Be an E-Learning Star With These Cool Ideas from the Community

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

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Want to build rock-star-quality e-learning? Then check out all the great ideas coming out of the Articulate Community! The links below are just a few of the cool things shared in the Community this week.

Also, a heads-up… Get ready, because during the month of March, we’re going to do some special things on the Word of Mouth blog to really help you supercharge your e-learning skills.  Tune in Monday to find out more!

Notable tutorials:

• A creative & easy PowerPoint effect for visual foreshadowing

• Highlight characters and de-emphasize backgrounds: two great ways to draw attention to key figures in your e-learning course

• Two ways to give learners access to private e-learning content in Articulate Online

• Simulate multiple questions on one quiz slide with a sequence drag-and-drop question

• A fun, free application for creating Polaroid-like images for your courses

• An easy way to fine-tune the position of images in PowerPoint

Conversations in the Community:

• How to use Quizmaker as a multimedia storytelling tool (includes free source files & links to step-by-step tutorials!)

• Community members share where to find template design ideas & resources

• Here’s a way to add a link to exit a Presenter presentation or invoke the attachments tab

• The Community helps a developer brainstorm ideas for product spec/sales training

• Tips for helping Articulate beginners get up-to-speed

New blog post:

• Here’s Why Contrast is an Essential Part of E-Learning Design

Seen on Twitter:

• @slhice shares the website she created using Articulate tools

• @articulatebrian reminds us what we should know about the PPTA file

• @biopolimer shares a creative way to craft a multiple response question and a fill-in-the-blank question in Quizmaker