Module Review
Hope you all had a great weekend! I recently completed an eLearning work sample and would love some honest feedback from fellow instructional designers and eLearning professionals. As a personal challenge, I took one of Tim Slade’s design challenges and transformed it into a fully interactive eLearning module. I’m especially interested in feedback on the overall design, user experience, content flow, interactions, and any areas that could be improved. Review link: TacoMazing Fire Safety Academy Thank you in advance for taking the time to review it. I truly appreciate any insights, suggestions, or constructive feedback you can share!🔖 What’s in Your Bookmarks Lately?
We all have that growing list of tabs, saved posts, and “I need to come back to this” resources. 💬 What’s one e-learning resource you’ve bookmarked recently? What made it worth saving? It could be: A tutorial A helpful thread in ELH A design example A tool An article A podcast or video Let’s build a little community reading list!Camtasia Can Do This? A Stunning Motion Graphics Template for eLearning
I’ll be honest, Camtasia continues to surprise me. Many people still think of Camtasia as a simple screen-recording tool, but when you start pushing its design and motion capabilities, it becomes much more than that. I recently built the Oblique Camtasia Template, a 24-slide corporate motion graphics template designed for eLearning, webinars, training videos, and polished business presentations. This template uses diagonal layouts, animated image treatments, lower thirds, title plates, infographics, matte effects, ease-in motion, and custom shape-based design — all built to show how far Camtasia can go when used creatively. Yes, tools like Adobe After Effects and Premiere are powerful. But Camtasia can absolutely hold its own for learning design, corporate video, and clean motion-based presentation work. The bigger point is this: don’t limit Camtasia to screen recording. Test it. Push it. Build with it. There is so much creative potential sitting inside the tool. Watch the short clip here: https://youtu.be/Cr4aVIbxfsE?si=9Am9z6XdrcfT-1xn Read the full under-the-hood blog here: https://www.craftuxd.com/post/camtasia-elearning-corporate-motion-design-template Watch the full template in action here: https://craftuxd.tech/ObliqueCamtasiaTemplate.mp4 #Camtasia #eLearning #MotionGraphics #LearningExperienceDesign #InstructionalDesign #CorporateTraining #VideoDesign #CraftUXD📱 Mobile Learning that Actually Works – What are Your Best Practices?
Hello everyone, I’m currently preparing a project involving several Web-Based Trainings (WBTs) that will primarily be used on mobile devices. Based on the nature of the content, I will have to use Storyline most of the time. While researching, I came across a “definitive guide to multi-device e-learning”—it already offers a bunch of practical insights. However, I’d love to hear perspectives from the community as well. So I’m curious: What are your go-to principles for designing effective mobile learning? What are your biggest takeaways or lessons learned? Do you have any examples of successful mobile learning activities or formats? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences, ideas, or even challenges you’ve encountered along the way. Looking forward to your insights!🔎Lost In Translation🔎
Have you ever encountered an idiom that makes no sense, a word that has no direct equivalent, or a word that comes with unexpected connotations while translating? You’re not alone! Translating takes tremendous skill, and localizing requires significant understanding of both the initial language and culture, as well as the language and culture you’re localizing for. But wait, you may be asking… 📍What’s the difference between localization and translation? Localization Translation Takes into consideration the cultural, social, and connotative aspects of language Rendering from one language into another Example: Example: Car Park (Australian/UK English) Parking Lot (United States English) Log (Record, piece of wood, mathematical abbreviation) Bûche (piece of wood, de noel cake) Common translation issues are idioms, direct translations, and proper nouns. Localization errors are more commonly about context and consistency. Localization can take place even within the same language! 🗨️What's your favorite example of localization vs translation? 🔬Haven’t had a chance to try? Check out our new localization features now! Log into Articulate to get instant access to Localization. Start an Articulate 360 trial to try Localization—no credit card required.Looking for Gamification ideas/templates/resources
Hi, I've an old assessment in Storyline where there is branching and learners have 3 avatars from which they can select, selecting each avatar takes them to an individual set of drag and drop questions which they can answer using the resources provided. Looking for some ideas to redesign this assessment using Gamification, can you also provide links to resources here I can use?AI Voices in eLearning
Hi all! I'd like to hear your thoughts about AI voices in training and educational material. As a neurodivergent, I personally find them distracting and less supportive of learning, despite increasing popularity. I've read that human voices improve learner outcomes/retention etc, yet many folks in our industry seem to love AI narration features. As someone who has both recorded voiceovers and generated them, I don't see an obvious reason to rely so heavily on the latter other than time constraints. Sure, it may save a couple hours of production time, but if learner outcomes aren't improving, shouldn't we reconsider this approach and put the audience experience first? Please share your thoughts! I'm really curious to hear more about this. Maybe I'm missing a key point here! Maybe I'm in a minority of disliking AI voices? And just to be clear, I’m not referring to screen readers or assistive text-to-speech. Those serve a completely different purpose and are essential for accessibility! I’m talking specifically about replacing full-course narration with synthetic voices.Security declaration separate to course?
My security team have asked if it is possible to have a deceleration process created that is separate to our security course. This has something to do with reporting and legislation. Has anybody created a 'declaration' activity where an employee has sign or write their full name in a section after reading a blurb of information to declare that they understand their requirements etc? Maybe something in Storyline? I would then add it as another task within the LMS under the full course that they need to complete to be deemed as completed. Any ideas welcome please.RISE- Automatic Certificate Creation
I've been playing around with how to create a custom certificate in a Rise course and I've finally found a workaround using an embedded form that creates and delivers a PDF. Check it out: https://share.articulate.com/IcrVo3X-PV5k7x9CMMFkx I've been struggling with this for a long time and I know a handful of you have been too. Hope it helps! ps. I used the AI Assistant to create this mini course based off of the video I recorded outlining the steps, which I also included as content within the course to follow along.
