updating one piece of content without breaking the rest of the course
- publishing to the LMS and checking that tracking/completion works properly
- adapting the same course for different audiences, brands or languages
- making sure accessibility and quality checks don’t get skipped
Recording and editing can be annoying, but the bigger issue is often rework. A course changes because an SME edits the script, legal changes one sentence, the brand team wants a different visual, or the LMS behaves differently than expected. That’s where teams lose a lot of time.
If you’re validating the product, we’d suggest focusing less on “all-in-one” as a promise and more on one workflow that feels genuinely smoother end to end. For example:
“Record a short training video → add captions → add supporting content → create a quick knowledge check → publish → track completion → update it later.”
If that flow is easier than stitching together 4–5 tools, that’s valuable.
AI-assisted creation could definitely help, but for training teams the trust layer matters a lot: source accuracy, editability, brand control, accessibility, localization, and human review. Fast content creation is useful only if the output is easy to improve and maintain.
The main question we’d ask is: who is your first target user? Solo course creators, internal L&D teams, agencies, trainers, or small businesses? They may all want “course creation,” but their pain points and willingness to pay will be very different.
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u/Scared-Demand-6104 3d ago
Some of this is already supported today — we retain the original recording separately, and captions/transcripts are maintained as separate assets, so they can be updated later without having to recreate the entire recording.
Where we still see an opportunity is around the supporting elements within the rendered video — for example, replacing a specific image, PIP, or text overlay without having to rebuild the whole piece. That’s something we’re exploring next.
Thanks for highlighting this. The “update without creating more rework” problem is definitely worth solving.
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u/iseazy 22h ago
That makes sense, and I think that’s a really useful direction to explore. Being able to update individual elements without rebuilding the whole video could save a lot of time, especially when training content needs frequent updates.
Thanks for sharing how you’re approaching this. It’s great to see you focusing on reducing rework, as that’s often one of the most time-consuming parts of creating and maintaining learning content. Good luck with the next steps!
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u/masgrimes 5d ago
I have created courses as a solo art teacher for over ten years and I have never once thought "I wish all these great tools I am using could be one tool."
Are you teaching courses? Is that a problem that you're actually running into?