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Nicole's Articles

Here's a list of all the articles written by former Articulate Community Manager Nicole Legault.

2019

4 Ways to Make the Most of the Storyline 360 Media Library
Displaying Your Data with Rise 360 Tables
When to Use Text-to-Speech in E-Learning
Allow Learners to Retry Only Incorrect Answers in Storyline 360
Follow These Tips to Effectively Use Icons in E-Learning
How to Randomize Quiz Questions in Storyline 360
4 Things You Can Do with Your Articulate 360 Trial
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing Fonts for E-Learning
Does Your E-Learning Course Need a Menu?
What You Need to Know About File Versioning Your Storyline 360 Projects
What to Include in an E-Learning Mood Board
Storyboard Like a Pro with Storyline 360 and Review 360
3 Tips to Create User-Friendly E-Learning Navigation
4 Best Practices to Ensure a Smooth Review Process
7 Documents You Can Replace with Rise 360 Courses
4 Ways to Use Videos in E-Learning
How to Create a Simple Job Aid with Rise 360
Apply the Principle of Affordance to E-Learning
4 Tips for Writing Effective E-Learning Scenarios
Top Tips for Using Text-to-Speech (TTS) in Storyline 360
4 Time-Saving Storyline 360 Features You Need to Know About
Create Interactive Videos with These Storyline 360 Features
What to Include in New Employee Orientation Training

2018

How I Use Storyline Slide Masters to Save Time
Tips for Creating Effective Post-Course Evaluations
How to Test Storyline 360 Content With a Screenreader
Creating Quizzes: Choose a Passing Score
Do’s and Don’ts of Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions
What You Need to Know About Designing Accessible E-Learning with Storyline 360
3 Design Tips for Creating Effective Drag-and-Drop Activities
Here’s How You Can Create and Customize Freeform Drag-and-Drop Interactions
Create Compliance Training Like a Pro with Rise 360
Do’s and Don’ts of Performance Analysis

2017

4 Ways You Can Use Rise Courses
3 Ways to Create Drag-and-Drops with Storyline 360
Find the Right E-Learning Vendor with an Awesome RFP
Planning Your Localized E-Learning Projects
Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Tabs Interaction in Storyline
Creating Software Sims in Storyline 360: Setting Your Recording Size & Area
5 Tips to Help You Choose Characters for E-Learning
Land That New Client with a Great First Impression
Use Action Fine-Tuning to Edit Your Storyline Simulations
3 Tips for Troubleshooting Advanced Storyline 360 Interactions
Save Development Time and Storyboard Directly in Storyline 2
Tips for Using Sound Effects in E-Learning
How to Import Closed Captions into Storyline 360
Handle Training Requests Like a Pro
How to Add Interactive Pop-Ups to Your Videos
How to Transform a Course with Timing and Animations

2016

Why You Need the Apps in Articulate 360 and When to Use Them
How to Transform Boring Text into a Click-and-Reveal Interaction
Save Time with the Storyline 2 Format and Animation Painters
5 Tips to Improve Your Technical Writing Skills
Top 5 Storyline Mistakes You Might be Making
Use Storyline to Turn a Boring Process Video Into an Interactive Software Simulation
Transform Boring Content into a Fun Drag-and-Drop
3 Ways to Apply Principles of Agile Design to E-Learning
4 Ways to Make the Most of Your Storyline Trial
Here’s How I Transformed This Static E-Learning Content
Job Aid Design: Tips and Tricks
Design Any Custom Graphic You Can Imagine with Storyline 2
4 Steps to Add Tabs to This Storyline 2 Tabs Template
3 Ways to Sharpen Your Multimedia Design Skills with Storyline
How to Find a Freelance ID or E-Learning Developer
Use KPIs to Make the Business Case for E-Learning
What Makes a Training Team? 11 Common Job Titles in E-Learning
Follow These Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Corrupting or Losing Project Files
Here’s How to Format Your Storyline Project Background
Instructional Designers: Remember These Factors When Prioritizing Tasks
What’s Easier: Converting ILT to E-Learning or Starting from Scratch?
The Principles of Adult Learning: How to Apply Them to E-Learning
Follow This Process to Create Software Simulations and Systems Training Like a Pro
The One Thing You Need to Do to Organize Training Content: Task Analysis
Here’s How to Prove the Value of Training to Your Organization
How to Improve Your Courses by Properly Testing and Vetting Them
5 Steps for Collecting Content for Your E-Learning Project
How to Write Requirements for Your E-Learning Project
How to Write Effective Quiz Feedback
Get to Know the Community with E-Learning Heroes 101

