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Custom eLearning · Federal & enterprise
Training people remember, built course by course.
DGS Designs develops custom eLearning in Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora — interactive, accessible, and delivered on schedule for federal agencies and private-sector teams alike.
- Storyline
- Captivate
- Lectora
- HTML5
- SCORM / xAPI
- Section 508
Training built for teams at
- U.S. Army
- Microsoft
- Expedia
- Frito-Lay
- U.S. Dept. of Energy
- FEMA
- Veterans Affairs
- Janssen Biotech
- Interstate Batteries
- FAA
- TSA
- DHS
9+
federal agencies served
36
courses in one DOE series
508
accessible by design
What we do
Full-service course development, from first outline to final SCORM package.
One partner for design, development, media, and narration — no hand-offs, no finger-pointing, no surprises at launch.
Custom eLearning development
Courses built from your objectives — not from a template someone else outgrew. We develop in Articulate Storyline, Articulate Studio, Captivate, and Lectora, and we create the custom illustrations, photographs, and 3D models your content needs instead of leaning on stock imagery.
Blended learning solutions
Some skills belong in a classroom; plenty don't. We help you mix instructor-led sessions with online modules so seat time is spent practicing, not listening — and every piece reinforces the others.
Legacy course conversion
Still running Flash or aging HTML courses? We convert existing content into a modern format of your choice — Storyline, Captivate, or HTML5 — preserving what works, fixing what doesn't, and making it run on today's browsers and devices.
PowerPoint to web-based training
Your deck already holds the knowledge — it just isn't training yet. We turn PowerPoint presentations into tracked, interactive web-based courses with narration, knowledge checks, and completion reporting in your LMS.
Narration & media production
Realistic text-to-speech narration from our own studio setup, vetted human voice talent when the project calls for it, and a template library that lets you ramp up production quickly and economically.
Selected work
Course samples
A few of the courses we've shipped — compliance training, technical education, and branching scenarios. Select any sample for a closer look.
How we work
The ADDIE model, run like a production schedule.
DGS Designs follows the ADDIE model of instructional development. In practice it looks like four commitments:
- Analyze
Listen
We start with your objectives
Before a single screen is designed, we sit down with your goals, your audience, and your source material. What must learners be able to do afterward that they can't do now? That answer drives every decision that follows.
- Design
Collaborate
You see it before we build it
Storyboards and prototypes come to you for review while changes are still cheap. Your subject-matter experts weigh in early, so there are no surprises — and no rework marathons — at the end.
- Develop & Implement
Develop
Built in the tool that fits the job
Production in Storyline, Captivate, or Lectora — with custom illustration, 3D models, and narration produced in-house. You get progress builds along the way, not a black box that opens at delivery.
- Evaluate
Deliver on time
On schedule isn't a slogan here
Final SCORM or xAPI packages, tested in your LMS, with knowledge checks that report the way your administrators need. Then we evaluate results together and tune the course if the data says to.
Every course is built Section 508-accessible from the first storyboard: keyboard-operable interactions, captions, and screen-reader-friendly structure — never bolted on at the end.
Published rates
Published rates. No quote games.
Not sure which level your course is? Send us the source material — we'll level it honestly and tell you why. Our development rates are on the table before we ever talk.
Level 1 eLearning
$45/ hr
Page-turner content, light interaction.
- Page-turner content
- Light interaction
- Course updates & maintenance — $45 / hr
- Graphic design — $45 / hr
Most requested
Level 2 eLearning
$55/ hr
Interactive exercises, branching, media.
- Interactive exercises
- Branching scenarios
- Media production
Level 3 eLearning
$65/ hr
Simulations, scenarios, custom programming.
- Simulations
- Scenarios
- Custom programming
- Realistic text-to-speech narration — $0.08 / word
Instant estimate
Rough out a budget in ten seconds. Final hours are confirmed after a quick look at your content.
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Estimate only, based on the published rates above. Final hours are confirmed in a free level assessment.
Send this as a briefWhy DGS Designs
A reliable partner with a track record.
Hands-on experience with federal, state and private-sector clients, published rates, and a process built around delivering on schedule.
Talk to DanFederal-grade experience
Highly specialized, hands-on work inside federal, state, and private-sector training programs — including FEMA, the Department of Energy, Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Army.
Accessible, always
Courses are designed Section 508-accessible from day one — keyboard-first interactions, captions, and structured content that works with assistive technology.
Delivered on time
A proven record of quality projects and satisfied customers, with a process built around one promise: we listen, we collaborate, we develop — and we deliver on time.
From the blog
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Have a course to build?
Tell us what your team needs to learn. We'll come back with an honest level assessment, a timeline, and a number based on the published rates — before you commit to anything.