Articulate Studio Training Overview
Accelebrate's Introduction to Articulate Studio training course teaches attendees how to use the programs included in the Studio 360 suite - Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker and Replay - to create self-paced engaging training and assess knowledge gained.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Design an e-learning interface most suitable to your subject matter and target audience
- Add photographs, charts, illustrations and digital video to your course
- Make effective use of animation to draw attention to key elements of a slide
- Add instructional dialog to your course and sync the narration with display elements
- Use engaging interactions to keep users' attention and encourage exploratory learning
- Incorporate review questions in your course
- Design meaningful assessments and surveys
- Use branching to direct learner paths
- Provide access to job aids and other learning resources
- Create screen recordings and webcam videos and incorporate them into your course or distribute them as standalone videos
- Publish your course for deployment in browsers supporting HTML5, including mobile devices
Prerequisites
Attendees should have fundamental PowerPoint skills.
Outline
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Introduction
Benefits of e-learning
Components of a quality e-learning program
PowerPoint as a rapid e-learning development tool
Designing a presentation for individual use versus speaker-led use
Review of some key PowerPoint features
- Master slides
- Text objects
- Shapes
- Importing graphics
- Creating tables
- Creating animations
- Slide transitions
Introducing Presenter
- Why use Articulate?
- Accessing Presenter features from within PowerPoint
- The Presenter Menu
- Overview of interface options for your published work
- Building a Player Template
- Including a narrative transcript
- Adding characters
- Working with special media types
- Slide Properties
- Audio Basics
- The Audio Timeline Editor
- Annotations
Introducing Engage
- The value of interactivity in user-driven training
- 20 interaction types available with Engage
- Audio
- Inserting media
- Deleting imported media
- Creating branching links within interaction and hyperlinks to external references
- Interaction Properties
- Previewing the interaction
- Engage interaction publishing options
Introducing Quizmaker
- Ways in which quizzes can be used to assess knowledge gained
- Ways in which surveys can be used to improve your training projects
- Graded question types
- Survey question types
- Freeform question formats
- Appropriate use of the various question types available
- Setting quiz properties
- Creating a quiz question
- Form View vs. Slide View
- Providing feedback
- Branching based on response
- Previewing your work
- Duplicating questions
- Importing questions
- Creating question groups
- Randomizing questions
- Adding media
- Scoring
- Feedback master and feedback layers
- Design themes
- Animations and transitions
- Creating a results slide for your quiz
- Creating Quiz Player templates
- Publishing quizzes and surveys
Introducing Replay
- Recording
- Editing
- Importing videos
- Importing images
- Lower thirds
- Edit audio volume
- Publishing mixed video to MP4 format
Publishing your e-learning course
- For the Web
- For a Learning Management System (LMS)
- For CD
- To a Microsoft Word document
- Choosing output options
File Management
Conclusion/Questions and Answers
Training Materials
All Articulate Studio training attendees receive a binder with a course syllabus, tips and tricks, practice exercises and media for lab exercises.
Software Requirements
- Windows 10 or later with at least 8 GB RAM
- Articulate Studio 360
- Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Word
