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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

Most design programs, including PowerPoint and Articulate Storyline, will maintain the aspect ratio of an image when resized from the corner. Most programs, like PowerPoint and Articulate Storyline, also offer the option to display a grid or visual guides, which can be used for evenly aligning and distributing objects on the screen. #3:

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How to Pitch Course Design Ideas to Your Customer

Rapid eLearning

Ever wonder how to present e-learning course ideas to your customers? During the conversation, the person was concerned that the customer would never go for a different idea and only wanted the tried and true, click-and-read course. Here are a few ideas to get you thinking. Hopefully, these ideas help. Getting Started?

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7 Ideas to Help Make an Online Course Less Boring

Rapid eLearning

This post shows a few ideas on testing out. Hopefully, these tips give you some ideas. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.

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How to use PowerPoint Zoom links

BrightCarbon

Zoom in PowerPoint is a terrific tool that allows you to jump straight to the content you want and supports a seamless interactive presentation. It’s really quick and straightforward to do, but before getting into how PowerPoint Zoom links work, it’s worth showing you how to set up a presentation to make it easy to use them.

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eLearning & PowerPoint: A Great FREE Resource

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I've talked a lot about where to get free stock photos , about how to manipulate stock photos , and tips for creating your own graphics. You could also ditch the comic idea altogether and just use these images as part of any eLearning course, even one with branching. by AJ George.   Easy, fast, looks nice, FREE.

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PowerPoint Tip: Here’s a Simple Way to Build E-Learning Graphics

Rapid eLearning

Here’s a PowerPoint tip: build your e-learning course graphics in PowerPoint. PowerPoint is great for simple graphic design projects. All of those graphics were built in PowerPoint. All of those graphics were built in PowerPoint. I cover a lot of little PowerPoint tips. 00:00 | Introduction.

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How to Transcribe Text into PowerPoint & E-Learning Courses

Rapid eLearning

I’ve been playing around with ideas to get old Flash course content into a new HTML5 course. Use PowerPoint to Transcribe Text for HTML5 E-Learning. The new version of PowerPoint has a dictate feature. PowerPoint transcribes the text and adds it to the slide. All you do is press the button and start to read.