Embedding Dragster within Articulate presentations

Please Note – an improved embedding method for Articulate presenter is now available.

Integrating Dragster 3 activities into an Articulate presentation is an great way to construct a rich and seamless interactive e-learning resource (see the link to an example presentation at the bottom of this post). View a movie illustrating the authoring and integration process.

Key steps:

1. Author the activity checking the Landscape activity layout and Scale size of activity with browser settings options.
2. Publish the Dragster 3 activity and upload  onto a web server. View the published activity in your browser and copy the activity web address.
3. In your Powerpoint presentation use the Articulate > Insert web object option to add the activity to a slide (use the activity web address and the default settings provided by Articulate presenter when adding the web object).
4. Publish the Articulate presentation.

View a simple example Articulate presentation incorporating a Dragster activity.

Dragster 2 – activities authored with Dragster 2 can also be integrated using the method described above, but as there is no activity setting to scale the activity with the browser, the view of the activity within the articulate presentation can become cropped when displayed on small screens.

Subscripts, element background options and a new skin

We are very pleased to announce the addition of the following new features to Dragster 3:

1. The use of subscripts and superscripts within draggable element text (One example application of this feature is to use chemical formulae such as CO₂). For more details on how to use subscripts and superscripts in element text please see the advanced tips page for Dragster 3.
2. Additional background colour options for draggable text boxes of white with no border, and transparent with no border. These two options are particularly suited to activities where text boxes are being dragged onto flow charts or tables (see example below).
3. One additional activity skin colour option has been added (black). To see this in use view the activity below.

An example Dragster 3 activity has been developed to show these three new features in use.  This activity explores the relative impact of a group of recognised “greenhouse” gases” through a measure called Carbon Dioxide Equivalence (CO₂e). Please note the data for this activity is drawn from the Defra shadow price of carbon webpage.

View Carbon Dioxide Equivalence activity