Using Design Themes to Create Light and Dark E-Learning Templates #351

Light and Dark E-Learning Themes #351: Challenge | Recap

Using Theme Fonts and Theme Colors

Understanding theme fonts and theme colors are essential to working efficiently and maintaining a consistent design throughout your course.

Themes force you to be intentional about the design choices you make. And they make it super easy to update your entire course design in a few clicks. Learn them. Love them. Use them. 

Create a Light Mode/Dark Mode Course

Want more tips on building light and dark versions? Check out this recent download and how-to article from Amanda. Amanda walks you through her design process to help you create your own light and dark template in Storyline 360.

View the article | Download the source

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to create light and dark versions of a slide or series of slides. Feel free to rework an existing challenge demo to create the contrasting design theme or come up with an entirely new project.

Let us know if you're new to course design or haven't used themes much in PowerPoint or Storyline. We'll be glad to help you out.

Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..
• Personal blog:  If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
• Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you dive into this week’s challenge, check out the accordion interactions your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

E-Learning Accordion Interactions #350: Challenge | Recap

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.