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Mastering Articulate Storyline

By : Ashley Chiasson, Jeffery Batt
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Mastering Articulate Storyline

By: Ashley Chiasson, Jeffery Batt

Overview of this book

Storyline is a powerful e-learning authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level. However, more often than not, projects don't require such complex interactions, leaving Storyline's full capabilities untapped. This book will provide you with the information you need to take your Storyline development up a notch by leveraging the full suite of possibilities Storyline has to offer. You will be provided with a refresher of the key concepts before we take you deep into the exciting world of enhanced interactivity, variables, and even some JavaScript—oh my! With downloadable activities, you can either follow along and compare your output, use the activities as they are, modify the activities to suit your own needs, or reverse-engineer the activities to better understand how they were developed.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Articulate Storyline
Mastering Articulate Storyline
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Before You Begin
Before You Begin
Pushing Articulate Storyline to the limit
Best practices
How to be mindful of reusability
Methods for organizing your project
Storyboarding and rapid prototyping
Streamlining your development
Summary
2
Refresher of Key Concepts
Refresher of Key Concepts
Preparing a story
Adding content to your story
Adding interactivity and extending slide content
Adding visual media
Adding audio
Assessing your learners
Working with slide properties
Summary
3
Creating a Content-Rich Story
Creating a Content-Rich Story
Extending display content
Adding video to your story
Adding screen recordings
Adding audio to your story
Adding web objects
Summary
4
Engaging Your Learners with Interactivity
Engaging Your Learners with Interactivity
Adding triggers
Defining the Action
Defining where the Action occurs
Defining when the Action occurs
Editing triggers
Doing neat things with buttons and markers
Working with slider interactions
Adding animations
Using Zoom Region to create interactivity
Summary
5
Using Variables, Conditions, and JavaScript
Using Variables, Conditions, and JavaScript
Overview of variables and conditions
Using number variables
Using true/false variables
Using text variables
Overview of JavaScript and its use in Storyline
Practical uses for JavaScript in Storyline
Fun uses for JavaScript in Storyline
Attribution
Summary
6
Assessing Learners
Assessing Learners
Overview of assessment options
Using convert-to-freeform questions
Importing questions
Using feedback masters
Grading and reviewing results
Summary
7
Preparing to Publish Your Story
Preparing to Publish Your Story
Customizing the player
Publishing your Story
Summary
8
Becoming More Creative
Becoming More Creative
Challenge yourself
Harness your inner creativity
Keep learning!
Summary
9
Streamlining Your Development
Streamlining Your Development
Using a style guide
Setting up autorecovery
Using hot keys
Using the Quick Access Toolbar
Using the Format Painter
Using cue points
Using Slide Masters
Translating content
Staying up to date
Testing
Summary

Using Zoom Region to create interactivity

The Zoom Region tool in Storyline allows you to zoom into a region of your slide, acting as a homing device for your learner's attention. This feature is great for creating interactive screenshots, conducting navigational tours, and creating hide-and-seek style interactions.

Note

Zoom regions are timeline based; you cannot trigger a zoom region.

Adding a Zoom Region is simple! First, consider the area you want to zoom in on and then select Zoom Region from the Insert tab.

You will notice a green rectangle around your slide. This is your Zoom Region. You can move the region by dragging it and can reduce the size of the zoom region by clicking and dragging the white pull handles at the corners of the zoom region.

Zooming in on an object

In the following example, we want to zoom in on the white parked car in the image, so we'll reduce the zoom region to that area. The default transition speed is Medium, but you can adjust the speed by right-clicking on...

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