Training & Workplace Learning
Animated training videos for workplace learning
AutoScribble helps training providers, L&D teams, HR and operations managers turn handbooks, policies and course outlines into short, narrated whiteboard training videos. Paste the source text, edit the script it drafts, and download a video of up to four minutes to upload to your LMS, intranet or induction pack.
Who it's for: Learning and development teams, HR business partners, operations and compliance managers, and independent training providers.
The communication problems we hear most
Handbooks aren't read
New starters sign to say they have read a 40-page handbook. Few have. Key points are lost among the detail.
Policies change, videos don't
Filmed training is expensive to redo when a policy changes, so outdated content stays in circulation.
Distributed and shift teams
Warehouses, retail and care teams can't all attend the same session. Short videos can be watched on a break or at home.
Courses are too long for the job
A two-hour e-learning module is hard to fit in. People need the three-minute version of the one thing they need today.
What you can make
Onboarding series
Five two-minute videos covering values, first-week logistics, pay and holidays, IT basics and who to ask.
Policy explainers
Expenses, lone working, data protection or speaking up, in plain language.
Microlearning modules
A long course broken into focused three-minute lessons.
Manager briefings
How to run a return-to-work conversation or approve leave.
Change communication
What is changing, why, and what people need to do.
Refresher content
Annual reminders that are quicker to watch than to reread.
From source material to finished video
- 1
Split the source
Divide the handbook or course into single topics. One video, one behaviour or decision.
- 2
Draft from the text
Paste each section and ask for a video of a set length for your audience.
- 3
Subject-expert review
HR, legal or health and safety leads check the script before it is made.
- 4
Publish and track yourself
Download and upload to your LMS or intranet. Completion tracking comes from your LMS; AutoScribble has no SCORM export.
Have HR, legal or health and safety specialists approve scripts on regulated topics. A video supports training; it doesn't replace required practical instruction.
Worked example
Illustrative example. Source: the 'Claiming expenses' section of a staff handbook. Audience: all new starters. Length: 90 seconds, landscape.
Sample narration
“Spent your own money on a work trip? Here's how to get it back. Keep the receipt — a photo is fine. Submit your claim in the expenses system within thirty days. Your manager approves it, and the money arrives with your next monthly pay.”
Storyboard (illustrative, not a rendered video)
- Scene 1
A person paying for a train ticket, a thought bubble with a pound sign.
Spent your own money on a work trip?
- Scene 2
A phone photographing a receipt.
Keep the receipt — a photo is fine.
- Scene 3
A calendar with day 30 circled and a claim form.
Submit your claim… within thirty days.
- Scene 4
A manager ticking the form, coins flowing into a payslip.
Your manager approves it, and the money arrives…
Prompts you can use today
Copy a prompt, or open it straight in the create box. Replace anything in square brackets.
Handbook section to video
Turn the handbook section below into a 90-second landscape whiteboard video for new starters. Use only what the text says, write in a friendly second-person voice, draw each step as a numbered stage, and finish with who to ask if they're unsure. [Paste section here]
Policy explainer
Create a 2-minute landscape whiteboard video explaining our [policy name] to all staff. Cover why the policy exists, what people must do, what they must not do and how to report a concern, using only the policy text below. [Paste policy here]
Microlearning module
Make a 3-minute whiteboard microlearning video on [single skill] for [audience]. Start with a realistic workplace scenario, show the right approach in three steps, and end with one question the learner should be able to answer.
What AutoScribble does
- Start from a typed idea, a pasted script, a website address, or an uploaded plain-text, Markdown or RTF document
- Edit the draft title, script and scene plan freely before anything is made
- Videos from 30 seconds to 4 minutes, in landscape (16:9) or portrait (9:16)
- Narration in 15 languages with a choice of voices
- Your logo and brand colours drawn into the sketch
- Download as MP4, share a private link, or embed on your website
- 100 credits make one minute of video; new accounts get 50 welcome credits for one free 30-second video
- Android app on Google Play; on iPhone, use the website in Safari
There is no LMS, SCORM or record-system integration: you download the video and upload it where you need it. Read how it works in how AutoScribble works or get the Android app.
When sketch animation fits
- Explaining policies, processes and the reasons behind them
- Onboarding content that must be consistent
- Content that changes and needs cheap updates
- Short refreshers watched on phones
When another format is better
- Software training — screen recordings are clearer
- Physical skills like manual handling — practical, supervised training
- Assessed compliance — use your LMS quizzes alongside the video
Questions from training & workplace learning teams
Can I upload AutoScribble videos to our LMS?
Yes, as an MP4 you upload yourself. There is no SCORM package or LMS integration, so completion tracking comes from your LMS.
How do I turn a long course into microlearning?
List the separate decisions or behaviours in the course, make one short video for each, and order them into a playlist. Our microlearning guide walks through it.
How quickly can I update a video when a policy changes?
Edit the script and regenerate. Because nothing is filmed, updating a two-minute video takes minutes plus render time.
Can we add our company branding?
Yes — add your logo and brand colours so the drawings use your palette.
Are there team approval workflows?
Not inside AutoScribble. Share the script text or a draft link with reviewers, collect sign-off in your usual way, then generate.
What length works best for workplace training?
Two to three minutes for one topic. AutoScribble makes videos from 30 seconds to 4 minutes.
Sources and further reading
Step-by-step guides
How to turn an employee handbook into onboarding videos
Identify the handbook sections that matter in a new starter's first week, turn each into a 90-second to two-minute whiteboard video using the section text as the source, and have HR approve each script. Send the series before day one and keep the handbook as the full reference.
Read the guideHow to explain workplace policies with whiteboard animation
Structure every policy video the same way — why the policy exists, what people must do, what they must not do, and how to raise a concern — and build it only from the approved policy text. Keep it to two minutes, use realistic workplace scenarios, and get the policy owner (and legal or H&S where relevant) to approve the script.
Read the guideHow to break a training course into animated microlearning modules
List the individual decisions or behaviours your course teaches, turn each into one three-minute whiteboard video that opens with a realistic scenario and ends with a check question, then sequence them into a playlist in your LMS. Keep the course's assessments where they are; the videos replace long content blocks, not assessment.
Read the guideRelated sectors
- Manufacturing & Engineering — Shop-floor induction and quality training.
- Universities & Higher Education — Instructional design methods overlap closely.
- Healthcare & Medical Training — Clinical induction and mandatory training.
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