Weekly Recap: Game-changing Discoveries from the Articulate Community
Did you see the news last week about the Belgian doctors who discovered a new ligament in the human knee? Evidently this ligament was there all along but doctors never saw it. The discovery will be a “game-changer for injured athletes.”
While breakthroughs like this don’t happen often in the medical world, they happen every single day in the Articulate community when e-learning designers discover amazing tips, tricks and techniques for building better courses.
The best part is: to open up these e-learning secrets, you don’t need a scalpel, microscope, or seven years of medical school. Just run, walk, or limp over to E-Learning Heroes and tell the community folks what you’re looking for. The community will kick around some ideas to get your e-learning project up to full strength. It’s that easy.
Discover your own e-learning breakthroughs by checking out the game-changing tips and insights shared over the past week:
Community tutorials
- Using a scrolling panel to show conditions on the next button in Articulate Storyline
- How to link to any attached file resources from any slide in your Articulate Presenter project
Conversations in the community
- Articulate Studio ’13 Update 1 is now available
- Catchy names for e-learning modules
- Colors: Backgrounds in e-learning | Creating new color schemes
- Adjusting the timing of bullet points
- Best practices for building large Storyline courses
- Creating a “Terms & Conditions” option in Quizmaker
- How to meet audio needs of learners in a healthcare setting
- Help me design a flow for my e-learning course
- Demos: How we built a customer simulation
- Jobs: Articulate Customer Care Advocate | Storyline/Studio designer and trainer | Storyline and Tin Can developer | Instructional designer (Boston) | Instructional designer (Seattle) | Storyline developer (Seattle) | Storyline developer (London) | Storyline designer | Storyline designer (France)
New blog posts
- A Simple Way to Create Custom Callouts for Your Courses
- It’s Easy to Make Custom Questions with Quizmaker ’13
- Elearning Example: Flat UI Design Template
- How to Customize Your Screen Recording Captions in Articulate Storyline
- Three Ways to Use the Checklist Interaction in Articulate Engage ’13
- 3 Things You Need to Know About Using Video in Articulate Storyline
- Weekly Challenge: Design a Comic Book Theme for Your E-Learning Course
Seen on Twitter
- @CHendrickson82 shared a link to Customizing Feedback in Articulate Quizmaker ’13
- @design2perform shared a link to The Must-Have Guide To Twitter Manners
- @Tracy_Parish shared a link to 5 Reasons We Forget Presentations
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