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Creating Step-by-Step Tutorials for Your Favorite Apps #479

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DavidAnderson
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2 months ago

Step-by-Step Tutorials in E-Learning #479: Challenge | Recap

Most apps today are pretty easy to use, right?

You can sign up for something like Trello or Notion and start working right away without reading the user guide or taking or watching hours of video tutorials.

But here's the catch: while today's apps make it easy to get started, there's usually a world of features under the hood that can help you work efficiently if you take the time to learn them. I'm looking at you, Notion.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to teach one or more tips for using your favorite app. You can choose any format that works for you, whether it’s an interactive tutorial, a screencast, a written guide, or even an interactive video. Just make sure it’s a step-by-step walk-through that helps someone pick up the app.

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
  • Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts, so your great work gets even more exposure.
  • Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you show us how to use your favorite app, check out last week’s portfolios for inspiration on showcasing your e-learning work:

E-Learning Portfolio Examples RECAP #478: Challenge | Recap

👋 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.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article. 

📆 Upcoming Challenges

  • E-Learning Challenge #480 (10.25): Halloween-inspired examples.

  • E-Learning Challenge #481 (11.01): E-learning style guide(ance). Keep it simple with colors and typography, or go further to include writing, multimedia, and more.

  • E-Learning Challenge #482 (11.08): Using asymmetrical layouts. Think course starters with an emphasis on breaking the grid for intentional imbalance.
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  • DanSweigert's avatar
    DanSweigert
    Community Member
    2 months ago

    Thanks Ron, This a great resource! Nice use of the text entry fields to demonstrate how it works.

    • Ron_Katz's avatar
      Ron_Katz
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      Thanks Dan,

      This is also a demo of a little used feature for Storyline.  Screen recording.  I used the screen recording feature and then let Storyline create the slides.

      Once you complete a screen recording you have options of how you want to present it in your Storyline slide.  Storyline did most of the work when I selected as above.  I only needed to add the instructions at the bottom of the screen for each slide, delete a few slides that were repetitive, and move one text entry box because it appeared in the wrong place.  Most of us have probably forgotten about this really cool Storyline feature.

      • DanSweigert's avatar
        DanSweigert
        Community Member
        2 months ago

        Yes, that's great. I used it to create some software training.

    • DanSweigert's avatar
      DanSweigert
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      Nice demo Ekaterina, I like the voice, the music, the videos and bits of interaction. Very cool!

    • CydWalker_mwhc's avatar
      CydWalker_mwhc
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      That's beautifully done! I like how you made it interactive for the learner.

    • ZohCoh's avatar
      ZohCoh
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      Absolutely blown away by your project! It is so creative, effective, and informative. Thanks for sharing all the sources and tips.

      • Stephanie's avatar
        Stephanie
        Super Hero
        2 months ago

        Thanks for letting me know! It was fun to create. All of these new tools, really too many to choose from, are fascinating to play with.

  • JodiSansone's avatar
    JodiSansone
    Community Member
    2 months ago

    Hi Jesse,

    I'm not familiar with any of this. Could you say a few words about how I might use this? I'm curious to learn about it.

    • JesseWu's avatar
      JesseWu
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      Hi Jodi,

      From my understanding, this is about making the mock data in your project looks real. Faker's website offers a API list, indicating different datasets you can generate from. I run into it because we need mock employee persona in an occupational health and safety project.

       

      If you mean how it works, in my case, I tried to run this library as a Java Trigger, but it returned error. So I decided to try run it as a separate entity out of Storyline. At the end of the day, we have:

       

      A web object: Load this object on any storyline slide you need data. It generates, configures what to generate, and store the generated.

      Local Storage of your browser: host the data from last step. Bridge your web object and Storyline player, because both of them will co-exist in your browser when you use it.

      Storyline Player: whenever you load the web object, you will set up JS Trigger to import data and interpret them in a way that SL can understand, so SL can display them as you desired.

      • JodiSansone's avatar
        JodiSansone
        Community Member
        2 months ago

        Thank you for the reply. I'm trying to think of how I might need to use the mock data. 

  • MichaelHinze's avatar
    MichaelHinze
    Community Member
    2 months ago

    Here is a blast from the past. I did this app simulation 10 (!) years ago, the old blog post is still here. Never mind the step-by-step simulation, it's pretty basic. What's much more interesting is how far consumer drones have come since then; from shaky 800*600 videos to the fully stabilized HD drone vids of today 😀

    • MarinaNuzhina's avatar
      MarinaNuzhina
      Community Member
      27 days ago

      Hi Klevinskas, that's excellent work! I've enjoyed reviewing it, especially since I use a similar reader myself. One suggestion I'd like to make is regarding the page where you can find "Profile", "Top Pick for You", and other sections. It took me a bit to realize that I needed to click the circle icons within the screenshot. Adding arrows or hints could make it clearer :)