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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

Working with states


States alter the appearance of objects and are a great way of providing visual cues and feedback to learners. You could use states to:

  • Indicate course progress when a topic is complete

  • Add a glow to a button or image when hovered over

  • Pop up a definition when the mouse rolls over a word

States can be applied to any object on a slide including images, shapes, text boxes, and captions. By default, an object has just one state called normal and this is what you see before any event happens that may trigger a change of state to the object.

There are eight built-in states. Built-in states are triggered automatically and don't require additional setup for them to function. For example, the state called hover will automatically be triggered when the user hovers the mouse over an object that has a hover state assigned to it.

Tip

You can also create your own custom states. Custom states are given a unique name by you and are triggered manually. Custom states are often used when user...