17 Tips and Insights That Will Make You a Better E-learning Designer

E-learning designers have a good thing goin’ on. Everything you design—words, visuals, interactions—can impact the performance of everyone in your company. But your project load doesn’t always provide the time you need to learn new techniques or explore ideas.

That’s where the Articulate community can help. Each week designers—just like you—share their insights, ideas, and projects that inspire all of us to build better e-learning. Check out highlights your fellow Community members shared last week:

Notable tutorials:

• How to hide the next button until a user visits required content in Articulate Storyline (view forum thread)
• Inserting a word search puzzle as a web object in Articulate Presenter ‘09
• Changing the colors and font on your Articulate Storyline player
• Adding a glossary to your Articulate Storyline player
• Modifying the drop correct/incorrect states in the corkboard interaction
• Using simple calculations in Articulate Storyline

Conversations in the community:

• Looking for e-learning story and script ideas for sales training
• Drag and drop interaction: Giving A ‘Show Answer’ Option
• Customizing feedback in drag and drop interactions
• Resources, downloads, and tutorials for course graphics
• How to use a lightbox effect to load a video in Articulate Presenter ‘09
• Users discuss tablets and mobile learning tools
• Creating animated image effects and parallax effects in Articulate Storyline

New blog posts:

• 3 Ways to Make Your E-Learning Course Look Like a Comic Book

Seen on Twitter:

• @LindaLor shared a link to a new collection of Photoshop text effects and tutorials
• @Geetesh shared a link to his conversation with @tomkuhlmann
• @elearning shared a link to list of open source graphics and visualization tools