In 2011 Mediasphere was contracted by Virgin Australia to design and build an online course in safety management systems. This course would consist of an HTML based page shell containing written content and Flash objects to highlight key concepts on the course material. Mediasphere’s instructional designers were intimately involved in the writting of the course content based on material provided by content experts at Virgin Australia. In addition to the course page content Mediasphere also created a series of storyboards for the Flash objects.

The Flash objects centred around the concept of a Safety Management System diagram that builds up at the beginning of the course as each area of safety management is introduced. This diagram is used in subsequent Flash objects with call outs animating out of the diagram for each topic.

Originally the Flash objects were included as an additional resource in support of a page of written content. However it was felt that the objects presented the content in such an appealing way that the written pages could be removed entirely and the content provided in Flash form only.

Once completed Mediasphere provided the course to Virgin Australia as a SCORM 1.2 compliant package for import into the Oracle iLearning platform.

Below are a number of sample objects from the SMS 101 Basic Principles of Safety Management Systems.