In traditional design, these would have been consecutive slides of information. In our exploratory mode, you possibly still have the same number of slides, but you design the learners experience to be more autonomous. Exploit your Slide Masters As in programming, in elearning we should follow the DRY principle - " D ont R epeat Y ourself!". Let me explain When you design immersive scenarios or exploratory interfaces, you're quite likely to have slides that repeat the same visual elements. A few days back I ordered a large meal at a restaurant. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. MORE >>

But, did you know it’s also possible to add your own custom navigation buttons onto a slide? With your course open in PowerPoint 2007 or 2010: Create a text box, insert a shape, or add an image onto a slide. Next Slide. Previous Slide. First Slide (restarts course). Last Slide. Last Slide Viewed. Slide (links to a specified slide). Here are some examples: “Review Course” - returns to first slide. Retry Quiz” - links to a specific slide with a quiz. First, create the necessary pass and fail slides after the quiz slide. MORE >>

I like to build out my scenarios in Presenter 09 and I reserve my Quizmaker usage only for situations where I need tracking. Second of course, Quizmaker 09 is woefully slow on my virtual machine, so I have good reason to avoid it unless I really need it. If you look at the image above, you'll notice that a scenario spans a number of slides/ screens and it can become a little confusing to manage locks and branches. Keynote 08 (not 09) has the ability to generate a single SWF file for a series of slides. More about this in a future post, perhaps.) Sumeet Moghe, 2009. MORE >>

QuizMaker – which assumes you have Studio. New Slide – add a new slide to the project (more on that in one sec). Add a New Slide. Storyline as noted earlier is a robust product and this robustness is seen the moment you decide to add a new slide. After clicking the “Add a New Slide” a popup screen appears with the following options. Quizzing – Choose from the following tabs: Graded, Survey, Freeform, Draw from Bank, Result Slides). Slide Layer – add new layers to the current slide. Left Slide. MORE >>

Conversion of even big slide shows with lots of images, animation and audio is very fast. While I’m not looking for much in the way of “authoring” outside of PowerPoint itself, the iSpring suite includes the Quizmaker and the Kinetics interaction tools so I did take them for a spin. The Quizmaker provides options to create graded multiple choice, matching, hotspot, even text entry items or ungraded survey-style quizzes. Disclosure: I made it known that I was working on this. Some vendors approached me asking me to test tools; I downloaded some free trials of others.] link]. MORE >>