Getting to grips with Articulate Studio training session

1. From PowerPoint to Online
Multimedia Resources with
Articulate Studio
James Little, SDDU

2. Welcome!
• 3 hours (including a 15 minute break)
• Mixture of demonstrations, discussions and
hands on experience
• Taking you from familiar to the unfamiliar
(and making it familiar)
• Session new in current form
• Welcome any feedback / suggestions

3. Overview
• Welcome Activities
• Introducing Articulate Studio – An Overview
• Types of Online Content
(in the context of using PowerPoint and Articulate)
• PowerPoint and You
• Enhancing existing PowerPoints with Articulate
• Finding Content
• When is a PowerPoint not a PowerPoint?
(Creating interactive resources)
• Consolidating / Exploring

4. Session Aims
1. Enable you to understand and experience the
possibilities of PowerPoint and Articulate
Studio
2. Enable good practice and approaches to
enhance existing content
3. Enable good practice and approaches to
creating new content

5. Session Aims
• A space for you to:
– Be creative!
– Get hands-on experience
– Discuss

6. Session Outcomes
• Demonstrate and hands on use of Articulate
tools – specifically:
– Use of Articulate to record and import narrations
for slides
– Use of Articulate to synchronise animations with
narrations and also add annotations
– Manipulate slide audio using Articulate
– Publish presentations for the VLE
– Get to grips with Engage and Quizmaker

7. Session Outcomes
• An understanding of sourcing good content
and consideration of legal issues

8. Your Experience and Aims
• Most people comfortable with PowerPoint
• Most people haven’t yet used Articulate
• Mixture of content for augmenting or
replacing lectures
• Project-based information resources
• Your files available for later use on laptops

9. Welcome Activity
• Introductions…
– Where do you work within the University?
– What needs/interests attracted you to the
session?

10. What do you want to achieve?
• What areas of your work are you looking to
enhance?
• Activity One
(10 minutes thinking / 5 minutes sharing)

11. Introducing Articulate Studio

12. Articulate Studio - Overview
• Presenter
• Quizmaker
• Engage
• Encoder
• PowerPoint used as structuring device
• n.b. you may have heard of Storyline?

13. Articulate Studio - Presenter
• Turn PowerPoint slides into e-learning
materials.
• Quickly and easily add interactivity, branching,
multimedia, and narration to your PowerPoint
content.

14. Articulate Studio – Quiz Maker
• Build quizzes, surveys, and interactive
assessments in a highly intuitive way.

15. Articulate Studio – Engage
• Create media-rich, engaging interactions that
capture learner attention.

16. Articulate Studio – Encoder
• Add video to Presenter, Quizmaker and
Engage Content
• Capture video from webcam/camera

17. Demo - Overview
• Integration into PowerPoint
• Stand-alone products
• Adding content from one tool into another

18. Types of Online Content
(in the context of using PowerPoint and Articulate)

19. Types of Online Content
(in the context of using PowerPoint and Articulate)
Interactive
Existing PowerPoint
with additional
narrative
PowerPoint

20. Types of Use - PowerPoint
• PowerPoint does not equal an online
resource:
– Sometimes don’t make sense without the
presenter
– Often used as a prompt for the presenter
• Articulate Presenter can enable you to add
meaning and explanation back

21. Types of Use - PowerPoint
• BUT this means need to get ‘the basics’ right:
– ‘Death by PowerPoint’
– In groups complete Activity Two (5 minutes).

22. Discussion of PowerPoint Experiences

23. Good Practice
• Use of PowerPoint templates
• Colour
• White space
• Text/Volume limits
• Text as images
• Font size
• Italics

24. PowerPoint and You
• Share your examples of best practice
• Identify any gaps in PowerPoint techniques
and share ideas by completing activity three…

25. Reflection on PowerPoint Slides
• Discussion
• Any areas you would like further support

26. Enhancing existing PowerPoint
material with Articulate

27. Enhancing existing PowerPoints with
Articulate – Part One
• Hands-on Activities Four – Seven covering:
– Use of Articulate to record narrations for slides
– Use of Articulate to import narrations for slides
– Manipulate slide audio using Articulate
– Use of Articulate to synchronise animations with
narrations and also add annotations
• Demonstration or straight to hands-on?

