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Learning Articulate Storyline

By : Stephanie Harnett
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Learning Articulate Storyline

By: Stephanie Harnett

Overview of this book

Storyline is an authoring tool packed with out-of-the-box features that don't require any special knowledge to operate. That's right; this is a programming-free zone! E-learning authoring is no longer limited to developers; the doors are now wide open for subject matter experts with their content, writers with their storyboards, and designers with their media to work in conjunction with developers to collectively create some very cool e-learning projects. "Learning Articulate Storyline" introduces the powerful and easy-to-use features that are changing the landscape of e-learning development. You will learn about the new paradigms and features that set Storyline apart from other development tools. You'll gain insight into how you can best leverage your skills and some best practices when working with Storyline. Storyline rocks! And you're about to discover why. The aim of this book is to help you bring content to life in interesting and engaging ways, customizing the learner experience, allowing for hands-on participation, and optimizing your production processes to streamline your efforts. This book will help you enhance your skills and become an accomplished e-learning author and Storyline user.You'll work on several different projects, all created from scratch by you as you work through this book. Each task focuses on a set of complementary topics to complete the project. You'll be up and running building your first project within 10 minutes of starting this book and will add content, animate it, and control object and slide behavior to complete your first project. You'll then move on to more advanced topics to incorporate media elements, quizzing, and scenarios, then conclude by publishing your projects.When you finish this book you will be able to confidently create shining examples of e-learning done the right way, and it is this skill that will set you apart from the crowd.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Articulate Storyline
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Build once, and reuse many times


Quizzing is at the heart of many e-learning courses where often the quiz questions need to be randomized or even reused in different sections of a single course (that is, the same questions for a pre and post-test). The concept of building once and reusing many times works well with several aspects of Storyline. We'll start with quizzing and a feature called Question Banks as follows:

Question Banks

Question Bank offers a way to pool, reuse, and randomize questions within a project. Slides in a question bank are housed within the project file but are not visible until placed into the story. Question Banks can include groups of quiz slides and regular slides (that is, you might include a regular slide if you need to provide instructions for the quiz or would like to include a post-quiz summary).

When you want to include questions from a Question Bank, you just need to insert a new Quizzing slide, and then choose Draw from Bank. You can then select one or more...