Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two things always stand out during these trips: There is no one way to do elearning. Some people build courses, some create marketing material, and some use the rapid elearning software to create multimedia information. One of the sessions I did in Atlanta was on how to get the graphics you need for your rapid elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I was reviewing some older presentations I found a slide regarding the topic of getting started with e-learning. On the slide I offered three helpful tips when getting started that still hold true today. An E-Learning Course is Different from a Classroom Session. E-Learning is Mostly a Visual Medium.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Or got to the file saves as options and save the slide itself as an image. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more? Participate in the weekly e-learning challenges to sharpen your skills.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 10, 2007

This month the Big Question on the Learning Circuit's blog has to do with rapid e-learning. “What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?” So you can read more of my thoughts on rapid e-learning in the magazine.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 8, 2021

Compliance training is often a challenge, but if the content is reframed and not just slides of bullets, it can be engaging. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here’s what I find typical of people who do rapid elearning. Once it’s online, they realize that many of the courses look like PowerPoint slides. I call this the rapid elearning story because it’s a story many people relate to. It’s also a great framework for learning to build courses. Rapid Authoring.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 14, 2019

Here’s some content that spans the past decade or so of rapid e-learning. Since PowerPoint is linear and doesn’t offer tracking logic, it requires a lot of slides to create the illusion of movement and branching complexity. The same content goes from 154 slides in PowerPoint to just 18 slides in Storyline.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

This has nothing to do with real learning so I have little advice to offer. However, one solution might be to get an enterprise Netflix account and insert that on the last slide using a web object. And there’s probably more creative ways to consume the time allotment than locking the slide navigation. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2020

It never fails that after building an e-learning course in Storyline, someone asks if they can get a PowerPoint version of the course. There are many reasons for this request, such as using the content for face-to-face training, wanting a slide deck for subject matter experts, or creating a PDF handout out of the slides.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 18, 2017

A lot of e-learning content starts with existing PowerPoint slides. And a common challenge is converting all of that PowerPoint training into interactive and engaging e-learning. Today we’ll look at a few considerations that will help make the conversion to interactive e-learning successful.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 4, 2021

We copy and paste the policies over a series of slides. Make the slides pretty. You’re teaching people to be resourceful and understand what’s available to help them do their jobs. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Live Transcriptions & Closed Captions in Google Slide Presentations. Here’s an example of live transcription and closed captions in Google Slides. I find the transcription on Google Slides is a lot faster and a bit more accurate than in PowerPoint. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 7, 2020

Here are three production tips and shortcuts from previous posts to help save time (and sanity) when building e-learning courses and online training. A Simple Way to Build E-learning Templates. First, if you’re using Storyline 360, then you have a ton of templates and slides to use for your e-learning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

All you want is a slide with a specific look and swap out the placeholders for your course content. You don’t want to change layouts, redesign the slide, add new elements, or customize colors. And those changes are applied across all the slides in the course. When you build the slide template, only use theme elements.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

E-Learning Jobs: Training, elearning, and instructional design jobs. 5 Free E-Learning Games for Articulate Storyline. E-Learning Typography & Finding the Perfect Font. Creating Custom Review Layers for Storyline Question Slides. Storyboards for E-Learning: What to Include?

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 28, 2020

Perhaps there’s a way to reframe your slide content so that the information is delivered via reflective questions. I like this type of activity for e-learning. The card selection is how you present what may have been bullet points or slides. What did you learn? Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 19, 2016

Let’s face it, we’re not all graphic designers and it can be chore to get the right look for your slides. This is especially true if your slide is a little light on content. The transparent echo technique is an easy way to dress up slides without plastering it with clip art or decorative images. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

I created a custom slide size 13 x 4 inches. When I save the PowerPoint slides as images that results in an image that is 1280 x 384 pixels. 03:08 | How to create custom slide size. 07:45 | Save slide as image. PowerPoint Tip: Save Slides as Images. PowerPoint Tip: Create Custom Slide Sizes. Register now.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 2, 2019

