Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Their latest publication, an organized roundup featuring 430 learning tech tools within a well-crafted framework, is invaluable for those in the field. Learn more → Are you looking to level up eLearning at your organization? Tech Tools & Tips If tools are your jam, check out my new Work Smarter newsletter.

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LearnUpon

AUGUST 7, 2018

At LearnUpon, we’re big fans of eLearning project management tools. We collated a list of our favorite project management tools – 12 altogether. Why you should use eLearning project management tools. A project management tool makes it that little bit easier. Have a look at what’s on offer: 1.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 27, 2014

Online documents are searchable, typically contain hyperlinks for easy navigation, often include videos and/or animations, and some even contain interactivity in the form of eLearning simulations created in Adobe Captivate or Articulate Storyline. When you do, the images will likely lose quality. Will they still look good?

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Mike Taylor

AUGUST 4, 2023

What I’m Listening To: The Wallows is another discovery that I’ve made courtesy of my “official music consultant” (my daughter) Last Week’s Most Clicked: Using Images in Visual Design News & Notes Cognitive Bias Cheatsheet Our brains use cognitive biases as a way to save energy and cognitive resources. Check it out for free!

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2011

PowerPoint is a very powerful presentation tool that can be used to really enhance the way data is presented. This post will provide step-by-step instructions for how to create transparent graphics in PowerPoint and save them as a portable network graphic (PNG) file for use in an e-learning module. Think Outside the Box.

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TalentLMS

AUGUST 5, 2021

Want to capitalize on eLearning infographics, but don’t know how to create them? If you haven’t got your own in-house designer (or you do, but they’re overstretched), there are lots of great tools on the market to help you produce high-spec, high-performing infographics in minutes. 10 of the best eLearning infographic tools.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In my experience, most people love tech tips and tools. With that in mind, I’ve been thinking about the best way to share some of the best tech tips and tools that I discover. For a long time, I’ve had a section in my weekly newsletter highlighting a few new tools each week. Effects, filters, overlays, simple to expert tools.

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Making Change

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For a quick overview of the Action Mapping process described in this interaction, see Be an elearning action hero. For in-depth help with applying this process to your own materials, check out the Elearning Blueprint. Click the image to see a larger version. How I designed and built the scenario. There are no variables involved.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 4, 2018

I don’t need the PowerPoint master slides, just the background image. Although Cp can edit your image to fit your slide, I prefer Photoshop’s precision and editing options. To size the background image, I created a 1024X627 landscape file (72 resolution) and placed my Droplet image. Now, open Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The Back Story: In the previous versions of Adobe Captivate such as 7, 8, and 9 (before updating to version 9.0.2.437) the individual loose files such as png, smartshapes, and text captions from the project’s HTML5 output were stored in the dr folder. There could be hundreds of images in that folder. appeared first on eLearning.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! Create a click and zoom effect to view images. Create a faded image.

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Hurix Digital

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To move your video content like courses to HTML5, you’ll need an authoring tool. Authoring tools for conversion: Some of the best eLearning Authoring tools and when to use them are listed below: – Adobe Captivate: When your Flash content has several simulations, and you need to make the content more responsive.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 26, 2016

In this post we’ll look at an easy way to customize illustration in PowerPoint, since it’s a tool most of us have and it’s easy to do. Most illustrations are vector images that are saved in a format such as. In fact, I ran into this issue in a previous post on getting an elearning job.

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Raptivity

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Let’s look at how the background images in Vertical Parallax can be edited. Ideally, the height of the image should be more than 1500 px to get the right scrolling effect as the user scrolls down the page. For a resolution of 1280 px X 768 px or less, almost all the images look smudged or blurry.

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eLearning Weekly

MARCH 22, 2011

Maybe elearning is like a collage. Some images I cut and paste along the edge. And I like a lot of other things about elearning: Having all these programs, and multiple instances of some, open at once: Captivate, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Word, TweetDeck, Handbrake, Dropbox, Excel, and Project.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

So I went through the Illustrator tutorial and came up with the image below. However, with all that said, it proves that PowerPoint can be an effective graphics tool when building your rapid elearning courses. When you’re all done select the objects, group them, and save as an image.

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TalentLMS

JANUARY 13, 2016

The key to success in eLearning, as in any other business for that matter, is to never rest on your laurels. That doesn’t mean that you have to strive for the ultimate perfection — just that you should never get too complacent with the quality of your eLearning offering. Taking things out.

