For years leading up to Covid, I had been working from home for half of my work week doing multimedia eLearning and voiceover for training courses and demos, and commuting to the office on the other days so I was fortunately more than ready for the “new normal” years in advance.

Recently, I broke up my home studio into three areas that let me do about anything I need. I now have two desks and a green screen, white or black screen set up ready to go at all times. One desk area is for voice over and editing, while the other desk area in the middle of the room is dedicated to webinars and live streaming. This has made my productivity much better, and there is no need for me to fiddle with any cables or equipment to go from one part of development to another. They are all waiting for me!

When making experiential eLearning, it is important to be able to test non-linear user paths in your course. Storyline 360 lets you preview select slides to speed up that process.

Before creating a visual prototype iteration, a written storyboard that links your Behavioral Objectives to your course treatments of each gets you organized.

Storyboards are often done using MS Office or Google Docs. Both of these methods are fine but let me show you a way to do it inside of your Storyline course as its own hidden Scene. In an upcoming video, I will show you the traditional storyboard method that works great for content-centric courses.

The important thing to understand is that when you storyboard your course slide for slide, word for word in the design process you risk being too prescriptive before you get to a first iteration of your experiential prototype. The video below is a first step in mapping Behavioral Objectives to course interface treatments in a way that lets you be flexible. Another bonus is you can use Articulate Review 360 comments to get real time feedback on your Activity and Action Mapping ideas before you start any visual work.

Click the link below to launch the course.

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In today’s new normal, work from home also means “learn from home”, or more accurately, “learn from anywhere”. Articulate Rise 360 allows you to build training modules that are adaptive to all learning devices with just one single course publish. Let me show you how one of my courses looks when I open it on my iPhone.

Ecamm Live is a subscription software for Mac users. In this video I show you the high level of what Ecamm Live is, my set up for my show using Scenes, and the basic chain of hardware to get yourself started.

Adobe Captivate has updated their Assets menu and quick start Project Template functionality to make it easier than ever to get started fast, and still allow you custom control over your project look and feel. The Assets tab has been moved and upgraded, and the starter Project Templates now let you apply more than one theme to your project.

Adobe Audition makes it very easy to save all of your post processing effects and tweaks as a one-click preset. If you normally record yourself remotely or produce others at your company on the same mic in the same dedicated environment, you should really consider this technique to speed up your work and make your audio more consistent at the same time.

A lot of learning organizations depend on the Adobe Creative Cloud for all of their design and media needs. If you use Adobe Audition for your audio work, here is how to remove those unwanted noises and breaths. Audition offers a couple of ways to do it, and here I will show you both using the lasso tool and the healing tool.

In many organizations, subject matter experts and trainers are used to record microlearning audio and video products, but you are almost always left with noises and breaths that you don’t desire. Let me show you how you can remove them in Audacity without altering the quality of your original recording.