Greetings from Hawaii. Do you want to build amazing training? Do you want to engage your learners? Well we have just the answer for you. We just launched some cool new Flash Games! These new games will help you build, to use a local term, ”mo’ bettah” training courses. Our new games include some exciting new features like: new audio sound effects, timed activies, and sports challenges, just to name a few.

Check out these cool new games:

Wheel Spin – In this game, your learners spin the big wheel, answer the question correctly, and earn the points from the spin.

Line It Up – Line It Up is a sequence type game where you have to put all of the options on the screen in the correct order. It is great for quizzing someone regarding memory order.

Try Your Luck – In this fun game, you get to “buzz in” to stop the bouncing game piece, answer the question correctly, and earn points for each correct answer.

Word Guess – The Word Guess game presents your learners with a question and they are given an opportunity to guess the answer by selecting different letters and filling in the blanks.

Jump Shot – Are you ready for a little sports action? In Jump Shot, as your learners answer questions correctly, they earn time to shoot jump shots at the end of your quiz.

Field Goal – Field Goal is very similar to Jump Shot, in that your learners earn time to kick Field Goals for each correct answer in the quiz questions.

Board Game – The Board Game challenge is similar to playing a classic board game. Learners roll the dice, move the game piece, and answer questions.

Card Stack – Sort through a stack of cards to identify the correct answer.

Fishing – Well, it’s just like it sounds…learners get to cast their line, catch a fish, and answer a question.

Come check out our new Flash Games and see for yourself how much fun elearning can be!

Are you developing online training content (eLearning)? Do you want to save money and time? Are there multiple members on your team and you need everything to be consistent? Are there varying levels of technical expertise on the team?

These are just a few questions that we come across while building online training content. Using templates to build eLearning can address many of the questions above. Before discussing a few points let me describe what I mean by eLearning templates.

Templates can include many different assets. Many common ones are PowerPoint master slide layouts that have many different pages ready for you to insert content. There are also various tools that create template interfaces and GUIs for courses. E-learning templates can include buttons, icons, color schemes, images, quizzes, games, and more. Basically they can be used over and over in different projects. Now let’s discuss a few benefits.

Save Time and Effort

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the interface, page layouts, buttons, icons, colors, and the most often used components of an online course ready to go? Right there on your desktop and ready to drag and drop into place?

Having templates ready to go means that you don’t have to waste time re-creating the same pieces for each course. This can be very valuable for those who may not have a strong background in multimedia. It could take a novice designer a long time to create a flash movie or design an asset that an expert could do in minutes. Also, the quality will be very different.

Another huge plus is that the designers can now spend time focusing on writing good material and less on how to make a button look pretty.

Consistency

Many organizations want their online courses to be consistent. They should have the same colors, look/feel, quality, etc. no matter who the individual designer was. Templates can help achieve this desire. Designers have a base to work from and are all using the same files.

You can also develop a template interface player. This would ensure that learners always have the same navigation options on each course. You could also standardize where links to job aids, outlines, bookmarks, and other features appear. The learner becomes familiar with navigating your course and doesn’t need to waste time trying to figure that part out. They can jump right into the training.

Technical Functionality

Are there certain requirements that your Learning Management System has for courses to function properly? Are there guidelines that the IT department has? Templates are a great way to build a file that works within all guidelines and then to share it with the entire department. As designers use the template it cuts down on troubleshooting time trying to determine why something isn’t working. That effort has already been done and only needs to happen once.

Move Beyond Your Talent

There are some amazing multimedia designers that can create some great content for online training. Not all instructional designers are good at creating multimedia. Templates can be created to add a lot of professionally designed interactivity and games to courses. All you have to know how to do is edit the template and then you can add content that is beyond your skill level to create on your own.

Increase Output and Creativity

I touched on this earlier but e learning templates allow designers to spend time on what they do best…writing course content. Templates can allow you to spend project time on the “meat” of the course and not on the “administrative” parts. This has two consequences: 1. You can spend time thinking of creative ways to make your course interesting and 2. You can build more courses in a shorter amount of time.

I hope that this article gave you a few ideas around how eLearning templates can help you and your team.

If you would like to see some templates here are some examples:
eLearning Flash Template Interactions
eLearning Games
PowerPoint Templates

Are you tired of the same dull classroom training experiences? Why not start the New Year with a resolution to liven up your classroom training content?

The Brothers have been hard at work designing some new PowerPoint Classroom Games that are a perfect way to add some energy and excitement to your classroom training courses. We currently have two different games available: GameShow and Millionaire.

