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What are Development Ratios and How Do They Affect eLearning Courses?

Thinkdom

This is where the concept of ‘development ratio’ becomes important. What is a Development Ratio? A development ratio is a measure that reflects the amount of time required to develop an eLearning course. The development ratio is influenced by the complexity and interactivity of the eLearning course.

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eLEARNING DEVELOPMENT: Dude, Watch Your Aspect. Ratio!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

For that reason, I think the eLearning canvas should be set up to use a 16:9 aspect ratio as opposed to 4:3.   The aspect ratio of an eLearning canvas designed to be viewed on its side, or in landscape mode, is the ratio of its longer side to its shorter side. Both 1024x576 and 1280x720 are 16:9 ratios.

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Free color contrast checker for PowerPoint

BrightCarbon

If you are wondering how to determine the best color contrast for PowerPoint, it’s your lucky day! We are releasing a free PowerPoint color contrast checker as part of our brilliant PowerPoint add-in, BrightSlide. Accessibility and PowerPoint presentations. Take me straight to the color contrast checker!

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3 Tips for Importing PowerPoint Slides Into Storyline

Tim Slade

One of the great features of Articulate Storyline is the ability to import slides from PowerPoint. you use in PowerPoint, they may or may not import properly into Storyline. Check out this post and video for three tips for importing PowerPoint slides into Storyline. By default, Storyline sets its slides to a 4:3 aspect ratio.

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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

An image gets distorted when the image is resized in such a way that it affects the aspect ratio of the image (i.e., Most design programs, including PowerPoint and Articulate Storyline, will maintain the aspect ratio of an image when resized from the corner. scaling the image too tall or too wide). 3: Too Much Text.

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Balancing Quality and Speed in Rapid eLearning Content Development

Thinkdom

One can evaluate the cost to benefit ratio of a solution by measuring the results in terms of the time or effort saved. For an eLearning project to be executed successfully, it is not required for the team to have all the tools in their box.

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PowerPoint saved as responsive doesn’t maintain aspect ratio during preview

Adobe Captivate

I created a PowerPoint Captivate Project and then saved it as responsive. When I use the layout preview while working on the project, the slides maintain aspect ratio as they change size. But when I do a project preview and change the size, the slides get squished or stretched instead of maintaining aspect ratio.

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