Organizational Clarity: “Creating Device Mockup Templates and Placeholders for E-Learning #161” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this article: “Creating Device Mockup Templates and Placeholders for E-Learning #161” is an article that discusses how to use the custom mockups you created for your various presentations and E-Learning documentation. In the article, it lists resources on how to make:

• Mobile phones
• iPads and tablets
• Laptops
• Monitors and iMacs

Learning how to make your (own) graphics can streamline the creation process plus save your organization money on paying for costly images to use online or on the organization's web service. Although this may save a couple of dollars at first it will save a lot of money in the long run, through repeat usage of the mockups that you made as a result.
Just click on the link here to learn more:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/device-mockup-templates-elearning

Organizational Clarity: “Powerpoint: Branched Scenario Template” free download

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs.

In this article: “Powerpoint: Branched Scenario Template” is a free download easily customized template with graphics and fonts already added to the PowerPoint template. Just change around a couple of things such as the text and you can have your own Powerpoint quiz ready for during or after your training session.

Just click on the link here to learn more:
https://community.articulate.com/download/powerpoint-branched-scenario-template

Click here for the font:
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/bebas

Organizational Clarity: “PowerPoint '13: 5 Things to Know Template" free download

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this article: “PowerPoint '13: 5 Things to Know Template” is a free download easily customized template with graphics and fonts already added to the PowerPoint template.

It is simply a great way to illustrate your projects and presentations with that extra zip that will garner your learner’s attention and help keep them focused and alert during a lengthy or even short training session.

Just click on the link here to learn more:

https://community.articulate.com/download/powerpoint-13-5-things-to-know-template

Click here for the fonts:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato
http://www.1001freefonts.com/bebas_neue.font

Organizational Clarity:"Instructional Design Best Practices – A Comprehensive Guide" article

From the CommlabIndia community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email, I received was a link to: “Instructional Design Best Practices – A Comprehensive Guide” by Gitika Nagra.

These are the eight great points for Instructional Design when it comes to E-Learning projects listed in the article: 

1. Set clear learning objectives
2. Make navigation simple and easy
3. Make the course interesting and engaging
4. Include effective audio
5. Include scenarios
6. Include challenging quizzes
7. Provide quick and explanatory feedback
8. Provide rewards

When you want to create a successful program to present to a client or for your organization, following these steps or even adding a couple of these steps to your programming will help give it structure. While keeping everything, flexible and engaging, interaction is the clue here, and these helpful tips keep your learners on point. By adding a little extra here and there, the learning process becomes that much easier and interesting for your trainees and clients.

If you want to know more just click the link here:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-design/instructional-design-best-practices-guide

Organizational Clarity: “Choosing the Right LMS: 6 Essential Aspects You Can’t Ignore” article

I was reading an article about online learning to make any programs I may develop in the future become more user-friendly and inviting to the trainees I want to reach. This article called: “Choosing the Right LMS: 6 Essential Aspects You Can’t Ignore” by Heera Edwin is purchasing the right learning management system for your organization in order to have effective e-learning sessions while meets the organization’s goals and training needs.

When it comes to replacing an existing Learning Management System, or if the training was being transferred to an online application process, this article briefly explains how to choose the best LMS for your organization. When more and more organizations are choosing to deliver training online, being able to determine the best type of LMS being selected and used, is often critical. Oh and do not forget cost too, many organizations hardly think of these and a few other factors that could determine what the best choice for them is.

Please click on the link for more information:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-development/choosing-right-lms-6-essential-aspects

Organizational Clarity: “How to Bust 3 Common Training Myths” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to: “How to Bust 3 Common Training Myths” this is article talks about training and how to overcome some of the misconceptions that as trainers we may have when it comes to analyzing the success of a training program.

These are the three myths that the article discusses:

Myth #1: More Clicking Means More Engagement

Myth #2: The More Reviewers, the Better the Training

Myth #3: People Only Learn Through Formal Training

The way basically to overcome these myths is to have a “highly interactive” course and engage all the stakeholders involved with the training program. Understanding how people learn can allow you as the trainer to develop solutions that enrich their experience as a learner, makes your job easier and helps the organization increase it Return on Investment from the program.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-bust-3-common-training-myths

Organizational Clarity: “Tips for Using Sound Effects in E-Learning” article

From the Articulate community dedicated to increasing a professional’s knowledge of E-Learning, giving out free tips and free resources on how to implement E-Learning in the workplace or how to easily find cheap solutions to organizational needs. In this week’s email I received a link to:

In this week’s email I received a link to: “Tips for Using Sound Effects in E-Learning” this is a great article that refers you to how to use sound effects in your training program properly. From having the Proper Rights and Attribution to understanding how to use the right sound effects can affect the learning experience of your audience, therefore, Knowing Your Audience is key and the article discusses that as well.

Just click on the link here to learn more: https://community.articulate.com/articles/tips-for-using-sound-effects-in-e-learning

Organizational Clarity: “Course Seat Time Estimator” free download

From the Articulate community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email I received was a link to: “Course Seat Time Estimator” by Mike Schwind for a free download.

This a Project Management & Planning download which will help anyone in the Training and Development department with trying to figure out how long their participants, the learners will take to complete the program they have designed. This can be remarkable in trying to determine the number of resources needed to be applied to the program before the organization gives the final “green light” for approval. Even though by this point most organizations have given approval all programs are subject to retooling, and this spreadsheet is a great tool during that process as well.

If you want to know more and download this Spreadsheet just click the link here:

https://community.articulate.com/download/course-seat-time-estimator

Organizational Clarity: “Make Your Software Training Handy with These 10 Job-aids” article

From the CommlabIndia community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email I received was a link to: “Make Your Software Training Handy with These 10 Job-aids” by Ashok Kumar K.

If you ask me from experience or through the academic side what part of the training I like the most, it’s the job aids, these wonderful companions that a learner can use during and after the training session. Stop the presses and give me the job aid! When you have a Job aid, there is automatic reinforcement for the subject material covered in the training session(s).

Usually, training sessions will have one or two learners that get bored and have a hard time retaining the information covered, as a complement to E-Learning software or group trainings or even trying to help them comprehend the “hard” parts of a training program. This article gives you 10 formats and a brief description of the format so that you the reader can make the right decision of the type of format you want to use for your future training job aids.

 These are the 10 Job Aid formats listed in the article:  

1.   Step-by-Step Worksheets/Forms
2.   Flowcharts
3.   Checklists
4.   FAQs
5.   Microlearning Modules
6.   Shortcut Sheets
7.   User Guides
8.   Online Help Forums
9.   Infographics
10.   Mnemonics

If you want to know more just click the link here:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/training-solutions/job-aids-for-software-training

Organizational Clarity: “PowerPoint '13: Whimsical Course Template” free download

From the Articulate community is an article from easy, cheap solutions to meet organizational needs. In an email I received was a link to: “PowerPoint '13: Whimsical Course Template” by Trina Rimmer for a free download.

This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation download was made with the 2013 version of PowerPoint made up of fourteen slides and would give any presentation or training session, a great look and feel to it.

Although it's free, this download contains great characters, icons, layouts and presentations of multiple uses. This is just one of those free downloads that have a lot of thought put behind it, to the point that it looks very professional as if done by the Microsoft Corporation itself

If you want to know more and download this PowerPoint just click the link here:

https://community.articulate.com/download/powerpoint-13-whimsical-course-template?