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Articulate and Flash with Audio

Oct 09, 2009 No Comments by

I’ve been working on an Articulate Presenter course with a lot of flash files that have audio. Each of the .swfs have buttons that the user clicks to go to various frames. There are audio clips that go along with each slide. I quickly began to notice that the .swfs acted differently once imported into [...]

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Presenting at BYOL eLearning 09

Oct 08, 2009 No Comments by

The brothers are presenting Oct 20 at the BYOL eLearning conference (Bring Your Own Laptop) in Salt Lake City, UT. Brother Shawn is doing a session on creating interfaces and the essential elements of course layouts. Brother Andrew is showing how to use Articulate to bring Power Point to life. If you’re at the conference…come [...]

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Millionaire Challenge Flash eLearning Game

Oct 07, 2009 No Comments by

Looking for an exciting new interactive game to quiz your online training participants? Our new Millionaire Challenge might be just what you’re eLearning course needs. This is a Flash based template that is super easy to update. Instructions are included within the files. Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, [...]

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eLearning Template Site Officially Cool!

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

We are pleased to announce our redesigned eLearningTemplates.com site. After our initial scrambled launch back in June, we felt that we could deliver a more intuitive interface design. Notice that we have added a Tutorials page that we’ll continue to populate with screencasts and other useful helps. We have had excellent feedback from many and [...]

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Navigating Articulate API with Flash

Sep 04, 2009 No Comments

Awhile back I did a post about locking Articulate’s navigation and using embedded flash in the slide to navigate by talking to the API. Well…I was working on that project again and it seemed that everything had stopped working. Somehow since I hadn’t touched it for a few weeks it broke? After a few hours [...]

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Quick Scavenger Hunts in Articulate

Jul 15, 2009 No Comments

Let your learners find their own answers…send them on a scavenger hunt! You can use Articule to quickly do this or just do it in PowerPoint. Building this is not hard. Scavenger hunts are a good way to let a learner explore an internal or external site and while looking for specific information. I’ve used [...]

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eLearningDevCon 09 – Awesome!

Jun 19, 2009 No Comments

eLearningDevCon 2009 was great! We’d like to thank Rapid Intake for once again putting on such a great conference. It was wonderful to meet some many eL designers/developers and to get to hear about your projects and to share ideas. The debut of eLearningTemplates.com was a huge success. We had lots of interest in the [...]

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eLearning Template Site is Momma Approved!

Jun 16, 2009 No Comments

I know that that entire eLearning World has been waiting on the edge of their chairs for this announcement… Brother Shawn has officially launched the eLearningTemplates.com site! After many rolls of internal red tape and endless hoops to jump through, it has also been certified “Momma Approved“. The site offers games: PowerPoint Course Style Kits [...]

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Using Flash to Control Articulate Navigation

Jun 02, 2009 7 Comments

I’ve used Articulate for awhile now and have been frustrated that I couldn’t control the navigation of the Articulate Player with my inserted flash. Well…after a bit of snooping and frustration I’ve got it working. If you are a Platinum member of Articulate Support they will give you the software dev kit (SDK) for their [...]

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Spice Things Up!

Mar 30, 2009 No Comments

In reference to an eLearning course, I was recently asked how I would make text and an image more exciting on a page. They showed me a sample of what they were talking about…a white background, black text on one side, and an image on the other side.   What is wrong with this image? [...]

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Graphics: Adding Reflections

Mar 23, 2009 1 Comment

A popular graphics effect used today is adding a reflection to a logo/graphic. This technique adds some depth to the image and ultimately, makes it more engaging. There are multiple techniques to create this…here is one way using Adobe Photoshop. Step 1 Make a copy of the object that you want to add a reflection [...]

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The $10,000 Pyramid Challenge Template

Feb 20, 2009 No Comments

                        This new rapid elearning flash template features ten easy to update questions. Best used to test participants knowledge of particular topics or definitions. Like all our templates, this is super easy to update in Flash. This template is for sell on eLearningTemplates.com. (A [...]

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Jeopardy Challenge Flash Template

Feb 20, 2009 1 Comment

                        We have recently developed some very sweet new rapid elearning flash templates. They are super easy to update in Flash. Basically open the file in Flash, open the library, and then edit text in a handful of movie clips…very easy. This is the [...]

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