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Ramano Stoute · Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer

I build learning environments people actually want to be in.

Custom eLearning courses, labs and simulations built in code, the kind that keep learners inside the course instead of looking for the exit.

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Open to my next role · Remote, working with teams across North America

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Reef Guardian · Phishing training

A real-looking inbox where people check senders, hover links and report the fakes, then see every red flag they missed.

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An operating system
inside the LMS.

ROSe started as an experiment and a question I couldn't let go of: how far can you push an LMS before it pushes back? A few prototypes later I had PonchOS, a Linux-inspired shell. Once I cracked the interface, it became ROSe, the operating system in the video. Learners open apps, run tools and respond to incidents without leaving the course, and their work lands in the gradebook.

Built with FAR · Fluid Adaptive Runtime

The apps
that live inside it.

AI Image Generator
Generative tool built into the OS
Task Manager
Live workflow management
Offensive Security Tool
Simulated pen-testing environment
Network Diagnostic Tool
Live network analysis
ROSe  ·  Ramano Operating System Emulator
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There's more where that came from.

Want to see what it's like for yourself?

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Adaptive Assignments
Assessment · Gradebook Integration
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Games & Gamification
Engagement · Voluntary Completion
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What I actually build.

Most of it lives inside an LMS. All of it is built for the person taking the course, not the person delivering it.

Courses people stay in

When I joined the AI program, learners were missing LMS assignments because they'd rather stay in DataCamp. So I rebuilt the course as a one-stop shop, with lessons, practice and a working terminal on the same page. Nobody needed to leave unless it was for further reading.

  • Learner first
  • LMS native
  • One place to learn

Labs & simulations

Places to practice where getting it wrong is part of the lesson. Phishing sims, security labs, AI tools and full OS sandboxes, built so the activity feels like the job instead of a quiz bank.

  • Scenario-based
  • Gradebook sync
  • Branching paths

Games where the mechanic is the lesson

If it's a racing game, a quiz shouldn't pop up mid-race and kill the momentum. Answer well between races and you earn better upgrades for your car. When the learning feeds the mechanic, nobody feels like they're being tested.

  • Game mechanics
  • Voluntary completion
  • Gradebook sync
Programs delivered through
Ontario Tech University Interactive course builds
Toronto Metropolitan University Learning environments & labs
George Brown College Instructional design & development

Your redesign is way, way better than the original. I would have never failed if this is how the course had always looked.

A. Holford, learner

How I actually work.

Nobody taught me the industry way, so I built my own. I learned the names for most of it, like backward design and scenario-based learning, after I was already doing it.

01

Look before I read

The first time I open a course, I don't read a word. I look at how the text sits on the page. Is it wordy? Are there dense blocks nobody will get through? A course can be ugly and still feel great to get through, so the feel comes first.

02

Build for the person receiving it

A lot of eLearning is designed around the person delivering it: narration that slows you down, endless clicking to reach the point. I build for the learner first, then make sure it still works for the people running the program.

03

Make it interesting, then teach

I failed math until a teacher started drawing everything on the board. So when I taught cybersecurity, I drew too. Bob was a stick man with a beard, and when he needed a girlfriend, I copied Bob and gave him a wig. My students laughed, and the concepts stuck.

04

Why code and not Storyline?

The honest answer: I didn't know Articulate existed. I figured everything out by experimenting. When I finally tried Storyline, it felt limiting next to what I could already build by hand, so I went back to pushing the LMS to its limits. You get every file, and nothing needs a license to keep running.

Ramano Stoute
Ramano Stoute
Learning designer & developer

I got here by
accident.

I wrote stories and sermons for my church magazine in elementary school. In high school the arts side of things was basically gone, and I felt lost for a while. At 18 I applied to psychology because a friend said I was good at listening. Then I switched to criminology because a dean said I should. That was the pattern for a stretch: trying to move forward while feeling disconnected from the work.

In 2024 I misread a work email. "Tour of duties." I thought it meant a trip to the head office in Toronto. That tour is where I first saw instructional design. It changed everything.

I was an instructor at the time. The content was dry. An AI course with uninspired material. Then I found a source code feature in the LMS and realized I could write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript myself. I barely knew what I was doing. I taught myself for the next cohort anyway. The early work is rough. I cringe looking at it now. But something opened up. Pages turned into labs. Labs turned into full environments. Eventually I built two browser-based operating systems inside the LMS: PonchOS (a pun on my university nickname, Poncho) and ROSe.

My former boss told me I had an intuition for pedagogy. I had no idea what that meant, so I nodded and kept going. It clicked when he started calling me Seal Team Six: drop me into a course, I fix it, I come out and do it again. S. Gill once posted that I was “our Superman, thank you for being such a powerhouse.” Another coworker called me salt, because I was in everything.

Today I work in marketing, which uses the same muscles: figure out who you're talking to, then give them a reason to stay. What I want next is a role where solving problems creatively is the job, whether that's learning design, marketing or something in between.

Ramano Stoute
Tenneri · Learning design, development & marketing
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Let's talk about
what's next.

Hiring for a role, or have a course that needs rebuilding? Either way, I'd like to hear about it. I work remotely with teams across North America.

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