Veronica B’s playtime
Hurray for 2021! We made it, and to kick things off, I made a little something for the last challenge of 2020: 2021 Pantone Colour of the Year… or colourS I should say as this year we see a grey (Ultimate Grey) and a yellow (Illuminating) make the cut. I have been feeling a…
This week’s e-learning heroes challenge is about converting static content into interactive content. Storyline has a great feature—convert to freeform—which allows you convert a static slide into any one of 6 types of interactive slide, including drag and drop and others. The challenge for heroes this week is to create 6 interactive versions of…
This week’s e-learning heroes challenge is about using text variables to allow learners to compare their answer to an expert’s. I opened up Storyline 360, and set to work! In this simple game, you’ll be shown 10 famous movie quotes. Your job is to type in the quote, if you know it or as…
This week, the e-learning heroes challenge, 291, is to create a summary or conclusion slide for a course. We don’t need a whole course—just a final slide to support learners in their journey after the course. Things to include could be PDF documents, external links, attachments, and more. I’ve started playing around with animated…
After the elearning heroes challenges took a well-deserved week off, we are back with challenge 285: Animated button effects! A few years back, I started something for a similar challenge 89. But alas, I didn’t finish it and it sat in my folder with the sad PENDING label attached to it… until this week!…
Welcome to another week of e-learning goodness! This week has been really great; apart from normal dev work I’ve also been training a group of designers on the ins and outs of Storyline. In doing so, I was demonstrating how to create a hotspot question, and my Windows Explorer opened to my folder for…
In this week’s e-learning heroes challenge, brave e-learning developers all over the world must battle it out to… naw, just kidding. This week we go mobile! Our challenge is to design a navigation menu to use on a mobile phone or tablet. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that completing your e-learning on…
This week, e-learning heroes are asked to come up with a a creative way to let learners know how they performed in a quiz or assessment with a custom results slide. You may have seen many e-learning courses where, after completing the assessment, learners are presented with… this: I wanted to do something that…
I was so excited to see that this week’s E-learning Heroes Challenge was to create a Choose your own learning adventure style interaction. Growing up I used to love these books. How cool was it to get to *an* end, and then be able to change your destiny? Branching scenarios At the core of…
I am a big fan of bright colours. You should have seen my wardrobe in the 90s. But every time I see an e-learning course or demo that uses only black and white, I love how it looks. It’s just so elegant and minimal. So, when Dave Anderson announced an e-learning heroes challenge for…
