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Articulate Storyline Essentials

By : Ashley Chiasson
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Articulate Storyline Essentials

By: Ashley Chiasson

Overview of this book

<p>Storyline is a powerful e-learning authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level and easily author your own stories. It helps you to leverage built-in development functions to quickly create interactive and engaging e-learning experiences.</p> <p>This book will walk you through the life cycle of a story, from creating a new story up to publishing and sharing your story.</p> <p>You will be taken on a tour of how to effectively enhance your story, including how to add images and audio, how to add triggers and assessment items. You finally round off by learning how to customize the player to suit your purposes.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Ways to make your story come to life


Triggers, states, and hotspots are all elements that will make your story come to life. These elements will allow you to create enhanced interactivity, and liven up your story with actions. You can use these elements to customize your story and take your learner on an engaging learning experience.

As alluded to in the previous chapter, these elements are essential Storyline functions, and we'll be discussing how you can harness the power of triggers, states, and hotspots to take your static story and transform it into an interactive empire—the only real limit is how far you want to let your creativity take you.

Using triggers

Triggers allow you to create conditional interactivity. They are incredibly versatile, in that, you can add a trigger to most screen objects, controlling that object in a sense. It might be hard to believe, but once you begin working consistently in Storyline you will become a Trigger Wizard, using them here, there, and everywhere...