Have you ever wondered how e-learning developers create such powerfully effective and creative learning solutions? With Articulate Storyline, you don't need to wonder anymore. Storyline is a powerful authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level and easily author your own stories. It is an e-learning authoring tool that allows you to leverage built-in development functions to quickly create interactive and engaging learning experiences.
Chapter 1, Building Your Story, familiarizes you with the Storyline interface and teaches you how to add new scenes and slides to begin your storytelling journey.
Chapter 2, Using Content to Tell Your Story, explains how you can easily use text, images, and characters to tell your story.
Chapter 3, Using Content to Enhance Your Story, teaches you simple ways of taking your storytelling abilities to the next level by adding small amounts of interactivity throughout your story.
Chapter 4, Making Your Story Come to Life, provides you with a basis for growing your knowledge of triggers, states, and hotspot interactions to create an engaging story.
Chapter 5, Making Your Story More Realistic, explains how you can create a more realistic story through the use of audio and video features.
Chapter 6, Testing Your Learners, identifies basic assessment concepts and explains how you can easily test your learners using Storyline's built-in assessment features.
Chapter 7, Sharing Your Story, teaches you how to create a customized learning experience by modifying the Storyline default player and explains publishing options available to share your story.
To ensure you reach your full potential in following along with this book, it is recommended to have:
An Articulate Storyline 1 or Articulate Storyline 2 license or trial
Any amount of creativity you can muster.
Refer to Articulate's website for a full list of hardware requirements recommended for operating Articulate Storyline.
This book is intended for anyone and everyone interested in working within Articulate Storyline to develop engaging and practical e-learning projects. From novice users to experienced users wanting to brush up on the basics, this book lets you learn how to easily navigate Storyline to build and publish your very own story.
In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This option allows you to import a previously developed Storyline project template (.storytemplate)."
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "To add a new scene, select the New Scene (1) icon from the Home tab."
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