Visual Comparisons and Contrast

Visual Comparisons and Contrasts with Storyline2

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 […]

Getting Togglelicious with Storyline Buttons

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” […]

Articulate Storyline2 Navigation Menu Challenge

Articulate Storyline is perhaps the best solution for elearning authorware and aELearning Heroes Challenge (ELH) is a great way to get you working with it.   This week’s challenge #79 is about custom menu navigation.  There are many advantages to creating your own navigation menus and SPACE is definitely one of them.  Using Storyline’s default player […]

Icons Designed in PowerPoint

Creating Quick Icons with PowerPoint

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 […]

Mortar Math

Articulate Storyline2 Drag n’ Drop Game: Mortar Math

Elearning Heroes Challenge #71 was all about teaching math concepts with elearning.  My submission was a military-inspired game where learners solve math problems and blow stuff up.  Nothing wrong with “safe” mortar training and engaging learners by testing basic math skills.  For this sample I used a combination of vector drawings built with Adobe Illustrator […]

Click the sample

How to build an arrow shooting bow for quizzes in Articulate Storyline2

One of the great features available in Articulate Storyline2 (SL2) are the Slider Controls.  So, for the Elearning Heroes Challenge #70 which involved creating a Valentine’s themed elearning interaction.  I wanted to create an interaction where Cupid, the fabled roman god of love lend you his bow and arrow so you can answer questions on a […]

Football Billy Motion Paths

Cool engaging and fun games with Storyline 2: Football Billy

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 […]

Video Podcast

How do Instructional Designers get things done? A Podcast Challenge

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 […]

3 elearning templates

Starting the Year Right with ELearning Heroes Challenges

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 […]