2015

4 Easy Ways To Win Over Reluctant SMEs
Here’s How to Build a Cool Crossword Puzzle for Storyline in No Time
Gamification: How and Why Does it Relate to E-Learning?
Improve Your Course’s Storyline Player With These Simple Tips
Here’s How I Built This Articulate Studio ‘13 Mini-Course
7 Beautiful Title Slides to Inspire Your Next Project
The Presentation/ Application/ Feedback (PAF) Model
Tips for Building Quick and Easy Custom Navigation in Storyline
Tips for Successful Collaboration with Graphic Designers
Popular Color Schemes for E-Learning Design
Here's How to Create an Invisible Player in Storyline
4 Steps to Create a Toggle Trigger to Pause and Play Multimedia in Storyline (With Download!)
My 4 Favorite Free Fonts for E-Learning
6 Ways to Save a Bad E-Learning Design
The Most Straightforward Way to Build a Tabs Interaction for Storyline (with Download!)
3 Ways to Personalize Your E-Learning Courses
5 Important Elements of Typography
6 Steps to Creating a Beautiful Interactive Timeline (with Download!)
What to Include in an E-Learning Style Guide
How to Empower Your SMEs to Create Awesome Training
Affordance: What Does It Mean For E-Learning?
How I Turned This Boring Content Into a Fun Drag-and-Drop
3 Steps to Using Cue Points to Pause a Video and Display Layers
An Introduction to the ADDIE Model for Instructional Designers
7 Heroes Share How They Spiced Up Boring Content
What You Need to Know to Use Storyline Data-Entry Fields Like a Pro
Learn How to Build a Mobile-Optimized Template with Storyline 2
How I Built This Interactive Timeline With PowerPoint
Tips for Removing Redundant E-Learning Course Text
E-Learning Client Management: Tips For Dealing With Unhappy Clients
Clean Up Your Storyline Player Menu With These 3 Easy Tips
Follow This Basic Tutorial to Get Acquainted with Storyline Triggers & States
Get to Know Storyline's If Statements to Create Conditional Interactivity
11 Awesome Things You Can Do with the Storyline Timeline
How to Require Learners to Enter Their Username in Text Entry Forms
E-Learning: Storyboard vs. Prototype
All About Triggers: Everything You Need to Know
3 More Articulate Engage Interaction Examples
The Dos and Don’ts of Separating Need-to-Know from Nice-to-Know
Use Cue Points to Pause a Video in Three Easy Steps
Update This Interactive Timeline Download in 3 Steps
Engage Before & After: Color Changes Everything
How to Do a Task Analysis Like a Pro
Get to Know The 3 Levels of E-Learning
Choose an Avatar with a Slider using Storyline 2
How I Get Things Done: Nicole Legault
3 Design Mistakes You're Making in Studio Courses
5 Techniques to Market Your Internal E-Learning Courses Like a Pro
The Color Effect: How Your Palette Affects Learners
Create This Cool Animated Text Effect in 3 Steps (with Video!)
Recap: Ask Me Anything with Community Manager Nicole Legault
How Do You Identify Learning Objectives?
4 Awesomely Engaging Examples of E-Learning
Allow Learners to Choose an Avatar Using One Variable With Storyline 360
Build an Elegant PowerPoint Template in 4 Quick Steps
How to Use Storyline Variables to Add Numbers
Gamification Techniques: How to Apply Them to E-Learning
How To Use Cue Points To Trigger Animations (With Video!)
8 Great Tips for Dealing with Scope Creep
How I Built This Colorful Presenter Template
7 Ways to Overlay Text on Photos (With Video!)
How I Built This Branched E-Learning Scenario
4 Examples of Fabulous Interactions Created with Engage ’13
What’s The Difference Between Training, Education, and Learning?
How I Created These Awesome Icon Sets (Free Downloads!)
4 Tips to Promote Transfer of New Skills to the Job
E-Learning Before & After: How I Revamped This Pyramid Interaction
Freelancers: How Did You Pick Your Company Name?
3 Tips for Clear & Helpful Navigation Instructions

