When an authoring tool has a name like Rapid Intake, creating a course has got to be fast and easy. So I decided to give it a speed test: How fast can I create a course? I was able to create a course with videos, text, images, puzzles and even... more
As I was looking into a SCORM issue for a customer, I found this article from Articulate. I noticed that we use the similar steps when troubleshooting an issue with a SCORM file. However, the author of this article did a great job in explaining the whats and whys. If... more
Articulate Storyline and Litmos go together like milk and cookies or movies and popcorn. Below is a cheat sheet to help get your Storyline file into Litmos or if you prefer, a video with the same steps. Once your Storyline project has been developed and tested, it is time to... more
Our super savvy instructional designer and man-on-the-ground in the UK, Ant Pugh, is back with another great contribution to the Litmos blog! This time in the form of a video tutorial about Articulate Storyline: How to create a patterned background with gradient. Enjoy! @Schnicker
Litmos guest blogger Ant Pugh is back, this time with a passionate plea for higher quality eLearning design in the midst of a sea of rapid authoring tools. Sat in my shorts, watching the drizzle batter the windows…reading an instructional design forum whilst waiting for my toast to pop. Yep, I’m... more
Recently I was chatting on Skype with good friend and eLearning professional Ant Pugh, and the conversation turned to content authoring tools. Inevitably, the upcoming release of Articulate Storyline came up and while I am a beta tester (along with everyone else who’s interested in it), Ant’s excitement about the potential... more
So, here’s an exciting development posted on the Adobe Captivate Rapid eLearning blog today – HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5 is Here! What we’ve got here is an Adobe Lab that you can download to convert your Captivate 5.5 SWF content to HTML5 for playback on devices that do not support... more
Litmos community! Good morning/afternoon/evening to you all. As I may have mentioned before, there are two fairly dominant players in the market for off-the-shelf eLearning development solutions: Adobe Captivate and Articulate Studio ’09. Both of these tools make an excellent main development platform. You can even use them together, inserting... more
Hi there, Litmos community! This week, we’re going to shift gears. Today’s post is the first of a multi-course feast. In the coming weeks, we’ll talk about a guerrilla process for systems training. As internal or external training consultants, most of us know what it’s like to be understaffed (or... more
Greetings, Litmos community! We’ve been taking a look at how to create efficiency when designing/developing eLearning in Adobe Captivate 5. Adobe recently added a killer master slide feature to Captivate. If you’re familiar at all with how to use multiple master slides in PowerPoint, you have some idea of how... more
