17 E-Learning Goodies Worth Sharing

This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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When it comes to e-learning tips and resources, you can never have too much of a good thing! And the Articulate community has e-learning goodies by the bucketful — in fact, you never know what you might find in the community.

Here’s a recap of some of the most valuable and shareable things that turned up in the community during the past week:

Notable tutorials:

• How to back up your audio from Articulate Engage and Articulate Quizmaker

• Two new tips for leveraging YouTube videos in Articulate Presenter:
  Disabling the fullscreen button on your video
  New parameters for auto-hiding the video controls and progress bar

• Mimic the Lonely Planet iPhone app in your e-learning course

Conversations in the Community:

• New-user tips for diving into the resources in the E-Learning Heroes community

• Enabling learners to share your course via clickable social media icons on your Articulate Presenter player

• Course ideas to avoid information dumping

• How to save grouped vector images so that you can still ungroup them later

• Photographic images in e-learning: should you use realistic or abstract?

• Ideas for building a jigsaw puzzle metaphor in your e-learning course

• Community members share ideas for creating safety-related course themes

New blog posts:

• Over 150 Free Fonts to Use in Your E-Learning Courses

• Four Steps to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro

• Creating a Click-to-Zoom Effect in Your E-Learning Course

• 3 Honorable Mentions from the Articulate Guru Awards:
  Diagnosis Simulation by Russ Sawchuk
  eVision Design Calling Card & ATLAS Course
  Golf Match Play by Heather Steckley

Seen on Twitter:

• @sumeet_moghe shares 3 visual design tips for your presentations

• @nancyrubin points us to 10 things to take out of e-learning

• @elearningcoach shares 10 ways to protect yourself from client issues