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Mastering Articulate Storyline

By : Chiasson

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Mastering Articulate Storyline

3.2 (5)

By: Chiasson

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Before You Begin

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Preparing to Publish Your Story

Customizing the player

Publishing your Story

Summary

8. Becoming More Creative

8. Becoming More Creative

Challenge yourself

Harness your inner creativity

Keep learning!

Summary

9. Streamlining Your Development

9. 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

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Fun uses for JavaScript in Storyline

The following sections will teach you about the fun uses of JavaScript in Storyline.

Generating a random number

Generating a random number may not be the most practical use for JavaScript in Storyline for educational purposes, but it has the potential to be useful and it's pretty easy to pull off.

For ease of use, download JavaScript7.txt and copy/paste the script into the Storyline JavaScript field.

To achieve this effect, you will first want to design your slide. Here, we have a text prompt for the learner and a button, which will execute the JavaScript:

Next, access the Manage Project Variables panel and add a new variable with the following parameters:

Name: randnum
Type: Number
Value: 0

Now that we have our variable created, we need to add a reference to the variable. This has been added next to the button:

Finally, we will add a trigger to the button that will execute the JavaScript needed to generate the random number. Add a new trigger to the...

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