Weekly Recap: View This Week’s Specials from the Articulate Community

From our community to yours! Now it’s even easier to stick to your budget and build better e-learning. Loaded with free graphics, templates, storyboards, and job aids, the Articulate Community makes e-learning fun for teams of all sizes. Visit E-Learning Heroes for more specials.

Community tutorials:

• Using triggers to manipulate the next button in Articulate Storyline
• Keep the learners from advancing to the next screen until they’ve visited all layers
• Use inverse trigger order to allow the next button to control appearance of items on the screen in Articulate Storyline
• Introduction to bookmarking using slide layers and variables (Part 2 and Part 3)

Conversations in the community:

• Let’s talk gamification
• Where are authoring tools headed?
• Do instructional designers proactively make courses as real as possible for learners?
• Looking for ideas for communication training
• Seeking feedback: Group Development | First course built with Storyline
• Resources: Cartoon effects | Miscellaneous resources for course designers
• Freebies: Tabbed interaction | Navigation styles | Gamify your course with achievements
• Demos: Teaching learners to write Japanese characters in Storyline | Filling out forms

New blog posts:

• How to Create an E-Learning Template That Works
• Introducing New Articulate Super Hero: Nancy Woinoski

Seen on Twitter:

• @RapidTemplates shared a link to the A to Z of Articulate Storyline
• @Tracy_Parish shared a link to a growing collection of free icons  
• @nicole_legault shared a link to a Practical Approach To Choosing Website Color Scheme
• @LindaLor shared a link to excuses for not having a portfolio
• @tmiket shared a link to 10 Alternative Color Palette Tools For Designers
• @xpconcept shared a link to the Wistia video production learning channel