This Week’s Strategic E-Learning Advice from the Community

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

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You can never have too many allies when it comes to strategizing how to build great e-learning. So we’ve pulled together another week’s worth of tips, resources, and advice from your fellow Articulate users, to help you create some serious booty-kicking courses. You can get the goods right here.

New to the Articulate community? We’re glad you’re here! To get oriented with the arsenal of community resources available, check out the welcome messages for new users of Articuate Presenter, Quizmaker, and Engage. And don’t hesitate to post your questions (big ones, small ones, and anything in between) in the forums. The community’s a friendly bunch and you’ll get helpful answers in no time.

Notable tutorials:

• Create a “click-anywhere-to-continue” option in your e-learning course

• Easily controlling animation order

• How to quickly change the colors on the graphics you use in Articulate Presenter

• Tips for filling hand-drawn shapes with your own images

Conversations in the Community:

• A community member gives away a cool new custom player he built for use with Articulate Presenter

• Developing e-learning that targets teens

• Animating text: which is better — wipe or fade?

• Creating a dynamic menu that shows learners’ progress

• A community member shares his policy course & gets the community’s feedback

• Tips for creating e-learning about software applications

New blog posts:

• Here’s a Boatload of Free Hand-Drawn Graphics

• Working with PDFs in Articulate Presenter

Seen on Twitter:

• @bbetts shares how a Tabs interaction from Articulate Engage can be used as a concept-check

• @TerrenceWing describes how he used Screenr & SecondLife to build an animated avatar for his e-learning courses

• @kimeleon131 shares a link to free icon sets for holiday-themed e-learning courses or e-presentations

• @suchadrag shares details about the University of Leeds’ upcoming European Articulate conference