Fundamentals of Articulate Presenter 2009

Duration: 2 Days

Objectives

This course teaches delegates how to use Articulate Presenter to create and publish compelling training solutions, including designing an eLearning interface customised to its subject matter and target audience. The courses also shows delegates how to add photographs, charts, illustrations and digital video totheir eLearning solution, how to make effective use of animation and how to add instructional dialog to their course and sync the narration with display elements.

Pre-requisites

None other than knowlege of Windows and a desire to create training course modules using PowerPoint and Articulate.

Course includes

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.

This course is available as a private or customised course. Please phone us on 0208 269 4260 or email us for further information and to customise this course to your exact requirements.

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Course outline

Overview
• Components of a quality eLearning program
• PowerPoint as an eLearning development tool
• Designing a presentation for individual use versus speaker-led use

Introducing Presenter
• Why use Articulate?
• Accessing Presenter features from within PowerPoint
• The Presenter menu

Interface options – Published work
• Presentation title and duration
• Adding a Logo
• Presenter
• Outline, Notes and Thumbnails
• Search
• Volume control
• Navigation buttons
• Slide progress bar and Slide time indicators
• Narrative transcript
• Tabs

Building a Player Template
• Defining your presentation's interface options
• Navigation settings
• Editing button labels and dialog messages
• Setting the colours for your interface
• Other presentation settings

Including a narrative transcript

Branching
• Creating non-linear paths
• Creating a menu using slide links
• Locking slide navigation
• Hiding slides

Audio Basics
• Recording, previewing and rerecording narration
• Editing the narrative transcript to match the recording
• Synching display elements with the audio
• Importing audio for a single slide
• Batch importing audio for many slides
• Removing audio from a slide

The Audio Timeline Editor
• Adjusting the volume for all or a portion of the audio track
• Zooming in or out of the waveform
• Removing a portion of a slide's audio
• Inserting silence
• Adjusting a slide's start or end based on the audio
• Synching display elements with the audio
• Importing audio into the timeline
• Recording audio into the timeline

Annotations
• Draw attention to areas of the screen
• Adding and clearing annotations
• Setting styles
• Adding while recording
• Adding after recording
• Previewing your work

Learning Games
• Choices
• Word Quiz
• Sequence
• Game settings
• Editing an existing game
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Slide Properties
• Navigation titles
• Assigning navigation levels
• Interface view
• Branching
• Locking slides
• Assigning presenters
• Assigning background audio

Tabs
• Exit
• Bookmark
• Attachments

Previewing your Work

Publishing
• To the Web
• To a Learning Management System (LMS)
• To a CD
• To a Microsoft Word document
• For Podcast

Ending
• File Management
• Course conclusion