Hello, we have been really busy lately and we will release yet another template set soon. This one is called Forrest Info and it will consist of modern design info templates that will cover pages like splash pages, text and image, image gallery, timeline, hotspots, click and reveal, tabs, video page, etc. This template package…
Hello Everyone! We at FasterCourse are excited to announce the launch of our new elearning templates, Freedom Valley! These templates are perfect for your corporate or other training needs and are filled with amazing countryside images that give off a western vibe. But if you are not into the farming business, no worries, you can…
We have a new addition to our e-learning template library, a new game template :). This one is called “What’s the hazard?” and it is a memory flip cards game template. Available for both Storyline and Captivate users. In this hazard’s discovery memory game, you will find several templates inside, that all support the game…
If you are looking to jazz up your test pages (… or if you are into all-things-plants right now), this Countdown Test template is for you! Inspired by your requests we decided to create an entire template set dedicated to timed question pages! In this plant-themed set you will find single and multiple choice, drag…
Articulate has launched yet another Storyline 360 update and we are pretty darn happy about this one! You can read the whole release details here. But let’s get back to why are we so stoked about this one! Do you think it’s 360° images? They are cool and we actually took a careful look at…
If you struggle with text being cut off, wonky-looking images or similar breakpoint issues, this one’s for you! Working with Captivate daily, our team has developed a few tips and tricks that help to work with breakpoints more effectively. 1. Leave ‘white spaces’ in text areas If you open any of our responsive Captivate templates,…
And yet again we decided to spice up our days and participate in the weekly Elearning Heroes challenge. The theme was interactive maps in Elearning. Obviously, we couldn’t miss such a great opportunity to draw some nice visuals! Interactive maps As the name says, this Elearning interaction contains clickable or differently interactable maps. They can…
Are you interested in creating a similar glassmorphism effect like in the image below? If you aren’t sure how to make it happen, don’t worry, we have you covered! To create this, we used Figma – it’s browser-based and a powerful design tool. And it’s for free! Therefore, we thought you would like to see…
And yet, another Articulate E-learning heroes weekly challenge grabbed our interest by hand. This week it’s all about the glassmorphism in Storyline. Glassmorphism – who’s that? Glassmorphism is a design trend that has been around a while (even since Windows Vista times!), but it has gained recent popularity. It is a blurred effect that gives…
We wanted to create something for our clients who work in the educational sector and we created a university-themed template set with a modern and bright design. Currently, there are around 25 pages with various info slides, interactions, dictionary, resource slides and recently we also created 15 test templates that might help you build knowledge…
Last year was full of surprises, but one thing is constant every year – our annual template TOP! We’ve analyzed the data and the results are in, so keep reading to see which Storyline templates were the most popular among our users in 2020. 1. Monday Info Storyline Template We are happy to see that…
We have all been hard working for the past year and this is the time when we look back and celebrate our accomplishments. We put together our TOP Captivate template list and here you will find our TOP 10 Captivate templates that ranked the highest among our users in 2020! 1. Corporate Mind Template This…
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…
Thinking of creating onboarding training for your company? This elearning template set is going to be a huge helper when creating onboarding elearning courses for your new employees. In this template set, you will find various versions of informative pages where you can add information about your company values and goals as well as floor…
The day has come! Your inbox is probably full of Cyber Monday discounts and ads are popping out of all websites. It’s easy to get lost with all the buzz going around, so we wanted to give you a short list of Cyber Monday 2020 elearning offers that we think would be useful for all…
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…
In addition to our e-learning template sets, we’ve been producing course templates for quite a while now. Currently, our course templates cover 15 popular topics, and we have several more in development (both for Storyline and Captivate users). So, we thought it’s time to tell you a bit more about how course templates can help…
This is our latest elearning template set and it will be great for any type of elearning course that has a lot of visual content. We called it ‘Lifestyle’ and we mixed bright accent colors with bold texts and colorful images, to make this template set really stand out. It consists of 25 templates, and…
The first steps in the elearning world are usually full of enthusiasm and positive energy until you reach the point where you have no idea where to begin. Creating elearning content is the most fun part of all the process, but you have to be prepared before you get to that point. We want to…
This blog explains the core differences between an elearning platform and elearning content. What are they and how do they differ? Both are core elements of elearning and you can’t have one without another. Of course, you can…but there is no point of that. 😉 At first, we are going to dive into the elearning…
Even though the phrase “let’s create elearning course” sounds exciting, sometimes you need to take a deep breath and think twice. As we are elearning company and we make living from this, believe us when we say that! The elearning course, unfortunately, is not a magic pill or a universal remedy to cure all the…
We had a lot of requests from our users for a medical themed elearning template set and finally, we are able to announce that it’s ready! We worked hard to deliver the best soution for our users and I think our designers have done a fantastic job! Currently, the medical themed template set is available…
