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Daryl creates his amazing games by utiliziing several actions and variables in Lectora. At the 2006 Lectora User Conference he provided Lectora users with a few simple tips to start creating interactive elearning games:

Start a "Lectora Games" notebook or file folder. This provides a central place on paper to go over the following points:

• Document design ideas

• Flowchart game

• List game needs

• Determine variables

• Review techniques from game-to-game

Ask yourself the following questions:

• What type of game best suits my needs?

• How am I going to use the game: scored quiz/test or just for review purposes?

• Do I need to ask a lot of questions or just a few?

• Are there categories of information to review or a general set?

Daryl created an array of interactive games such as a crossword puzzle, pyramid game, race car game, tic tac toe, a jeopardy game, and many more engaging games to help employees at WellPoint/Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield learn and retain course content.

To view an example of Daryl's interactive crossword puzzle that he created with Lectora, please click here. To read Daryl's helpful steps on how he created the crossword puzzle, please click here. These instructions will help you get started in game creation with Lectora. The possibilities of what you can create with Lectora are endless!

Daryl Fleary, eLearning Project Consultant at WellPoint/Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, utilizes Lectora in original and imaginative ways. He truly sees that Lectora can create an array of content, including interactive games. Creating interactive games with Lectora can add a whole new level of involvement for the learner with your elearning content. Daryl believes that by adding games to elearning, you add fun and excitement to teaching employees.

At this year's Lectora User Conference, Daryl presented his ideas on creating interactive games with Lectora. He showed audience members how to start creating games immediately. Attendees were wowed by Daryl's creative uses of Lectora. He believes in providing Lectora users with the basic concepts to create games and then letting them apply these concepts on their own with their imagination and ideas.

Attendees gained a deeper technical understanding of Lectora and had the chance to voice their opinion about features they would like included in Lectora 2007. Presentations varied from topics such as learning how to create games with Lectora, utilizing video in skill-based training, using Lectora's HTML debugging features and many more. Attendees also got the chance to take part in hands on sessions that showed users to how to create effective web-based surveys and how to utilize Lectora's actions palette and variables.

Trivantis will hold its third annual Lectora User Conference in Spring 2007 so be sure to check back regularly at www.trivantis.com to find out more.

Trivantis' Annual Lectora User Conference held on March 27th through 31st was a huge success! More than 200 satisfied Trivantis clients traveled to Orlando in order to network with other Lectora users and learn more about Lectora and elearning development. Many thanks go out to all of this year's Lectora User Conference attendees for their support and willingness to share with other Lectora users. Trivantis greatly appreciates all those that took the time to speak about important elearning development topics to the packed house of attendees.

Building upon its strong presence in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry,Trivantis is a prime exhibitor at SPBT's 35th Annual Conference designed for trainers, training managers, training directors, and vice presidents of learning and development. The conference will take place in Chicago on May 22-25. To learn more about Trivantis, please visit us at booth #118 at the SPBT Annual Conference. To learn more about SPBT, please visit www.spbt.org. For more information on Trivantis or to schedule a meeting with Eric Schuermann, Trivantis' pharmaceutical market sales representative, please email eric.schuermann@trivantis.com or call (877) 929-0188.

Jazz up a course by adding hints to your test questions by applying actions to the question elements. Create a multiple choice question and add images to the question. Then, once the question is placed on the page, add actions to the images. Create mouse enter/exit actions to show and hide text hints.

Use Lectora’s new guide feature to easily and consistently align questions from page to page. This way all of your questions will appear in the same location when the next button is clicked.

As you disinherit the back button from the first page of the title and the forward button on the last page of the title, you can still visually let the student know that you can't go forward or backward. To do this, place an inactive image of the button in place of the original button that was disinherited.