eLearning Design Blog

How to insert Flash into Brainshark

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This tutorial demonstrates how to insert interactive Flash (.swf) into Brainshark.

Check out our Brainshark Templates!

Changing the Game Pieces in the eLearning Games

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In this tutorial video I show you how to change the current game pieces. I’m using Adobe Flash CS5 on a Mac.

Add a Custom Graphic Background to the Flash Templates

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Sometimes you may want to design your own custom background for a Flash template. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to do. Keep in mind that the recommended size of your graphic should be 720×540.

Better Looking Scenarios

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Have you ever struggled with coming up with creative and fun layouts for scenarios? We’ve recently launched a new product that can help you with this. Our Office Notes and Papers stock image series includes more than 150 cutout images of all sorts of office supplies. These can easy be compiled into a fun and engaging layout for scenarios or many other presentations.

In this screencast, I’d like to show you how I use these cutout stock images to build exciting scenario layouts.


Inserting People Cutouts into PowerPoint Courses

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Using a presenter character to walk participants through the content will add visual interest to a course. Pre-cutout people images make it easy to add multiple pictures (different poses) of the same person to your pages. In the video below, I’ll walk you through a quick way of adding people cutouts to your PowerPoint eLearning courses.

Here are the basic steps:

1. Open and navigate to the PowerPoint slide you want to add the people cutouts to.

2. Open your people cutouts folder.

3. Drag the images from the folder onto your PowerPoint slide.

4. Spice up the slide a bit by adding some text. That’s all!

Branding eLearning PowerPoint Templates

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Learn how to better brand eLearning PowerPoint templates. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to apply a new theme and customize the color of our eLearning PowerPoint templates.