Pro tips and hints for Articulate Storyline 2
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…
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…
Anthropomorphic characters The latest challenge set by Articulate’s challenger supreme, Dave Anderson, asked participants to use unconventional characters in an e-learning course or sample. Enter: anthropomorphic characters! Say what?! Making something ‘anthropomorphic’ simply means attributing humans characteristics to non-human things, like animals or objects. Now, some of you know that I plant vegies and fruit…
It’s 2016 and I’m back into the swing of things with this first post and demo. Dave Anderson set the e-learning heroes the first challenge of the year: to create an interaction for presenting videos in e-learning. Videos are being used more and more in e-learning, so I set to work. The Inspiration I…
The Articulate Guru competition is long over, so it’s about time I shared my entry on my blog. Did I win? Nope, I didn’t, but I am still pretty happy with my demo. Nut Factory is a game designed to teach nut identification. I was inspired to create a fun game for my daughter,…
The Challenge Last week’s Dave Anderson’s e-learning challenge was to create a toggle effect. Once could use a button, a slider or any other creative way to achieve this. The idea My first idea was to create a button where the user could choose an avatar to represent them for the rest of the…
The missing piece This is the last part in this series, phew! If you missed the previous 3 parts, you can find links to those at the bottom of this post. Here, I’ll show you how I told Storyline to show the appropriately-dressed teddy based on the learner’s choice. So, if you’re looking for…
Lately I’ve been making a lot of interactions aimed at kids, which is weird because most of my projects are for companies and universities. I guess that’s what having young children does to ya’. So, when Dave Anderson posted the challenge to design an interactive conversation, I decided I would go all grown up……
Storyline 2 variables let you to control when and how your content displays. This post tells you how you can make and combine variables in Storyline 2 to show the appropriate feedback. So, if you’re looking for a quick demo on how to use variables to show feedback in a drag-and-drop interaction, you’re in the right…
Object states: how it is and how it’s gonna be Object states define the different ways that a thing can appear in your Storyline 2 interaction. For example, you can set the base state of an object, defining its colour, size and position. Other software use object states too, but Storyline 2 makes it all…
