Animation in e-learning can help get concepts and ideas across to learners as well as add visual interest. Last week’s E-learning Heroes challenge was exactly that—using educational animations. Reduce, recycle, reduce OK, I don’t think this is what the slogan means, but, for this challenge I decided to re-use the first interaction I built…
Drop-down menu challenge E-learning Heroes Challenge 164 is about using drop-down menus for navigation in e-learning. Storyline 360 does not have a built-in drop-down function, but we can easily create a custom drop-down menu. Design I created a short piece recently as a presentation to win a contract. We won the contract (yay) so…
New dials in Storyline 360 I’ve been playing around with dials since Articulate 360 was launched a couple weeks ago, so I was very pleased to see this week’s e-learning heroes challenge was about using interactive knobs and dials in e-learning. If you’d like to learn about the basics of dials, scroll down to…
If you read this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been participating in the E-learning heroes challenges for a while now. Back in the day when I was less consistent with my efforts, I started working on Challenge #55 How to survive a zombie apocalypse. But, as it happens, work and life got in the…
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…
