Are you using Articulate to build your online training? Looking for some cool interactions and games that you can quickly add into Articulate.

eLearning Interactions is an online tool that lets you build interactions and games. The interactions can then be imported into Articulate or many other eLearning authoring tools.

Sample Interactions (70+ Available):

Sample Visual Themes (100+ Available):

eLearning Interactions details:

• Online tool that can be accessed from any browser
• Just add text/images/audio and download a flash file for Articulate
• No software to install…all web-based
• No programming skills needed
• Download a single file when done
• Save interactions to edit later

Pre-developed Templates! That’s the secret sauce! We have been making and using eLearning templates for years. If you need to quickly develop eLearning courses, using templates is the way to go.

I developed this entire course in about an hour!

In my example below I used Articulate, a rapid eLearning software that leaverages PowerPoint. I started off with a PowerPoint Course style template that I then customized to match my branding. I used a People Cutout series to give the course a friendly presenter that walks the learner through the training. Inserting some Flash interactions and a game helped make the course more engaging. The interactions and game were made at eLearning Interaction Builder. Finally, the course was published with a custom Articulate skin (player).

Here is a list of the prices and products used to develop this course:

• Articulate Presenter software
• $149 PowerPoint Course Style
• $40/month eLearning Interactions Builder subscription
• $150 People Cutout series
• $450 Articulate player skin

Are you an Articulate user? Are you looking for a way to easily create games and interactions to make your courses more engaging?

You’re in luck…I’d like to introduce Interaction Builder. This tool is browser-based and has tons of different template interactions and games to choose from. You don’t need to know flash or programming!

Now you can quickly create eLearning interactions and games for Articulate.

Steps to create interactions:
1. Choose an interaction from the library
2. Input your text, images, and audio
3. Choose a theme (colors, backgrounds, buttons, etc.)
4. Download a single flash file (.swf)
5. Insert the file into Articulate

Try it for Free!

(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

Awhile back I had some videos that were loading slowly in Articulate. So after a bit of research I found a post on how to preload media files in Articulate.

Basically you create a .swf flash file with a list of files that you want to preload. You then insert the .swf in the logo panel. Pretty slick! Check it out.

Great looking Articulate Player Skins!

This client had many of the course components ready to go. They provided audio files for each slide, an organized PowerPoint presentation, printable resources, and a transcript. Our task was to make it “come to life”.

We designed a custom PowerPoint style for each course and then built the course in Articulate. We also added flash interactions and quizzes.

When a client provides a storyboard, audio files, and written transcript this allows us to build the course much faster and keeps the cost down.

EMPSF needed a quick way to turn their PowerPoint-based continuing education course into an eLearning course. We were able to quickly give the course a visual make-over, add interactivity, help with the instructional design, add audio, and build a final quiz. It was also very important that we matched their new website and company look and feel. We used the Gizmo custom Articulate skin.

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 design tools/resources for Articulate:
Articulate Skins
PowerPoint Styles for Articulate
Interactions for Articulate

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 your Articulate Presenter course.

BONUS: Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses or even other websites and presentations.
Purchase these templates at eLearningTemplates.com

(Updated 3/2011: We have launched our next generation of Flash interactions and quizzes. Our template set now includes 40+ themes, 20+ button styles, and tons of layouts.)

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 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.