Snowballs, Tutorials & Tips: the Articulate Community’s Weekly Recap

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

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It’s so cool when good ideas snowball into even greater ideas. Case in point: last week, Tom Kuhlmann gave away a free e-learning template with a notebook-style theme. A savvy Articulate user saw the post, experimented with Tom’s download, and then added to the awesomeness by showing how to add textures to the notebook to make it look more realistic. Yet another savvy Articulate user saw the textures demo, and then tweeted a link to a bunch of free textures for folks to experiment with.

That kind of community-driven sharing is one of the things we love about the Articulate community!

There were lots of other great tips and insights shared in the community last week, too — check out the highlights below. And see if you can snowball on some of these good ideas yourself… add a reply or insight to one of the forum conversations, share an idea by making a quick screencast with Screenr, or tweet a helpful tip (remember to include the #Articulate hashtag so that other folks in the Articulate community will be sure to see it).

Notable tutorials:

• How to add two audio files to one Presenter slide, and equalize the audio

• How to customize the free desktop template (see this post if you haven’t gotten your free templates yet!)

• Tips for adding hyperlinks in your rapid e-learning courses

• Making customized clip art from images in the free Microsoft clip art library

• Use a web object to add an interactive crossword puzzle to Articulate Presenter

• Add textures to your PowerPoint shapes to make objects look more realistic

Conversations in the Community:

• Tips for tweaking audio quality in Articulate Presenter

• Sharing Quizmaker player templates with a colleague

• Omitting feedback and results from displaying in a quiz

• How rapid is rapid?

New blog post:

• Rapid E-Learning Workshop: How to Create a Tabbed Notebook

Seen on Twitter:

• @jenisecook shares her favorite Articulate tutorials

• @amarweb shares a collection of free movie fonts

• @hamtra shares free textures for your rapid e-learning projects