When developing eLearning you will most likely use a variety of media including audio, videos and images to display your learning content and teach key concepts to your leaners. These forms of media can be effective in teaching learners, however they can take time to create as you need to design and record or edit the audio, video and images. Text on the other hand is a very quick and efficient way to teach learners subjects and key information. Text is vey quick to produce i

Have you ever had the opportunity to develop an eLearning module that has to be 100% AODA compliant? If not, you may be wondering what is AODA and how does it apply to eLearning modules? AODA or Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, is an act developed with the purpose of implementing and enforcing accessibility standards to achieve accessibility for Ontarians with disabilities with respect to several different fields and industries, with training and eLearning m

When you need a graphic asset that’s some sort of prop and it’s on a blank white field that you need made transparent, here are several ways to do this in Photoshop. This works best with graphics that have clear edges, is in focus, and doesn’t have too many shadows. Magic Wand The easiest way to do this is to select the white areas you want removed with the Magic Wand tool. Just click on part of the background, and the Magic Wand will select all the white colour. If you have

Using audio in your eLearning can be an effective way to teach complex learning concepts to your learners and improve the overall learning experience for your course. Audio in eLearning is effective as it can be used for a variety of purposes from teaching learning content to providing instructions on what your learner needs to do next. When creating audio for your eLearning there are a number of things to consider such as the length of the script, the tone of the audio and w

How to create simple line graphics for the Videoscribe whiteboard video program in Illustrator

As I stated in one of my previous posts, thanks to the nature of Moodle (What do I need to use Moodle?), we can extend its functionality to perform tasks that we can’t perform with the default plugins (or we can just simply improve certain aspects). Whichever the case, we can achieve that by either installing a plugin from the Moodle directory, or by developing one ourselves. In the case of the latter, Moodle provides us with a great API and documentations so that we can try

You may of heard the terms eLearning and LMS if you are planning to develop digital training for your organisation, but what do these terms mean and how are they factors in deciding the design of your next eLearning course? When comparing the two it is important to note they are not separate technologies but two different technologies that work together to develop and deploy digital training to your learners. eLearning is short for electronic learning and is the digital cours

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The User Interface or UI is the interface that people interact with and use to control a piece of software or hardware, the UI can be any type of interface the user interacts with and can relate to websites, self serving checkouts or smartphones. The UI bridges the gap between what the user wants the computer to do and what the computer understands, a good UI will allow the user to interact with a computer in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand. But how does this r

Here at Pathways we have been using the new review feature in Articulate Storyline 360 for eLearning reviews. This features allows you to review an eLearning module and to post comments about a screen. It is a great feature for both internal and external client reviews as it allows you to post real-time comments about the changes you would like and it also allows you to post comments or questions to other project team members. The review pane feature (called Review 360) oper

Continuing from last week “Setting up Storyline with branded colours”, this week we’re going to show you how to set up themed fonts in Storyline to make your elearning compliant with your client’s corporate identity. Using theme fonts Theme fonts in Storyline will determine the default font appearance of text and header boxes. When you choose an object or text in Storyline and click on the font dropdown in the Home tab on the ribbon, the first two options under Theme Fonts wi

mLearning or mobile learning is eLearning that is specifically designed for a mobile device. Typically this type of learning would be taken on a smartphone but could also be taken on other devise such as tablets or small laptops. When designing and developing mLearning one of the key things to keep in mind is the reduction in on-screen space, screen sizes are much smaller for mobile devices so you need to ensure that your content is displayed in a clear and compacted way. mLe