28. Enhancing existing PowerPoints with
Articulate – Part Two
• Hands-on Activities Eight – Ten covering:
– Adding Articulate Annotations to your PowerPoint
slides
– Previewing your presentation
– Changing the layout of your presentation
• Demonstration or straight to hands-on?

29. Good Practice in
Finding Content

30. Finding Content
• Images
• Videos
• Copyright
• OERs (http://www.oercommons.org)
• OERs at Leeds

31. Finding Content
• Creative Commons Search:
http://search.creativecommons.org

36. Check Terms of Use

38. When is PowerPoint not like
PowerPoint?

39. When is PowerPoint not like
PowerPoint?
• PowerPoint used to structure – often linearly.
• This does not have to be the case

40. When is PowerPoint not like
PowerPoint?
• Slides are often bullet-points
• This does not have to be the case:

41. Political
Commitment
Finance
Measurement
and
Accountability
Regional
National
Global Sanitation and Water
for All
World Water Forum
Regional Water and
SanitationConferences
and Forums
AMCOW
Cabinet /
inter-ministerial
mechanisms
JMP
GLAAS
WWDR
Regional Status
Overviews
Country Status
Overviews
MICs
MEASURE DHS
LSMS
GSF
GEF
The World Bank
Private foundations
and trusts
Regional
Development Banks
EU Water Facility
Africa Water Facility
ODA
Foundations
Private sector
investment
National budgets

42. When is PowerPoint not like
PowerPoint?
• Slides are often text-focused
• This does not have to be the case:

43. My Skills and Role:
A Bridge!

44. My Skills and Role:
A Journey of Development:
• Take you from the familiar to the unfamiliar
• Enable confidence and competence so you can do the same with students
• Evaluate and interpret solutions backed up by pedagogical theory and
frameworks
• Provide teaching/training/staff development on specific tools
• Enable students and staff to be creative, critical and inquisitive!

45. When is PowerPoint not like
PowerPoint?
• Navigation and interactivity can be added:

46. A
Welcome to the Interactive area.
In this section there are seven
scenarios for you to think about
or discuss with a group of
colleagues or peers. Each one
refers to a different aspect
covered in the module. Make
notes on how, given each
scenario, you would approach
the situation.
Once you have completed the
scenarios, you can listen to
general comments and feedback
on each one, as well as
interviews with WASH sector
specialists talking about what
they would have done or what
they think are the key issues
with each scenario.
It is important to understand that
there is no ‘perfect’ answer to
these questions; indeed if you are
working in a group you may find
that you come up with multiple
answers. This simply highlights
the fact that the WASH landscape
is complex and the context within
which you work influences the
choices and decisions that are
made.

47. Creating Interactive Content

48. Creating Interactive Content
• Within PowerPoint adding navigation
• Using Articulate to structure navigation
• Using Engage or QuizMaker

49. Engage – Demo

50. Engage – Demo
Live demonstration or hands-on?

51. Quiz Maker - Demo

52. Quiz Maker - Demo
Live demonstration or hands-on?

53. Publishing Your Articulate Files
Activity Thirteen / Demo

54. Consolidating / Exploring
Time to explore your areas of interest

55. Consolidating / Exploring
• Re-visit activity one – anything to
add/change?
• Revisit specific features
• Work on your own content (files on laptops)
• Opportunity to explore further via optional
activities:
– Create or insert videos into presentation (Video Encoder)
– Embedding external websites
– Embedding a YouTube video

56. Summary

57. Summary
• Covered a lot of content
• A starting point to experience Articulate
• A basis for exploring your own ideas
• Make a note of one thing you may take away
from the session

58. The Future
• Current licences:
– Please contact c.perry@adm.leeds.ac.uk and fill in
a proposal form.
– Happy to discuss anytime j.little@adm.leeds.ac.uk
• Articulate 2013 just out:
– HTML 5 / iPad / Accessibility Support
– Investigating licencing options
– Should enable work from previous versions to be
exported in new formats

59. Further Resources
• UoL website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/articulate
• Case Studies at UoL
• UoL blog: https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/articulate
• Rapid e-learning blog:
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
• Articulate website: http://www.articulate.com
• E-Learning Heroes:
http://community.articulate.com/
• ISS PowerPoint Training
• Summary e-mail

60. Feedback for the session
1. What did you find useful
2. What would you have liked more of
3. What would you have liked less of
4. Suggestions