Escape from Ordinary E-Learning with These 15 Community Tips

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

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Sometimes thinking outside the box means tapping into the creativity of others. When you’re stuck on how best to tackle an e-learning project or you’re looking for some innovative new ideas, the Articulate Community’s a good place to turn.

In fact, you & your fellow Articulate community members just finished rocking another week full of all kinds of helpful tips. In case you missed any of the really good stuff, here are some highlights of the many cool things shared in the community during the last seven days:

Notable tutorials:

• Use web objects to provide slide-level attachments or resources

• A way to hyperlink to the previous slide viewed, even when your presentation’s non-linear

• Enable or disable the zoom function on images in Articulate Quizmaker

• How to remove the pulsing from the play button in your Articulate Presenter player

• Use PowerPoint’s image-editing tools to create a floor/wall scene with perspective

Conversations in the Community:

• Solution for creating a circular movie file (includes tutorials and free source files!)

• Thoughts & resources on talking avatars in e-learning

• Creating those cool-looking desktop scenes for your e-learning course

• What are your favorite fonts to use in e-learning courses?

New blog posts:

• Here’s How Reality TV Can Help You Become an E-Learning Pro

• 8 New Articulate Presenter Community Skins

• Publishing Articulate to Captivate

Seen on Twitter:

• @fyerphys shows how Articulate tools can help boost learning for university students

• @gfriese shares a link to a helpful explanation of SCORM

• @davidmcc shares an article about the trouble with smile sheets