Storyline 360 is one of the Articulate flagship eLearning authoring tools. It’s simple, elegant and user-friendly, but it does not have built-in timers except for its quizzes. Since the release of Storyline 1, many designers in-the best community in the world- the eLearning Heroes Community have shared creative ways of simulating timers for use in […]
A little over a year ago, Articulate released Storyline 360 as part Articulate360: A combination of all existing Articulate products and new additions under one subscription model. Storyline 360 replaced Articulate 2 with an improved mobile player, better motion path controls, and several other features. However, there was no release of Storyline 3 and customers […]
If you haven’t heard, Articulate360 is out and with it the new Storyline360- SL360. Storyline2-SL2 gave us Sliders for great interactions and SL360 bring Dials! Dials allow for many interaction design concepts where we can have users turning dials or knobs between zero to 180 and 360 degrees. However, just as we were able to […]
This post was inspired by the ELH Community Screencast Challenge #11 which is all about timeline techniques. One of the key advantages of working with elearning authoring tools like Storyline2 (SL2) is the use of of several time-related features. There are many adjustments and controls that can be implemented affecting a user’s experience by simply changing […]
If you have Storyline2 you already have the power to gamify elearning templates. You can easily gamify your quizzes by making a few adjustments and implementing simple gamification mechanics like badges, timers and points. Implementing these enhancements requires ZERO programming skills; all you need is creativity and this blog post. Here we’ll discuss the elements […]
One key thing every elearning design should have is an easy-to-follow player. Therefore, your choice of elearning tool should let you customize these settings. Customizing player settings gives you the power to enhance the user interface. Luckily, Articulate Storyline2 has a very easy setup for you to do just that. Changes can be made to remove […]
This week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #114 highlights the use of zooming and magnification of images with Storyline2 (SL2). I put together a sample which shows an image of London which allows the user to zoom into specific sections for a closer look of the city. The “Zoom Region” feature in SL2 makes the creation of […]
Instructional videos have always been considered a great way to convey knowledge or illustrate concepts. This week I did a bit of quick green screen video editing to create a mock TV show dubbed “eLearning Legends: Atsumi”. Why? Another awesome ELH Challenge of course! This week’s challenge #101 was inspired by the presence of Atsumi […]
ELearning Heroes Challenge #100 is here and it’s all about “Before and After” visual comparisons and contrasts. By the looks of it, we might get 100 responses to the 100th challenge! In this post, I cover a bit of the method behind two slider samples I built for the challenge. The first slider sample was […]
Time is the only commodity we can’t buy, we can only use it or it’s gone. When I’m not defeating elearning evil (that is, preventing ineffective and\or boring learning from happening) I usually develop learning solutions for call center personnel. So, what’s so relevant about that? Well, call center professionals have everything “timed” on their schedules. Therefore, […]
I always enjoy a good ELH Challenge and this week’s challenge #97 offers some great creative concepts for interactive buttons. My submission concept can be described as an animated switch. The interaction happens when the user clicks a round button; then, the button switches from one side of the screen to another on a “U” […]
Recently I was helping a colleague with a development issue where she wanted to control user navigation on a Storyline2 elearning module pending on the completion of viewing a video. The problem was the video resides on another site. So, how can you help the user view the desired video content without leaving the elearning […]
GIFs or Graphic Interchange format images provide you with the ability to animate images or video for use on web sites and even elearning modules. This week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #83 is about creating 10 GIFs that could be used for a learning course or even to describe the instructional design process. For my sample […]
For this week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #78 the mission was to share some icons that would be used in elearning projects. So, I refreshed some old school PowerPoint tricks to draw vector icons for this challenge. PowerPoint has some cool features that can make designing these icons a fun a creative exercise. On this […]
It has been a week since the eLearning Guild’s 2015 Learning Solutions Conference ended and life is not the same. Or is it? In this NOOB review, I give you my take on the conference as a learning experience and also a first-timer’s overview of the GREAT and MEH moments of the event. There are […]
Adobe Captivate CS8 and Articulate Storyline2 are considered the leading elearning authoring software tools due to their ability to generate great learning interactions. Captivate has been in the “game” for about 11 years while Storyline’s first version was released in 2012. I get often asked this question at work: “Hey Alex, we are going to […]
Once again, I had the pleasure of partaking in this week’s ELearning Heroes Challenge which was to create an elearning experience for football training. For my global friends I mean American Football and since the Super Bowl was yesterday, this was an exciting sample to build. The concept I came up with was very simple […]
Instructional Designers are a very misunderstood occupational breed, That’s why I was glad to see that this week’s ELearning Heroes Challenge #67 was to record a podcast to answer a set of questions driven to provide new insight to those not familiar with the skills and responsibilities of an Instructional Designer (ID). Traditionally, IDs have […]
Many of us always dreamed of having our own business and making it BIG. Many of you reading this blog may have done just that and I respectfully bow to you for your awesomeness. A huge part of conducting business is billing. Invoices are the main drivers for getting PAID and blissfully managing your Account […]
If you develop your elearning courses with Articulate Storyline there’s no better way to start the year honing your skills and creativity by completing an ELearning Heroes Challenge (ELH). This week’s challenge was a tough one and it forced me to come up with creative ways to combine three awesome templates into one unified design. To […]
It has been a couple of weeks since I was able to participate in Articulate’s E-learning Heroes e-learning challenges. This week the challenge is to create an interactive chart to find engaging ways in which to display data using Articulate Storyline2 (SL2). The source of my data was a chart from the Association for Talent […]
