Here’s an E-Learning Goal the Community Can Help You Fulfill

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

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It’s almost the end of March — a great time to dust off your New Year’s resolutions and see how you’re doing with those. If one of your goals was to take your e-learning skills up a notch in 2010, it’s not too late! Tapping into the power of the Articulate Community is a sure way to become an e-learning superstar. It’s the perfect place to flex & grow your skills, and by getting involved you can help others along, too.

Speaking of e-learning developers helping each other out, check out all the helpful tips that your fellow Community members shared just this week:

Notable tutorials:

• Basic image editing techniques for e-learning

• Create an Etch-a-Sketch effect in your e-learning course

• How to use Colorpix (a free tool) to create custom color themes in PowerPoint 2007

• Remove backgrounds from images by using PowerPoint as an image editor

Conversations in the Community:

• Tips to optimize publishing time in Articulate Presenter

• The Community shares tips for how to price a rapid e-learning course

New blog posts:

• 3 More Free Tools to Help Build Better E-Learning Courses

• 3 Things I’ve Learned as a New Articulate User (source files in the comments section)

• 5 Tips for Working with Multiple Choice Questions in Quizmaker ’09

• Working in Higher Education? You Can Be an E-Lecture Rock Star

• How You Can Design Better E-Learning Surveys with Quizmaker

• Articulate Studio ’09 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1

• Dave Moxon shares a way to track multiple SCOs within one Articulate-published course

Seen on Twitter:

• @joe_deegan shares how he designed an e-learning scene with help from the Articulate Community

• @mark_articulate shares Dave Burton’s post about building your own Engage community interactions

• @jenisecook shares her bookmarks on using PowerPoint as a design tool

• @onEnterFrame shares Brian Houle’s method of using a hyperlinked button to open items on the Presenter toolbar

• @Articulate shares a pic of Tom Kuhlmann & David Anderson, who won the LINGOS Global Giveback Competition at Learning Solutions 2010 (more on the competition in a future blog post)

Oh, and one more thing! A shout-out to all the folks we met at Learning Solutions 2010 in Orlando this week! We love talking with so many Articulate customers face-to-face and hearing about all the cool stuff you’re building. Thanks for being part of the Articulate Community.