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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.

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Mastering Articulate Storyline
Jun, 2016 | 288 pages
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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

Overview of JavaScript and its use in Storyline

JavaScript is a programming language that Articulate Storyline supports by allowing the execution of JavaScript triggers. This support allows you to extend the functionality of your stories with dynamic and scripted interactions.

There are many things you can do with JavaScript in Storyline, but here we will merely scrape the surface! JavaScript can be used to generate random numbers, display messages, manipulate variables within Storyline, and generate completion certificates–and these are just a few functions!

The goal here is to provide you with all you need to know to harness your inner JavaScriptor and execute JavaScript in Storyline as though you've been doing it all of your life! The examples included are all practical and will be provided alongside their practical uses.

In the previous section, we discussed the concept of variables and conditions in Storyline, and you will quickly notice within this section that JavaScript and variables...

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