Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

A while back we had a great challenge on how to use video as the slide background in your elearning courses. Examples of Free Stock Video Courses. Great use of stock video throughout. Find Free Stock Videos. One of the first questions that comes up is where to get free stock videos. Really elegant example.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I was reviewing some older presentations I found a slide regarding the topic of getting started with e-learning. On the slide I offered three helpful tips when getting started that still hold true today. And you get to see some cool examples from others in the community. But it’s not ideal. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2015

The good news is that there are more than enough free stock images available, such as these three earlier posts where I shared 80 free stock photos , 45 free stock photos , and 60 more free stock photos. Here are some tips to help customize free stock photos to work with your courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2020

There are many reasons for this request, such as using the content for face-to-face training, wanting a slide deck for subject matter experts, or creating a PDF handout out of the slides. Storyline has an import PowerPoint feature to convert the PowerPoint slides to Storyline slides. Open the Word.doc and save as.docx.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m really proud of the e -learning heroes community. Many e -learning developers are small teams of one or two people, so see the community as an extension of the team. Today, I’d like to offer some timesaving tips that will help you troubleshoot your projects when asking for help. At a minimum, watch the tutorials.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 19, 2016

Let’s face it, we’re not all graphic designers and it can be chore to get the right look for your slides. This is especially true if your slide is a little light on content. The following visual design tip is a great way to deal with too much white space. Examples of the Visual Design Tip. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

You can import the slides into Storyline or just publish them from inside of PowerPoint with Articulate Studio 360. Those are three real quick tips when converting PowerPoint to an e-learning course. We’ll look at other things to consider when converting PowerPoint to an e-learning course with a lots of practical tips and tricks.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

However, one solution might be to get an enterprise Netflix account and insert that on the last slide using a web object. And there’s probably more creative ways to consume the time allotment than locking the slide navigation. Those are a few simple tips to help alleviate locked course navigation. Make it meaningful.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 4, 2019

Here’s a simple tip that I use all the time. Here are three reasons why this is a good tip. It may be a PowerPoint slide, Word document, or web page. Often it’s a PDF, where this tip really make a lot of sense. This is a simple tip, but it is one that I use all the time when building e-learning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 19, 2022

My initial inclination was to build something in PowerPoint or Google slides, but I switched to Rise 360 and haven’t looked back. Creating the presentation in Rise 360 is just as fast as creating a slide. With Rise 360, I spend less time constructing the layout because I’m not starting with an empty slide.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Live Transcriptions & Closed Captions in Google Slide Presentations. Here’s an example of live transcription and closed captions in Google Slides. I find the transcription on Google Slides is a lot faster and a bit more accurate than in PowerPoint. If so, any extra tips? Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 19, 2019

How to Save Time When Using Variables in Your E-learning : time-saving tip using variable references to verify that the variable is tracking properly. The Answer to the Community’s Number 1 E-Learning Question : every day some sort of derivative of this question is asked in the community. Slide 3.2: Slide 7.1:

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2016

I created a PowerPoint tutorial that goes through both tips in more detail. PowerPoint Tip: Use Pattern Fills for Image Placeholders. In PowerPoint, we can create all sorts of master slide layouts and add a whole host of placeholders. PowerPoint Tip: Use Merge Shapes Feature to Create Custom Image Fills. Very clever.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I reviewed their modules and want to highlight a few production tips that not only work for gamified e-learning courses, but are just as useful in other contexts. I isolated a few things that they did so that I can show some production tips and nuances of the software. E-Learning Tip #1: Gate Screens. I call those gate screens.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 5, 2018

Here’s a time saving tip when working with variables in your e-learning courses. Once it’s ready to go live, they need to be removed from the slide. This gets rid of them, but if you need to go back and edit the slide, you need to recreate the references. Move them off the slide. Put them on the master slide.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This deck of cards gives you 52 proven design alternatives to the dreaded bullet point layout and over 150 professionally designed examples of slides using these techniques to spark your creativity and improve your next presentation. If you ever build slides, you’ll love these. Tools & Tips. It is awesome!

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The free download includes the original images as well as a folder with images cropped to 16:9 so they fit perfectly in 16×9 slides. Bonus Tip for Branched Scenario Images. One way to use the images, is to create a course file and insert all of the backgrounds on different layouts in the master slide. Free Downloads.

