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Save Elearning Development Time with a Styles Slide

Experiencing eLearning

My tip to save elearning development time is to create a “Styles” slide with models of slide elements that you can copy to slides instead of manually formatting each object. Styles slide tip. Here’s my full tip: “During development, create a “Styles” slide with model examples of slide elements.

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Designing eLearning and Slides with Grids

The eLearning Coach

Designing with a grid adds structure and organization to the visual design of your eLearning and slides. It helps you avoid a haphazard look.

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Branching Scenarios in Storyline: Layers or Slides?

Experiencing eLearning

When you build branching scenarios in Storyline, one of the decisions you need to make is when to create new slides and when to create layers. For everything else, I build new slides for the consequences of each choice. The navigation takes you to the next question on a new slide, and the process repeats. Bad) Jump to slide 1.3

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No, I Won’t “Tweak” Your PowerPoint Slides

Experiencing eLearning

Have you ever been asked to “just tweak the PowerPoint slides” and call it elearning? The original PowerPoint slides. The PowerPoint slides just need to be tweaked—editing the onscreen text, adding some animation, prepping the script for voice over recording, and syncing everything together. How did you respond?

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Legendary Presentations: eLearning, Sales Collateral, and Defeating Death-by-PowerPoint

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director, BrightCarbon

We’ll work together in a highly practical, demo-led session, in which you’ll learn how to create visual slides, manipulate images, master animations, make it interactive, and produce content that will delight your audience. In this session, you’ll see how you can do all of that using only PowerPoint – no, really!

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Elearning Course Development: Why The Kick-Off Meeting Is So Important

Spark Your Interest

Presentation Slides – (e.g., PowerPoint slides). 15 – 25 slides. 30 – 50 slides. 45 – 75 slides. 60 – 100 slides. Narration – (e.g., from videos, podcasts, and recorded webinars) ~ 100 words are spoken a minute. 5,000 words. 10,000 words. 15,000 words. 20,000 words. 12 – 15. 30 – 40.

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Storyline Accessibility and Mayer’s Principles

Scissortail's Learning Nest

If the content is building on the slide as the audio plays, consider adding a hidden “skip animation” button at the beginning of your focus order that, when selected, allows the user to skip to the end of the timeline to see the finished content. The triggers for a sample slide of that course are shown below.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science!