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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

Creating interactive conversations


Let's look at pulling together all of the information you've learned in this chapter to create an interactive, expressive conversation between characters and the learner.

You already have the knowledge needed to do this including inserting characters, creating states, adding audio, timing the display of slide objects, and using triggers to create an action. So, let's give it a go!

Follow along…

Be sure to have Exercise 4 – Workplace Compliance open. This exercise works through a simple example of an interactive conversation. Forthcoming exercises will build upon this, adding new functionality and interactivity to the conversation.

  1. Switch to Story View and double-click on the 3.1 Privacy slide.

  2. Press Ctrl + D to duplicate the slide. Rename the new copy as Phone Call.

  3. Select the 3.1 Privacy slide and add an animation to the cell phone by choosing Animations and adding an entrance effect of Spin and Grow.

  4. Add a new textbox and type The phone is ringing!. Place this...