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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

Productivity boosters


There are many ways to boost productivity when using Storyline. Your best bet will be to approach development from the point of view of what's really necessary and avoid creating more complexity than what's called for. Often the most elegant solution is the simplest one.

Top 10 Storyline productivity boosters

Here are 10 common methods to boost your productivity with Storyline:

  1. Become a master formatter. This means using shortcut keys and automating where you can. Here are some examples:

    • When you need to apply formatting to multiple objects over multiple layers or slides, double-click on the Format Painter option. This lets you to continue applying formatting until you click anywhere outside the slide.

    • Need to apply a trigger to multiple objects? Copy the trigger then select all of the objects and click on the Paste button in the Trigger panel. All you need to do now is make slight adjustments to each instead of creating each trigger from scratch.

    • You can also use Duplicate...