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Increase engagement with links and buttons

Increase engagement with links and buttons

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Increase engagement with links and buttons

- [Instructor] Buttons are one of my favorite eLearning tools because you can do so much with them. They're perfect for slides with lots of content, and they give you a creative way to enhance your courses. These are some of the buttons I have used in older courses, and you probably have used or at least seen most of these yourself. Let's take a look at some ways we can change it up a bit and get creative with links and buttons. Here's a course I did on cooking. I used icons of cooking tools as my buttons. They appear on every slide like a sort of navigation bar so the learner can move around freely and always know where they are. Add some engagement to your courses with buttons. Instead of showing everything on the slide at once, I always say make them work for it. I would add a light bulb and have it bring up a caption with a tip or a snippet of content. A calendar icon they can tap to learn about a class schedule or maybe see a calendar of events. The magnifying glass is a great…

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