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| Find Inspiration with These E-Learning Design Tips & Free Templates Posted: 19 Mar 2013 12:30 AM PDT
As a matter of habit I review design sites looking for inspiration and ideas that I can practice and incorporate into my elearning designs. Often I won't even use the design ideas for real work, but I still like to practice building them. This practice lets me develop better designs skills and helps me become more efficient using my elearning tools as I develop more production tips and procedures. In fact, over the years that's how I learned most of my advanced PowerPoint skills. When I find something I like, it gets added to a folder. Then when I get time or need some inspiration, I'll run through the folder for ideas. Here's something I ran into a couple of weeks ago that will come in handy for an elearning course. I've also included downloads for Storyline and PowerPoint below. Pre-built Gate ScreensA common part of many elearning courses is the instruction or feedback screen. I like to call them "gate screens" because they serve as gates by stopping the flow of information until you're ready to move on. I wrote more about them in this recent blog post on stopping the learners before they get started.
Introduction Gate
Feedback Gate Because these gate screens are very common to elearning, a simple way to speed up production of your courses is to pre-build a few of them. And then when you need a gate screen, you're ready to go. Inspiring IdeasOne of my favorite design sites is Dribbble. It's a community of designers who share ideas and feedback. As I was looking at some of their demos a few reminded me a bit of the gate screens I'd build for an elearning course. So I used some of those ideas as inspiration for a few simple gate screens.
Below is a demo of five gate screens. I show them as both introduction and feedback screens. The demo's built in Storyline. But you can use them in Articulate Presenter and PowerPoint, as well. In fact, I used PowerPoint to build the all of the initial templates. Which allows me to reiterate something I stress all the time—PowerPoint is a great tool for basic illustrations and graphic design.
I've included some files for you to download and use if you'd like. Feel free to use them as you wish. Free Downloads:
Here are links to the originals because I want to give props to the many designers who freely share their ideas and things they're working on. They always give me some cool ideas to play with.
So there are two key lessons for today's post:
Have you found any cool ideas that would make great gate screens? If so, please share them with the rest of us. Tidbits Work with me and the Articulate community! There's a cool opportunity to be part of what we're doing in the Articulate community. You can learn more about the job here. What you'll need:
I will keep the community manager position open until March 25. That will be the last day that we'll accept applications. Upcoming workshops for 2013:
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