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 edit anything that you’d like? Now you can! The eLearning Flash templates are easy to edit, look amazing, and provide the source files.

How to use the templates:
1. Purchase and download the Flash source files.
2. Open the Flash file and copy/paste your text into the movie clips. (or change anything…you have the source file and can edit every part of the interaction).
3. Publish the .swf file.
4. Insert the .swf file into your authoring tool.

Visit our site for Articulate Skins. (eLearningSkins.com)

We also do custom Articulate Skins.

We are happy to announce the launch of our new Articulate Player Skins site!

Many eLearning designers use Articulate Presenter software to create eLearning courses. Articulate has a standard Player (or Skin) that it uses to “wrap” the course content. A skin has all of the buttons necessary to navigate and use the course. You now have an alternative to the standard Articulate Skin.

Skins come in Packs of 4!
(Change your skins based on the need for audio or more complex controls.)

Each pack of Articulate Skins includes 4 versions:

• 2 Deluxe Skins (with and without audio controls)
• 2 Simple Skins (with and without audio controls)

Making your Articulate Presenter course look awesome is easy!

1. Find and download the Articulate Skin that you like
2. Click and install the skin
3. Choose the new skin when you publish your next Articulate course

Here are some samples:

Just watched a few on adding some great zoom and motion effects to PowerPoint. Also watched a great way to insert an Engage .swf file as a Flash object.

Check out his Articulate videos.

Thanks Dave!

Each pack:

• contains 75+ layouts
• is “clipped out” and ready to drop into your course
• has multiple layouts both looking at and away from the camera
• is high resolution allowing you to zoom in and still maintain quality

Using people in your course can really enhance the overall look and feel. Check out the eLearning People Pictures.

Below are the steps that I take to build Global (or Universal) Glossaries.

Overview

The basic concept is that you create a glossary in Engage and then export it as a website. You can then upload it to a server and use the direct URL to access it from any course. You’d place the link in the Attachments section within Articulate Presenter.

Step 1: Build a glossary interaction in Engage 1. Create New Interaction 2. Choose Glossary 3. Input glossary terms 4. When done click Publish 5. Choose the Web tab 6. Select a publish folder

Step 2: Upload the Glossary files 1. Upload the entire Glossary folder to your web server (typically you’d upload this to the same server that houses your completed courses.) 2. Make note of the entire URL to this location

Step 3: Attach the Glossary to your course. 1. Open the PowerPoint file for your course 2. Click Articulate / Attachments 3. Type a Title such as “Glossary of Terms” 4. Choose Link as the Type 5. In the Path field type the full URL to the engage.html file on your server 6. Click OK

Here is a sample of the Glossary link. Notice how the tab says Glossary instead of Attachments. The step below explains how to change that text.

Optional Step: Change the Course Tab text to Glossary 1. Click Player Templates 2. Make sure that the Player Template that you’d like to change is selected in the drop-down at the bottom of the window 3. Choose Text Labels tab 4. Change the text for Attachments to anything that you’d like. (i.e. Glossary) 5. Click Close

There is a setting within each Player Template in Articulate Presenter that allows your to either allow the course to expand/shrink as the user’s browser window changes size or to lock the content as the “optimal” size. If you don’t lock the presentation then if your user has a large browser window your images/flash might look as though they’ve be “zoomed in”. They could start to get that pixelated look.

Here’s how to lock your presentation size in Articulate Presenter:

1. Click Publish

2. Open the Player Template (the button with 3 dots to the right of the Player Template drop-down)

3. Click the Other tab and choose Lock presenation at optimal size.

Articulate eLearning games and interactive flash templates that you can insert into PowerPoint and Articulate.

There are times when you need to group questions to ensure that they flow in a certain order. (Especially if you want to randomize the order of some and not others.) I’ve also found this helpful if I want to present a scenario and then have specific questions after.

