Jeanette Brooks
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Jeanette Brooks
Things I love: running, hiking, the Articulate community, food, my family, the Great Lakes, and the Michigan Wolverines. Yep! -
The mitten state
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Storyline 1: Creating a New Project
"There are several ways to begin a new Storyline project from scratch:
Click the Articulate button in the upper-left corner and choose ..."
- 12 years ago05/01/12 at 2:10 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Storyline 1: Recording a Screencast Video
"In this tutorial, you’ll learn to record a screencast video and add it to your slide.
Watch this video first, then follow the steps bel..."
- almost 12 years ago06/28/12 at 3:36 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Storyline 1: Creating a Result Slide
"Chances are that you’ll have multiple quiz and freeform questions spread throughout your e-learning course. Some of them you may want to ..."
- almost 12 years ago06/20/12 at 2:32 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Using a Simple Storyline Number Variable to Show Learners How Many Objects They've Found
"I love Storyline variables. Which might come as a surprise if you know me, because I am SO not a programmer! But that's the cool thing ab..."
- over 11 years ago01/04/13 at 6:32 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Hiding a Base-Layer Object from Appearing on Other Slide Layers in Articulate Storyline
"Articulate Storyline's triggers and slide layers make it crazy-simple to build explorable content—like tabs interactions—in just minutes...."
- over 11 years ago10/02/12 at 10:14 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article A Color Diagram to Help You Customize Your Storyline Player Colors
"It's amazing how much flexibility Storyline gives you when it comes to customizing your course's player! Not only can you choose exactly ..."
- almost 12 years ago06/06/12 at 8:38 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article A Simple (and Free!) Set of Tabs Interactions for Your Articulate Storyline Projects
"Creating a tab-style interaction in Articulate Storyline is a quick and easy way to make your content more explorable. By combining the p..."
- 12 years ago05/17/12 at 6:36 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article 3 Paths in 1 Quiz: Possible? Yes!
"An Articulate user asked us a great question recently. She wanted to build an Articulate Quizmaker ‘09 quiz consisting of three paths, wi..."
- 12 years ago03/01/12 at 5:29 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article 7 Easy Ways to Emphasize Important Text or Key Words in Articulate Presenter
"Recently I saw an interesting question in the forums here at E-Learning Heroes. An Articulate user was looking for a way to emphasize key..."
- over 12 years ago12/21/11 at 6:22 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Giving Learners a Way to Write & Print Their Key Takeaways from Your E-Learning Course
"One of the things I love about the Articulate tools is that they’re flexible enough to do some out-of-the-box things. For example, most p..."
- over 12 years ago11/04/11 at 5:24 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Quizmaker '09 Tip: Adding Images to Your Matching Drag-and-Drop Questions
"Matching drag-and-drop questions in Quizmaker ‘09 are an easy way to make your content more interactive. With this question type, you pre..."
- almost 13 years ago07/21/11 at 6:24 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Using Quizmaker '09 to Build Magazine-Style Assessments
"Every so often I talk with a Quizmaker user who wants to create what some folks call a “magazine-style” assessment. You know the kind — ..."
- 13 years ago05/19/11 at 6:43 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Why Hotspot Questions are Hot (and 10 Examples of Ways to Use Them)
"I really like hotspot questions in Quizmaker ‘09, because they open up all sorts of unique ways to involve and engage learners.
Here’s h..."
- 13 years ago04/28/11 at 6:23 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Creating a Click-to-Zoom Effect in Your E-Learning Course
"In an earlier post, we looked at how to create a clickable pop-up effect in courses you build with Articulate Presenter '09. Did you know..."
- 13 years ago04/14/11 at 5:03 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Create a Strong First & Last Impression with an Intro or Summary in Engage '09
"You might already know that Articulate Engage '09 gives you the option of including an intro to your interaction — but did you know you c..."
- 13 years ago03/31/11 at 6:25 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article New Industrial-Themed Template from Mike Taylor, and Guidelines for Community Submissions
"One of the really powerful things about a community like E-Learning Heroes is that cool stuff often evolves into even more cool stuff.
C..."
- 13 years ago03/25/11 at 5:13 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Dressing Up an E-Learning Course with Variations of Black
"So I’ve been working on a few template ideas, and I’ve found myself gravitating toward designs with lots of black.
I really like black. ..."
- 13 years ago03/10/11 at 4:55 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Build a CNN-Style Q&A Interaction with PowerPoint 2010's Blur Tool
"Have you noticed how the CNN website uses blurred images as a design element in some of their posts? Since the new image-formatting featu..."
- 13 years ago03/03/11 at 6:03 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article How to Change the Text or Spacing on Your Presenter '09 Toolbar Tabs
"In an earlier post, we looked at how you can re-order the quizzes and interactions that you've added as toolbar tabs at the top edge of y..."
- 13 years ago02/24/11 at 5:11 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article 3 Tips for Customizing Your Slide Notes in Articulate Presenter
"A lot of e-learning developers like to include slide notes in the courses they build with Articulate Presenter. It's a great way to provi..."
- over 13 years ago02/17/11 at 5:22 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Creating Custom Shapes in PowerPoint
"Sometimes I need to create a unique shape that's too tedious to draw freehand. Luckily, PowerPoint has some cool features for creating cu..."
- over 13 years ago01/21/11 at 10:19 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Check Out the New Screenshot Tool in PowerPoint 2010
"One of the nice features that Microsoft added in PowerPoint 2010 is a handy built-in screen capture tool. If you need to include screensh..."
- over 13 years ago01/04/11 at 7:56 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article A Presenter '09 Color Diagram to Help You Customize Your Course Player
"We recently shared a couple of printable job aids to help you identify what's what in the color schemes for Quizmaker '09 and Engage '09...."
- over 13 years ago12/29/10 at 3:06 am (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article An Engage '09 Color Diagram You Can Use for Customizing Your Interaction's Color Scheme
"In a previous post, I shared a job aid for customizing color schemes in Quizmaker '09. Quite a few folks asked if there's a similar resou..."
- over 13 years ago12/21/10 at 2:35 pm (UTC)
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Jeanette Brooks published a new article Use an Engage Labeled Graphic to Create a Hover-Over Effect in Your Course
"Had a good discussion with an e-learning developer this week. He had a particular slide layout that he'd used for several slides in his c..."
- over 13 years ago12/07/10 at 9:08 am (UTC)