13 Great Community Tips to Get Your E-Learning Courses Noticed

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

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Interesting how sometimes a theme emerges in the Articulate Community! Seemed like this week it was all about finding unique ways to pique your audience’s interest, from using hands and handwriting in your e-learning course, to building an eye-catching portfolio, to creatively using videos in a quiz.

Check out these and other highlights that your fellow Community members shared this week:

Notable tutorials:

• A cool trick for using PowerPoint motion paths to simulate handwriting

• How to insert a SWF as a web object in Articulate Presenter

• Create a video-based question in Articulate Quizmaker

• Add a custom Flash interaction to Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Build a great e-learning portfolio even if the work you’ve done is confidential

• The Community helps a designer brainstorm creative ideas for a no-audio e-learning course

• Community recommendations for free or low-cost audio resources

New blog posts:

• The Rapid E-Learning Blog:  Here’s How to Add Personality to Your Courses (includes a link to free handwriting fonts!)

• Dave Moxon shows how to create a Video Hotspot question in Quizmaker

• A Simple PowerPoint Animation to Make Your Course More Human

Seen on Twitter:

• @MariaOD experiments with a 3D photo cube effect in PowerPoint

• @eLearningBros shares some sources for even more free fonts

• @elearning reviews great tips for combining fonts in your e-learning course