Mastering Articulate Storyline : build up your e-learning development skills with Articulate Storyline / Ashley Chiasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiasson, Ashley, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer-assisted instruction.

Computer-assisted instruction--Authoring programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

About This BookDevelop interactive e-learning projects using advanced techniquesImpress your clients and/or audience with out-of-the-box interactionsStep-by-step walkthroughs provide practical solutionsWho This Book Is For This book is for anyone experienced in using the basic functions of Articulate Storyline who are yearning to learn more. It's designed to provide a brief overview of key concepts, to help you refresh your knowledge of common functions, and teach you how to push Storyline to the limit! What You Will LearnFamiliarize yourself with best practices for e-learning developmentReview key Storyline concepts before diving in deep with developmentDiscover new ways of working within Storyline to extend slide content and enhance interactivityPersonalize your story with advanced variable-based interactionsSee how JavaScript can be used in your stories to do some really neat thingsAssess your learners using customized assessment options and find out how to troubleshoot common issuesCustomize your story and prepare it for publishingIn Detail Storyline is a powerful e-learning authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level. However, more often than not, projects don't require such complex interactions, leaving Storyline's full capabilities untapped. This book will provide you with the information you need to take your Storyline development up a notch by leveraging the full suite of possibilities Storyline has to offer. You will be provided with a refresher of the key concepts before we take you deep into the exciting world of enhanced interactivity, variables, and even some JavaScript-oh my! With downloadable activities, you can either follow along and compare your output, use the activities as they are, modify the activities to suit your own needs, or reverse-engineer the activities to better understand how they

were developed.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Before You Begin

Pushing Articulate Storyline to the limit

Best practices

How to be mindful of reusability

Methods for organizing your project

Using the Story View

Optimizing scene use

Asset management

Structuring your folders

Storyboarding and rapid prototyping

Streamlining your development

Summary

Refresher of Key Concepts

Preparing a story

Adding content to your story

Scenes and slides

Working with text

Formatting text

Exercise 1

Adding interactivity and extending slide content

Working with slide layers

Working with triggers

Working with states

Exercise 2

Adding visual media

Adding audio

Assessing your learners

Working with questions

Working with slide properties

Creating a Content-Rich Story

Extending display content

Working with layers

Creating a toggle button effect

When to use layers versus states

Creating a Nested Menu Effect

Working with hotspots

Working with lightboxes

Working with scrolling panels

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Adding video to your story

Adding videos from a file

Adding videos from the Internet

Recording webcam

Importing PowerPoint content as video

Adding interactivity within your videos

Exercise 5

Looping slide video

Adding screen recordings

Video mode

View mode

Try Mode

Test mode

Action Fine Tuning

Adding audio to your story

Using the audio editor

Looping slide audio

Using cue points to streamline audio synchronization

Adding web objects

Exercise 6

Engaging Your Learners with Interactivity

[Adding triggers]

Adding triggers

Defining the Action.

Defining where the Action occurs

Defining when the Action occurs

Editing triggers

Doing neat things with buttons and markers

Buttons

Button sets

Markers

Working with slider interactions

Adding animations

Entrance and Exit Animations

The Animation Painter

Motion paths

Transitions

Using Zoom Region to create interactivity

Zooming in on an object

Zooming in on multiple objects

Using Variables, Conditions, and JavaScript

Overview of variables and conditions

Using number variables

Using true/false variables

Using text variables

Overview of JavaScript and its use in Storyline

Practical uses for JavaScript in Storyline

Generating a word count

Allowing users to print the current slide

Generating a date

Launching and closing a timed website

Exercise 7

Launching a custom menu

Generating a custom certificate

Exercise 8

Fun uses for JavaScript in Storyline

Generating a random number

Generating a pop-up alert

Generating a background color or image

Attribution

Assessing Learners

Overview of assessment options

Using convert-to-freeform questions

Drag and drop

Pick One

Pick Many

Text Entry

Hotspot

Shortcut key

Importing questions

Using feedback masters

Grading and reviewing results

Result Slides

Preparing to Publish Your Story

Customizing the player

Customizing player tabs

Selecting player controls and adding logos

Managing your Story's menu

Changing a slide or scene title

Adding and deleting menu items

Rearranging menu items

Additional menu options.

Resetting menu items

Adding and managing resources

Adding and managing a glossary

Changing the color scheme

Customizing text labels

Additional customization

Publishing your Story

Choosing the best publishing option

Publishing to the Web

Publishing to Articulate Online

Publishing to LMS

Publishing to CD

Publishing to Word

Publishing

Publishing to Dropbox or Google Drive

Becoming More Creative

Challenge yourself

Create your own assets

Web resources

Harness your inner creativity

Modifying existing assets

Using free resources

Creative Market

Unsplash

The Noun Project

Keep learning!

Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community

Courses

Books

Streamlining Your Development

[Using a style guide]

Using a style guide

Setting up autorecovery

Using hot keys

Using the Quick Access Toolbar

Using the Format Painter

Using cue points

Using Slide Masters

Translating content

Staying up to date

Testing

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 6, 2017).

ISBN:

9781783550920

1783550929

OCLC:

958463787