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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

Introduction


Now that we've created a course in Presenter, we need to prepare the player for it. The player is the skin for your Flash video presentation, which contains the controls, the information about the presenter, and additional supporting documentation for the presentation.

More than anything, the presentations created in Articulate are intended for use over the Internet as part of a training course. For this reason, it is both useful and necessary to add additional information and controls to the course. By doing so, you provide more complete control of the presentation to the viewer.

This also provides a way of adding some more information about your company, the presenter, and supporting documentation to the presentation without taking up the valuable "real estate" on the slides themselves.

While this part of the process can be done at any time, there are some steps that are best completed after creating the presentation itself. For this reason, we've put this chapter after Chapter...