How to PowerPoint

Adding some interactive decision-making to your rapid elearning course is a good idea.  Leslie from Education Breakthrough has a great screencast on how he created a branched interaction in PowerPoint.  This can be applied for rapid elearning courses if you’re using a tool like Articulate Presenter as well as something you can do in PowerPoint and present as a .pps file.

Some key points from the tutorial:

• He sets up the scenario.  You have a set of criteria with which to evaluate some people.
• You evaluate the people.  As you return to the original slide, you notice the person visited has been marked off.
• He provides a tour of the interaction and a flow chart to show how it works.
• Here’s a link to the PDF that explains how he built the branched interaction in PowerPoint.

Check out the tutorial.

Click here to view the tutorial.

I did a post for the Rapid E-Learning Blog where I demonstrated a simple elearning scenario.  I got a lot of emails asking how it was built. 

So I did a follow up post where I show how I actually built the elearning scenario using PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter ‘09.

View the Tutorial and Download the Free PowerPoint Files

If you use PowerPoint for elearning and you want to learn to make your courses more interactive, then you’ll get a lot of value out of the link above an this one on How I Built that E-Learning Scenario. 

Not only is there a good tutorial that goes with it, I also included the PowerPoint files so you can deconstruct how the scenario was built on your own.