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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Liva Veidemane
May 30, 2018
We have created six amazing characters Eve, Emma, Mary, Carlos, Michael, and Adam. This download includes 30 png images – each of the characters have 5 different poses. Happy, confused, angry, bored – all of these emotions you will find in this pack. All images are available on a transparent background, therefore you can add…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Karlis Sprogis
December 14, 2017
Here you can download the free Storyline template – Light Info. We really like it, we hope you will too. You can see a screenshot below and a full PREVIEW HERE. DOWNLOAD FREE TEMPLATE Non Commercial Use Only Free templates are provided for non comercial use only and you can use them only for testing…
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…
Karlis Sprogis
April 2, 2016
Free Storyline course starter template Here you can download the free Storyline course starter template “It’s all about cakes”. We got a birthday party this week in office, which resulted in several cakes, I guess it inspired our designer and the whole team, so we made this little course starter package about cakes. Texts come from wikipedia,…
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…
Karlis Sprogis
January 29, 2016
Gustav is about to go on a hike, but he still misses 4 items, can you help him get those? Download the free Storyline game template Gustav’s trip. We really like it, we hope you will too. You can see the screenshots below, and a full PREVIEW HERE. DOWNLOAD FREE TEMPLATE Non Commercial Use…
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…
Ieva Lemhena
Ilze Vasmane
Anete Kauce