Hello all,

As you are aware, the contest for graphic designers ended on January 31, 2011. Despite several viral marketing strategies and our personal invitation to over hundereds of graphic designers, this contest received entries from just TWO contestants! Its our pleasure to thank Mr. Mayukh Das and Ms. Shivi Kapil for their interest to participate in this contest.

Mayukh's Entry

Shivi's Entry

Its time for announcing the results! Entries from both contestants were unique and awesome in many ways. Mr. Mayukh’s entry conveyed the meaning of e-learning in a traditional way of representation using appealing color schemes and graphic objects. On the other hand, Ms. Shivi’s entry was simple yet innovative in conveying the meaning of e-learning. Considering various parameters such as design style, use of color schemes, and clarity in conveying the meaning of the contest theme, we chose both Mr. Mayukh Das and Ms. Shivi Kapil as the winners of this graphic design contest. We will share the total prize amount of $20 between them.

Congratulations winners. You will shortly be receiving your prize amount :)

Note: If the contestants agree, we will also share their contact details with you. Watch out our blog section frequently for updates in this regard.

Hello all,

It’s time for the first online contest of this year This is a contest for graphic designers and other e-learning professionals who are interested in developing graphics. This contest will be open till January 31, 2011. The winner will receive a prize amount of $20. Click here to view further information about this contest.

Regards,
E-Learning Planet Team

Let me share with an informative blog post on interactvity in e-learning. I always recommend to view this post when someone asks me for basic information on interactivity strategies.

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Click here to view a useful post on adding an Articulate Engage Interaction within another.

Each interaction type in Articulate Engage has its own specifications in terms of the sizes for images and videos. Here is a useful information on the maximum sizes for images and videos. Thanks to Gabe Anderson for sharing these details in his blog. 

Hi all,

I just viewed a useful post on creating engaging assessments by using Articulate Engage.  Its really worth sharing, and thus you have this post right now.

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Graphic Designers shall consider the following essential parameters while developing or reviewing the media of an e-Learning course by using Macromedia Flash:

• Document properties: This includes verifying standardized document properties, such as document size, frame rate, publish settings, and other properties.
• Naming conventions: This includes verifying the standardized naming conventions of a graphic element, file, layer, symbol, and library.
• Font specifications: This includes verifying standardized font specifications, such as the font face, size, and color.
• Alignment: This includes verifying alignment in page title, frame content, and graphic element.
• White spacing: This includes verifying unnecessary white spaces between characters, lines, and paragraphs.
• Library management: This includes verifying whether the library is managed using folders and ensuring that the unused elements are deleted from the library.

Apart from considering the aforementioned parameters, Graphic Designers shall also check for:

• Typo errors
• Content verification by cross checking with the source content
• Consistent usage of graphic elements
• Masking problems
• Audio synchronization