Is PowerPoint the most widely used tool for eLearning development? Should it be? It seems that everywhere I go in the eLearning world I run into PowerPoint. Most of the new authoring tools either use PPT as their backbone or offer the ability to import slides. Interface creation, navigation buttons, LMS tracking, and testing abilities [...]
Have you ever published your Articulate course and the images and flash are fuzzy and look terrible? Well, if so it might be caused by your course content resizing in the browser. There is a setting within each Player Template in Articulate Presenter that allows your to either allow the course to expand/shrink as the [...]
I really like Articulate’s Quizmaker ’09. It allows me to do some pretty powerful stuff quickly. Here is a list of how do make your quizzes awesome in Quizmaker. 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 [...]
I published a course the other day and when users started going through it the completion status never passed to the LMS. I just used the standard “publish to LMS” option in Articulate…it has to be working. The user must be doing something incorrectly right? Well, actually I messed up. (but the software tricked me) [...]
If you’re like me I’m always looking for good articles and “how-to” blogs on Articulate. So I thought that I’d share a few resources that I’ve written and use. Articles: Articulate and Flash Audio Navigating the Articulate API with Flash Scavenger Hunts in Articulate Using Flash to Control Articulate Navigation Blogs/Sites: Articulate Forums Rapid eLearning [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
