There is nothing wrong per se in developing your project in an entirely linear way within a single scene. However some reasons you might want to break your project into scenes might be:
Simplicity and management purposes.
Your course is modular
There are quiz reporting slides in each module
A repository for pop us slides such as light boxes
Different pathways for different users based on x criteria
Break down your project into manageable study sessions.
Branching scenarios become less confusing and easier to view in the Story screen.
There are many more reasons which you will no doubt identify for yourself as your project grows.
I test my stuff quite a bit as I go. Using scenes provides a really nice way to preview just a few of those slides in succession rather than having to wait for the entire thing to publish or preview. For really large modules, this is a big time saver.
The other thing that scenes help with is organization and access to blocks of slides by a group. You see a nice organization of sections in story view. You can collapse your scenes in this view to reduce visual clutter. You can also use the drop down selector at the top of the thumbnail view on the left in slide view to select another group of slides rather than scrolling through a long vertical display. Helps for really large assemblies.
It sounds like the description here helped you figure out the best method for working with scenes and slides, but if you need anything else please let us know!
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Hi Maja
There is nothing wrong per se in developing your project in an entirely linear way within a single scene. However some reasons you might want to break your project into scenes might be:
There are many more reasons which you will no doubt identify for yourself as your project grows.
Regards
Joe
I test my stuff quite a bit as I go. Using scenes provides a really nice way to preview just a few of those slides in succession rather than having to wait for the entire thing to publish or preview. For really large modules, this is a big time saver.
The other thing that scenes help with is organization and access to blocks of slides by a group. You see a nice organization of sections in story view. You can collapse your scenes in this view to reduce visual clutter. You can also use the drop down selector at the top of the thumbnail view on the left in slide view to select another group of slides rather than scrolling through a long vertical display. Helps for really large assemblies.
Hi Maja! Looks like you are getting some good feedback/tips here.
Thanks guys
Thank You!
Glad you got some assistance and your thread probably helped someone else out today
Yup, like it helped me too!
Awesome Daniel! Thanks for popping in to let us know that this thread was able to assist you as well :)
Thanks everyone. This clarifies the scene process very much.
Hi Corey and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
Glad that this thread was able to assist you and thanks for popping in to share.
I join the thank-giving group. These reasons sound definitive.
Hi Ricardo,
It sounds like the description here helped you figure out the best method for working with scenes and slides, but if you need anything else please let us know!
yup! it helped me - i had the same question...
Awesome Julie! Glad you were able to find what you needed as well :)
It helped me too! You guys are awesome and your responses are very helpful!
Helped me, too, and 5 years later to boot!
So glad to hear it, Matt. Thanks for chiming in to share and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
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