20 New Community Resources to Help You Build Winning E-Learning

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

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E-learning is a team sport. The best way to build an all-out winning course is to draw from the advice & expertise of your fellow e-learning developers. And the Articulate Community is the perfect place to do that. There’s always something new being shared around here.

Check out the list below and you’ll see what I mean. These are some highlights of the helpful stuff the Community shared this week.

And stay tuned for much more! This month is March Madness, Articulate-style, on the Word of Mouth blog. We’re featuring all kinds of special posts throughout the month to equip you with lots more tips for building better courses. Subscribe via email or RSS to be sure you don’t miss out.

Notable tutorials:

• Add Articulate-published content to a Google site

• Another way to create a mitred picture-frame effect in PowerPoint

• Save an “in project” Presenter player template so you can use it other courses

• Make your own animated avatars for your e-learning courses, for free

• How to work with multiple slide masters in Quizmaker

• How to set up your PowerPoint environment for rapid e-learning

Conversations in the Community:

• E-learning developers in the Community share their workflow best practices

• See how to build a cool animation from the Pallet Jack demo course (free source files, too!)

• How to work around the 8:53 Flash limitation in published courses

• How long does it take to build a course? Community members share their views

New blog posts:

• Become an E-Learning Pro without Spending a Dime

• Tips for using Articulate tools to build courses for non-English audiences

• The Beginner’s Guide to Presenter ’09

• 3 Creative Ways to Use Engage Labeled Graphics

• Exercising Your Rapid E-Learning Design Skills

• The Fast Track to Custom E-Learning

• How Dave Mozealous created a Custom Articulate Presenter skin in less than an hour

Seen on Twitter:

• @getadam shares a post by Jeff Hendrickson on how to add Screenr videos to WordPress

• @joe_deegan shares 5 reasons why he decided to buy Articulate Studio

• @slhice shares how she built her website with Articulate tools