Grouping Questions

Here are the steps:

1. Create your questions

2. Click Question Group

3. Drag the questions into that group

Randomizing Question Order A lot of times you want to randomize the sequence of questions. In Quizmaker you add randomization to groups of questions. So you could have 10 questions randomized and then have the next 10 stay in order. While grouping questions (above steps) think about which ones might be randomized.

Steps:

1. Select on a group of questions

2. Click Randomize Group

Using a Pool of Questions Sometimes you create a pool of 50 questions but only want to have 30 randomly presented.

Steps:

1. Select the group of questions

2. Click Randomize Group

3. Click the Include drop-down

4. Select the number of questions you’d like to include

Shuffling Answers Want to not only randomize the question order but also the possible answers?

Steps:

1. Open Quiz Properties

2. Select Question Defaults

3. Check Shuffle answers

Branching Users that Pass vs. Fail Many times I’d like to send participants that pass the test to a congratulations page. However I’d like to send the participants that fail to a review page.

Steps:

1. Insert the quiz into PowerPoint (done with Articulate Presenter)

2. Quizzes and Interactions window appears

3. In the Quiz Properties area, where a user goes when they Pass and Fail

Adding Flash Videos There could be a time where you’d like the user to view an animation or video vignette prior to answering a question. You could insert a flash movie on the question page.

Steps:

1. Open the question that you’re editing

2. Click Media/Flash Movie

3. Browse to find your flash file

Submitting Questions All at Once There are two ways to have a user submit questions: All at once or One at a time. If a user submits questions one at a time it is nice because they know right away if they got it correct. However it also takes more time to submit each question individually.

Steps:

1. Click Player Templates

2. Choose the Submit all at once template (or you can make your own template … continue to next step)

3. Click New and give your template a name

4. From the Navigation tab select Submit all at once

Using a Timeline You may want to have content on the slide appear in stages. Maybe you are building up to the question. (an animation build)

Steps:

1. Open the question you’re editing

2. Click Slide View

3. Open the Timeline at the bottom of the window

4. Move your text boxes/image to different time markers on the timeline

5. Grab and move the red play bar right and left to see the content appear/disappear

I hope that these tips help. Are there anymore things you’d like to see?

Also, check out our eLearning games and interactive flash templates.

eLearning Games

Each of the games is created in Flash and has scoring and looks amazing. A learner answers various questions and gets feedback and a running score. Every game comes with the .fla file so that you can customize everything until your heart is content.

However, if you don’t know flash very well, that’s ok. All you have to do is insert your question text into the movie clips in the library. (a tutorial is included with every .fla and there are videos on our template tutorial site.

There are 8 games available right now:

Articulate Presenter Games (Jeopardy, Millionaire, Pyramid, Golf, Spy Game, Board Game, Soccer, Bootcamp)

eLearning Interactions

Ever wish that you have tons of interactive page layouts just ready and waiting? Now you can! We’ve created 4 different designs of interactive flash layouts. Pages with tabs and sections, scenarios, drag and drops, flash cards, quizzes, and more! Each set has over 30 interactive layouts.

All you need to do is add your text to the text movieclip in flash and publish. Here are some samples:

Using Templates and Games in Articulate Presenter

Here are the steps to use these flash templates in Articulate:

1. Add the text that you want to see in your game/interaction to the appropriate movieclip in Flash.

2. Publish the flash movie as .swf

3. In PowerPoint go to Articulate / Flash Movie

4. Select your .swf

5. From the Insert Flash Movie window choose these settings:

• Display in slide
• Advance to next slide “When user clicks next”
• Movie plays independently of slide

6. Click OK

That’s it.

Bonus – eLearning PowerPoint Backgrounds

There are also PPT backgrounds available that have over 80 different layouts. We also provide a PPT master template file that you can use to speed up the development process.

(Check out amazing eLearning Games, Flash Interactions, PowerPoint Backgrounds, and eLearning Templates)

These are PPT and Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). All you have to do is open Flash, paste your text, publish, and insert into your favorite eLearning Development tool. Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more).

BONUS: Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

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