Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2007

At no point have I experienced any serious constraints that make me wish for a more sophisticated authoring tool (although there are some forms of interaction that Engage hasn't yet got templates for). I don't believe I've sacrificed on quality. No piece of material took more than a few hours.

Rapid eLearning 40

Rapid eLearning Blended Learning Convert Wiki 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2007

As I hadn't used the latter in a while and there's a rather tempting Venn template in SmartDraw, I just had to give this a go: A 3D world is a graphical environment which you can navigate in real-time in glorious 3D. Now, as a consultant, I'm trained to communicate any concept, however complex, as a two-dimensional matrix or a Venn diagram.

Simulations 40

Simulations Games Wikipedia Virtual World 40

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

He then wanted to refine these presentations with finished artwork and import these into Captivate 3, where interactions would be added using Captivate's own question templates, along with custom animations created in Flash. Fair enough. The product would be enhanced further by adding an audio narration.

Captivate 40

Captivate Cornerstone Internationalization Storyboard 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2006

That's less PowerPoint presentations assembled using templates, clip art and auto content, and so full of text bullets that they send their audiences to sleep. It's about using software to do the right things in the right way. It's about encouraging users to do less things than before but to do them more effectively.

PowerPoint 40

PowerPoint Microsoft Report Communication 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

A template for an assessment question needs to pin down issues such as the number of attempts allowed, the scoring, the ways to prevent cheating. The assumption seems to be that questions are for assessment, they come in a batch, probably at the end, and they save a score to an LMS.

ActionScript 40

ActionScript Rapid eLearning Score Learning 40

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2009

Interestingly, the product has been designed to work at a number of levels: Entry level: simple templates, programmed objects and 3D libraries which enable games to be assembled easily. Enthusiast level: a visual flowcharting tool enables non-programmers to easily create complex gameplay.

Authoring 40

Authoring Games Raptivity Library 40

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

More often than not, they’ll say they need a quick video, a checklist, a template, a fact sheet or a decision aid. Talk to employees; find out what challenges they face; get a feel for the contexts in which these challenges occur; ask employees what they feel would help them to overcome the challenge.

Performance Support 49

Performance Support Support Performance Agile 49