DON’T LET YOUR ELEARNING BE A SNOOZEFEST As instructional designers, we always want to create training that’s both useful and engaging. However, sometimes we’re very restricted in what we can do because of the content that we’re asked to deliver to our learners. In fact, the content can be so lengthy (and we’re not allowed…
After you have guided your learners through some theory, you might want to treat them with some refreshing exercises. We have noticed that games capture most of our learner’s attention and that’s why we wanted to create a list with our top Adobe Captivate game templates. All of them you can use in your own…
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…
OH NO – WAS I BEING TOO FRIENDLY? I believe that many of us still associate learning with a certain level of formality – the voice of a serious-looking, strict teacher, a silent classroom and the sound of people typing or writing things down. And, without even knowing it, we sometimes create the same atmosphere…
After an eLearning project has been designed and developed, there’s one more thing that needs to be done – somebody needs to check that everything looks and works as it should. If this tricky and responsible task falls under your duties – welcome to the club! I also often help with testing eLearning courses, so…
If you’ve been a part of the eLearning community for some time, you may have noticed that accessibility has become a must for many establishments. What’s important to understand is that this is not just another obligatory requirement that you greet with a long sigh and hope to avoid as much as possible. There are…
I touched on some instructional design challenges a while back. Now I want to talk about a few simple tips and tricks that may help you in the process of producing an eLearning script. TO BEGIN WITH… I find that the most challenging stage of elearning script writing is the moment when you’ve done…
2018 has been a great year for us, with a lot of wonderful things happening, including being featured in Lectora 18, launching our own customizable courses and, of course, continuing to create beautiful eLearning templates! As usual, we’ve gathered data about the previous year to learn what templates have been the most popular among 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…
Our library is filled with hundreds of templates, but have you noticed that we also have more than 25 e-learning characters? That’s right! Characters have always been a part of e-learning and we wanted to create illustrated characters that would go well with our templates. Illustrated characters are much more flexible than cut out people…
All of us know that visual content can make an eLearning course more appealing for the learner. However, there are many things to consider when looking for appropriate images for your eLearning. First and foremost, you want each image to support and add to the content of the particular slide – you definitely want to…
As you may or may not know, we at FasterCourse are trying something new that we haven’t done before. Until now, we were focused on producing great templates that help others present their e-learning content in a creative and user-friendly way. Now, we are also creating our own content that others can adjust and use…
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…
Of course, we know that this product is included in Articulate 360 pack and from time to time we use also other tools Articulate provides with. Regardless, our main tool is the Storyline 360 and it’s predecessor Articulate Storyline 2. Even if the process of upgrading to the latest tool for our clients can vary…
I can say with a certain level of confidence that every person in elearning industry knows test elearning templates and have seen and used at least a couple of simple and multiple answer pages. Actually, almost all of our elearning template sets contain at least these two elearning templates used for test pages. However, our…
I have already written about gamification templates and various click and reveal elearning templates. Looks like I’m starting from the other end and now going to the simpler solutions. This time I’ll tell you more about our basic info pages. Every great elearning course needs also set of simple pages to represent statements, terms and short…
Earlier I wrote about gamification templates for Articulate Storyline, now let’s talk about other templates we create to make your work smoother! As mentioned before, we all have seen various layouts of text and image template – text on one side, text on other, an image on the top part of the screen, on the…
While we are still getting used to the new possibilities that Adobe Captivate 2017 provides, we want to give you some insights on how this tool can create responsive e-learning courses and what other new features you can find in this Adobe Captivate version. Responsive features Fluidboxes This new feature gives you a different perspective…
We all know the regular e-learning page types – text and image, text and various hotspot variations and questions. However sometimes seems it just isn’t enough. Perhaps you want more interactions in your course or you just want to make sure that your target audiences’ attention hasn’t faded away. Possibly you just want to revive…
Last year we designed and created a lot of new e-learning templates and now we have gathered data about the most popular ones for every authoring tool. You will find different kinds of games and quizzes here, as well as some theme based templates! Take a look and see if you are already using our…
For quite some time users have impatiently waited for Articulate Storyline to have responsive features. And in the end of 2016, the responsive features were delivered with new Articulate Storyline 360! Storyline 360 is a part of all-included subscription pack named Articulate 360. It contains all tools you need for creating various types of e-learning…
