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How to Create eLearning Using PowerPoint

Association eLearning

Having a solid foundation in PowerPoint is a must when using rapid content authoring tools to create online learning. If you’re not an experienced Flash or HTML programmer or are short on resources, PowerPoint may be the only eLearning development tool you have available. Use animations to create interactivity in PowerPoint.

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eLearning: Adobe Captivate and Microsoft PowerPoint

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

before answering that, let's rework that classic question with this: what comes first, the eLearning or the PowerPoint presentation? When developing eLearning, the content is often created in Microsoft PowerPoint first. Adobe Captivate and PowerPoint. Also, the ability to import PowerPoint presentations isn't new.

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PowerPoint or Prezi: Which is Best for eLearning?

Association eLearning

The question is becoming more and more common — “Should I use PowerPoint (PPT) or Prezi?” But whereas PowerPoint tends to progress linearly from one slide to the next in a fixed sequence, Prezi uses “paths” to move between content by zooming out to reveal a big-picture overview, or zooming in to show details. Read on to see why.

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eLearning Course Authoring Tools by Leveraging Microsoft Word and PowerPoint with Aspose

Instancy

In the dynamic world of training and instructional design, the quest for creating engaging and interactive eLearning content that keeps learners hooked is never-ending. Microsoft PowerPoint and Word are ubiquitous tools that have long been the bedrock of content creation in various industries. Slides and Aspose.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right?

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Creating Engaging Courses for Professional Training

Academy of Mine

During this interview , we explained what instructional design is, course authoring and delivering eLearning with an LMS, the difference in creating learning materials for academic institutions vs. for-profit businesses, and much more. Instructional designers are like architects when it comes to eLearning and creating training courses.

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How to create a drop-down menu in PowerPoint

BrightCarbon

Drop-down menus in PowerPoint allow you to create flexible, interactive slides. PowerPoint drop-down menus can help you make interactive self-led presentations, documents, eLearning, training materials…. A drop-down menu in PowerPoint can be used for cleaning up busy slides or combined with hyperlinks for smooth navigation.

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Legendary Presentations: eLearning, Sales Collateral, and Defeating Death-by-PowerPoint

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director, BrightCarbon

Presentations have a well-earned reputation for being terrible snooze-fests full of boring bullets and Death by PowerPoint. eLearning has the potential to fall into the same trap, as L&D professionals are tasked with creating content to hit tight deadlines and with limited budgets. Become a PowerPoint Legend. Steps to take: 1.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Free Online Training Content You Can Use Immediately

There are also links to free PowerPoint and PDF templates, which can expedite the creating quality training content process. We'll teach you how you can start by showing you best practices so you can get the process going as painlessly as possible.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.