I’m asked to review courses all the time and one of the most frustrating things is to go through the course and find the developer has locked every slide. I usually put a button in one of the corners that gives me quick access to slides. Sometimes, the button just skips the slide. Create a slide with menu links.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The free download includes the original images as well as a folder with images cropped to 16:9 so they fit perfectly in 16×9 slides. One way to use the images, is to create a course file and insert all of the backgrounds on different layouts in the master slide. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Once you have the text copied, paste into your new slide. It also has an OCR feature where it can pull text from an image that can be copied and pasted into a new slide. Select the course slide. Copy and paste the text into the new slide. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 5, 2018

Once it’s ready to go live, they need to be removed from the slide. This gets rid of them, but if you need to go back and edit the slide, you need to recreate the references. Move them off the slide. Keep them on the slide , but hide them on the timeline. Put them on the master slide. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Another way to get the text into your slide is by reading it out loud to transcribe it and insert into your slide. PowerPoint transcribes the text and adds it to the slide. Once it’s ready, import the slides into Storyline. Use Google Docs to Transcribe Text for HTML5 E-Learning. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

An easy way to build one is download all of the slides of a Content Library template, add some large videos, and then publish. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Articulate Roadshow: Learn more and register here.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This can be problematic because when you modify the aspect ratio of the slide, it means the existing content may get skewed or require a bunch of tweaking to get it re-aligned. Thus you want to determine the course’s aspect ratio before adding content to the slides. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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Instancy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Convert the PowerPoint Presentations into eLearning Conversion Toll for Rapid eLearning Development. PowerPoint to eLearning Conversion Tool, Rapid eLearning Development. eLearning is one good approach to achieve this goal. Providing interactions and strategies for more effective learning.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 19, 2019

There’s a published version with practice files and a series of tutorials that go through each slide individually. You’ll only learn to use them when you use them. Slide 3.2: Slide 7.1: E-Learning Community Activities to Practice Using Variables. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Add Attribution Credits to the Image or Slide. Lightbox slides on player tabs. Create a custom slide and insert it using the lightbox feature. Challenge Recap #57: Preventing Workplace Violence E-Learning Scenarios. 4 Easy Ways to Organize Content For E-Learning. Credits on the image.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

.” Andrzej also shared the source file so you can open it up to see how he created the animated effects and other slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For example, if it’s an icon that is made of think black lines, than it makes sense to match the color and lines in the shapes you create for the slide. My Example of an E-Learning Template Using Free Icons. E-Learning Challenge Recap #59: E-Learning Games for Kids.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In a previous posts, we looked at how to copy text from old Flash courses and how to transcribe them using into new slides. The secret to all of this is screen capturing your old e-learning courses. Determine the original course slide resolution. Don’t include the player; just the slide.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. The Secret to Creating Your Own PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning. They’re not really designed for elearning courses. This means that you’ll have to create your own templates that work better with the rapid elearning software. December 17th, 2007. 30 comments.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 12, 2018

But what is the secret sauce to create effective eLearning courses? And your 50% job is done. Whether it is custom eLearning, rapid eLearning, mobile learning or even microlearning; Relevancy is the key. And incorporating infographics in eLearning can take your eLearning courses to the next level.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In Storyline , insert a character on the slide and then save as an image. Save the modified image and insert on your Storyline slide. Challenge Activity: Using Interactive Sliders in E-Learning (Challenge #52). E-Learning Jobs: Training, elearning, and instructional design jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rapid E-Learning Changed Things. Throwing a bunch of slides and quiz together and calling it a course is one thing. However, when you start to build more complex learning experiences, you need to be more intentional about what you design. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I talk a lot about “touching the screen” as a way to pull people into the course when building interactive e-learning. The core quiz slide she built (that she covers in the tutorial) could be stripped of content and be saved as a template for re-use. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 19, 2016

I had a couple of questions this week about elearning jobs. First, someone asked me what they should expect when hiring an elearning course developer. And on the flip side, someone I know was looking for work and wanted some tips on how to get a job. Types of interactive content and learning activities. Creativity.

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