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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)

Easy ways to enhance your story


Buttons, markers, and hyperlinks are all options that allow you to easily enhance your story, allowing you to add interactivity with minimal effort. These interactive objects will provide you with options to customize the look and feel of your story, and I'll explain how these functions can inadvertently maximize your screen real estate.

Adding and formatting buttons

Buttons are an easy way of creating functional activity within any course. You can use them to create custom next and previous buttons, or you can use them to trigger other events (for example, moving to the next scene or changing the state of an element on screen, just to name a couple of functions). Buttons are one of the most usable features within Storyline!

You can add buttons in one of two ways:

  • Selecting Controls on the Insert tab

  • Creating a Custom button, using the shape function

We'll explore both of these options further.

Selecting a new button

To add a button, select Controls on the Insert...