Weekly Recap: E-Learning Help from the Articulate Community

Does your e-learning project have a case of the Mondays? Does it have symptoms like a bland pallor, lack of inspiration, or a persistent, sideways, drift? Then it’s time to visit E-Learning Heroes in the Articulate community. It’s like your own personal help desk, always free and on-call 24×7 whenever you need a boost. Check out the links below for some of the best advice and insights shared this past week.

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Community tutorials

• A quicker method to renumbering your slides in Articulate Storyline
• Setting up a SurveyGizmo form to enable feedback from within your e-learning courses
• Reporting and data analysis for the feedback you gather from your e-learning courses using SurveyGizmo
• Tip for using Google to search the E-Learning Heroes forum
• How to create custom icon sets using Dingbat fonts in Articulate Storyline
• Want your learners to recall and type in several correct answers on an Articulate Storyline quiz?

Conversations in the community

• Combining threaded discussions with e-learning courses
• Best practices for branching scenarios
• K-12 Teachers: how are you using e-learning the classroom?
• Restricting advancement
• Simulating an earthquake
• What are some best practices for branching?
• Terminology for both desktops and tablets
• Fun generator sites: iPhone text | Random phrase
• Demo: Card Counters 101| Likert-style quiz

New blog posts

• How to Create Your Own Illustrated Graphics in PowerPoint
• 3 Ways Poster Frames Create More Inviting E-Learning Videos

Seen on Twitter

• @Tracy_Parish shared a link to When is it time to throw in the LMS towel?
• @LearnNuggets shared a link to his Serious Comic – PwP in Action
• @pattishank shared a link to Writing Styles for eLearning Narration
• @pgsimoes shared a link to 10 Twitter Mistakes You’re Probably Making
• @refco27 shared a link to active vs passive video viewing