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Spark Your Interest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Very active online community. So below are 9 tips designed to help you create a great course in Articulate Storyline and stay within your budget. Take Advantage Of The Articulate Storyline Community And Field Of Experts. Articulate’s E-Learning Heroes Community is an excellent resource. These include. are no exception.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

In the most common case, the first slide is a course menu. In the process, I’ll offer a few bonus tips. Menu Slide. Add a trigger to change the state of the module button to complete when slide starts on the condition that the variable for that module is equal to true. Module Slides. It Starts with Variables.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here are three time-saving tips to consider before building your e-learning course. This can be problematic because when you modify the aspect ratio of the slide, it means the existing content may get skewed or require a bunch of tweaking to get it re-aligned. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

All you want is a slide with a specific look and swap out the placeholders for your course content. You don’t want to change layouts, redesign the slide, add new elements, or customize colors. And those changes are applied across all the slides in the course. When you build the slide template, only use theme elements.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m in the e-learning community every day helping people troubleshoot their e-learning courses. In the community, there’s usually some conversation about instructional design. An easy way to build one is download all of the slides of a Content Library template, add some large videos, and then publish.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 20, 2023

If not, or if you’d still like some more tips, Jeremy Caplan shares some ways to make the most of this popular new free AI tool. Listen now » Tech, Tools & Tips If tools are your jam, check out my new WorkSmarter newsletter Brave Web Browser I’ve been testing this lately.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Free resources always come in handy when building courses or slide presentations. Where to Get Help from the Community. Get inspiration from stock photo sites and try to mimic them. Free Stock Photos. Search most free sites: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up. Articulate community. E-learning 101.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

No one wants to look at 60 slides of the same content. Instead showcase mini interactions, or pull some of the interactions out of the 60 slide course. Here’s a bonus tip : people are drawn to the visual design more so than they are to the instructional design. Articulate Community Roadshow. Interactions.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 24, 2018

Recently someone in the community asked how to create a circle-shaped video for an e-learning interaction in Storyline. Customize slide size. Change the custom slide size to 1:1 (something like 10″ wide and 10″ high). Scale the video to fill the slide. Articulate Community Roadshow. Insert a video.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 21, 2015

Here are a few production tips: These tutorials give you a very good overview of how to work with this free PowerPoint template. The template is made of two simple layouts which you can edit in the master slides. The characters have transparent boxes that link to the next slide. Edit these on the master slide.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Create Characters by Pulling Them Out of Stock Images. You can find a lot of stock images for free. I’ll give a plug to Blair’s newsletter where he offers some cool tips and. In Storyline , insert a character on the slide and then save as an image. Save the modified image and insert on your Storyline slide.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

5 Must-Know PowerPoint Tips That Will Save You Time. Here Are Two Cool PowerPoint Tips When Building Templates. Clean Up Your Client’s PowerPoint Slides with This Time-Saving Tip. 3 PowerPoint Shortcuts I Always Have at My Finger Tips. 5 PowerPoint E-Learning Tips & A Free Template. Top PowerPoint Tips.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It can be used as a progress meter, a main slide menu, or simple process interaction. Production Tips. The PowerPoint template is edited in the slide master. Each tab has a link to a specific slide (use CTRL+K as a shortcut). Each tab has a link to a specific slide (use CTRL+K as a shortcut). Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2016

Having free clip art is a big deal for those of us on fixed budgets and with limited access to stock images and clip art to use in our elearning courses, presentations, and training programs. This works fine, but it sure is handy having quicker access to the right images while you’re building the slide. Free Clip Art via Pickit.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It contains two slides. The first slide is a graphic slide that you can customize to meet your needs. I share some tips in this tutorial video. If you want to edit the interactive part you need to do so at the slide master level. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2015

The free template is structure to slide up and down as you navigate. Essentially they’re just slides with numbered circles. If you need additional slides, just duplicate them. As you can see the slides push up as you advance. Community-based elearning workshops focused on practical tips & tricks.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Production Tips. Here are a few tips: Leverage the master slides. Try to put as much persistent content on the slide master as you can. At that point, it’s worth adding it to the master slide and then deleting it from the slides. You’ll be glad you did it when you need to edit the slides later.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Recently, I shared some tips on how to get the most value out of a template , which I’ll build on today. The same thing if I import PowerPoint slides. There are all sorts of ways content can be laid out on the slide. Before mix and matching slides from different templates, review how they use fonts, colors, and layouts.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 31, 2023

Learn how to enhance, modify and expand stock images using the new Photoshop beta. Additionally, he’ll showcase Adobe Firefly’s ability to generate unique images when your stock library doesn’t have what you need. Tips and best practices for inspiring and developing others to create environments where everyone thrives.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One way I integrate colors into my slides is by adding an image to my screen and then I pick colors from the image to create my buttons, background and accent colors. And if you want even more recommendations, check out this weekly challenge when community members shared some of their favorite tools. I use color pickers all the time.

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