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How can I customise course branding in JollyDeck?

Posted by Matija Hiti

Branding helps your courses feel like a natural part of your organisation rather than a generic external tool. When courses use your logo and colours, learners immediately recognise them as official company resources.

In JollyDeck, branding is usually applied in two simple ways:

add your company logo so it appears at the top of every course
define branded colours that can be used throughout your learning content

Together, these elements keep your courses visually consistent with the rest of your company materials.

Applying your company logo

Setting branded colours for your content

Colours are an important part of brand consistency. Instead of relying only on predefined theme colours, JollyDeck allows you to define your own branded colour palette.

Once added, branded colours become available throughout the editor. You can use them in text, buttons, backgrounds, and other elements across your course.

The video below demonstrates how to create a branded colour and make it available across your content.

Brand your courses in JollyDeck

With a few simple adjustments, your courses can reflect your organisation’s identity. A logo makes every course clearly recognisable, while branded colours keep the visual style consistent across slides, highlights, and interactive elements.

You may also have noticed that the walkthroughs in this article are not traditional videos. All of them were created directly in JollyDeck Create using the Interactive Video functionality. This makes it easy to combine narration, on-screen highlights, and interactive moments without recording or editing a conventional video.

If you would like to try it yourself, the quickest way is to start directly in the editor.

How to make learning videos interactive: A quick guide

Posted by Matija Hiti

Most explainer videos are built for watching, not for learning. They put the learner in a passive role: sit back, follow along, and hope it sticks.

With JollyDeck interactive videos, you can activate learners by combining narration with response-driven moments that make them stop, think, and respond before the video moves on.

What interactive AI video feels like in practice

Interactive video is still a video, but it does not treat the learner as a passenger. It keeps the pace of narration, then introduces a moment where the learner has to do something before the video continues.

The example is intentionally minimal. The same pattern can then be used more deliberately – placed at the steps people usually miss, at decision points, or right before a critical action.

Where interactive AI video works best

This format is particularly effective when the goal is to guide someone through a task. Software walkthroughs are the most obvious example. Instead of showing where to click and hoping the learner follows, the video can pause at the key step and require a response before moving on.

A classic software walkthrough can also be recorded as a video, but this approach is simply much faster to produce and update.

It also works well for onboarding sequences, where new users need to understand both the logic and the order of actions. Short interaction points can be placed at critical steps to make sure attention stays with the process.

Another strong use case is procedural training. When a sequence must be followed correctly, small response moments help reinforce the structure and reduce the risk of skipping over important details.

In all these cases, the principle is the same. You decide where progress is allowed. The learner cannot move past a critical step without demonstrating attention. The video is not only explaining what to do. It creates small, controlled moments of action inside the explanation.

How this video was built

The example above is intentionally simple, so it is easy to see what goes into it. In JollyDeck, you start by writing the narration as text. Then you generate the AI avatar voice. Next, you add the screens and highlights that support the narration. Finally, you insert a response moment where the video pauses and waits for input.

The short “making-of” video below shows how quickly a video like this can be assembled. And if you are wondering – the “making-of” video was created in JollyDeck as well.

As you can see, this is not the usual “record, re-record, and edit” workflow. You build the video from simple parts, so putting together a first version is quick – and updating it later is just as easy!

Try an interactive video yourself

The fastest way to see the difference is to build one. In JollyDeck, you can turn a short piece of narration into an interactive video with screens, highlights, and a response moment – without recording yourself or editing a traditional video file.

Your first draft can be ready in minutes. Ready?