As a quick tip, make sure you hide the slides via Articulate’s slide properties manager rather than using PPT’s hide slide.

I figured out how to do the internal PPT links. Let’s say I want to show a form and have various sections of the form link to documents or slides. But I don’t want the slides to show as part of the course outline or be generated as part of the course without the user going through the links. I’ve tried hiding them in the PPT which solves my problem of them being seen in the course but seems to drop the link. Thanks for your help with this. I love this concept and really want to try to incorporate this into my course. This is my first course.

Guy

You could create a form in html and add that via web object. If you wanted to get fancy, a cookie could be used to store the form entry and then have other web objects dynamically pull in content, but that’s outside the scope of the authoring tool.

For the IM pages I just did a screen capture and cleaned it up a bit. Presenter ‘09 has much better image fidelity. However, here’s a good post on getting good screenshots.

I am using Presenter 5 version. How do you create the internal link within the page that takes you to the next slide? For instance, with the Outlook page, when you click on the email, how do you ensure it takes you to the correct email? Is that done through hyperlink in PowerPoint or through Presenter. I’ll play around and see what happens but I didn’t realize Presenter could be so interactive. This will be great for what I am trying to work on. I’m trying to design a course where learners have to investigate a possible grievance and determine from a variety of documents whether or not to file. Can you create a form into which information can be entered?

When you used the facebook page or IM did you create the page/IM box from scratch or did you import the format through a screen shot or something similar? I’ve had real trouble inporting screan shots and maintaining clarity of the image.