Starting a Learning Design Business
Hello E-Learning Heroes community! I'm Erin from Toronto, Ontario Canada. I'm an instructional designer, currently in the process of opening my own business (website coming soon!). I have some ideas on next steps, but I would love to hear from anyone who has launched their on instructional design business. What did you do to market yourself?Organising project phases
Hi there! I'm curious to learn how others organise the workflow when creating E-Learning content. I personally find kind of challenging the final revision, in which I need to check that everything in the content is well and adjusted. I was thinking in creating a checklist that could be used as a support but I don't really know what kind of format could really be useful... any idea? How do you usually check that everything is perfect right before delivering?✨ Friday Fun Prompt: What’s Your “Dream Build”?
It’s Friday, so let’s daydream a little… If you could build any e-learning project, with no limits, what would it be? We all have that one idea that’s been in the back of our minds… maybe it’s too big, too niche, or you’re just waiting for the right time (or tools). 🎯 Share your “dream build” in the comments! This could be: A concept you’ve always wanted to explore A course you’d create if tools/time weren’t a constraint Something you started but never finished (yet!) 💬 Bonus: What’s holding it back, and what would help you get started? Can’t wait to see what’s on your e-learning wish list!Are you an "e-learning team of one"? 🤔
Hey E-Learning Heroes, and welcome to our new forum, Exchange Best Practices! 🎉 We added this forum because we know that your expertise extends far beyond what you do with our products, and we've heard from lots of members that you love using this community to network with other e-learning professionals about a wide range of topics in the E-Learning Industry. We hope this becomes your go-to space to start conversations about anything that's on your mind in the E-Learning industry, even if it extends a bit beyond what you do with Articulate's tools. We're excited to see discussions, questions, and idea-shares around everything from... How you work with SMEs on their first draft of an e-learning request How you approach creating a portfolio to support your e-learning career How you think about infusing your e-learning courses with adult learning & pedagogical best practices... And so much more! To help grease the wheels and kick off interactions within this space, I thought I'd ask a starter question: Would you describe yourself as an e-learning team of one? Do you work as a generalist managing everything from needs assessments to storyboarding to publishing courses on an LMS, or do you work with a group of collaborators who manage different steps in that workflow? If it's the latter, what do those collaboration flows look like? Let us know in the comments—our community team is selfishly interested in learning more about you, but it's also our hope that with prompts like these we can help surface for you other members who work in similar ways so that you can find the right people to network and collaborate with. Excited to read your responses!Fun Animated Timer for Gamification Projects
Hi Articulate heroes, I wanted to highlight one very fast but fun-looking way to create timers for interactive projects. I've learned about this way from "Gamification Series; 05: Creating Tension with Timers." You can check out these amazing webinars Gamification series, and there was a few different ways to add timers to projects. I used it in my recent project "Cooking Frienzy" - Jeopardy-style cooking-game. (btw you can check out the full game: Cooking Frienzy So, here are the steps: 1) Create / find a "timer" picture - it could be any image with transparent background what works for your theme (in my case it is "Pomodoro" timer, made with AI help, saved as .png ) 2) Add this image as a picture (insert an image). 3) Go to Animation tab 4) Choose Exit Animation - "Wipe", go to "Effect Options" - "From Right". Set the animation timer for whatever time you need (10 sec., 30 sec., 1 min etc.) 5) Set triggers to what will happen after the timer is done (animation completed): i.e. jump to the next slide, show "result-fail" etc. 6) Preview and adjust if needed 🤞Custom Invalid answer screen 'Matching drag and drop' question
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me with a question about a custom Invalid answer screen for a ‘Matching drag and drop’ question. Instead of the standard Invalid answer screen I would like to have a custom Invalid answer screen. I have tried several different triggers but I can’t get it to work. I now get the custom invalid answer screen everywhere so also where I supposed to have the correct or incorrect screen. What do I do wrong?Live Workshop After Students Complete Online Course
Hi there! We have an hourlong live class that meets every week. Before class, the students are supposed to complete the corresponding module before attending class. It's very much set up like a college class. But up until now, the live workshop has just been repeating the content they just learned. What should I do instead to make it more of a discussion and not a lecture?Risk Management course
Hi Everyone, Would anyone be willing to share an example or give me some ideas to make a risk management course more engaging and something that people will want to do! I dont have a budget to do filming or anything like that. I have a procedure that i need to follow and put that into a course. I have some ideas, like creating a learning journey with a risk and each step is that real life example of what and how to do a risk assessment and then just attaching the actual procedure document to the end. Thnks in advance Kylie :)
