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Storyline: Employee Conversation Branching Scenario

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EvaDaniels
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4 years ago

Prompting learners to practice navigating difficult conversations through e-learning is an excellent way to help boost their confidence—and get it right in real life. In this inspiring example featuring a Storyline 360 branching scenario, learners take on the role of a manager and try to uncover why an employee is showing up to work late. Based on their choices, they’re presented with custom feedback to see how different decisions lead to new outcomes.

Creating custom, immersive scenarios like this one is easy in Storyline 360. Combining features like layers, triggers, conditions, and variables lets you create a scenario that feels tailored to your learners’ needs.


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  • Hi Eva, This is Fantastic! I'm in the middle of creating something similar for my organization, albeit much smaller (BTW I really liked how you used the labeled-speech bubble instead of callouts - which I was using - and now, I benchmarked your design.) The part I'm having trouble with is with the "review of decisions." How did you tailor the review to the branching choices. I can't seem to connect the review-feedback slide to each of the branching choices at the end of the module.
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    EvaDaniels
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    Hello Richard,

    Thank you so much for viewing the interactive story.

    So variables are what connects the decision choices to the review-of-decision slides.

    When a user makes a choice, you set/assign a variable as the timeline starts on that slide or layer showing the result of the choice they made.

    The variable could be text, probably better as text so it could be anything you assign it (i.e. "2a", "2b", "2c", you get the idea). You want to keep a chart or document of all of the variables you assign per decision.

    When you now get to the feedback at the end, you call the variable. So change state of text box to "decision2Afeedback" when the timeline starts >> sub trigger >>(if "2nddecision_slide_variable" = "2a"

    The text boxes which hold the "review of decision" feedback will have multiple states. Each one with different feedback depending on the choice that was made previously.

    So it's important that you name every text box very specifically and all of your variables correspond to those text boxes.

    I hope that was helpful.
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      RichardDettl457
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      Thanks so much for this info. I'll be working on it this week. Fingers crossed that I can get it to work.
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    KarinRex
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    Very nicely done. Could you post a picture of the branching overview?