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How are You Using Drag-and-Drop Interactions in E-Learning? #468

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6 months ago

Using Drag-and-Drop in E-Learning #468: Challenge | Recap

If there’s one e-learning interaction that belongs in every instructional designer’s toolkit, it’s drag-and-drops.

Drag-and-drop interactions are a fun way to engage learners and encourage them to interact with the screen. They’re also one of the most flexible interactions you can create.

So, whether you’re designing straightforward question slides or custom freeform slides, drag-and-drop interactions are one of the best ways to get learners to stop, think, and interact with the content. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share a drag-and-drop interaction to show how they can be used in e-learning. You can use any authoring tool you like and make it as simple or custom as you have time for.

Note: Since Storyline’s drag-and-drop interactions aren’t currently keyboard accessible, they can create serious barriers for learners who rely on keyboard navigation or use screen readers. Check out the following on-demand training for some ideas on creating accessible drag-and-drops:

🧰 Resources

User Guide 

Related Challenges: 

Webinars:

6 Ways to Customize Drag-and-Drop in Storyline 360

Discover six creative techniques every course designer needs to know to customize their drag-and-drop interactions in Articulate Storyline 360

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✨ 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:

While you're dragging through the ideas for this week's challenge, check out the 360° image interactions your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Using 360° Images in E-Learning RECAP #467: 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

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    • ThierryEMMANUEL's avatar
      ThierryEMMANUEL
      Community Member
      I'm always curious and enthusiastic whenever I learn something new, Gülsüm, and your demo sounds great. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I've learned the "right" things. What navigation situation describes the symbols of the white-green-red dots, which I have to link to the sounds??? Even with the feedback, I didn't understand. Please, can you help me? Next time I see my friends and shout "Whooooooo-whoo-whoo!", what did I actually say to them?
      • MaviDeniz's avatar
        MaviDeniz
        Community Member
        You are so right Thierry. I am a ship captain and I prepared this training for seafarers. Those colours are the lights of the ships that you see at night. And in the dark, you understand the direction the ship is going according to those lights and the whistle sound it makes according to those lights. that's why I wanted to match the sound signs according to the colour of those lights.
    • Ron_Katz's avatar
      Ron_Katz
      Community Member
      Hi Gulsum, like Thierry I had a hard time with this one. I'm sure an introductory slide about these nautical situations or maybe 5 different situations of which these three are tested for, might provide for better learning opportunity. I'm interested to know more and I hope you consider making some small changes so that we can benefit from your unique knowledge.
      • MaviDeniz's avatar
        MaviDeniz
        Community Member
        Hi Ron, you are very right. I should have given some information beforehand and started. I deleted the previous slides and left only the section with the appropriate interactivity in the challenge title.

        Here you can see the sample screens according to the lights. Of course, unfortunately, you cannot see these lights in the fog at sea. So we give a sound signal with the whistle according to the movement we make. [For example, when going forward, going backwards, turning right, etc.]

        So I wanted to test whether the user knows the lighting of the movement and the corresponding sound signal.

        https://www.saltwaterexperience.co.uk/learning_009/
  • Hello everyone! I love coming to these challenges and learning from all of you. I am submitting my project which is a little quiz about the communication process and the "noise" that can interfere.
    I am having trouble with the quiz resetting and then the user being able to try again. I don't want to use any buttons if possible. I am attaching the file to the comments section.

    Also, I would love any advice on how to level up this course. I am completely inspired by Sebastien and Nathanial with the drag and drop strings, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I haven't worked with javascript at all and I think I will need more instruction in how to do it. That's for the future. :)

    https://360.articulate.com/review/content/4d842270-b6ea-4ec8-9b0c-5be913def8b7/review?version=2
    • Nathan_Hilliard's avatar
      Nathan_Hilliard
      Community Member
      I will try to make a walkthrough video maybe sometime next week that will show how to implement this into a new project.
  • NickMorrison's avatar
    NickMorrison
    Community Member
    I thought I would add this to the challenge page.
    "Park your Truck"
    This is part of a larger driver's training eLearning that I developed last year for my company.
    I utilized drag and drop, information hot spots, orientation changes and hot spot triggers.

    It was a fun way to give learners a practical "hands on" task during the eLearning course, before they went out into the field to do their practical assessments.
    https://360.articulate.com/review/content/bf2f99e9-c20c-4bb3-ac2e-ad0eb56661b9/review