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…
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…
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…
Welcome 2017! After a lovely Christmas break and a few days at the beach, I decided to come back to the last E-learning Heroes challenge of 2016: Add a Little Greenery to Your Next Course with Pantone’s Color of the Year. Last year for the Pantone challenge I combined the three most recent Pantone Color…
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…
Countdown timers in e-learning It’s not uncommon to see race-against-the-clock type interactions in e-learning. Sometimes in real situations we need to be able to do things quickly. A little while ago I built e-learning targeted at supermarket cashiers, and one of the skills we had to improve was checkout speed. Timers in this project…
Storyline 360 is out now! It’s available as a part of the Articulate 360 package—a subscription-based software suite. I’ve actually had a bit of early access to it. *Happy dance* It works! I saw it with my own computer. More on that later. First, a quick run-down of what’s available. What’s in the suite? Subscribers get…
Elearning challenge #147 asked that we share an accordion interaction. I was pushed for time, so decided to re-work an existing one. Accordion interactions are pretty simple, but great for when you have a lot of related information and you want to keep it all on the same slide. I chose a muted colour…
