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Presented by: Sara Christensen, Ed Eckenstein and Margo Bedford

Table of Contents:

Meet the Team 2 What is an Authoring Tool? 3 Authoring Tools Assessment Criteria 3 Why Articulate? 4 Instructional Applications 5 Common Instructional Values (CIVs) 6 Features and Functionality 8 Resources 14 Frequently Asked Questions 15

Powered by Articulate This tool is perfect for non-technical and technical folks alike! If you dont know how to write HTML or Flash, but you do know how to build a PowerPoint presentation-then you will be able to create Elearning with Articulate. You can start with a simple learning module and work your way through the tool to create an Articulate-powered website. Date: March 24, 2012, 3:00 4:00 pm MDT https://connect.cuonline.edu/articulate-powered/ Articulate: http://www.articulate.com

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Meet the Team Sara Christensen Sara.christensen@ucdenver.edu Margo Bedford Margo.bedford@ucdenver.edu Ed Eckenstein Edward.eckenstein@ucdenver.edu Objectives for the day Participants will be able to answer the following questions:

What is an authoring tool and what essential features should I look for?

What criteria should I consider when selecting an authoring tool for my EdWeb project?

How can Articulate take the pain out of building my EdWeb?

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What is an Authoring Tool? Software that allows users to integrate media objects and create interactive

learning materials. Anyone can use it because there is no programming or building required. Most authoring tools are SCORM compliant. Authoring Tools Assessment Criteria This list is from the EdWeb job aid:

Cost Marketability Experience Complexity Exposure Application Organizational Requirements

Source: Doc Sharing>>EdWeb>>EdWebA&D_Fall_2011.doc page 25.

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Why Articulate? Named a Best Product of 2011 by Training Media Review

Elearning Magazine Best of 2010 Award Winner

PowerPoint based

Rapid development authoring tool

Create attractive, engaging interactive content and quizzes

Easy to use but powerful

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Instructional Applications

Business Pros Makes it easy for even a small

company to build training courses for employees

In larger companies, programmers have more time for other projects

Easy for trainers to learn and use to build professional looking, interactive Elearning modules that feature quizzes, videos and multimedia

Business Cons Flash based Web site content not

accessible to search engines. May hurt online marketing efforts

No way to link directly to a page of content inside a Flash based Web site from another Web site or email.

Education Pros Easy for instructors to learn and use to

build courses that include engaging content by including graphics, videos and multimedia

Rapid development means instructors have more time to interact with students

Can integrate quizzes into the course. Enables creation of a wide variety of

learning interactions allowing the instructor to mold a course to the needs of the students.

Education Cons Microsoft Windows based, not

compatible with Macs Cost may be a factor for some schools Flash content created is not fully

accessible to those with disabilities. Instructor may need to create alternative content for those students.

Education Application: Articulate can be used to create self-guided lessons, units, a course with embedded video, audio, and images. Articulate can also be used to create self-guided PowerPoint presentations for professional development, units, or lessons in which narration can be embedded to go with each slide as well as implementing video. It can be used to set up self guided discovery so the learner has to look around and figure things out on his/her own. Corporate Application: From our experience, Articulate is one of the better tools used to embed video into an online lesson. Embedded video running through a Learning Management System (LMS) can be tough to manage especially if the video is 30 minutes or longer. Some Elearning development software requires the video to be compressed so much that it becomes pixilated or the movie may pause often to buffer. When I have to post a Webinar on our LMS I always use Articulate Engage (the Media Tour interactivity) to embed a Webinar file in .flv format.

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Common Instructional Values (CIVs) How can Articulate cover all of the CIVs?

Learner Centered

Social

Contextual (discovery)

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Active

Supportive

Common Instructional Values (Continued)

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Features and Functionality Articulate Presenter Articulate is an add-on application to PowerPoint. Upon installation a ribbon of new functionality is added to PowerPoint.

