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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 visual media


Media comes in many flavors; we've already touched on images in Chapter 2, Adding Content into your Story and in Chapter 4, Adding Characters and Audio, now we'll shift the focus to video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video is priceless. Video is one of the most effective tools to create an emotional impact. That is, if video is done well, produced properly, and for the right reasons (to support learning objectives).

Storyline handles a video well. There are a variety of options that allow you to bring video into your courses, and also perform basic editing tasks like trimming and cropping. Storyline also handles video compression very well, dramatically reducing the size of imported videos after publishing a course without degrading quality.

But that's not where things stop. You can use Storyline's video features to bring in elements that you have created in other tools, such as Articulate Studio, Quizmaker or Engage, as well as Adobe Flash and Captivate...