Professional challenges
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…
OK, maybe not everything, but when it comes to e-learning courses, I am really into custom slides and custom players. Sure, it’s more work and the budget doesn’t always allow it, but it’s so worth it. That’s why I was thrilled with Dave Anderson’s new e-learning heroes challenge: Designing custom feedback and results slides…
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…
Sorting interactions are pretty common in e-learning, and for good reason. There are often instances in the workplace, and in life, in which we need to sort things: recycling from rubbish, information to keep or discard, good applicants from not so good, and so on. Sorting Drag and Drop One way to get learners…
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…
The most recent E-learning Heroes challenge is all about creating a hand-crafted explainer video. Now ideally this would have all been done manually, like in the example posted where we set up a camera at a very funny angle and move our cut-out pictures around while narrating the story. But, I (also) cheated (or,…
Rotoscoping In last week’s E-learning Heroes challenge, the mission was to use a technique called ‘rotoscoping’. Simply put, it involves creating hand-drawn animated graphics. Nick Russell shared a cool example as well as a great tutorial on how to do your own rotoscoping. I actually followed Nick’s tutorial and created a similar sort of…
This week, Dave challenges us to find creative ways to combine text and images. Most of the work I do is pretty corporate-y, so with challenges and demos, I like to cut loose and find topics that are completely different to my normal everyday work. For this challenge, I created two demos. The first…
Challenge 169 asked us to use a scrolling panel in an interesting way. Many times, scrolling panels are used just as a way to stuff more text onto the screen. While this is sometimes valid (sometimes you just need more text!), this challenge was more about other, more creative uses, for the Storyline built-in…
Checkout Interaction A couple of years ago I was sub-contracted to develop 3 out of 15 levels of a gamified e-learning program for a major supermarket chain. The program was to train supermarket cashiers in how to operate the chain’s new checkout system—a fully touch-screen system complete with many, many buttons. They had to do it…
