The Orange County, CA (USA) chapter of ASTD (www.astdoc.org) has a Training & Technology Special Interest Group. They invited me to present on Articulate's (www.Articulate.com) Studio '09, rapid e-learning development software suite. View the online presentation at: http://www.ridgeviewmedia.com/portfolio/olt/ASTDOC/player.html

1. Articulate Studio ’09 Overview
Jenise Cook (or Cook-Crabbe)
www.RidgeViewMedia.com

2. Articulate’s Products

3. Agenda
• Travel through an Overview of Articulate’s
products
• Demonstrate samples of Presenter,
Quizmaker, and Engage
• Show a small sample of Video Encoder
• Step through how to do some of these things
• Take your questions!

4. Standard vs. Pro Suites

5. Purpose and Outcomes
Overview: Articulate Studio

6. About this Overview…
What it’s NOT… What it IS… a Demo to Show…
• A Tools War • What Articulate CAN do
• Training on PPT animations • What you CAN do
• Demo of Video Encoder ’09 • Where you can go for
SUPPORT
• Demo of Articulate Online

7. PPT Humor…

8. Form vs. Free-Form Environment

9. Form vs. Free-Form Environment
Form-Based Products Free-Form Products
Example: Engage ’09. Put content into Example: PowerPoint, Flash, Authorware,
the form and publish. It does the Flash Quizmaker. Blank slides/stage, no
conversion/publishing for you. templates. You design what you want.
PROs CONs PROs CONs
• Speedy It’s still a form and It’s a freer design It takes longer to
development. you may feel environment as develop; much
• Flash experts or constrained or long as the more development
programmers not limited. software supports time. And, you may
needed. it. need a “guru” to
• Can concentrate work on the course
on the course project.
content.
The reality in the industry: a hybrid environment.
Both form and free-form.

10. PPT 2007 and Presenter ‘09
Overview

11. PPT to Flash Conversion Tool

12. PPT to Flash Conversion Tool

13. Project Workflow
• Workflow… determine how to file project files
• LOCAL DRIVE!!! Work here, then save to
Network at the end of your tasks that day.
I use the
project
File structure
on the left.

14. Articulate’s Icons in PPT 2007
• Narration: audio and annotations
• Insert: objects, quizzes, interactions
• Tools: Customize the “look-and-feel”
• Publish: preview and publishing options

15. Narration/Audio Files
Easy-to-use tools and icons to record your audio for the slide
you see. You can start and stop your recording, play it back to
check the sound quality,
and then save and close your audio file.

16. Annotations (New!)
Choose the Annotations (highlighting) tools you want: Arrows,
checks, Xs, rectangles, or Spotlight, record your annotation,
and then save it to your PPT slide.
To view a demo I created where I used Annotations,
visit this presentation at:
http://www.ridgeviewmedia.com/portfolio/olt/ASTDOC/player.html.

17. Attachments
• Add Word, PDF files for downloading
• Add links to URLs outside your course

18. Learning Games
• Presenter-created quizzes
• No Quizmaker needed
• Simple assessments
• “Hangman” Game!

19. Flash Movies

20. Web Objects
• Enter URL
• Choose display
properties

22. Presentation Tools (“The Look”)
• How slides appear
• Player color, etc.
• Options for
• Help!

23. Slide Properties

24. Player Templates

25. Presentation Options

26. Help and Support

27. Publishing

28. Quizmaker ‘09
Overview

29. Getting Started

30. Create a New Quiz

31. Graded Quiz Options

32. Quiz Interface of Tools/Options

33. True/False Example

34. Slide View (Free-Form)

37. Publishing Options

38. Engage ‘09
Overview

39. Getting Started

40. Interactions Library

41. Process Interaction

42. Engage Publishing Options

43. Video Encoder ‘09
Overview

51. Design Samples
Overview

52. Branching

53. Scenarios

54. Video/Flash Movies

55. Video in Left Side Bar

56. Annotations & Branching

57. Help and Support
Overview

58. Help and Support

59. Learn More…

60. Limited-Time Discount Pricing

61. Q&A
If I don’t know the answer off the top of my head,
I’ll find out and publish it to the group.

62. Thank You!
Jenise Cook
info@RidgeViewMedia.com