20 Ideas from the Community to Fuel Your E-Learning Projects

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

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If you’re running low on creativity, why not fuel your e-learning with insights & advice from the Articulate community? We’ve gathered up all kinds of great ideas for you right here. In fact, this week’s list is super-premium — you’re getting two weeks’ worth of high-grade community tips instead of one, since we held off on publishing the weekly recap last Monday because of the U.S. Labor Day holiday. So go ahead & fill ‘er up!

Notable tutorials:

• An easy way to feature high-res explorable images in your courses: Part 1 | Part 2

• Intro a course or scenario with animated gradients or duplicate images

• Create an iPad metaphor for your e-learning course

• Build compare-and-contrast feedback in Articulate Quizmaker

• Enhance the look of your course slides by framing content with faded images

• A quick tour of the new Microsoft Office resources for e-learning clip art & images

Conversations in the Community:

• Community tips for creating great-sounding voiceovers

• Gathering and using feedback on your e-learning courses

• Who reviews your courses before launch? How do you manage the review process?

• Ideas for how you can display lengthy documents within a course

• How do you say that certain word that starts with e?

• What documents do you use to design & manage your Articulate projects?

• How to help learners deal with acronyms

• Community members share advice on hardware (yep, and even chairs too)

• A quiz-question challenge and some possible solutions

New blog posts:

• A Dozen Hand-Picked E-Learning Resources

• E-Learning Helps Anatomy & Biology Students Make the Grade

Seen on Twitter:

• @SashaScottLtd shares some free PowerPoint templates for your e-learning courses

• @tmiket shares a link to free stock photo sources

• @tomkuhlmann shares a link to a blog reader’s experiments in template-building