Rapid eLearning

MARCH 19, 2019

Also, be sure to check out our upcoming e-learning workshops below. Learn About Variables for E-Learning. Practice Activities to Learn About Variables for E-Learning. Here are some resources from previous workshops where we learn to use variables in a simple gamified context.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A while back I shared some free illustrated backgrounds that you can use for your branched scenario courses in e-learning. I’ve been working on interactive scenarios for a few upcoming workshops and created some background images that we’ll use to build interactive branched scenarios. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Create Characters by Pulling Them Out of Stock Images. You can find a lot of stock images for free. I tried it myself at the workshop in Denver, which you can see below. Sketching doesn’t need to be perfect and the organic nature of it provides a novel contrast to what we usually see in our elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 9, 2019

I was digging through some old workshop files and stumbled upon one I built a while back but never ended up sharing it outside of the workshop. In the workshop activity, the objective was to not build completely from scratch. Here’s a breakdown of some ideas from the workshop activity. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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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. I guess there’s a big demand for free stock images and free fonts for family use. Add Attribution Credits to the Image or Slide. Credits on the image.

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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. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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. Of course the example above is silly, but you could find more creative and appropriate ways to use these free assets in your e-learning content, especially if working with a younger audience.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technically converting a PowerPoint file to an “e-learning course” is fairly easy. You can import the slides into Storyline or just publish them from inside of PowerPoint with Articulate Studio 360. Here are three things to consider when converting a PowerPoint file into an e-learning course.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I created a couple of simple quiz templates to use in a workshop and thought I’d share them here as well. I also added a tutorial video for those who want to learn more about using the template for a simple quiz in Storyline. It contains two slides. Learn more about interactive PowerPoint. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 11, 2015

I’m working on some practice content for an upcoming workshop and decided to share the template that is part of the workshop activities. Each section links to a series of slides with a few different layouts. Feel free to copy and paste them to create your own slides and scenarios. E-Learning Heroes Roadshows.

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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. And of course, there’s always something new to learn from others when the share what they use. Free Stock Photos. Rapid E-Learning Blog.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In a previous posts, we looked at how to copy text from old Flash courses and how to transcribe them using into new slides. The secret to all of this is screen capturing your old e-learning courses. Determine the original course slide resolution. Don’t include the player; just the slide.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I did look through many of the older posts and here’s an updated list of PowerPoint tutorials that still come in handy if you build elearning courses with PowerPoint; or if you want to become a PowerPoint guru and learn things like how to use it to create graphics and illustrations. Want to Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro?

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 22, 2015

At a recent workshop I showed the difference between creating interactive elearning in PowerPoint and Storyline. For the workshop I created a few different templates. Here are a few tips: Leverage the master slides. Try to put as much persistent content on the slide master as you can. Free E-learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 21, 2015

Here’s a free PowerPoint template I built for a recent workshop. 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. The progress indicator base is on the master slide.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2015

The free template is structure to slide up and down as you navigate. I designed the files for a workshop on building some interactive timelines, however it can be used for anything. Essentially they’re just slides with numbered circles. If you need additional slides, just duplicate them. August 4 & 5 (Seattle).

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 30, 2018

I shared a cool 3D interaction in a recent workshop demo and have had lots of people ask how I built it. How to insert the 3D model in PowerPoint: Create a slide and then select a 3D object. Duplicate the slide (we’ll need this for the video). The first slide is the starting point from which the 3D object rotates.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 7, 2017

Looking at the free icons reminded me of simple trick we show in our PowerPoint workshops. Add a character on the slide. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Convert Dingbat Fonts to Free Vector Images.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2016

In PowerPoint, we can create all sorts of master slide layouts and add a whole host of placeholders. Since the placeholder is designed to hold an image, when you don’t insert an image on the slide, it may end up looking like a big empty spot. Create an image placeholder on the master slide layout. Want to learn more?

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

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2015

I’m not sure you noticed but we just updated the Insider’s Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. The first edition of the free e-book was released in 2007, and as you can imagine a lot has changed in our industry. How Has E-Learning Changed? What’s New in the Free E-Book?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

For example, in our workshops we use this demo of the Hoh Rain Forest. The goal is to place the learner in the rain forest so we walk through the process of converting a simple PowerPoint slide to something more immersive. Going through stock image and template sites is a good way to come up with design ideas. Find inspiration.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 25, 2017

Ever take a course where each slide or screen looks different than the other? This usually happens because the developer is building slide to slide. I see this all the time in workshops. What happens is that they make design decisions at the slide level as they work. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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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. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2016

There’s something about video that’s much more engaging than reading slides of content. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate E-Learning Workshop. Register here.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used the free image to create an interactive course prototype for an upcoming workshop activity. Create a separate slide for each distinct area. In the example above I made slides for the computer, picture frame, book shelf, microphone, and calendar. Link from the main image to a slide of the isolated element.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2017

The key point was that it didn’t matter what underlying technology drove the content, the next generation course designer could build e-elearning with no programming skills required. Catching the Rapid E-Learning Bug. From that point on, anywhere I went I was touting this rapid e-learning stuff.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Locking the navigation and forcing people to go through the course slide by slide is one way to guarantee that they’ve seen the slide. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 26, 2018

This is especially true for the person in the community who’s trying to make heads or tails out of your slides. It really slows things down when every slide is filled with the generic default titles. Once the video is on the slide, just right-click and save the media as.mp4. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As you can see, there are more than enough ways to generate fake text and with the amount you need for your slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate E-Learning Workshop.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I happened to be working on a note card interaction for a workshop and submitted it to the challenge above. Here are a few things that I highlight in the workshop activity. At a recent Articulate workshop he showed how to build this drag and drop interaction that gave the appearance of swiping cards left and right.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 1, 2016

Share Your PowerPoint Slides to Twitter & Facebook. I like to tweet some of my workshop presentations. I used to convert my slides to images and then tweet the images. However, Microsoft has a new app that lets you share your PowerPoint slides and files via Twitter and Facebook. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The process is very easy: Create a slide with a header and footer shape. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Workshops & Events (2015). To learn more & register, click here. Find a contextual image.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 16, 2015

Here’s how: Locate a vector image in.EPS format and insert it on the PowerPoint slide. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Workshops & Events (2015). To learn more & register, click here.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 9, 2015

For this post we’ll work off of the assumption that you want closed captioning for audio narration or an inserted video on your slides. Often the course developer will add the slide transcript to the course which allows the learner to disregard the audio and just read the transcript. Use Storyline to Build Interactive E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 19, 2016

If you want a good elearning developer you should look for one who can do more than great looking bullet point slides. Types of interactive content and learning activities. Don’t expect the hiring manager to click through 30 slides to get to the one interesting interaction. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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