2014

5 Ways to Choose Color Palettes for E-Learning
How To Build This Wrap-a-Gift Holiday Interaction
How I Built This “Decorate a Tree” Interaction with Storyline 2
No-Fail Strategies to Succeed as an E-Learning Freelancer (Part 2/2)
6 Easy Steps to Build a Holiday Readiness Checklist
7 Ways to Make Your Webinars More Interactive
Considerations for Designing E-Learning for Tablets vs. Smartphones
User Interface Design: 3 Things E-Learning Designers Need to Know
How to Build a Great Quick Choice Interaction with Engage ’13
4 Easy Ways to Organize Content For E-Learning
Building a Click-and-Reveal with Fade Out Text
Why Use Storyline for Software Simulations?
How to Edit Feedback for Storyline Quiz Slides
Engage '13: How I Built This Labeled Graphic Interaction
Kickstart Your Imagination With This Checklist Example
Common Elements of E-Learning
Your Ultimate Guide to Choosing Graphics for E-Learning
How Do I Choose a Design for My E-Learning Course?
Two Quick Tips for Working with Characters in Storyline 360
How I Built an Interactive Timeline in PowerPoint (Free Download!)
3 Tips for Working with Illustrated Characters in Studio ’13
Create E-Learning Like a Pro: How To Build Your First Studio ’13 Course
4 Tips for Editing Graphics Directly in PowerPoint
The Many Ways to Edit Feedback in Quizmaker
How to Do an E-Learning Audience Analysis
How to Do an E-Learning Needs Analysis
Storyboards for E-Learning: What to Include?
How to Create Custom Review Layers for Storyline Quizzes
How I Created This Visual Tour of Paris with Storyline
Design Tips for Creating an Engaging Media Panel
Use Storyline Quiz Slides Like a Pro
No-Fail Strategies to Succeed as an E-Learning Freelancer (Part 1/2)
How I Built This Interactive Org Chart With Storyline
How To Auto-Advance to Next Slide Upon Layer Completion
3 Simple Steps to Create Branched E-Learning
How to Choose Backgrounds for E-Learning
Visual Design Tips from a Studio ’13 Demo Course
How I Built an Interactive Timeline in Storyline (Free Download!)
Storyline Step-By-Step Slides: View, Try and Test Mode
Forums Compilation: E-Learning and Instructional Design Discussions
Top Writing Tips For E-Learning
4 Instructional Design Tips To Create Awesome E-Learning Scenarios
Web Design & E-Learning: Long-Lost Siblings?
Add and Display a Learner’s Name in Storyline 360
Tips for Creating Great Buttons That Stand Out
4 Things to Know About Storyline Results Slides
Tips for Using the Storyline 360 Screen Recorder Like a Pro
Working with Videos in Presenter ’13: What You Need to Know
Recap: Articulate’s First Canadian E-Learning Heroes Event
Nicole's Articles
How I Built This Payroll 101 Course With Studio ’13
Forums Compilation: The Price of Developing and Selling E-Learning
4 Skills Every E-Learning Developer Needs to Have
How To Calculate the Cost-Benefit of E-Learning
A Great Storyline Time-Saver: Button Sets
5 Things You Should Know About Storyline Question Banks
3 More Tips for Using Question Banks Like a Pro
3 Easy Ways to Brand Your Studio Courses
Customize and Edit Photos in Storyline: 6 Tips
3 Ways to Effectively Use Space in E-Learning Layouts
How I Built This Simple Circle Diagram in Engage ’13
Build 3-Step Scenarios Like a Pro With Storyline 360
20+ Tips for Writing Great Quiz Questions and Response Options
Storyline’s Convert to Freeform Tool: What You Need to Know
3 Tips for Creating Beautifully Designed Interactions in Engage ’13
Graphics Formats: What E-Learning Designers Need to Know
How to Calculate the Seat Time for Your E-Learning Course
Best Practices for Clear and Simple E-Learning Navigation
3 Things You Need to Know About Adding Videos to Storyline
Create a Quick Media Gallery with Articulate Engage ’13
The Top 4 Reasons to Test Your E-Learning Courses
3 Easy Ways to Customize the Look of Your Navigation in Storyline
4 Ways to Help Learners Exit Your Storyline Course
Add Audio to Studio ’13 Projects: 4 Quick Tips
Forums Compilation: Learning Management Systems (LMS)
3 of the Coolest Features of Presenter's Slide Properties Panel
How to Use Triggers to Emphasize Content
Use Grids to Improve Your E-Learning Designs
The Top 5 E-Learning Questions to Ask Your Client
Forums Compilation: Audio and Video

2013

Top 3 Types of E-Learning Analysis
Forums Compilation: Narration For E-Learning
Training Needs Analysis: When is E-Learning The Solution?
Holiday Freebie! Warehouse-Themed Template For Storyline
Forums Compilation: Working with Subject Matter Experts
3 Ways to Use the Engage '13 Checklists
Create Fun, Custom Color Schemes in Engage ’13
Engage Learners with Fun and Interactive Tables
Here's a Quick Way to Build a Drop Down List in Storyline
Basic E-Learning Workflow And Design Process
How I Built This Colorful Image-Based Menu
Post-Course Evaluations for E-Learning: 60+ Questions to Include
Top 5 Tips For Managing E-Learning Assets
How To Create a Custom Glow in Storyline
Best Practices for Designing Mobile Learning Like a Pro
3 Quick Background Photo Tips to Spice Up Your Projects
Post-Course Evaluations: What E-Learning Designers Need To Know
11 Best Practices for E-Learning Storyboarding

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