Game features include:

• Professional graphics and design
• Team play available (GameShow)
• Automated score tracking
• Built in timers on each question slide
• Customizable questions and answers
• Compatible with PC – PowerPoint 03, 07, and 10

Game packages include all source files and an additional PowerPoint file with 40+ different branding themes that you can use to customize the game.

We have been hard working little Elves this Holiday Season, and just finished making some sweet updates to all of our Flash Games and Quizzes.

Check out these updates that give you more control:

• Various question types: multiple-choice, true/false, multiple answer.
• Add 4 – 20 questions.
• Change point values for correct answers.
• Set the countdown timer on timed activities.
• Fresh new graphics.

Of course we still offer these same great features:

• Randomized questions.
• Interchangeable themes/buttons/backgrounds.
• Customizable colors for everything.
• Free online tutorials.
• We give you all .FLA source files for AS2 and AS3.
• SCORM compliant.

All Flash Games and Quizzes are simple to use and easily edited. Just open the template in Flash and copy/paste your text into the movie clips for each question and answer. Remember: you get all source files, so you can tweak them to meet any need you may have.

Check out the new eLearning Games!

Check out the new eLearning Quizzes! 

What does it take to build sweet eLearning? The right tools! At eLearningTemplates.com you will find templates and assets to quickly create amazing courses.

Check out these templates:

eLearning PowerPoint Template – The PowerPoint Template allows you to create eLearning courses in record time. The template includes 80+ master slide layouts, 40+ different themes, and 80+ different background files to choose from. Also available is a free online tutorial demonstrating how to update or change master slide themes, colors, and design.

eLearning Flash Games – Several different game styles are available. All templates are super easy to use…just open the Flash (.fla) source files and add your text. All games are packaged with .fla source files including AS2 & AS3 files; and are compatible with Flash 3 or newer. We also provide free online video tutorials for the novice Flash users!

eLearning Activities – There are 20+ different quizzes and interactions to keep your eLearning engaging! All template packages include the .fla source files with AS2 & AS3; and are compatible with Flash 3 or newer. Free online tutorials are also available to help get you started.

I recently discovered a great authoring tool called iSpring Presenter. It runs as a PowerPoint add-on and is simple to use. Whenever I run across eLearning authoring tools I like to plug-in our eLearning templates and see how they work.

iSpring Presenter worked great with our PowerPoint and Flash templates. I built a demo course and inserted various flash games/quizzes. Check out the iSpring templates page for a demo and tutorial video.

If you’re looking for iSpring Presenter templates you’re in luck!

(Updated 3/2011: We’ve launched the next generation of our PowerPoint templates. The billboard style is now one of 40+ themes in our new PowerPoint Templates.)

Announcing a new PowerPoint course style that you can use in your next course: Billboard

This PowerPoint template gives you an instant look/feel for your next eLearning course. Don’t worry about how to design different layouts. Let us do that work. Just focus on the content that you’d like to input.

Features:

• Over 65 slide master layouts in this PowerPoint theme
• Easily change the background color (Just change the color in the slide master)
• Every thing is designed in PowerPoint (No Photoshop required

(Updated 3/2011: We’ve launched the next generation of our PowerPoint templates. Now there are 75+ layouts and 40+ themes in our new PowerPoint Templates.)

Do you use PowerPoint in your eLearning courses? Do you want a PowerPoint that has tons of pre-designed layouts that look great?

We just added TONS of new layouts to our PowerPoint Course Styles. Each style now includes 65+ unique layouts.

What are these Course Styles:
Ever look at the blank, white, square PowerPoint slide and not know where to start? Well, you don’t have to worry anymore. These course styles are slide master layouts that are ready for your course content. The layouts offer a template that helps you visually layout your course. (and the slides are graphically appealing)

Sample Layouts:

Examples from Courses:

“How-To-Use” Video:	Course Demo:

(Updated 3/2011: We have launched our next generation of PowerPoint templates. Our PowerPoint template set now includes 40+ themes, 80+ backgrounds, and tons of layouts.)

These are PowerPoint templates specifically designed to jump-start the layout design of eLearning courses. Included in each PowerPoint template course style are over 25 slide layouts. They are fully customizable within PowerPoint (in the slide master). Easily change the color of the background or boxes to better match your brand. Also, easily add to the template and make even more layouts. Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses or even other websites and presentations. Developed to work within most Powerpoint based rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Presenter, and others).

Learn more about how to build rapid eLearning with PowerPoint Templates.

eLearningTemplates.com offers high-quality, interactive, easy to use, and low-cost template solutions for eLearning professionals. The goal is to provide some amazing assets that help you develop amazing training. These templates can easily be used in Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, and many other eLearning authoring tools.

Learn more about rapid eLearning templates.