19 New Reasons to Love Your E-Learning Community

This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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You’ve probably noticed that we kind of have a thing for the Articulate community. And Articulate users certainly aren’t shy about spreading the e-learning love, either. Since nothing says “I love e-learning” like a really awesome Screenr tutorial (or a helpful post or a newsy tweet), below we’ve collected a whole slew of the past week’s most insightful tips from your fellow community members.

Looking for even more? Your new community site, E-Learning Heroes, is a great place to share & receive answers and advice. You’ll find downloads, blog posts, tutorials, and lively forum discussions on all things e-learning. Sign up here for free. (And remember, the old forums are closing to new posts on February 22 — that’s only about a week away! — so now’s the perfect time to jump into the new forums at E-Learning Heroes!)

Notable tutorials:

• Create a stock ticker effect in your rapid e-learning course

• Add visual interest with a magazine title effect on your course slides

• Great alternative to bullet points — an interactive scrolling text box: Part 1 | Part 2

• Animate a filling glass with easy PowerPoint animations (Guinness lovers will like this one)

• Build a catalog of template designs for your rapid e-learning courses

• Create a button on a slide that opens an attached document in Articulate Presenter

• Neat example of animating course characters: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

• How to delete annotations or quickly find your annotated course slides in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Community members share microphone recommendations

• Using images of real company people in your course: should you or shouldn’t you?

• The community gives advice regarding video equipment for e-learning

• What degree/certificate programs are out there for e-learning designers & developers?

• Community members help a designer with cool ideas for a budgeting/forecasting course

New blog posts:

• Do You Need an Instructional Design Degree?

• Essential PowerPoint Features

• Page Curl Stickers: Arrow Icons (includes free download!)

Seen on Twitter:

• @willswords shares a cool (and free) web-based text-to-mindmap tool

• @GrahamJClark shares an interactive crossword puzzle he built with Articulate Quizmaker

• @elearning shares an interactive job aid for working with the color scheme editor in Articulate Presenter