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Storyline: Custom Glossary Slide

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JudyNollet
Super Hero
5 years ago

Here's an easy-to-customize custom glossary slide for your next project. It's built on a single slide and features an intro layer, plus a layer for each letter.

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This project uses the Effra font, but Arimo, a free Google font, is a close match.

Published 5 years ago
Version 1.0
  • Hi, Michael,
    I didn't see your question until just now, because I don't subscribe to all of my posts. I hope you've already figured out the answer, but I'll explain it for future readers.
    The Player Features area includes icons for adding and editing features. In my Storyline Glossary file, I removed the built-in glossary. In it's place, I added my own Glossary feature and gave it a trigger to open the glossary slide as a lightbox.
    This thread doesn't allow me to add an image, but you can find one in this thread, where I repeated this info: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/free-download-custom-glossary-slide-40a10aba-cb7c-4076-8fcb-757843155cec
  • Thanks to the Articualte staff for adding this to Downloads. FYI:
    •There's an Intro layer, plus a layer for each letter.
    •For demo purposes, I disabled the Q, X, and Z buttons to show how simple it is to turn off letters you don't need.
    •There's also a Programming Instructions layer. That's not visible to users; it's just there to provide more details about how the slide works.
    • RyanWilhite's avatar
      RyanWilhite
      Community Member
      This is stunning!

      If I wanted to build this and also provide a PDF as a terms glossary/index, can Storyline automate that? Or is the PDF a completely separate article needed to be manually created?
      • JudyNollet's avatar
        JudyNollet
        Super Hero
        Thanks, Ryan.
        Unfortunately, you'll probably have to manually create any companion PDF.
        Well, if you have minimal definitions, I suppose you could publish the Glossary slide into Word, tweak that file as needed, and then save it as a PDF. But you're probably better off just copying and pasting the text.
    • KristinPacheco's avatar
      KristinPacheco
      Community Member
      Great work, and easy to use! Thanks for providing a programming instructions piece!
  • marpulido's avatar
    marpulido
    Community Member
    I found what I was looking for for my project about cross-cultural communication. Thanks :)
  • This is a great example of an interactive Glossary. Please, let me know how to "inform" Storyline to open the lightbox instead of the Player Glossary?
  • IsaIbaez's avatar
    IsaIbaez
    Community Member
    Hello,

    I have been using this template to enter vocabulary for my English courses and today suddenly the text I enter is not displayed and the audios I enter are not played, why do you think this is? a couple of days ago I updated the storyline version and I don't know if they are now incompatible.

    Thanks
  • IsaIbaez's avatar
    IsaIbaez
    Community Member
    Hello,

    I have been using this template to enter vocabulary for my English courses and today suddenly the text I enter is not displayed and the audios I enter are not played, why do you think this is? a couple of days ago I updated the storyline version and I don't know if they are now incompatible.

    Thanks