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Should Marketing Review eLearning Courses?

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Is it possible to emulate the style of the organization’s website in the course template? If there are specific color schemes defined then the course’s branding needs to follow those guidelines. Were fonts specified in the style guide? Then those fonts should be used. That might be something requested by the marketing department.

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How to Create eLearning Using PowerPoint

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Finally, explore “Shapes” within PowerPoint; they’re the workhorse for creating your eLearning design template and backgrounds. Next, sketch layout ideas and determine your color palette for the course (for tips on choosing the right color for eLearning design, check out my recent blog post). Consider providing navigation.

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Creative: You Asked For It, But Now It’s Terrifying

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Maybe there was enough time to put the content in one of the old templates. The deadline for this eLearning was coming up fast and there was no way it could be released to the members like this. It worked just fine but the presentation style was- it just didn’t fit. I’m talking about innovative, creative, or “different” eLearning.

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Creative: You Asked For It, But Now It’s Terrifying

Association eLearning

Maybe there was enough time to put the content in one of the old templates. The deadline for this eLearning was coming up fast and there was no way it could be released to the members like this. It worked just fine but the presentation style was- it just didn’t fit. I’m talking about innovative, creative, or “different” eLearning.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

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Ugly: The Template Style PowerPoint. We’ve all faced “death by PowerPoint”, where each screen is a dump of information on a template style PowerPoint layout. But, you should always ask your SME the question: ‘Why do they need to know this?” When learners see this, it’s an immediate turn-off.

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Where, Oh Where, Should Content On A Screen Go?

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Use templates, style guides, and consistent structure to keep everything unified and easy to understand. Best Practices (for Western Cultures with Left-to-Right Languages). It causes confusion when similar elements are positioned differently or given different visual treatments. Remember Example 1?

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Resurrecting Old Content

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Make templates out of courses that went over well or formats you use often. It’s better to have your own assets saved somewhere for consistent reuse than having everyone run off to keep buying stock photos or copy-pasting from Google image search every time they make a presentation or course. That way making new courses, job aids, etc.

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