1) The document provides tips and best practices for designing effective e-learning courses without a design background. 2) It emphasizes understanding learners and their preferences, such as using images, stories, and feedback to engage them. 3) The guidelines recommend starting with clear structure and navigation, making each section self-contained, and ending with a summary to help learners feel accomplished.

1. GUIDE TO E-LEARNING DESIGN
SIMPLE, QUICK, AND POWERFUL TIPS FOR NON-DESIGNERS
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2. Chapter 1
Understanding people
1. People like people:
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Images
Graphics
Animations
messages
Reflect your
learning profile.
2. People like stories: draw upon stories to illustrate dates.
• Repeating the information.
3. Use it or lose it: • Applying it immediately.
• Connecting the new information to existing.
4. People judge books by their covers: font, images, colors…

3. Understanding people
5. People like organization: Reduces the likelihood the learners will get lost.
6. People like surprises:
• New and novel ways at looking information.
• Balance out the new with the expected.
7. People filter information:
8. People like to succeed:
Size, color, animations can draw the learner’s.
attention to the learner targets.
Feedbacks progress to motivate learners.

4. Chapter 2
The essential step-by-step guide to
making your own e-learning course
1. Learners are first: Clear idea of who your is student?
2. Outline the structure:
• Intro
• Module :
• Resume
3. Design for user experience:
Summary section
4/5 sections
10 screens max.
• Simple, pretty and functional.
• Pleases the eyes: numbered list, bullets,
section heards.

5. The essential step-by-step guide to
making your own e-learning course
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4. Make each section complete and clear on its on: •
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Instructions
Content
Assesment
summary
Above all: keep screens clean!
Prioritize need-to-know/ nice-to- know.
5. Create a compelling start.
• Interactive
6. Create a motivation self-directed learning environment: • Multiple-choice
• Formative test
• Recall the main points.
7. End with a meat summary: • Remind the objectives.
• Accomplishment each unit.

6. Chapter 3
Design like a Pro: best practices
• A catchy course name.
1. Begin with a great impression: • Simple, familiar.
• Clear and well-designed since first screens.
2. Highlight the most important parts: easy to read and consume.
3. Think substract, not add:
• Removing unnecessary elements.
• Clutter-free.
4. Consider the human brain’s capacity:
• Simple words/ concise sentences.
• Content needs to be chunked.
• Information in context.

7. Design like a Pro: best practices
5. Design with a purpose:
• The screen serves your viewer’s learning goals.
• Every element must be there for a reason.
6. Consider the rules of good image selection:
• Images relevant to content.
• Limit images.

8. Chapter 4
Things experts can teach you about
elearning design
1. Great design is getting people do what you want them to
2. Design is form and function combined:
Design is how it works
3. Design is the whole, the sum total of all parts
• Feel accomplished after finish
4. Usable design considers people’s emotions
every section.
• Emotionally-charged images.
• To tell stories that evoke relevant
memories.

9. Chapter 5
Tips for non-designers
• Text and images work better together.
1. Use strong images: • Relevant images instead of rows of bullet points.
• Impacful, images that evoke possitive emotional response.
INSERT PHOTOS INSTEAD OF CLIP ART!
CLIP ART HD IMAGES AVOID GENERIC ONES!
2. Be consistent: sitck to a scheme (a slide layout).
3. Keep titles simples and informative: Simple and precise words.

10. Tips for non-designers
4. Design a distraction-free templete: peel away the unnecessary elements.
• Text: black (dark color).
5. Use color effectively: • Background: soft tones.
• Not use more than three colors.
6. Empty spaces matters:
Empty spaces as important as content.
Help to us what’s important
and what to focus on.

11. Tips for non-designers
7. Break up text:
• Break idea into short bloks of text ans spaces between.
• Lists, tables, paragraphs.
8. Keep your lists short
9. Simplifly your visual data
10. Make it easier for your audience to focus
Every element plays a role on:
Learner’s goal / your main objetives.