Timeline Tips and Tricks

Timeline Tips and Tricks in Storyline2

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 […]

Zooming Interactions

Zoom and Magnifying Storyline2 Elearning Interactions

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 […]

Bloom's Pyramid

Slide Masters in Storyline2- Embedded Interactions

One key advantage of Articulate’s Storyline2(SL2) is the ability to control interactions from a slide master.  This makes changes and updates a painless and automated approach which would save you a ton of hours.  Slide masters are usually helpful to standardize design elements such as fonts, image placement, formatting, backgrounds, etc.  They are essential for […]

Removing Video Background for eLearning

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 […]

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” […]

Getting Giffy With It: Creating GIFs for 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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

The StyleLearn Invoice

Creating Your Own Invoice Design

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 […]

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 […]