17 Valuable E-Learning Resources that Won’t Cost You a Penny

This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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Last week was a free-for-all in the Articulate community — in a literal sense. It seemed like every time I turned around, someone else was giving away some cool new resource! If you didn’t have a chance to keep up with all the free stuff that was flying, no worries. Here’s a recap of the week’s most talked-about tips and giveaways:

Notable tutorials:

• Create cool effects by layering movies behind other objects in Articulate Quizmaker

• Add an interactive Excel workbook to your Articulate Presenter course

• A handy tip for removing image backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010

• Tips for working with the timeline in Articulate Quizmaker

• Solve pesky view-mode flicker problems at the beginning of your e-learning course

Conversations in the Community:

• Community members collaborate to build & share a cool e-learning template

• An Articulate user shares a collection of free icons — all editable right in PowerPoint

• Community members share tips for working effectively with SMEs

• Favorite fonts for e-learning

• Getting strategic about slide titles in your e-learning courses: share your tips

• Cool ideas for a compliance training module

New blog posts:

• 5 Time-Saving Tips from the E-Learning Community

• Interactive Layouts Using Video and Web Objects

• 3 Honorable Mentions from the Articulate Guru Awards:
  8 Rules of Framing by Torrance Learning
  Navigator Game by David Becker
  Motivating Your Associates by Stephanie Harnett

Seen on Twitter:

• @Screenr shares 7 top screencasting tips from Screenr user Marc Lemezma

• @tmiket shares @jadekelsall’s tip for adding a SWF to an Articulate Presenter player tab

• @EndersDesign shares funny & useful presentation tips from Microsoft PowerPoint