Jeanette Brooks
Jeanette Brooks
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    Jeanette Brooks

    Things I love: running, hiking, the Articulate community, food, my family, the Great Lakes, and the Michigan Wolverines. Yep!
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Adding a Timer to a Quiz Question
"The quiz timer available in Quizmaker is a nice option if you want to impose a time limit on your quiz. But what about if you want to hav..."
  • over 13 years ago11/09/10 at 5:03 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article A Color Diagram to Help You Customize Your Quiz Player Colors
"I really like how Quizmaker '09 gives us so much flexibility to customize the quiz player. The color scheme editor makes it easy to switc..."
  • over 13 years ago10/26/10 at 3:10 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Using a Storyboard as a Project Blueprint
"If you’re new to e-learning, you might’ve heard the word “storyboard” tossed around and wondered exactly what it meant. Is it a visual ma..."
  • over 13 years ago10/21/10 at 9:22 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Reusable Animated Callouts for Your Quizzes
"I like to collect tips & resources that help cut development time. Even saving a few clicks or a few seconds on a task can really add..."
  • over 13 years ago10/19/10 at 7:21 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article How to Reorder the Quiz & Interaction Tabs on Your Articulate Presenter Player
"One of the cool things about Presenter '09 is that when you add Quizmaker quizzes or Engage interactions to your course, you can choose t..."
  • over 13 years ago09/15/10 at 8:17 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Don't Want the Play Button to Pulse? Here's How You Can Change It
"If you’ve set the advance behavior on any of your course slides to By User, in Articulate Presenter '09, you've probably noticed that the..."
  • over 13 years ago09/13/10 at 1:25 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Another Cool Trick with Quizmaker's Slide View: Build Your Own Sorting Question
"Last week I heard from a Quizmaker’09 user who wanted to create a matching question. But the usual matching dropdown or matching drag-and..."
  • almost 14 years ago08/11/10 at 1:12 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Save Time by Using PowerPoint's Format Painter to Quickly Format Objects on Your Slides
"I love how PowerPoint provides so many image effects and shape effects to customize the look of objects on my slides. In fact, sometimes ..."
  • almost 14 years ago08/04/10 at 10:42 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article How to Import & Apply One Audio File Across Multiple Slides in Presenter '09
"Most of the time, e-learning developers who add narration to their courses end up recording it right in Presenter or importing slide-spec..."
  • almost 14 years ago07/28/10 at 10:29 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Want to Insert a Video That Fills Your Entire Player? Here's How to Do It
"If you've ever wished you could display movies in your course at a larger scale than the usual PowerPoint slide stage (which is 720 x 540..."
  • almost 14 years ago07/28/10 at 6:06 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Want to Use Images for Answer Choices in Your Quiz, Rather Than Text? Here's How
"A common thing we hear from Quizmaker users is, "I don't want to force my learners to read through a bunch of text-heavy answer choices. ..."
  • almost 14 years ago07/01/10 at 12:40 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Here's a Way to Simulate Software or a Web-Based Application in Your E-Learning Course
"Are you developing e-learning about software? Many e-learning developers like to insert screen recordings on their slides to demo softwar..."
  • almost 14 years ago06/29/10 at 1:17 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Why Articulate Presenter's Spotlight Annotation Rocks the House
"Earlier this year I was at an e-learning conference doing some demos at our Articulate booth. I was showing someone how to use Presenter'..."
  • almost 14 years ago06/22/10 at 12:10 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Building a Progress Meter for Your Quiz
"Not too long ago, an e-learning developer asked me how to create a progress meter in Quizmaker. So I played around with the idea of using..."
  • almost 14 years ago06/16/10 at 7:24 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article How to Give Learners a Text-Entry Field if they Choose "Other" in Your Quiz
"I was talking with a Quizmaker user who had an interesting challenge. He had created a multiple-choice question with several choices, but..."
  • almost 14 years ago05/27/10 at 10:22 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article An Easy Way to Build an Interactive Knowledge Check in Your Course
"Sometimes I like to add an informal knowledge-check to a course. Not necessarily a "quizzy"-feeling assessment — but just a simple, inter..."
  • almost 14 years ago05/25/10 at 1:54 pm (UTC)