Need to Add Life to Your E-Learning? These Community Tips Will Help

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

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If your e-learning projects need a shot in the arm, you’re in the right place! The Articulate Community’s at-the-ready with practical insights, tools, and advice — as evidenced by this week’s recap. Here are the highlights of the many tips your fellow community members shared over the past seven days. You’re sure to find some cool stuff here to help you bring your courses to life.

Notable tutorials:

• Rapid cropping/masking of images in your e-learning course, with PowerPoint 2010

• Create a guided crossword puzzle in Articulate Quizmaker

• Add a YouTube video to Articulate Presenter via web object, and hide its title

• Customize the font, size, color, & other attributes of slide notes you display in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• How do you simulate multiple questions & responses on one Quizmaker slide?

• Ideas for simulating rapid-drawing movements in Articulate Presenter

• Community members share ideas for transforming a 4-day computing course into e-learning

• Ways to improve your course’s audio quality

New blog post:

• A Free Tool & Free Graphics to Simplify Your E-Learning Course Design

Seen on Twitter:

• @michaelkls shares a creative way to use animation to create a time limit on user responses in Articulate Presenter

• @sumeet_moghe shares a link to new free PowerPoint templates from Microsoft

• @ZaraLynnKing shares @BrucUK’s musings on what “instructional designer” means