Ideas from the Community to Take Your E-Learning Up a Notch

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

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Now that the Articulate Guru competition is underway, it’s time to really turn on the creativity! Let the Articulate Community help you take your e-learning up a notch. Below are all kinds of great new tips that the community shared this week.

And speaking of the Guru Awards, be sure to keep an eye here on the Word of Mouth blog for the latest news. You can subscribe by using the orange RSS button or by entering your email address on this page. We’ll be doing a series of posts in the coming weeks on tips for building an award-winning course.

Notable tutorials:

• Create an iPhone metaphor for your e-learning course and Add a hand/scrolling effect

• Make your own Flash videos with Articulate Presenter & add them to Engage

• Customize your PowerPoint toolbar with buttons for common Articulate tasks

• Create an embossed design effect for text in your course

• Think layers when using PowerPoint for rapid e-learning: Part 1 | Part 2

• Apply multiple annotations to your slides in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Books & other resources to help a new Articulate user

• Low-cost or free LMS options

• How to upload your published course to your website and launch the course

New blog posts:

• These 12 Tutorials Teach You How to Build an Interactive E-Learning Course

• Using Dragster to add drag-and-drop functionality to Engage, Quizmaker, or Presenter

• Do You Have What it Takes to be an Articulate Guru?

Seen on Twitter:

• @gwidianto shares a link to 50 free mini-icon sets

• @tmiket shares the power of simplicity and how to achieve simplicity in presentations

• @JasonFane shares a link to @dmozealous’ Twitter-based Screenr search tool