16 Tips from the Community to Help You Build Heroic E-Learning

This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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The big news this past week was the launch of our new community site, E-Learning Heroes. If you haven’t had a chance to sign up yet, do! Thousands of Articulate users are busy getting settled in to the free site and tapping into their e-learning superpowers. They’re exchanging ideas in the new forums, digging into the many tutorials and tips, and downloading free resources for their courses.

And in typical heroic fashion, Articulate community members continued sharing all sorts of helpful insights throughout the week to make your courses more powerful than ever. Check out the highlights:

Notable tutorials:

• Don’t underestimate the clip art you can create for your e-learning courses

• Easy visual elements to draw for your course: SD card | USB drive | 3D software box | Wii controller part 1 and part 2

• Requiring users to complete every slide in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Bells and whistles vs. effective visual communication in e-learning

• What does a new e-learning developer need to know?

• Tips for leveraging video in e-learning courses

• “Engaging” e-learning: how do you define it? How do you achieve it?

• Share your favorite PowerPoint features & workflows for rapid e-learning

• What about using comic-style visual designs in e-learning courses?

New blog posts:

• How to Be Successful at Rapid E-Learning

• Announcing E-Learning Heroes — Your New E-Learning Community

Seen on Twitter:

• @hamtra shares a link to tips for section 508 compliance

• @LindaLor shares a source for 350+ texture images: wood, grunge, fabric, paper, and more

• @LearnNuggets shares more about the custom Articulate Presenter player he built

• @TerrenceWing shares a presentation demonstrating inclusion of Twitter feeds as web objects in Articulate Presenter

• @Sumeet_Moghe shares a post about finding useful images for your e-learning projects