Build Stronger E-Learning with This Week’s Tips from the Community

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

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If you work on your own a lot, you might start to feel pretty small. The good news is, the Articulate Community can fix that. There’s strength in numbers, and even if you’re the only e-learning developer for miles around, you’ve got quick access to e-learning superpowers: there are thousands of folks in the Articulate Community who are ready to help you muscle-up your projects by providing answers, advice, and resources.

Take a look below for some highlights of power-tips the community shared just during the past week! And anytime you’re looking for a e-learning answers, head right over to E-Learning Heroes. Check out the free downloads and tutorials, and post your question in the forums. Before you know it you’ll have the help you need.

Notable tutorials:

• An easy way to build your own Flash file to add to Articulate Engage or other applications

• Create a continuous playlist of YouTube videos and insert them as a web object in Articulate Presenter

• Control the transparency of images you insert into your Articulate Presenter course

• Bring assets from Keynote into PowerPoint on your PC

• Build an e-learning template inspired by a nifty newsletter graphic

• Create a Viewmaster-inspired e-learning template: Part 1 | Part 2

Conversations in the Community:

• Community members share examples of Articulate courses in academic settings

• Do your e-learning courses need to be entertaining?

• Share your best practices for helping learners with navigation & player instructions in your courses

• Recommendations for designers seeking to distribute & sell their Articulate-published content

• Sources for royalty-free music for use in e-learning courses

• Community members share cool animations from their past projects

New blog posts:

• 5 E-Learning Design Ideas I Got While Traveling

• How to Change the Text or Spacing on Your Presenter ’09 Toolbar Tabs

• “Did You Know?” Template and Design Assets

Seen on Twitter:

• @studioverse shares how to save an “In Project” player template in Articulate Presenter

• @gregwilliams123 shares info about a free upcoming webinar by Tom Kuhlmann

• @hamtra shares her ad-inspired template design

• @ZaraLynnKing shows how to add furniture to an e-learning scene using just PowerPoint shapes