The beauty of rapid e-learning authoring tools, such as Articulate Storyline2, is that you can turn good content into an interactive e-learning within minutes. Chock full of awesome built-in functions and features, Storyline2 makes it very quick to build different types of interactive content, quizzes and navigation. One advantage that the Articulate product provides is the Storyline2 Player.…
What is a freeform drag and drop interaction? In Storyline, you can build a freeform drag and drop interaction or quiz question in minutes. ‘Freeform’ simply means that any objects on your screen can become a draggable item or a drop target (with a few exceptions, for example video files). So, if you have…
For the record, I’m not a huge fan of fast food. But, I have young kids. Ipso facto, we occasionally find ourselves in that place that our kids call ‘the hamburger place’. The kids like the McFood, but they LOVE the new automated ordering systems. Fast, cheap inspiration In Australia, the hamburger place has introduced numerous big, colourful…
I saw an ad on TV just the other day that used a stencil-cut video effect: that is, the video seemed to show only through a large transparent word, as if a stencil of the word had been placed in front of the screen. Each letter in the word was transparent, as if cut into a…
Last week’s e-learning heroes challenge was all about zooming images in e-learning. Now, I love desserts. I love to make them, I love to share them, I love to eat them. So, for this challenge I decided I’d create a desserts menu in Storyline. Design I started with a wooden background simulating a tabletop and…
I’ll just come out and say it: I am a BIG PowerPoint fan. Some people equate PowerPoint to boring, bullet-pointed presentations full of text. But really, those people should know that the tool does not maketh the presentation, right? I was so excited this week when Dave Anderson, e-learning challenger extraordinaire, started a new…
