Interviews with E-Learning Challengers #461: Challenge | Recap
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Hello everyone! Unfortunately, I don't have time to record an audio podcast 🙈, but I would really like to share my thoughts.
One of my favorite challenges is challenge number 411: "How are Course Designers Using Interactive Sliders in E-Learning?"
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/c4fd2405-6c99-4df9-8274-17ea4c4062e4/review
When I was thinking about making it more interesting, I came up with the idea of using a slider as a mechanic for true-false questions.
This option turned out to be easy to assemble and interesting to use.
Let me share a couple of secrets on how it works.
First, we add a cat directly into the thumb fill. We make the track fill transparent and remove the outline. As a result, we get a cat that can be moved left and right.
Next, we add 3 more states to the slider: hover, a happy cat for the correct answer, and a sad cat for the incorrect one.
Then, we move on to the slider settings, set the start and end values, define the initial value, and set the step size.
The next step is to convert the slider into a question format. We add 2 ovals: one for the correct answer and one for the incorrect answer, and set triggers to change the oval when the slider variable changes. We also add a Submit interaction trigger. Great, we have configured the question.
Let's move on to the layers: it's also simple. I added animation of lifting the lid and changed the slider (our cat) to a happy or sad version based on how we answered.
That's it!
What are the conclusions?
I would recommend participating in challenges to everyone involved in course development in Articulate 360, or at least to look at the examples shared in the community. This practice helps me to find new solutions, find out how to use a particular tool, try out updates, and also get inspired by colleagues' examples. Thanks to these weekly exercises, I increase my pool of ideas that I can use in the real client projects.
The same thing happened with the slider. In one of the courses, I decided to replicate a similar mechanic, and this solution was well-received by everyone.
One of my favorite challenges is challenge number 411: "How are Course Designers Using Interactive Sliders in E-Learning?"
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/c4fd2405-6c99-4df9-8274-17ea4c4062e4/review
When I was thinking about making it more interesting, I came up with the idea of using a slider as a mechanic for true-false questions.
This option turned out to be easy to assemble and interesting to use.
Let me share a couple of secrets on how it works.
First, we add a cat directly into the thumb fill. We make the track fill transparent and remove the outline. As a result, we get a cat that can be moved left and right.
Next, we add 3 more states to the slider: hover, a happy cat for the correct answer, and a sad cat for the incorrect one.
Then, we move on to the slider settings, set the start and end values, define the initial value, and set the step size.
The next step is to convert the slider into a question format. We add 2 ovals: one for the correct answer and one for the incorrect answer, and set triggers to change the oval when the slider variable changes. We also add a Submit interaction trigger. Great, we have configured the question.
Let's move on to the layers: it's also simple. I added animation of lifting the lid and changed the slider (our cat) to a happy or sad version based on how we answered.
That's it!
What are the conclusions?
I would recommend participating in challenges to everyone involved in course development in Articulate 360, or at least to look at the examples shared in the community. This practice helps me to find new solutions, find out how to use a particular tool, try out updates, and also get inspired by colleagues' examples. Thanks to these weekly exercises, I increase my pool of ideas that I can use in the real client projects.
The same thing happened with the slider. In one of the courses, I decided to replicate a similar mechanic, and this solution was well-received by everyone.