Hi everyone Over the past few months, we’ve been adding a number of new capabilities to New Evolve following the September preview period. As those features come online, we expect more teams will want to begin building net-new content in New Evolve by default.
As part of that, we’re trying to better understand how teams think about migrating existing legacy Evolve content and what factors influence those decisions.
A few questions we’d love your perspective on:
When you think about your existing legacy Evolve courses, what factors would most influence whether a course is worth migrating to New Evolve versus leaving it as-is?
(For example: usage, learner feedback, frequency of updates, importance to your business, etc.)
What would make migrating a legacy course feel not worth the effort for your team?
(e.g. time required, complexity, level of change needed, risk to learners)
When migrating an existing course, what level of manual effort starts to feel like “too much”?
(For example: light cleanup vs. having to rebuild significant portions of a course)
If you were starting a brand-new course today, what would influence your decision to build it in New Evolve rather than legacy Evolve?
If you’re open to sharing examples from your own content or workflows, that context would be incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time!
For my existing legacy Evolve courses, the biggest factors influencing whether migration is worth it are client expectations and risk of disruption. My clients are very particular about their products and conduct annual reviews, so stability and continuity matter more than platform improvements alone.
This year I moved content from Adapt to Evolve, and the process required a full rewrite rather than a simple transfer. Because of that experience, putting clients through another major rebuild would feel unsettling and hard to justify unless there was a very clear benefit.
Migration starts to feel “not worth the effort” when it involves rebuilding significant portions of a course or revalidating content that is already approved and performing well. Light cleanup would be fine, but anything approaching a rewrite feels too risky given learner and client expectations.
We’re also currently procuring a new LMS, and clients specifically asked for assurances that this change wouldn’t disrupt them again, which reinforces how cautious we need to be with further platform transitions.
For brand-new courses, I’d be more open to building directly in New Evolve, as there’s no existing learner or client experience to protect, I was informed that I would be required to buy separate licences for New & Legacy, which is not affordable to us.
Hi @Emily_Goldstein
Here’s a fairly typical example from last week.
Client, “Can you help us to update the course you built for us in 2021”, me, “Sure, what do you need?”
Client, “Six text edits, change a video and one picture, in all seven languages.”
Me, “Right now, that’s half a day of effort at most”.
What would the answer be with legacy courses and the new Evolve workflow as this kind of stuff comes up all the time?
Over the past few months, we’ve been adding a number of new capabilities to New Evolve following the September preview period. As those features come online, we expect more teams will want to begin building net-new content in New Evolve by default.