Collaborative team Storyline development

Hi Bob,

I work for Artisan E-Learning and we do a lot of development with Storyline in this fashion. Our project teams are very collaborative, and we have a lot of various roles that work together to bring the course together. This includes project managers, writers, developers, reviewers, etc. 

All in all, I don't think this type of development process using Storyline will be any different than what you're already doing. The nice thing about Storyline (when compared to Flash or some other programs) is that you have to deal with any "tricky customer programming." You can create some pretty advanced stuff without having to touch a single line of code. Not to say there isn't instances where we incorporate custom code - you can do it if you want, but that's pretty rare for us.

Let me know if you have any further questions. I'm happy to help!

Tim

Thanks for the reply. I can already see that, as you note, the developers should be able to do much of the object/trigger programming themselves, without as much programming support from hard-core programmers.

I'm particularly interested in what tasks your writers do in Storyline, and to what level of development a course is at before you pass it along to your developers for graphics and programming interactivity.

-- Bob F.

No problem Bob.

As for your question regarding the writers in Storyline, it depends. Most of the time our writers don't do anything in Storyline. They write the content and then pass it off to the develops. But, this can vary from project to project. However, I do think it's helpful for all eLearning writers to have some baseline knowledge of what Storyline can and can not do. This way they don't come up with interactions or scenarios that aren't possible within the authoring program.

I hope that makes sense!

Tim