14 Reasons Why You’ll Be Glad It’s Monday

This guest blog entry was written by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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Thought it was Friday for a minute, didn’t ya? Sorry, it’s still Monday! We’ve moved our weekly Articulate community recaps to the beginning of the week, rather than the end. We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback on these weekly posts, and some folks have noted that it’s too easy to miss them when we post them on Friday afternoons.

So, T.G.I.M.!

Below are 14 cool new tips & ideas that the Articulate community shared recently. And hey, if you’re in Chicago for the ASTD conference this week, don’t forget to stop by and see us at booth 527. Captain Smiley will be waiting for you!

Notable tutorials:

• An easy & effective way to emphasize an area or element of your slide: use PowerPoint gradients

• Have more control over the size & placement of your Engage interactions by inserting them into a presentation as an SWF (get the free source files here!)

• Use a pan/zoom for e-learning scene transitions: Joe’s | David’s part 1 & part 2

• Graphic design trends that’ll inspire your creativity for your next e-learning course

• How to publish your course (including Engage interactions & Quizmaker quizzes you’ve inserted) to Microsoft Word

Conversations in the Community:

• How to keep learners from seeing your course content while they’re taking a quiz

• How to build a “master” course that includes sub-courses

• How to prevent your course from being printed

New blog posts:

• Five Ways to Guarantee Your E-Learning Course is a Success

• Come See Us at ASTD 2010 in Chicago

Seen on Twitter:

• @philweber shares an Articulate-published course he created

• @sumeet_moghe shares 7 thoughts to whip your e-learning slides into shape

• @jadekelsall shares her collection of e-learning bookmarks

• @onEnterFrame shares a player he created for low-bandwidth or non-Flash viewing