Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Free Illustrations for E-Learning. I used one of the free illustrations from Blush which is a great site for illustrations. Or got to the file saves as options and save the slide itself as an image. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Create Free Emojis. Here’s a site where you can create free custom emojis. Here’s quick tutorial that shows how to use the free emoji site. And here are a couple of silly examples where I use the free emojis as a way to offer hints on a slide and as a way to provide right and wrong feedback.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

All too often, I see courses that are nothing more than glorified and interactive PowerPoint slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro Upcoming Events. Free E-Learning Resources. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 8, 2021

Compliance training is often a challenge, but if the content is reframed and not just slides of bullets, it can be engaging. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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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. Getting Started?

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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. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In elearning we’re tempted to make up for the lack of human contact with an avalanche of irrelevant stock photos, narration, and flying bullet points. Or see if you can guide the AutoLoon L&D department to the best solution to their performance problem, undistracted by cheesy stock photos or narration.

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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. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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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. I use 7zip (a free application).

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

If you do a search online you’ll find all sorts of free assets like free stock images, icons, fonts and other media that work perfectly for your elearning courses. But often you find that free isn’t really free. Instead, free is free with strings attached. Either it’s free or not.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 7, 2020

First, if you’re using Storyline 360, then you have a ton of templates and slides to use for your e-learning courses. Feel free to add some of your own in the comments. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources.

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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. Free E-Learning Resources. If so, any extra tips?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Free Quiz Template: Storyline. You can download the free template here. It contains two slides. The first slide is a graphic slide that you can customize to meet your needs. Free quiz template download: Storyline. Free Quiz Template: PowerPoint. The free quiz template in PowerPoint is pretty simple.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 4, 2021

We copy and paste the policies over a series of slides. Make the slides pretty. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Check out these articles and free resources in the community. Policy training is a common type.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Following is the free PowerPoint template and the corresponding Storyline version. Free Interactive Tabs Template. Click here to download the free template. Free PowerPoint Template. Click here to download the free PowerPoint templates. Here are a few tips: Leverage the master slides. That’s OK.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2020

Perhaps there’s a way to reframe your slide content so that the information is delivered via reflective questions. The card selection is how you present what may have been bullet points or slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Easy peasy.

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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

JULY 18, 2017

A lot of e-learning content starts with existing PowerPoint slides. When you review your static content or existing PowerPoint slides, look for ways to make it interactive. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In the spirit of the holiday season, here’s a free elearning template. It can be used as a progress meter, a main slide menu, or simple process interaction. There are two versions of the free elearning template: Storyline 2 and PowerPoint. Free E-Learning Template: Storyline 2. Download the free elearning template.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Free resources always come in handy when building courses or slide presentations. At most of my workshops we take a few minutes to share different free resources people use. At this point, I find that there’s not a lot of new free resources being added. Most of the resources are free. Free downloads.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 21, 2015

Here’s a free PowerPoint template I built for a recent workshop. This free template could be used as a way to share manager/employee information or perhaps as an FAQ interaction. In either case it’s free for you to use as you wish. In either case it’s free for you to use as you wish. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 8, 2016

These backgrounds go really well with the illustrated characters that come with the Articulate applications or those you may find at some of the free vector image sites. Of course, these images are relatively simple to make using basic shapes in PowerPoint or Storyline or by downloading some free vector images and making your own edits.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2015

Here’s another free PowerPoint template that you’re free to use in your online training courses. 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.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Once you have the text copied, paste into your new slide. ShareX is free and works great. It also has an OCR feature where it can pull text from an image that can be copied and pasted into a new slide. Select the course slide. Copy and paste the text into the new slide. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

.” Andrzej also shared the source file so you can open it up to see how he created the animated effects and other slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

I created a custom slide size 13 x 4 inches. When I save the PowerPoint slides as images that results in an image that is 1280 x 384 pixels. 03:08 | How to create custom slide size. 07:45 | Save slide as image. Create Free Icons and Images in PowerPoint Using Dingbat Fonts. PowerPoint Tip: Save Slides as Images.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 7, 2017

In the e-learning community, a number of people shared free icons and shapes. And they’re great for your courses, so make sure to take advantage of all of those free resources. Looking at the free icons reminded me of simple trick we show in our PowerPoint workshops. Convert Dingbat Fonts to Free Vector Images.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

I’m asked to review courses all the time and one of the most frustrating things is to go through the course and find the developer has locked every slide. I usually put a button in one of the corners that gives me quick access to slides. Sometimes, the button just skips the slide. Create a slide with menu links.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

An easy way to build one is download all of the slides of a Content Library template, add some large videos, and then publish. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Check out these articles and free resources in the community.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 14, 2019

Since PowerPoint is linear and doesn’t offer tracking logic, it requires a lot of slides to create the illusion of movement and branching complexity. The slide number increases exponentially with each additional choice and gets to a point where it’s not manageable. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Making Change

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

This isn’t Dostoevsky, but the bits of backstory add more dimension to what could have been a generic management scenario with shallow, thought-free options. The result of each decision is added to the narrative on the screen rather than bringing you to another “slide.” Build the entire story on the screen.

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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 transparent echo technique is an easy way to dress up slides without plastering it with clip art or decorative images. Details coming soon.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Another way to get the text into your slide is by reading it out loud to transcribe it and insert into your slide. PowerPoint transcribes the text and adds it to the slide. Once it’s ready, import the slides into Storyline. Free E-Learning Resources. All you do is press the button and start to read.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 5, 2018

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. Keep them on the slide , but hide them on the timeline. Put them on the master slide. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

We all love free tools to help us save time and resources so that we are more efficient building our elearning courses. Here are two free multimedia applications that I use quite a bit. So there you have it, two free multimedia applications that will come in handy for your elearning development. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. Thus you want to determine the course’s aspect ratio before adding content to the slides. Free E-Learning Resources. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 11, 2015

Each section links to a series of slides with a few different layouts. But you’re free to do with it as you wish. In the template you’ll also find some extra slides with the people images and some props that I gleaned from the main image. Feel free to copy and paste them to create your own slides and scenarios.

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