This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager David Anderson.

Whether you’re looking for directions on building better courses, or you’ve been asked to do more with less and need some simple shortcuts, the Articulate Community’s got all sorts of helpful ways to get you where you’re going. Sure, asking for directions isn’t always easy, but it’s one of the best ways to avoid e-learning roadblocks. While you’re mapping out your week, take a moment to check out last week’s best tips & advice from your fellow community members:

Notable tutorials:

• How to locate your cursor when recording with Screenr
• Allow users to test out of a module by tracking only quiz results rather than slides viewed in Quizmaker ’09
• How to quickly change fonts styles in PowerPoint
• Transcribe: free, online app that makes transcribing audio interviews quick and easy

Conversations in the community:

• Creative ideas for reproducing a popular presentation technique
• Users brainstorm design themes for annual presentation
• Design challenge: How would you redesign this quiz?
• Instructional design ideas for mortgage lending e-learning courses
• Geert shares a free iPad-inspired template
• Interactive education for lazy professionals
• Users share microphone recommendations
• Ideas for a technology course
• Using audio filters in e-learning scenarios
• How to split and combine your presentations

New blog posts:

• Let Others Inspire Your Interactive E-Learning. Here’s How
• Four Things You Can Learn from E-Learning Super Hero Gerry Wasiluk

Seen on Twitter:

• @slhice shares an e-learning course she built for the Alberta government in Studio ’09
• @xpconcept shares three articles on the narrative vs. mechanics debate
• @tmiket shares a link to the psychology of color in design
• @GerryWaz returns to Twitter