Weekly Recap: 20 E-learning Tips from the Articulate Community
This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager David Anderson.
How many times have you been smoothly working on a project before you realized things just weren’t working? Maybe the activities weren’t right or the course was too linear. Or the visuals weren’t appropriate for the content. It happens to even the most experienced e-learning designers.
You can avoid common pitfalls and even decrease your learning curve by getting into the habit of leveraging E-learning Heroes. Each week we highlight a great collection of tips & insights shared by e-learning designers just like you.
So, whether you’re design, develop or just manage e-learning, you’ll find lots of ideas for helping you balance even the toughest projects.
Check out all the great tips and ideas your fellow E-Learning Heroes in the Articulate community came up with:
Notable tutorials:
- Visual method for handling supporting documents and job aids in your e-learning courses
- Tabbed interaction with custom look and slide out effect for e-learning courses
- Using paper tole and PowerPoint to create 3D-like depth in your e-learning graphics
- How to keep track of your inserted movies in PowerPoint
- Allow a user to leave a quiz, view some slides and go back to the question they were on in Articulate Presenter ‘09
Conversations in the community:
- How do you ensure academic honesty for e-learning courses?
- Best practices for assessment feedback
- What are the benefits of e-learning courses over reading books?
- Free template based on a familiar design theme
- How do you determine when to use e-learning? (Includes a free handout)
- What tools do you use for tracking development times?
- Using video backgrounds in Articulate Quizmaker ‘09
- Users share design ideas for a performance appraisal course
- What tools do you recommend for AV recording and editing
- What services do you use for stock audio sounds
New blog posts:
Seen on Twitter:
- @LearnNuggets shares a link for a new, free font from @blambot
- @nicole_legault shares a link to Online Tools to Integrate Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction
- @srcawf2 shares a link to How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper
- @LambertJay shares a link to Writing Distractors for Multiple Choice Questions
6 responses to “Weekly Recap: 20 E-learning Tips from the Articulate Community”
I’m a new Articulate ’09 user. Using a powerpoint, I created a quiz in Publisher and saved it as a Scorm zip file. I uploaded the file into my SumTotal LMS and took the quiz. SumTotal only kept a pass/fail record and did not retain the quiz score. Anybody have advice to correct this ?
@Loreli: Have you checked with SumTotal about the issue? Sounds like it may be something on their end. Also, this blog entry is a good place to start. Our support team can also help you out to determine if the issue is on our end or SumTotal’s.
I did contact Sumtotal and they were not able to suggest a resolution. So I just kept playing with Articulate. I did manage to fix the problem myself. I found that when the quiz was created within the Publisher mode, the score never transferred. But when I created the quiz first within QuizMaker…save it and add it into the ppt via Publisher, the score transferred. Thanks for your feedback ! Have a great week.
@Loreli: Glad to hear you figured it out!
How can I add two multimedia properties on 1 engage process interaction slide?
Hi Yvette!
Only one media file is supported per step in an interaction. If you’d like to see the option for multiple meda files in the future, please feel free to submit a feature request:
http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/
Thanks for the input!
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