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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

Converting static content


Storyline has a unique feature that allows you to take a regular slide with images, text, and other objects, and convert it to a quiz question. This creates a freeform question and lets you transform the existing static content into interactive content. This is also the option you'd use to create a question from scratch when you don't want to use the pre-built graded or survey question types.

Freeform question types

There are five types of freeform questions available:

You can create a freeform question by navigating to Insert | New Slide and selecting the Freeform tab, or you can click on the Convert to Freeform button while viewing a slide you wish to convert to a freeform question.

In both cases, the slide needs to contain at least 2 images, textboxes, shapes, buttons, hotspots, checkboxes, or radio buttons in order to begin configuring the question. You will also need to add any instructions and quiz question text manually on the slide as this is not entered using...