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Compressing Media in Your E-Learning Authoring Tools

E-learning Uncovered

In my last blog post , I shared the basic reasoning behind optimizing your e-learning media files and how to reduce file size using external tools. The advantage of using the compression options in your authoring tool is that it is quick and easy to compress everything in the course at once.

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Top 5 eLearning Skills for 2011

eLearning Weekly

These small groups of elearning designers and developers will have to do it all–manage the projects and handle graphics, video, narration and all the various software, including some sort of LMS. Photoshop has been a constant in elearning job descriptions for a while. The tools I see most are Captivate and Articulate.

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What is an animated ebook creator and which are the best ones?

Kitaboo

But to create these ebooks, you need a robust animated ebook creator tool that makes it easy for you to add interactiveness to your ebook. . We will also list out the best ebook creator tools for you. . This is where tools like Kitaboo can help by letting you add all these elements simultaneously while writing. .

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Introducing Tech Tuesday toolbox

Mike Taylor

In my experience, most people love tech tips and tools. With that in mind, I’ve been thinking about the best way to share some of the best tech tips and tools that I discover. For a long time, I’ve had a section in my weekly newsletter highlighting a few new tools each week. Effects, filters, overlays, simple to expert tools.

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Optimizing Graphics for eLearning

SmartBuilder

Have you ever thought about how graphics’ file sizes impact elearning courses? As an author, you’ll work faster with smaller files: objects move smoother, regenerate quickly, save faster. If the activity dimensions are 1000 x 650, resize the background image in Photoshop to those same dimensions. Huge difference.

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Making elearning look good on retina displays

SmartBuilder

1 As the number of learners with retina displays continues to increase, it’s important that elearning authors know how to support these super-high resolution devices. One of the easiest ways to do this is to create your graphic with dimensions that are twice the size that you will need in your elearning. Set the quality to 60%.

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5 Steps to a Graphic Development Workflow for E-Learning

ATD Learning Technologies

Here is what I file in each of the folders: Source Graphics: Original photos and images that will be modified for final use, as well as Photoshop and Illustrator files. Some designers differentiate by the tool, creating one folder for each graphic tool they use. I haven’t found that to be necessary.