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Hi. My name's Kai and I'm a Senior Instructional Designer here at Brightwave. I'm going to show you a course we did for Virgin Atlantic.

The course is about back safety but what Virgin didn't want is any old, boring back safety course as they've got quite a youthful audience, 19-25 sort of age. So we came up with this one.

This is a type of portal menu and each of these different sections represent different modules. Each module has its own design. An Indiana Jones style design on the top left here, a Weakest Link, a horror, a 50's comic book feel with x-ray specs, Woody Allen etc. So each module has its own strong design and is quite different from each other. They're also very cartoony, another one of our courses with big bold graphics - if you make a course very visual it's surprising what you can teach people.

So if we go into 'Snakes Alive'. You can see the design is carried through. It's a fairly conventional screen, this is a multiple choice question, but you can see we've gone for really bold graphics to make it more interesting.

Back to the main menu and into 'Lift the curse of back pain'. You can see we've followed this horror theme all the way through. This is again one of the more conventional screens, a multiple choice question.

We have flash games as well, just to make things a bit more interesting. We have this game which is called 'The Donut Challenge.' This is based on the idea that the disks in your back are like donuts in that they are filled with a sort of jelly. (Not quite like donuts obviously but that's the idea.) With this game you're asked to lift or carry something and then you have to choose which of the methods you'd like to use. If you get it wrong, you can see the jam spurts out of the donut, the game ends and you have to start from the beginning again. So it's emphasising a serious message but also all about fun.

The final section I want to talk about is the end of course assessment which is nothing more than a ten question assessment but again we've tried to have some fun with it making it based on the 'Weakest Link' but instead calling it the 'Weakest Disk'. You have to go through and answer the questions. If you get it wrong you can see it shows a bent spine which means you've lifted something incorrectly. If you get it right, it shows a straight spine. So, although it's a very simple idea it does lift the standard course assessment up just that little bit more.

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