Week’s Best E-Learning Conversations & Tips from the Community

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

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Here we are again to make your Monday a little more exciting! We don’t want you to miss out on the great tips the Articulate community shared last week, so we’ve rounded up the e-learning awesomeness for you right here. It was an especially lively week in the forums, with lots of insightful conversations. Great timing on all the idea-sharing, too, because the deadline for the Articulate Guru awards is just nine days away! If you haven’t yet submitted your entry, now’s the time to put on the finishing touches — you have till Wednesday, August 11. Looking for technical help or design ideas? Just post your question in the forums to tap into the knowledge of your fellow Articulate users!

Notable tutorials:

• Scrolling images in Articulate Engage: By using PPTPlex | By using PowerPoint

• Applying a fade-in/fade-out effect to images in Articulate Quizmaker

Conversations in the Community:

• Banning the bullet points, comic-book style

• Working with Flash rollover buttons (includes tutorial & free download!)

• Easy instructional-design models to share with beginners & SMEs

• Helpful things to share with SMEs who provide you with PowerPoint content for e-learning

• Differences between e-presentations and e-learning

• What do you call your Engage interactions?

• Where do you get video snippets for your e-learning courses?

New blog posts:

• Here’s Where the E-Learning Community Provides Practical Value

• AVST: Using E-Learning as a Recipe for Business Success

Seen on Twitter:

• @mark_articulate shares a link to a free webinar in August, featuring Articulate’s VP of Community, Tom Kuhlmann

• @tmiket shares a free icon set for e-learning and another that has a reflective quality

• @sumeet_moghe shares what tourists can teach us about training