Your Ticket to Greater E-Learning: Tips & Tricks from the Community

This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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If you’re looking to get away from ho-hum e-learning and build more effective, compelling courses, the Articulate community can help you get there. The past week was full of insights from your fellow Articulate users, and if you didn’t get a chance to take it all in, below is a recap of stuff you’ll want to check out. And remember that any time you need some direction or answers about e-learning tools or techniques, the forums on our community site, E-Learning Heroes, are a great place to turn!

Notable tutorials:

• Create a customized airline ticket or road sign graphic to use as a visual element in your e-learning courses

• Add a Google map to your Articulate Presenter course with a web object | Follow-up tip

• Solving menu animation challenges in Articulate Presenter

• Using iMovie to create cinematic transitions for your course | How to export your iMovie directly as an MP4

• Anchoring an answer choice in Quizmaker while still shuffling the other answer choices

Conversations in the Community:

• How do you include copyright references in your courses?

• Creating a punch-through or tear effect on your course slides

• Articulate Presenter users share their course design templates

• Community members share ideas for creating a compelling online history lesson

• An Articulate user shares a cool course design idea

New blog posts:

• 5 Ways to Prepare & Be an E-Learning Winner

• Articulate Guru Honorable Mention: Skid Skills by Linda Lorenzetti

• Creating a Strong First & Last Impression with an Intro or Summary in Engage ’09

• 3 Things You Can Only Learn from a Real E-Learning Expert

Seen on Twitter:

• @onEnterFrame shows Articulate content on an iPad, with iSWiFTER

• @italgo shares his interview with @mark_articulate (English transcript available via a link at end of article)

• @LearnNuggets asks: where do you get your e-learning inspiration? (and he includes some master slides for you to download!)