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CommLab India

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Selecting the right authoring tool for rapid eLearning projects is a process riddled with uncertainty. How will you know which eLearning tool to work with? I have worked on several authoring tools. All three tools support popular browsers such asInternet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. SmartShapes.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 26, 2011

EasyGenerator is a SaaS based content authoring tool that is like a piece of fine sculpture, with some cracks, but beauty that is hidden within. Extremely feature rich – can compete with Captivate and other authoring tools. Built in question pool, assessment tool and survey tool. Image – jpg,tiff,bmp,png.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 12, 2019

Image file types. They are undoubtedly a main element to elearning but do you know your png from your svg? Cons – bigger than jpegs, images have very large files sizes. cons – bigger than png, oldest format (1989). So next time you’re looking for or creating images, have a think about file types.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 6, 2017

Design – it can make or break your eLearning course. Great design is achievable for all and with this handy list of tools, you’ll be empowered to make eLearning courses that look really good! Create a cohesive look to your eLearning presentations with Material Design Palettes, Icons, and Colours. Material Design.

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Docebo

MAY 14, 2020

Docebo eLearning certificates are our (biased) personal favorites, though. What is an eLearning Certificate? Creating New eLearning Course Certificates. What is an eLearning Certificate? Creating New eLearning Course Certificates. Restrictions: The background image size cannot be more than 2560x1810px and 10MB.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2018

Understanding the Image Blocks in Rise. Rise offers a number of blocks that support inserted images (such as image, gallery, and some of the interactions). There are a few blocks that have text overlay where the image is scaled. Those are mostly decorative images so we won’t worry about them.

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learnWorlds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A sales funnel is a process during which a business leads customers when buying a product or service, in the case of eLearning, the product is your online course. Of course, you can build more than one Facebook Ads campaigns, each one with each own ad type adopting strategies, tools, and tactics focusing on a different sales funnel phase.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 27, 2010

In a previous post, I showed that when you use rapid elearning tools (as well as PowerPoint) you can build effective elearning courses. And once you have the techniques down, you can surely use that overhead office look in other elearning courses. It’s definitely a great way to create an immersive elearning experience.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2012

If you’re building elearning courses, then you should expect to have a graphics editing program as part of your tool chest. 5 Free Desktop Image Editors. 5 Free Online Image Editors. There’s even a good discussion about graphics applications in the elearning community. How to Use the Drawing Tools.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fortunately, there are many tools (some of them free!) In this article, we share some of the best tools for: Planning and storyboarding Writing Images, videos, and graphics Authoring and development Learning management systems Project management Storage and sharing Let’s dive in. Price: $0 to $24.99 Price: $15.99

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LearnUpon

JULY 12, 2016

I’ll also show you how to navigate through the main document settings and to become comfortable with performing important tasks like cropping and resizing images. You can: Drag one or more images you select in the folder finder tool onto the Photoshop interface. You should save drafts of images you edit as a PSD file.

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Elucidat

JANUARY 4, 2019

To do this effectively, you’ll require a range of software tools. Authoring tools. Your authoring tool is probably the most important item in your elearning delivery toolkit. Ideally, an authoring tool should be flexible, easy to use, responsive and enable quick content development that meets the needs of your end users.

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eLearningArt

MARCH 17, 2016

If you’re building a good eLearning course, you don’t want to cover EVERYTHING (even if your SME tells you that learners need ALL the information in the history of mankind). I design my backgrounds in PowerPoint, then import them into whatever authoring tool I need. The icons I used were PNG images.

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LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

From Agile to xAPI and everything in between, there are a lot of eLearning terms to get your head around. Terminology can feel like buzzwords and jargon to the amateur but many are essential knowledge for the eLearning professional. That’s why we’ve compiled this eLearning glossary. Authoring Tool. Accessibility.

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learnWorlds

MAY 19, 2022

By understanding the basics of SEO, you will be able to start optimizing your elearning website and course landing pages to be seen by as many people as possible. Free & Paid SEO Tools. There are many tools to help you do so, but Google’s tools are the best way to start, and they are free: Google (Autocomplete).

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 21, 2018

Over the years, eLearning developers have used Flash in developing the courses. Previously, the developers used tools like XML, Java, and Flash to code the courses. However, HTML5 has now become popular and it is being extensively used to develop the eLearning courses. Trigger-based interactions.

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eLearning 24-7

JUNE 25, 2010

If you wanted to work on creating content, for many people, the route would be and still is creating courses via a desktop based rapid e-learning authoring tool, or via your LMS/LCMS vendor’s tool (hosted or not) or via Dreamweaver or some other type of solution. Formats by Audio, Video, Image, Publication and Other.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

<p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">You may have noticed that my idea for sharing new tools and apps has been a bit sporadic around here. You can subscribe to that one for free and you’ll get 5 new tools every weekday.

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Maestro

JANUARY 31, 2022

Whether you’re illustrating a set of characters or creating brand cohesive course components, you need the very best learning design tools at your disposal to make great learning happen. What tools are you using most right now? Are you up-to-date on the latest tools out there and how to make the most of them? Articulate 360.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The 2017 release of Adobe Captivate empowers you to leap ahead with a smart eLearning design platform that does the heavy lifting of creating responsive eLearning content. Deliver great interactive learning experiences with 75,000+ free eLearning assets, eye-catching quizzes, and Adobe Typekit integration.*courses

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