Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

A while back we had a great challenge on how to use video as the slide background in your elearning courses. Examples of Free Stock Video Courses. Great use of stock video throughout. Find Free Stock Videos. One of the first questions that comes up is where to get free stock videos. Really elegant example.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 31, 2023

Quiz Tip #3: Make the Quiz the Course Don’t start with slide after slide of content. You can’t insert fifty slides of content. And then you’ll have them in the course, learning what they need to know to pass the quiz. Instead start with the first quiz question.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 19, 2022

My initial inclination was to build something in PowerPoint or Google slides, but I switched to Rise 360 and haven’t looked back. Creating the presentation in Rise 360 is just as fast as creating a slide. With Rise 360, I spend less time constructing the layout because I’m not starting with an empty slide.

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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. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. But it’s not ideal.

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Fly Plugins

APRIL 2, 2024

If you’ve stumbled upon Fizzle, you’re likely looking for ways to break free from the constraints of a job and empower yourself to transform your work into something you actually look forward to. Again, Canva is a great option for slide templates and of course you can use Keynote or PowerPoint as well.

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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. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. And format painted onto the other shapes. Whatever you create can be saved as an image.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The meeting will help your client see how changes to tools, new job aids, and other non-training interventions can solve the problem. In elearning we’re tempted to make up for the lack of human contact with an avalanche of irrelevant stock photos, narration, and flying bullet points. Focus on challenge, not bling.

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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. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. And people make that assessment right away.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2020

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. Storyline has an import PowerPoint feature to convert the PowerPoint slides to Storyline slides. I use 7zip (a free application).

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

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. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 18, 2017

A lot of e-learning content starts with existing PowerPoint slides. When you review your static content or existing PowerPoint slides, look for ways to make it interactive. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Understand Why the E-Learning Course Needs to Be Interactive.

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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. Click here to view the tutorial on YouTube. Getting Started?

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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. Here’s a great job board for e-learning, instructional design, and training jobs. Policy training is a common type.

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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. Getting Started?

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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

APRIL 7, 2020

First, if you’re using Storyline 360, then you have a ton of templates and slides to use for your e-learning courses. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. A Simple Way to Build E-learning Templates.

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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. The card selection is how you present what may have been bullet points or slides. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Click here to view the font activity.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This deck of cards gives you 52 proven design alternatives to the dreaded bullet point layout and over 150 professionally designed examples of slides using these techniques to spark your creativity and improve your next presentation. If you ever build slides, you’ll love these. It is awesome! Tools & Tips.

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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.

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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

MAY 14, 2019

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 slide number increases exponentially with each additional choice and gets to a point where it’s not manageable. Interactive Scenario: Storyline. Getting Started?

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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. Bonus Tip for Branched Scenario Images. Free Downloads.

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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. I like this approach.

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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. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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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. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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LXD Central

AUGUST 23, 2023

Many vendors quote by the job, but as someone who has been pricing learning projects for the last thirteen years, I can assure you that behind the scenes someone is breaking that quote down into days and hours. Role-Plays, Simulations, On-the-Job Learning, Action Learning, etc. Rate is the amount you pay per hour or day.

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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. Slide 3.2: Slide 7.1: Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.

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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. Choose a Template Before Building the Course.

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Making Change

JANUARY 10, 2017

Activity 1: Graphics and slides ate my brain. The process was similar to using a slide-based tool. Since many stock photos show overacted expressions, I probably would have ended up doing a custom photo shoot with some friends, cutting drastically into my design time and spending others’ time as well.

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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. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. Getting Started?

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 19, 2016

I had a couple of questions this week about elearning jobs. And on the flip side, someone I know was looking for work and wanted some tips on how to get a job. For the job seeker: If you don’t have a portfolio, how can I see the type of work you’ve done? For the job seeker: I used to make a two-column list.

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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. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs. Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images. You can find it in the recap post.

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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. For this demo, I am going to use Screen2Gif because it works well for this demo that has a lot of slides, it’s easy to use, and it’s free. Determine the original course slide resolution.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

JUNE 27, 2022

We have the privilege of helping people of all abilities learn and get better at their jobs. If I’m designing your learning, is it my job to decide who gets to get better at their job? Professional development shouldn’t be some exclusive club that only non-disabled people are allowed to join. Amy Morrisey.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 13, 2011

Not only is this more visually appealing than a slide of text, but the diagram itself can come in handy as an abbreviated way to refer back to steps in the process throughout the course. Kind of like a job aid within the training. Image Cue: Storytelling. Finding and Creating Images.

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Ed App

MAY 5, 2021

It makes use of engaging content templates for interactivity such as Scratch to Reveal and and a video slide. EdApp did a great job in creating this Social Media Policy course that fixes that problem for you. Employee Training Videos & Microlearning Course #6 – Stocking – EdApp.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? With a little practice, there’s no reason why you can’t learn to do a good job. 3 Ways to Use a Blank Slide in Quizmaker ‘09.

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