The record narration button will not only allow you to record your narration for a slide within PowerPoint but it will also allow you to add pre-recorded audio and it offers some audio editing options. Narration Group Select Record Narration add narration to your slides. Add Annotations Select Add Annotations to include animated highlights to text or objects on your slide. Add Attachments To add an attachment, from the Insert group select Attachments. Type the title of the attachment that will be seen by the learner. Add the path to your attachment, select link for an internet address or file for a Word doc, Adobe pdf or other file type that is stored local on your hard drive.

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Features and Functionality (Continued) Insert Group Add Video

Add streaming video by selecting Web Object. Use this option when you need to link to a video on another website or YouTube.

Add a Flash Movie

Add a video from your local hard drive by selecting Flash Movie. Locate the movie on your hard drive and click on the file and click Open. Then decide if

you want the video to play within your PowerPoint slide or in the presenter panel in the upper left of the presentation, or you can display the video in a new browser window.

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Features and Functionality (Continued) Tools Group Use the Slide Properties menu item to add the title that will appear in the navigation

menu and apply whether it will be a main menu item or a sub-menu item. Also, you can set the slide advance to By User or Automatically. The Player Templates and Presentation Options allow

you to apply preferences for presentation colors, which features will appear such as whether the navigation menu and the job aid tab. Publish Group

To preview a slide without having to publish the entire presentation, select Preview and Preview This Slide.

When you want to compile all the changes and preferences you have made to your online course, select Publish. Youll have six options of file types to publish to. The Web option will create three files you can save to an Internet site file structure and your learners can access it from an Internet URL. Articulate Online is a subscription, hosting option from the company Articulate. The Learning Management System (LMS) option produces a SCORM 1.2 compliant .zip file that you can post straight away to your LMS.

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Features and Functionality (Continued) Articulate Quizmaker

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Create quizzes and surveys from twenty question template types. Quizmaker supports branching, question grouping and randomizing. Quizzes and surveys are created using a simple fill-in form.

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Features and Functionality (Continued) Articulate Engage

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Types of interactive templates: Steps of a process Discover

relationships on a timeline

Identify key elements of a diagram and many more.

The templates use a fill-in form.

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Features and Functionality (Continued) Articulate Encoder

Converts nearly any video format to Flash video (FLV). Offers editing, compression and custom encoding.

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Resources

Articulate How-to Videos Organized by Panel

Panel Video Narration Recording Narration and Syncing Animations

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Record_narration/player.html

How to add Annotation

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_annotations/player.html

Editing Audio with the Timeline Audio Editor

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Edit_audio_editor/player.html

Importing Existing Audio

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Import_audio/player.html

Insert Adding Flash Movies and Videos

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_flash/player.html

Adding Quizmaker Quizzes and Surveys

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_quizmaker/player.html

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_engage/player.html

Adding Attachments

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_attachments/player.html

Adding a Learning Game

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Add_learning_games/player.html

Tools Slide Properties http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Select_slide

_properties/player.html Customizing Player Options

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Customize_player/player.html

Setting Presentation Option

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Set_Presentation_Options/player.html

Publish Previewing & Publishing

http://www.articulate.com/community/tutorials09/presenter09/Preview_publish/player.html

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Frequently Asked Questions Will Articulate run on my computer?

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=11

Where can I find tutorials on Articulate?

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/

Where can I find more examples of courses built with Articulate?

http://www.articulate.com/community/showcase/

What is the difference between the Profession and Studio versions?

http://www.articulate.com/products/studio.php

Meet the TeamSara ChristensenWhat is an Authoring Tool?Authoring Tools Assessment Criteria This list is from the EdWeb job aid: Why Articulate?Instructional Applications Common Instructional Values (CIVs)Common Instructional Values (Continued)Features and FunctionalityArticulate Presenter/Narration GroupFeatures and Functionality (Continued)Insert GroupAdd VideoAdd streaming video by selecting Web Object. Use this option when you need to link to a video on another website or YouTube.Features and Functionality (Continued)Tools GroupPublish GroupFeatures and Functionality (Continued)Articulate Quizmaker//Features and Functionality (Continued)//Features and Functionality (Continued)//Resources