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…
Every new elearning template set that we release brings something fresh to the table, starting with design aesthetic and ending with layouts and functionality. The ideas for our templates come from various sources. Sometimes we think about a specific type of training, such as compliance, onboarding, client service, and so on. Other times we look…
We were planning to participate in 5th Annual Adobe eLearning Conference and made this wonderful example for this occasion. However, as we all know, things happened, so now we are looking forward to Adobe eLearning World. We will present two more beautiful Adobe Captivate examples there, so stay tuned! However, let’s get back to this…
We are working on a couple of new elearning templates for Storyline and Captivate and we thought that we could allow you to sneak into our virtual office to see what our designers are working on! These are our latest designs and we promise to work hard to deliver them to you as fast as…
Here you will find useful information about changing color of the graphics we have used in our templates. We offer two scenarios – one where you have access to Adobe Illustrator (AI) but you have no clue how to use it and the second where you don’t have access to Adobe Illustrator so you have…
The stars have aligned perfectly and we had a moment to participate in the last Elearning Heroes weekly challenge. As usual, we found the challenge engaging and exciting. You can see the other entries here. Click and reveal magic This week’s challenge was the core element of almost every elearning course – click and reveal…
Information that we need to present to our learners comes in various forms. Quite often, there’s a need to point the learners to existing resources, such as website pages, PDFs, Word or Excel files and so on. So, I thought it might be a good idea to talk about some options of including external resources…
If you’re a Storyline user, the E-Learning Heroes weekly challenges are a great place to seek inspiration and improve your skills. Whenever we find the time to participate in these challenges, it’s a great learning experience for us. And, if we’re really excited about what we’ve produced, we are also happy to share it with…
When looking for a new job or trying to advance in our career, we often focus on demonstrating and improving our hard skills. However, more and more employers are also starting to understand the importance of soft skills. Therefore, companies attempt to seek out people who possess these skills as well as provide training to…
Some of our template sets have been around for quite a while now, but our data shows that they are still very popular among our users. One of your long-time favorites is our Vectors template set. And it’s no wonder! Modern, colorful and a bit playful – this one is sure to grab the learners’…
When a new eLearning project is in its initial stages, the idea of adding audio (in this case, I’m referring to voice recordings rather than sound effects or music) may come up. However, clients don’t always fully appreciate what it means, and it’s up to you as an instructional designer to help them consider all…
Although Storyline 360 is the most popular authoring tool offered by Articulate, we know that there are still quite a few Storyline 3 users out there. If you’re one of them, you might be interested to know that all of our Storyline templates can be used in Storyline 3. Currently, we have more than 700…
Today I want to share some simple pieces of advice that can help you when designing your elearning projects. By being aware of how we perceive what we see, you can structure information in a way that will bring out the most important things and make the overall look of your elearning more tasteful and…
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…
Yet again, the Articulate E-learning Heroes community has inspired us to participate in their weekly challenge. This time, the task was to share an example featuring a dialog window. Turns out that there are many great ways you can use a dialog in your e-learning, as proven by these creative and fun entries. Dialogs Wondering…
Lately, I’ve been wondering about the ways we limit our learners in order to force them into viewing our e-learning content. It seems that one of the fears we have is that the learner will skip over half of the content we’ve worked so hard on and just do the test (if there even is…
We have been following the E-learning Heroes weekly challenges for quite some time now. The wonderful Articulate community always comes up with great inspirational examples, and we try to share our ideas whenever we can spare the time. Rube Goldberg Machine The challenge was to create a simple animation inspired by a Rube Goldberg machine,…
It’s nice. But… Maybe make it a bit more interactive. If you’re in the business of producing eLearning content, chances are you’ve heard this phrase before. Every client will have a different understanding of what makes eLearning ‘interactive’. However, I find in many cases they just want the learner to click something. Anything. Although I…
Yet another year has passed – and this means that it’s time for our annual TOP 5! We’ve analysed the data and the results are in, so keep reading to see which elearning templates were the most popular among our users in 2019. Articulate Storyline Templates – Top 5 1. Early Morning We’re extremely happy…
With the year coming to a close, many of us spend some time reflecting on our successes and failures and setting goals for the New Year. This has been an interesting and productive year for FasterCourse, so we would like to take this opportunity and look back at some of our achievements. Templates We have…
We have been working on several exciting things this autumn, and I’m happy to introduce one of them – our new Monday template set. It consists of 25 templates, and it’s available both for Storyline and Captivate users. If you haven’t checked it out yet, keep reading to see some highlights as well as a…
13 New slides added We have updated one of our all-time favorite elearning template set – Urban Walk! We created 13 new pages in the same design and now you will have 34 slides in total that you can use to create your e-learning projects. Below you can see the new slides and a full…
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