Using Graphic Dividers to Add Visual Interest to E-Learning Courses #436

Graphic Dividers in E-Learning #436: Challenge | Recap

Looking for a quick and dirty way to add visual interest to your Rise 360 courses? Try adding a full-width image block as a custom graphics border between blocks. Check out the following example to see how it works. 

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How does the effect work?

This is an elegant effect using simple graphic elements, and the solution is quite simple once you break it down. The key is creating image dividers and inserting them as full-width image blocks between content blocks.

How to Create Custom Dividers in Rise 360

Ginger has a great overview of how to create dividers in PowerPoint for Rise 360. There’s also a PowerPoint template you can use to help you get started.

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🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to show ways to add visual interest to e-learning courses w/ custom graphic dividers.

⚠️ NOTE: If you have an Articulate 360 subscription, we’d like to see what you can do with custom dividers in Rise 360. But as always, you’re welcome to use any authoring tool you like for this week’s challenge.

Resources

• Tutorial w/ source file: Creating Dividers for Rise 360
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✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
• Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure.
• Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

📆 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you divide and customize this week’s challenge, check out the ways course designers collaborate to build e-learning courses: 

Collaboration in E-Learning RECAP #435: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challengesanytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article. 

Got an idea for a challenge? Are you interested in doing a webinar showcasing how you made one or more challenge demos? Or do you have some comments for your humble challenge host? Use this anonymous form to share your feedback:  https://bit.ly/ElearningChallengeForm.