Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2020

One thing that is often missing (but will easily derail an e-learning project) is not understanding the environment in which a person takes the course. An easy way to build one is download all of the slides of a Content Library template, add some large videos, and then publish. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Mostly likely those resources won’t work for your project. But it still creates some friction because the attribution requirement may conflict with your project. Add Attribution Credits to the Image or Slide. The two options above are fine for school projects, but don’t look very professional. Credits on the image.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Because more than one person worked on the course, the storyboard was really critical to communicate on the project design. Rapid E-Learning Changed Things. Throwing a bunch of slides and quiz together and calling it a course is one thing. Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 21, 2019

As he says, “I mainly work on redesigning and adjusting images for my projects. It’s also a good way to learn how to design when you have to work on ready-made elements. ” Andrzej also shared the source file so you can open it up to see how he created the animated effects and other slides. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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. That’s something to consider whenever building custom interactions: how can it be converted to a template for the next project? Upcoming E-Learning Events. Free E-Learning Resources.

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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

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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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 12, 2011

Think about the elements you included in your last eLearning project. If you had to offer business justification for each slide and activity in your eLearning lesson to your client, could you consistently make a compelling case? Word searches, crossword puzzles, hang man – I see these games in eLearning from time to time.

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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

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. I like to see a portfolio of projects. How do you know?

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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

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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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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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

OCTOBER 17, 2017

” Why Have a E-Learning Portfolio? It documents some of your projects and also shows your specific skills. And let’s face it, some of the project that we get stuck on at work aren’t things we want to show anyway. Here’s What Should be in Your E-Learning Portfolio. Want to learn more?

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Ed App

MAY 9, 2022

If your organization uses Agile methods in project management or software development, then you should consider applying the same values to employee training and pursue Agile learning. Implementing Agile to learning can benefit your company, leading to increased work productivity and client satisfaction.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 5, 2012

This can be stifling and in many ways retard your growth as an elearning developer. You may get to work on a hundred projects, but they’re basically the same project built a hundred times. And then later when you go to look for a different job, you won’t have much interesting to show prospective employers. Details coming.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Managing elearning projects requires good communication between the instructional designers and subject matter experts. Thus, better email communication ultimately leads to better project management, which most likely means better elearning courses. In most cases, this communication happens via email. Check it out.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 26, 2018

Many e -learning developers are small teams of one or two people, so see the community as an extension of the team. Today, I’d like to offer some timesaving tips that will help you troubleshoot your projects when asking for help. It really slows things down when every slide is filled with the generic default titles.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And as an added bonus, if you’re using Articulate 360 Teams you can add those slides to your Teams account and everyone on your organization’s team can access those slides. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Upcoming E-Learning Events.

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Creativ Technologies

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hence, there needs to be careful planning by the business and elearning vendor before they are purchased by a company. Although rapid e-learning reduces development costs by using authoring tools, it has the same quality levels as a professional e-learning course.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The same thing if I import PowerPoint slides. E-Learning Template Color Schemes. E-Learning Template Layouts. There are all sorts of ways content can be laid out on the slide. Before mix and matching slides from different templates, review how they use fonts, colors, and layouts. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2017

The key point was that it didn’t matter what underlying technology drove the content, the next generation course designer could build e-elearning with no programming skills required. Catching the Rapid E-Learning Bug. From that point on, anywhere I went I was touting this rapid e-learning stuff.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2015

I’m not sure you noticed but we just updated the Insider’s Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. The first edition of the free e-book was released in 2007, and as you can imagine a lot has changed in our industry. How Has E-Learning Changed? What’s New in the Free E-Book?

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Captivate can create backup files of your project, but I find this helps so much, especially when you reach a big milestone in development. E-learning projects can become monsters when they start to grow. With all of the media, job aids, storyboards, review forms and exports; it becomes difficult to manage.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 7, 2018

By splitting into those groups, I know what resources to commit to the projects. I don’t want to squander my limited resources on courses that just require a few slides and final quiz. What are things you do to keep your elearning courses relevant? Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 1, 2016

If you use Google Docs, then you know that when working on projects, you don’t just have one Google Doc. Because we tend to have a lot of documents for each project it’s easy to lose sight of what’s there. Share Your PowerPoint Slides to Twitter & Facebook. Help with Google Docs. Be sure to check them out.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 10, 2009

On Wednesday, I’ll be facilitating a session on rapid elearning at the ID Zone. It has a bunch of examples of rapid elearning courses including our recent Articulate Guru Award winners. 5 Ways to Jump Start Your Next E-Learning Project. 5 Myths About Rapid E-Learning.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Interactive elearning courses require more resources which is a challenge because most of us are working with limited resources. So when it comes time to prioritize your projects, don’t waste your limited resources on less meaningful projects. Not All E-Learning is E-Learning. That’s a valid argument.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 27, 2009

One of the most common scenarios for rapid elearning developers is to take an existing PowerPoint presentation and convert it to an “elearning course.&# Sometimes you get the luxury of meeting with the subject matter expert and then reworking the content to transform it from a presentation to an elearning course.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 11, 2010

Identify content that is most likely to succeed with eLearning. Not all performance goals are optimal for eLearning. Some behaviors really are best learned through instructor-led or on-the-job training. With that in mind, recommend a blended approach when appropriate. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Free resources always come in handy when building courses or slide presentations. And of course, there’s always something new to learn from others when the share what they use. Here’s a post on how to did this: how to use free assets in commercial projects. E-learning 101. Rapid E-Learning Blog.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 29, 2011

It’s a perfect storm and it’s all so closely linked to learning and what we do. For example, with rapid elearning technology you can hand off all of your work to the subject matter experts and spend your time surfing YouTube for Justin Bieber videos or playing Angry Bird on your sophisticated mlearning device. That’s fine.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 9, 2017

And we even looked at one community member who does a great job demonstrating her skills by showcasing her e-learning modules in her portfolio. Most likely you don’t own the e-learning software to create courses. Let’s suppose you lose your job. And perfect for a portfolio project.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 28, 2009

One of the most common scenarios for rapid elearning developers is to take an existing PowerPoint presentation and convert it to an “elearning course.&# Sometimes you get the luxury of meeting with the subject matter expert and then reworking the content to transform it from a presentation to an elearning course.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2016

There’s something about video that’s much more engaging than reading slides of content. If I recall, it’s not a real project but a quick prototype based off of this popular Deloitte recruitment video. They did a great job showing how Storyline can be used to create interactive scenarios that use video.

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