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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 the Timeline


The Timeline lists all of the objects, or content, that is present on a slide and is used to arrange and animate objects as well as control slide duration.

The Timeline tab appears in the Timeline, States and Notes panel directly below the slide when in Normal View as shown below:

If you can't see the Timeline, then perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the small arrow in the lower-right corner of the slide stage to display the Timeline, States, and Notes panel.

  2. Click on the Timeline tab to display the Timeline.

The Exercise 1 – Workplace Compliance file, created in Chapter 1, Creating a Story, contains a combination of text, graphics, and placeholder content. A listing of the slide objects appears in the Timeline, as shown in the previous image.

Here are a few things you should know when working with the Timeline:

  • You can turn the visibility of objects on or off. You may find yourself doing this when objects are positioned in similar locations on the slide and you...