Storyline 360: Simple Glossary Template

Hi Henry. No, this was built just using a single slide with layers.

Henry: This sort of Glossary slide could be accessed in a few ways.
- Yes, it could be made available in a lightbox, which could be opened by a button on a slide or via a player-level tab. (That's my preferred method for a custom Glossary slide.)
- A button could also jump directly to the Glossary slide, without lightboxing it. However, with that method, it'd be best to delete the NEXT button from the Glossary slide. After all, visiting the glossary interrupts the normal path of the course, so what should be "next" would be different based on where the user was when they accessed the glossary.

BTW, I sometimes use a similar Glossary, i.e., with different letters on different layers. Here are a few things to consider:
- In such a custom glossary, you have to ensure the items are in alphabetical order. The program doesn't sort them automatically (as the built-in glossary does).
- I think it's best to keep all 26 letter buttons. However, I suggest disabling buttons for which there are no terms. Be sure the disabled state looks different than the normal one. That will prevent users from wasting time by clicking letters for which there are no terms.
- When many terms begin with the same letter, you could put the terms in a scrolling panel, so they all still fit on one layer.
- If you put the terms in a table, you can set it up with banded rows.
- If a course will be translated, a custom glossary creates a lot of extra work. Terms would likely need to be moved to different layers after translation. And if the course will be translated into a language that doesn't use our alphabet (e.g., Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Arabic), then the ABC buttons aren't useful at all.

Hi Carlye. Thanks for your kind words! I don't have this file in front of me, but I believe there's a rectangle shape that's the same color as the slide background, just placed behind the text on each layer.

Hi Lynn. Since I built this on a single slide with layers, you would have to add additional layers for more terms (or dramatically downsize text, which probably isn't a good option). Then you'd need to include an arrow so the learner could navigate to those additional terms on the new layer.

Could you use a scroll box on those layers where the text is greater than the space allows?

Hi Linda. I don't have a video tutorial for this download. If you're an Articulate 360 subscriber, you may want to check out upcoming live Articulate 360 Training webinars (https://training.articulate.com/videos?category=rise), or watch a recorded webinar like this one: https://training.articulate.com/webinars/getting-started-with-interactions-in-storyline-360 to learn the basics you'll need to edit a project like mine.