“Do you have responsive templates?” – this question has filled our company’s mailbox ever since we started working in this field. Our customers are changing and adjusting to the new possibilities and so are we. As you may have notice, the need for responsive e-learning courses has grown in the last years. We expect everything…
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…
Hotspot slides are commonly used when creating e-learning courses. If you prefer to divide long content into smaller sections, hotspots will come in handy. Or if you like to highlight some important information, you can place a hotspot exactly where you want. And if you want to make your course a little bit more interactive, well go…
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,…
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…
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 template library? So we made a quick quide, see below: 1. Sign in 2. Under your Profile you will see Purchases, click on…
In this tutorial we will take a look on how to publish your SCORM content in Adobe Captivate 9. It’s easy and it will allow you to upload your course to your LMS (learning management system) without any problems. Follow the instructions and you will be guided through the process of publishing SCORM content in Adobe…
Adding an image: 1. Click the Image button from the Add Image section under the Insert tab. 2. A window will apear. Navigate to the folder that contains your image. Select the image and click Open. 3. The image will apear on the page that you were viewing and also in the Title Explorer on…
Knowing how to create a custom page counter can help you with those tricky titles where you don’t want to include the introduction pages and the menu page etc. in your page count or maybe you have your title sorted in multiple chapters and you want the page counter to include all of the pages…
How to add a video: 1. Open the page you want to add the video to. Click the Video button in the Add Media section under the Insert tab. 2. A window will open. Click the Browse button. 3. Another window will open where you will need to navigate to the folder where your desired video file…
1. To add a Page Counter you just need to click the Page Number button in the Add Text section under the Insert tab. 2. A window will open where you can choose if you want to count the pages in the whole title, chapter or section (Scope). You can also choose the format that the page…
The e-learning production process is based on three whales: instructional ideas, design and programming. I might be wrong but most often a person is good in only one of these spheres. Thus if you are an instructional designer some of your ideas might stay unrealized or are realized poorly due to the lack of practical…
Recently I came across an interesting online course called Growth Driven Design. Title was the one that draw my attention to look more into the topic and check the course itself. Course is offered by Hubspot at academy.hubspot.com and is free of charge. Hubspot is a company that offers an inbound marketing software platform and…
Our FasterCourse team recently received a nice surprise – a community member from Turkey just sent us the game he has developed using our Gustav’s Adventure template. Now turned into Traveling Vocabulary it serves as a learning tool for English language students in a Language school in Turkey. And it’s fabulous! Please take a look…
Sometimes when creating a course you may get so overwhelmed about all that awesome information you are going to share that you don’t even bother much about the instructional design. Or, other way around, you already presume that reading the same fire regulations every year most probably won’t be much fun. Whatever the case, there…
Have you ever been shopping on sales and coming back with bags full of stuff but without the items that you really need? And nothing seems to match? Please be warned – this can happen with templates too. And that’s why we would like to help you with a couple of tips. Have your storyboard…
If you ever had an idea to create your own e-learning course you most probably already know how important is good design. If not, let me emphasize it once and for all: Design matters. The course is judged by its looks. Even the most captivating information will appear lost and unattracive if the design will…
Since we are an e-learning company our blog posts are all about the authoring tools – what are they, why do we want to use them and why do we need to use them. In this context we mostly talk about Lectora Trivantis (with the newest version being Lectora 16), Articulate Storyline (current version: Storyline…
It is nothing new for those in e-learning industry that today conversion of the flash based courses to HTML5 is very popular topic. There is a lot of content out there about Flash vs HTML5 and also about different tools that can be used for flash content conversion. But we all know that when dealing with…
Have you ever won a competition? Well, we just did! And we are truly proud. The Lectora User Conference 16 (LUC16) which took place in Florida, USA, gathered hundreds of Lectora users, and it was our Fastercourse game/quiz template announced Contest 4 winner right there. It’s a cool feeling even to participate in a contest…
E-learning is not a homogeneous, uniform formation, and that’s great. Really good e-learning is swarming with ideas, techniques, interactive solutions and methods coming from pedagogical disputes. One of such often used ideas or ways of training is “educational entertainment” or “edutainment”. This is a neologism, i.e., a two-word compound resulting from hybrid: educate + entertain,…
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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