Weekly Recap: Expert Tips and Insights from the Articulate Community
Sep172012
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If there was one question that generated more activity last week, it was “Are you an e-learning expert?”
With so many different areas to master—instructional design, visual communication and project management—it’s no surprise this question sparked so many insightful responses. If there was one takeaway, it was that the Articulate community is passionate about helping everyone become e-learning experts.
This week’s community recap features free texture graphics, interactive documents, translation tips, course demos (with source files) and lots more! So check out all the cool insights and advice shared over the past week:
Notable tutorials:
- How to create desktop scenes and character fly-in animations
- Layering Flash movies behind pictures with transparent elements
- Adding interactive, high-resolution images to Articulate Storyline using ZoomIt
- Creating menu options that become available one at a time in Articulate Storyline (view discussion thread)
- How to use states to create a flashbulb-type animation in Articulate Storyline
Conversations in the community:
- Who owns the rights to your final e-learning project?
- Design ideas for interactive documents and employee drug testing projects
- Development considerations for designing e-learning in secondary languages and translating courses from English to French and Spanish
- Freebies: Belen’s texture graphics and free e-learning graphics sites
- Storyline demos: Mayra’s M.A. thesis project and Marc’s template for spotting mistakes and Tom’s interactive drag-and-drop player and ideas for text tooltips
New blog posts:
- How to Create an Interactive PowerPoint Elearning Module
- Design Better Quizzes Using Custom Background Images
