A Boatload of Tips from Your E-Learning Comrades in the Community

This guest blog entry was written by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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Another week down, and another boatload of great tips from the Articulate Community. In case you missed some of the helpful stuff that surfaced last week, we’ve gathered up the highlights right here, all in one place, for your e-learning pleasure.

Oh, and while I have your attention, how’s your Articulate Guru Award submission coming along? Keep your eye on the Word of Mouth blog this week — we’ll be doing a series of practical tips on preparing an award-winning entry.

Notable tutorials:

• How to reduce file sizes when building an e-learning scenario

• Creative use of branching to track learners’ progress through a multi-quiz course

• Helpful tip for smooth transitions in your Screenr screencasts

• A time-saving way to manipulate tables in your Presenter project

• A handy grid to help with image placement & sizing in your course

Conversations in the Community:

• Creative ways to use Articulate Engage (includes a great tutorial series & source files to use Engage as a “wrapper” for a series of videos)

• How to control background music volume in your Articulate Presenter project

• Discussion on rates for voiceover talent

New blog posts:

• Create E-Learning Templates With a Consistent Clip Art Style

• Check Out This Articulate-Powered Website

• Removing the Articulate Player…Completely

• Why You Need to Enter the Articulate Guru Awards & How You Can Win

Seen on Twitter:

• @eLearningBros show off some of their custom Articulate skins

• @joe_deegan demonstrates how he uploads an Articulate-published course to Moodle

• @articulatedev shares a quick way to create a printable narration script from your Presenter project

• @kerina shares a link to some great free fonts, and @elearning shares some more

• @onEnterFrame shares his plans (and source files!) for the Articulate session he’s leading at eLearning DevCon 2010