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Articulate Studio Cookbook

By : Robert Kennedy III, Robert Kennedy
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Articulate Studio Cookbook

By: Robert Kennedy III, Robert Kennedy

Overview of this book

More and more companies find they need to build their training courses internally. They are turning to tools like Articulate Studio because it is easy to use and doesn't have a steep learning curve. If you are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint in any way, you should feel right at home with Articulate Studio."Articulate Studio Cookbook" will get you ready to add Articulate Studio to your enterprise toolkit. This book gives you detailed yet simple steps to complete your training course. By following the clear steps in each chapter, you will gain an understanding of the software but also be able to complete specific tasks and common activities.The good thing about this book is that you can start anywhere and get the information that you need for a specific activity. Cross-references are provided if there is a skill located elsewhere that you need to complete a task.It can be frustrating to pick up a new piece of software and not know where to begin. With Articulate Studio, there is a whole suite of software to work with. You need to know how to work with Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker and Encoder to make great Articulate courses. Then, you'll need to know how to put them all together in a way that makes a professional looking, cohesive and smooth-flowing course. We'll make it easy to follow step by step until you have a professional course."Articulate Studio Cookbook" will help you go from Studio newbie to Studio guru. Dive in and choose your recipe.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Articulate Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Highlighting specific slide information


There may be times when you wish to highlight certain information on a slide in your presentation. This would usually be due to a need to attract the viewer's eye to specific data or information that you are presenting on the slide. While you can use animations to do this, specifically an Emphasis animation, Articulate Presenter comes with a series of annotation tools to assist you in adding graphic emphasis to your presentation.

These annotation tools are a series of small Flash animations, which can be placed anywhere on your slides. They are somewhat customizable both in their appearance and in the timing of their appearance. This allows you to synchronize the appearance of your annotation to go along with the narration of your slides.

Getting ready

You'll need at least one slide that you can work on for this recipe. Before doing the annotations, it is important to complete your narration and animations. In this way, you can get the maximum impact...