How to download the new templates? We sometimes get this question – ‘If I am a subscriber to FasterCourse template library with an active subscription how do I download the latest additions to the template library?’ So we made a quick guide, see below: 1. Sign in to your account When you purchased the template…
Interested to take a look at how our course templates look from the inside? For the last two years, we have been working to create 15 course templates and for each template we have spent 200 hours on development. This includes finding valuable content, planning storyboards, designing and putting it all together as a complete…
Have you considered improving your working speed by using course templates, but you don’t know if it’s the right fit for you? We have gathered the most common questions from our clients about course templates and we will answer them to help you better understand if course templates can help you get better at elearning…
Are you having too many projects and you are wondering how you could improve your development process and earn more? Well, we can show you one way how to achieve both – how you can get more free time and how to earn more by creating elearning projects you like. We have created a course…
We spend around 70 % of our development time on creating elearning content. Is it too much? Should it be more? We don’t have the answer, but from gathering the data, we can tell that most of our development time goes to elearning content curation and creation. Once we realized that, we started to find…
How do you choose which elearning projects to accept? Most of the time new freelance instructional designers are happy to accept all projects that they are offered and that’s the best way how to gain experience and how to understand what you enjoy doing the most. The problem is that it’s easy to get used…
Want to share an elearning project with your clients, but it’s under a non-disclosure agreement? This is a common problem for all instructional designers – you have created a masterpiece and would love to share it with all your potential clients (if not the whole world), but there is a small issue called a non-disclosure…
Struggling to keep track of all your elearning sales prospects? We have a simple and free solution that you can create in 5 minutes. For the past few years we have been using Trello for many purposes – for project management, for elearning project quality assurance, and also for managing our sales leads. Trello is…
Coronavirus disease has shocked the world and you probably have heard about it in the news. More than 90 thousand people have been infected, and several thousand have died. Healthcare and government organizations and NGO’s worldwide are doing what they can to limit the spread of the virus globally. We decided to try and do…
I believe that many of us enter the e-learning world unexpectedly, without ever considering it as a career. Quite often, we are asked to take on creating a course because we are experts in our field, or maybe because we’re just ‘good at collecting info and writing texts and stuff’. Or maybe since childhood, we…
One of the reasons why designing e-learning is so exciting is that there are so many different ways you can present content to your learners. E-learning authoring tools keep improving and adding new features, allowing instructional designers all over the world to come up with countless creative solutions every day. If you’re new to e-learning,…
What are the most popular quiz and test templates in e-learning? Our experience shows that e-learning courses usually rely on three big whales when it comes to quizzes and tests, those are test questions with one correct answer, test questions with multiple correct answers and finally also some kind of drag and drop activity. You can…
Are you planning your elearning production in Adobe Captivate? And of course, it has to be Responsive, modern, work well on all devices, and look better than you when you were 21. Why not use a modern design template, that has been predesigned and preprogrammed for a quick and efficient production work? Here are our…
Trivantis Lectora is one of our favourite eLearning authoring tools that we’ve been using regularly to develop our products. So, it only makes sense for us to be very happy about the release of Lectora Online and Publisher 18. However, this time we have a reason to be super-excited because 6 new FasterCourse templates are…
This year FasterCourse is going to be a part of one of the largest e-learning events – DevLearn! I will be traveling to Las Vegas to meet everybody and to learn more about learning and development and the newest technologies and trends used by many companies today. DevLearn is a yearly conference organized by eLearning…
Hello! Good news three of FasterCourse free templates have been featured by the E-learning Heroes, Articulate’s user community. Articulate is the company behind Storyline, one of the three authoring tools whose templates FasterCourse is developing. There have been more than 4000 downloads so far from the community website, and this number is still growing. If you…
Lectora has built-in features for responsive course development. You can build courses like before and when you need to enable responsive content, you can do it with one click in course settings. When you enable your Lectora responsive course settings, Lectora automatically creates brake points for your content. You can then adjust content objects for each…
We have just added new e-learning template set for Storyline, we call it Vector template set, you can see demo and few screenshots below: http://demo.fastercourse.com/storyline/FasterCourse_Vector/story_html5.html Similarly Lectora and Captivate versions of this template set are under development and should be ready soon. Next in the line is Adventure template set, you can see some screenshots below,…
Learning Technologies 2016 This week, I had the pleasure to visit London for the annual Learning Technologies exhibition in Kensington Olympia. My overall feeling about this year’s exhibition is very positive, this year the exhibition seemed to be bigger, much more people, and much more dedication towards learning technologies. Learning skills, which is more soft…
New Articulate Storyline templates Recently we have released 5 new Articulate Storyline template packages, with 54 Articulate Storyline templates inside. What we tried to achieve with these releases is to go away from standard hotspot & text and image type of pages, and explore the area of more interactive e-learning templates. We included a bunch of…
Authoring tools The expression “authoring tools” may sound uncertain and confusing. What are these tools and what for could I possibly use them? It’s pretty simple actually. An authoring tool is a developed software within which to create e-learning course on whatever topic you heart desires. Some of them work a bit like advanced Powerpoints,…
E-learning production is often a battle between time, interactivity and budget available. We have been involved in this battle way too many times to know that it is not an easy win. In case the budget is limited we usually go for a rapid e-learning development and here is why : Faster and cheaper development…
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