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…
We have finally created an elearning education templates for our Storyline and Captivate users! 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 slide…
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…
No matter if you’ve already purchased our amazing template library or are just thinking about it, you may be wondering how to best utilize these template sets for your e-learning. So, how about we take a look at integrating templates in your e-learning development step by step? Select the right templates If you’ve taken a…
You may already have noticed that we launched a new product earlier this year – Course Templates. These course templates are ready to use – all texts, images and interactions are there, and you can make any adjustments that you wish or present the course templates just as they are. With 7 courses up and…
Apart from creating our own digital products, we also have the pleasure of working on various custom development e-learning projects for our clients. We really enjoy this work because the ideas and needs of our clients are vastly different, and we often find ourselves challenged and inspired by the process. This time I wanted to…
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,…
YOU HAVE NOW REACHED THE TEST SECTION OF THIS COURSE If you’re designing an eLearning course that teaches new information or skills, you may eventually want to check if your learners have understood the content. To do this, you could decide to put together a test. However, it’s not always easy to create a test…
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…
Sometimes when creating an elearning 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,…
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…
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