I'm as new as newbies get-- I downloaded the trial version of Presenter 5 days ago to see if it will work with our department's needs and am experimenting with it (for the first time) today.
I need to create a product comparison chart (read: pretty boring), and would like to use Presenter to spice up the chart a bit. Any insight or ideas? FYI, the chart will contain 4 products, the features & benefits of each, and each product's client profile.
Many thanks! I'm sure this will be the first of many posts.
Do you also have Articulate Engage? Engage would work well to introduce the products and features — think interactive graphic —and Presenter could be use to compare. Just an idea.
For Presenter, check out Tom's post on using tables in e-learning courses:
My instinct is to refer you to some of Jeanette Brooks' screenrs for inspiration. For instance, her click-to-zoom effect (https://player.vimeo.com/video/204933100) tutorial might help you to incorporate some nice interactivity to the chart, and provide a method of managing the information for each product a little better.
I'm thinking here that you could have a main slide with the four products summarized on the chart. For this example, let's say it's a pie chart with one product on each wedge. You would then have a "zoomed" slide for each of the four products. On a given zoomed slide, the pie wedge is bigger, and the others are grayed out. Maybe you also have some callouts in the margin that provide additional information on the product and/or audio and animations that help illustrate the product.
In effect, this would allow you to have a leaner, more visually clean chart that the learner can interact with (click on) to learner more about the product. So the default slide gives you a comparison, but they can click on each product to go into more depth on it.
Good luck. Would love to hear how you make out on this.
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Hi L.F. and welcome to Heroes!
Do you also have Articulate Engage? Engage would work well to introduce the products and features — think interactive graphic —and Presenter could be use to compare. Just an idea.
For Presenter, check out Tom's post on using tables in e-learning courses:
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/10-tips-on-using-tables-in-your-e-learning-courses/
And here's a screencast series demonstrating how to build an interactive table in Presenter:
Overview: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930363
Part 2: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930376
Part 3: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930389
Part 4: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930400
Part 5: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930416
Part 6: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930424
Update: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930433
Hi, L.F.:
My instinct is to refer you to some of Jeanette Brooks' screenrs for inspiration. For instance, her click-to-zoom effect (https://player.vimeo.com/video/204933100) tutorial might help you to incorporate some nice interactivity to the chart, and provide a method of managing the information for each product a little better.
I'm thinking here that you could have a main slide with the four products summarized on the chart. For this example, let's say it's a pie chart with one product on each wedge. You would then have a "zoomed" slide for each of the four products. On a given zoomed slide, the pie wedge is bigger, and the others are grayed out. Maybe you also have some callouts in the margin that provide additional information on the product and/or audio and animations that help illustrate the product.
In effect, this would allow you to have a leaner, more visually clean chart that the learner can interact with (click on) to learner more about the product. So the default slide gives you a comparison, but they can click on each product to go into more depth on it.
Good luck. Would love to hear how you make out on this.
Brian
Thank you! Both are terrific ideas and I'm looking forward to learning more about Presenter.
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