eLearning Content Development for Cornerstone OnDemand
One team owns the whole build
Your calendar stays clear, and you review a finished course instead of chasing a vendor chain. Your instructional designer runs the SME interviews, owns the storyboards, and owns the finished delivery through upload and smoke-test in your Stage environment, with accessibility checked throughout. You’ll work with the same person from kickoff to delivery.
Most vendor models split the work across teams. One team storyboards, another records voiceover, a third develops, and an accessibility consultant parachutes in at the end. In practice, someone on your side ends up tracking all of it. We run it as one loop, with storyboarding, development, QA, and accessibility checks all in house.
Most eLearning vendors hand you a file. We hand you a course that launches clean in your Stage environment, uploaded and configured. The same instructional designer stays with it through upload and smoke-test, so the person who knows the course also sees it working in your system.
What our own tooling does in the build
Tooling we built and maintain in house does the groundwork, and it uses AI to do it. The tooling drafts the storyboard from your SME interview, checks accessibility throughout the build, and flags QA issues as they appear, not at the end. Every draft goes to your instructional designer, who rewrites what the course actually needs and signs it off. No storyboard reaches development without a person approving that specific draft.
The instructional designer brings the craft. They decide what the course needs to teach, how to structure it for the audience, and what to push back to the SME. That’s what turns a well-checked draft into a course your learners actually finish.
What we build
- Course builds. SME interview to upload, accessibility sign-off included. One team owns the whole build.
- Accessibility audits and remediation. Every learner gets in, whatever device or assistive tech they use. Full WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 audit, and we do the fixes, not just produce a report.
- Tracking and packaging. Your compliance team gets the records it needs at audit time. SCORM or xAPI: we advise on what your requirements actually need, then handle the build.
- SME-led storyboards. We interview your SMEs and own the storyboard. You don’t have to make them instructional designers.
- Voiceover and localization. Professional voiceover, captions, and multi-language localization, with a written script your team can check.
- Content library hygiene. Duplicate audit, retirement of outdated content, refresh planning. No graveyard catalog.
How a course gets built
Kickoff. SME interview, objective alignment, first storyboard draft. Nothing goes into development until the storyboard is approved. You’ll talk to the same instructional designer throughout.
Build. Development, accessibility checks, voiceover, and QA run together. Our own tooling flags issues as they appear so they’re resolved before your SME sees the course.
Review. Your SME reviews a working course, not a spec document. We handle the changes and keep the course moving until it’s ready.
Delivery. Your learners open a finished course that tracks correctly on Cornerstone. Final sign-off, packaging, upload, and a smoke-test in Stage.
How we compare
| GroveDeck | eLearning vendor | In-house instructional designer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timeline per course | Weeks, scoped together upfront | Six to twelve weeks on their schedule | Competes with existing deadlines |
| Accessibility | We build it in from day one | Final-stage audit or added scope | Depends on available expertise |
| Tracking | We build the tracking you need | SCORM default; exceptions rescoped | Whatever the authoring tool supports |
| Cornerstone delivery | Tested in your Cornerstone system | Generic package and handoff | Upload and QA join the LMS queue |
| Catalog upkeep | We leave it clean | Outside the project scope | Cleanup waits behind new work |
| When something changes | We update it | It gets rescoped | It joins the internal queue |
| Who’s accountable | Your instructional designer | Project manager through delivery | The designer carrying every priority |
Common questions
How involved do we need to be during the build?
Your SME needs about ninety minutes for the initial interview and one focused review of a working course. We handle the changes and everything else.
How does your accessibility process actually work?
It runs throughout the build, not at the end. We finish with a full WCAG 2.1 AA audit in Cornerstone’s player and a written sign-off for compliance.
Do you handle tracking and packaging?
It depends on what your compliance requirements actually need. SCORM or xAPI. We work through that with you before anything gets built, then handle whichever approach fits.
Can you fix accessibility issues in our existing library?
Yes. We audit, prioritize by risk and remediation cost, triage ADA, Section 508, and PSBAR courses first, then do the fixes. If the source files are gone, we’ll tell you whether it’s worth rebuilding or retiring.
Can you handle multi-language localization for regulated content?
Yes. Professional translation with in-country review. For healthcare, government, and higher education, anything where a mistranslation creates legal exposure gets human review.
What we also do
Want us to run the whole system? See Managed administration. Moving onto Cornerstone? See Migrations.
You keep your strategy and your SMEs. We take the build, the accessibility work, and the Cornerstone delivery, and you’ll work with the same people every course.
Get your first course startedYour instructional designer from kickoff to delivery. No vendor chain.