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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 elearning templates have been the most popular among…
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…
superuser
October 26, 2018
This example is created to show you how effectively you can use dials in Storyline 360. Move the dial to learn more information about the space – easy as that! You can see screenshots below, and a full PREVIEW HERE. DOWNLOAD FREE TEMPLATE Non Commercial Use Only Free templates are provided for non comercial use…
Liva Veidemane
September 20, 2018
This page is created to serve frequently asked questions section, but you can easily change it to a simple click and reveal if you want to. Sometimes it can come in handy if you can answer all questions in one place and the user can find all the answers in one place. You can see…
superuser
September 6, 2018
Simple and fun drag and drop template built with Articulate Storyline. Drag the correct superhero to the correct universe box. This is a part of our Adventure template, you can see it here. Download this Storyline template for free and replace the image and texts with anything you want and use this template in your…
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…
superuser
April 23, 2018
With this Storyline game template you can travel around the world, learn some new interesting facts and at the end, you can even get a badge for your knowledge! E-learning games with achievements can improve users learning experience and therefore make the learning more fun. Try this new Storyline template and add some more interesting…
superuser
April 13, 2018
Adaptive e-learning courses are a great way to combine more than one learning approach in one course. Based on your performance the course might take a different path and show you more or less than other students. For example, if you already know answers to all of the questions, you probably won’t need to reread…
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…
Liva Veidemane
March 22, 2018
There are rumours that a mysterious bird, that was considered to be extinct, was seen deep into the Nepal’s mountains. You have to get ready before you start your journey – choose your avatar and find the correct answers, before you start your adventure! Try our Storyline Game and download the file to make your…
Liva Veidemane
March 19, 2018
Take a look at our beautifully designed drag and drop template with image and 6 drag sources. The purpose of this template is to find the correct place for each point that is described besides the image. This is a part of our Adventure template, you can see it here. Download this Storyline template for…
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…
Liva Veidemane
February 26, 2018
Can you guess the word and get the ice cream? You probably have played this game as a child, but to be honest, sometimes we like to play in our office at lunch break and it’s always fun. Try to guess the word and see if you can get the ice cream. If you like…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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