Using E-Learning Characters to Engage and Connect with Learners #247

Using Characters in E-Learning #247: Challenge | Recap

E-Learning characters are a great way to personalize your courses and connect more fully with learners. Whether you’re using illustrated, photographic, or a combination of styles, it’s never been easier to engage learners with characters in e-learning courses.

For Storyline 360 users, you can add greater interactivity and personalization  with triggers, layers, and variables to conditionally change the poses and expressions of characters. Learning to use the built-in characters as well as creative ways to get more use out of the characters is what this week’s e-learning challenge is all about!

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to show how illustrated or photographic characters can be used to engage learners in e-learning.

Last Week’s Challenge:

To help you get into character for this week’s challenge, take a few moments to review the interactive timelines your fellow community members shared over the past week:

Interactive Timelines in E-Learning #246

Interactive Timelines in E-Learning #246: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

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Jodi M. Sansone
Jodi M. Sansone
Jodi M. Sansone

Hi Claire, I used a lot of different resources for this one--probably TMI: The animated character came from Animaker. She's one of my favorites (because I like changing her clothes and jewelry :)) I use her a lot and change her outfit, hair color, etc. It's like an adult coloring book. I did a demo several challenges back and I did a whole "cast" using this style character. You can see them here: https://bit.ly/2C1iWIp The static characters come from a stock art contributor named kkn2118--here's a link: https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/205814021/kkn2118?load_type=author&prev_url=detail Audio is called "Happy Camper" and that came from storyblocks/audioblocks...it's one of my "go-to" audio files when I want something whimsical. There are several versions of it and I just... Expand

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