One of the things I touched on briefly in my workshop session at the Articulate Roadshow was the idea of using lightbox slides to reduce cognitive load in your course. Building lightbox slides for certain items can reduce cognitive load and focus the learner on the meat of the content rather than forcing them to … Read more
On a fall day in October (between two hurricanes), I was a guest presenter at the Articulate Roadshow in Durham, North Carolina. I joined Tom Kuhlmann and David Anderson for a two-day workshop on building courses in Storyline. My topic was Practical Ways to Use Lightbox Slides. Since this was more of a workshop rather … Read more
I recently read Michael Hinze’s Limiting Choices – a Storyline Question, which was a response to a question in the Heroes community where a member wanted to limit learners to making exactly 3 out of 8 choices and then display the choices on the following slide. If you aren’t already, you should follow Michael’s work on … Read more
Comic book designs are great for e-learning projects. They engage people through the art of visual storytelling. For some great examples of using comic book designs in Storyline, check out E-Learning Challenge #11: Design a Comic Book Theme for Your E-Learning Course. To that end, I thought I would create a comic book starter kit … Read more
I recently developed a course in Storyline 360 that made use of multiple button sets on a single quiz slide. Click the image below to see the published slide. Coincidentally, David Anderson recently shared how to create just such a slide. David’s version uses the convert to freeform function to make the slide a pick-many … Read more
The latest EL Heroes Screencast Challenge asks How Do You Create Custom Graphics for E-learning? I was actually building this interaction to share with the community already, so now I get to complete another challenge. Score! Here is my screencast of how I built it from scratch in Storyline 2. And, here is the demo … Read more