ID and e-Learning Links (9/14/14)
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Microsoft Office Mix review – a potential new player in digital learning?
Microsoft’s entry into the e-learning world is a lightweight but free PowerPoint add-in. You can record presentations and do basic quizzing. They have their own reporting tool, but you can’t use it in an LMS.
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Drag&Drop tips – Captivate blog
Tips on drag and drop interactions in Captivate. If you’ve seen drag and drop actions continue when you expected them to pause, read this post.
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Why choose Standard over Simple action? – Captivate blog
Lieve Weymeis explains why she recommends using standard actions even for actions like Show and Hide that can be completed as simple actions.
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Articulate – Word of Mouth Blog – 5 Tips to Launch Your Career as an E-Learning Freelancer
Summary of tips from the Articulate freelancer community
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1. Find your focus.
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2. Save some money first.
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3. Set up an online base of operations.
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4. Create an online portfolio.
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5. Track your time.
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Tool for troubleshooting SCORM files that lets you actually analyze the errors. It’s not cheap, but if you’re spending lots of hours with trial and error guessing at what might fix a problem, it’s probably worth it.
This is an excellent list and I really appreciate the word of mouth blog about launching your career as an e-learning freelancer. Thanks very much!
Nice and Great one Blog by Christy Tucker! Yes you are right we have some basic tools from Microsoft and the major one which is used is Power Point for learning perspective as you said for quizzez, Presentation and etc. Really nice blog by you and hope for more.
Thanks!
Office Mix generates embeding code that can be droped into a LMS
Thanks for the clarification. It’s not SCORM though, so it can’t be tracked in an LMS, right?