Articulate Storyline: Basic and Advanced Training - Outline

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Day 1

What is Storyline?

• What kinds of e-Learning courses can I create with Storyline?
• How is Storyline different than Articulate Studio?

Getting Started

• Story, Scene, and Slide View

Building Blocks

• Using Characters to Understand Triggers and States
• Editing the Character Slide with Layers
• Adding Additional Triggers to Buttons
• Layer Properties

Getting Started with Characters

• Using Characters to Understand
• Editing the Character Slide with Layers
• Adding Additional Triggers to Buttons
• Layer Properties

Adding Content to Your Course

• Course Design
• Slide Design
• Illustrations: Pictures, Screenshot, Shapes and Captions
• Media
• Video
• Flash
• Audio
• Web Object
• Timeline: Syncing Audio with Objects, Cue Points, and Synchronizing Your Audio to Objects
• Animations
• Inserting “Zoom Region” Feature

Developing Interactions

• Templates
• Interactive Objects
• Trigger
• Button
• Hotspot
• Marker
• Data Entry
• Scrolling Panel
• Mouse
• Button Set

Creating a Custom Interaction Lab

Publishing Basics

• Player Design: Basic Features, Menu, Resources, Glossary, Colors and Effects, Text Labels and Settings, Custom Player Settings at Slide Level
  • Publishing Your Module:
    • Publish for LMS or articulate OnLine
    • Reporting and Tracking
    • Publishing for HTML5 and Mobile Devices

Day 2

Creating Assessments

• Graded or Survey Questions
• Freeform Questions Lab
• Question Bank
• Result Slides

Simulations

• What is Scenario-Based Learning?
• What is a Simulation?
• Why Simulations?
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Simulation Map
• Simulation Practice
• Building a Simulation Lab

Screen Recording

• Record Your Screencast Lab
  • Position and Resize Recording Area
  • Three Set Recording Process
• Insert “Video on a single slide”
• Insert Recording as “Step-by-Step Slides”
  • Mode 1: “View mode steps”
  • Mode 2: “Try mode steps”
  • Mode 3: “Test mode steps”
• Fine Turning Slides: “Action Fine Tuning” Feature
• Fine Tuning Slides: Adjusting the Hotspots
• Utilizing the “Properties” Features

Lightboxes

• Using a Lightbox to Nest a Navigation Slide
• Using a Lightbox to Nest a “Hint” Slide

Day 3

Introduction to Variables

• What are Variables?
• User-Defined Variables: Text, Logical/Boolean (True/False), Numeric (Number)
• Best Practices when Using Variables

Text Variables Lab

• Guided Exercise 1 – Creating a Certificate
  • Designing a Data Entry Slide
  • Creating a Certificate Slide to Recall Data
  • Using a Trigger to Print Window
• Guided Exercise 2 – Conditions
  • Creating a Data Entry Page to be Completed by a Learner
  • Evaluating Entered Data to Control Navigation

Logical (True/False) Variables Lab

• Guided Exercise – Creating a Custom “Smart” Menu with True/False Variables
  • Designing a Custom Menu
  • Setting True/False Variables for Course Topics
  • Using Conditions to Verify Completion of Topics

Numeric (Number) Variables Lab

• Guided Exercise 1 – Using the Variables for Scoring
  • Set Number Variables to Measure Performance in a Scenario
  • Adding Triggers to Adjust Score
• Guided Exercise 2 – Creating a Summary Slide
  • Using Variables to Add Variables

Storyline Lab

• Using States, Layers, Triggers, Variables, and Conditions to Create Solutions for Common Challenges
• Guided Exercise 1 – Progress Meter
  • Using States and/or Layers to Display Meter
  • Creating Triggers to Evaluate Variables and Display States or Layers
• Guided Exercise 2 – Using Variables to Design Custom Learning Paths
  • Design Starting Slide to Collect Data from the Learner
  • Add Conditions to Player Triggers to Design a Custom Path
• Guided Exercise 3 – “What’s Your Problem?”
  • Use Storyline to Tackle Some of Your Design and Development Challenges