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Mastering Articulate Storyline

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Mastering Articulate Storyline

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Articulate Storyline
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Challenge yourself


Challenging yourself is exactly how it sounds—a challenge! Sometimes you're feeling tapped out for ideas, and when your boss or client asks you to come up with a custom Storyline template, you may feel like bashing your head on your keyboard due to lack of creativity... but there are always options!

You need to make something your muse and run with it, so the goal of the next section is to provide you with ideas to challenge your creativity.

Create your own assets

One way of challenging yourself is to create your own assets. This could be learning how to take your own stock photographs, building out vector-based imagery in PowerPoint or Storyline using the shapes and grouping functions, or creating your own videos, just to name a few.

The benefit of creating your own assets is that they're yours! You can use them however you see fit, you can share them with communities, you can easily modify them, and you can include them in your portfolio. If you're feeling extra entrepreneurial...