Your course goes live and you’re done right? Wrong…there are always changes and updates I really don’t like spending tons of time “maintaining” course content. How can course updates be minimized? Here are some ideas: Speak in the Now – If you’re creating a course for something that will happen in the future why not [...]
Do you have a Flash file that you’ve inserted into Articulate Presenter and it is doing “weird” things? Does it skip the first frame? Does it just keep playing and seem to ignore the stop actions? We have many Articulate users that use our Flash Games and Interactions to build courses. I often get questions [...]
Just a quick announcement that we just launched a new eLearning Style: Carbon Fiber. View the Flash eLearning Interactions View the PowerPoint Course Template Now you have an instant look and feel for your next course. (Many PowerPoint layouts and matching quizzes and interactions.)
I ran across the great article on Work Memory. This is an interesting topic for eLearning designers because we are typically trying to “cram” tons of information into someone’s head in less than 30 mins. There are great tips in the article that could help us build better training. The ones that jumped out to [...]
Just want to send out an update that the Articulate Skins now have new capabilities. We’ve updated the skins to support Articulate’s branching and slide locking capabilities. Both of these functions are tied into the Slide Properties panel under the Articulate tab. Bonus update: The skins have also been tweaked to work with the latest [...]
Every once in awhile I get asked, “How do I use Articulate with Moodle?”. Well…now there’s a great answer online. MoodleTuts.com – A bunch of short video tutorials to help you with various Articulate and Moodle questions. Thanks to Dave Mozealous for starting this and also to Joe Deegan for contributing. Here are some additional [...]
Want to add some “style” to your courses? Need to make them look awesome? Here are some new eLearning course styles that we just launched. Each style has matching PowerPoint master slide layouts and flash interactions. You now have professionally designed PowerPoint slide layouts and can insert 30+ different flash interactions and activities. iStyle Big [...]
Sometimes it is very effective to add people pictures to your online courses. They could be used as a guide/narrator that directs the learner through the course or you could use people to create scenarios and graphics. Below are a few simple examples and layouts for using cut-out people pictures in eLearning. The pictures are [...]
8 Flash games, 1 PowerPoint eLearning course style theme , 1 Flash Interactions Pack included in this bundle AND 1 Articulate Presenter Course Skin! These are PowerPoint and Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash and PowerPoint (we give you the source files). Easily integrate into [...]
Maybe spelling correctly is overrated. Does it really matter if a few letters are “mixed up”? Isn’t the most important thing that the concept/information is transferred? In fact we’ve probably all done the activity where only the first and last letter of each word are correct and the ones in the middle are mixed up [...]
Awhile back I ran into a company called Forio and was able to sit down and see a demo. Their tool could really help my fellow eLearning developers so I thought I’d share. Their free tool is called Forio Simulate and it lets you quickly build web-based business simulations. What is really neat is that [...]
The company did a total redo of their intranet site and wanted to introduce it to their employees. It’s designed to give a short general overview and then let them choose parts to explore. View the course
Here is a set of 50 symbols that are used across the globe to help passengers and pedestrians. These could come in handy as you look for symbols/icons to use in your next online course. Take a look at these Universal Symbols. (They are free to download and use.) Add Flash Activities to your next [...]
We’d like to announce our latest interactive Flash template set: iStyle. Have you ever wanted to have a library of pre-made Flash interactions and activities? Templates that look great and could be easily integrated with your eLearning authoring software? (i.e. Articulate, Captivate, Unison, Lectora, etc.) Do you also want the source files so you can [...]
I never thought about text expansion/contraction until I needed to have a course translated. Headings, titles, and buttons that worked fine in English suddenly ran out of space when getting translated. When creating a course that will be in multiple languages you must plan upfront for the “room” that each language will need. Here is [...]
This Flash Ninja game is a customization of one our eLearning template games. The client ordered our ShootOut Challenge Flash game and had us shake it up a bit. This was a lot of fun to do and created a pretty unique elearning game. If you’re familiar with our flash templates, you know that pretty much [...]
I like to have color themes for my courses. I carry the colors into my images, course skin, backgrounds, and marketing communications. At times we need to create courses for an international market. Colors have different meanings across the world. Here is a great charts that helps us know what various colors mean in different [...]
