Weekly Recap: Mix Your Best E-Learning

Spinning your first e-learning course can feel like a daunting task for even the most experienced educator. Questions like “How do I get started?”, “How do I design branching scenarios?”, and “Where can I find free templates, storyboards, assets, and job aids?” are some of the most common rips we hear.

So don’t scratch your course without swinging into E-Learning Heroes for the latest and greatest tracks that will put the beat back into your projects. Check out the thumpin’ ideas your fellow community members shared last week:

Community tutorials

• Resolving the UI_AdminRequiredNotice Error after Upgrading to Windows 8.1 and Launching Articulate Storyline
• Setting Up Custom Navigation on Question Bank Slides in Articulate Storyline
• 3 Easy Ways to Leverage Existing Articulate Quizmaker Content by Reusing Questions

Conversations in the community

• How do you handle gender equality in e-learning graphics?
• What’s a good headset microphone to record e-learning narration?
• How do I create a gate screen at the start of a course?
• Looking for cool examples of Storyline interactions
• Looking for instructional design experience
• DevLearn: Interested in meeting up this week?
• Can you recommend text-to-speech resources?
• How do I inform learners the course is over?
• Looking for some feedback on an interactive study guide
• Demos: Math game | Drop-down list | Assembly procedure simulations | Mini-stroke recognition
• Jobs: Storyline developer | Instructional designer | Instructional developer

New blog posts

• How to Build Your E-Learning Skills
• Articulate Storyline Wins Gold Stevie Award
• Meet the New Engage ’13 Interactions!
• Bring the World Into Your Courses with Web Objects
• Horsing Around with Articulate Storyline
• 3 Tips for Working With Feedback Layers in Quizmaker ’13
• E-Learning Challenge Submission: Making Static Content More Interactive!
• Create an E-Learning Template from Clip Art

Seen on Twitter

• @dvdlindenberg shared a link to his post and demo for Articulate Weekly E-Learning Challenge
• @BOnlineLearning shared a link to Building a Dynamic Social Learning Space recorded in Articulate Replay
• @SueScoby shared a link to a collection of fun, brightly colored illustrations of legendary musicians’ stage costumes
• @luckyryan shared a link to one of their first Articulate Storyline projects
• @hopkinsdavid shared a link to Publishing student evaluations of lecturers will improve teaching
• @belencasado shared a link to the 35 Gamification Mechanics toolkit
• @nicole_legault shared a link to How the Right Words Help You Sell Better

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