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Share Your E-Learning Storyboard Templates #251

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DavidAnderson
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6 years ago

E-Learning Storyboard Examples #251: Challenge | Recap

Whether you prefer scripts, blueprints, or rapid prototypes, chances are you’re using some type of storyboard to plan and organize your e-learning projects. In most cases, successful projects depend on the designer’s use of a storyboard.

Storyboards are also one of the most popular discussions in our forums. New designers ask to see examples, download templates, and learn more about workflows and using storyboards. Experienced designers share their favorite tools and tips while debating the use of storyboards and prototypes.

Regardless of your experience, storyboards are a critical element in the course design process. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about!

Challenge of the week

This week your challenge is to share an example of your preferred e-learning storyboard, blueprint, or scripting template. We want to see what you use and learn how you use it!

Share your storyboard templates

Do you have a storyboard template you’d like to share with the community? Great! Share your template in the comments and we’ll feature it in our downloads gallery.

Questions to answer

Whether you share a template this week or just want to join the discussion, I’d love to get your feedback on one or more of following questions:

  • How do you define scripting, storyboarding, and prototyping? Which method do you prefer?
  • Do you use different types of storyboards? When do you use each?
  • How do you storyboard interactivity?
  • What are your top three storyboard tips for new course creators?

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you storyboard your challenge demo, check out the creative ways course designers are combining text and images in e-learning courses:

Combining Text and Images in E-Learning Design #250: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!

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.

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  • KevinThorn's avatar
    KevinThorn
    Super Hero
    6 years ago
    Hi everyone!

    Wow! These are great. I got lost going through all of them and reading everyone's blog posts. So many creative and practical approaches.

    I probably take a more complex approach to storyboarding. Each project dictates on how to approach this process. Larger projects that involve a considerable amount of time in the design process may require a varying storyboards. Smaller projects may only need a single document.

    In the end, I see storyboarding as a process and not a single or set of documents. I teach a storyboarding workshop where I cover all angles of the process including different approaches and which templates to use when and how to implement the process into your workflows.

    In my work, every project has a minimum of three storyboards - visual storyboard (flowchart) mapping out the contextual structure of the course, the main storyboard itself, and a style guide. Affectionately known as the project's "Storyboard Workbook."

    Additionally, one of the storyboard documents I keep separate from the main storyboard is for assessment questions. There's a lot of decisions and moving parts in a single question and keeping it in its own document serves two benefits: 1) collaborating with SMEs, and 2) assign the assessment writing to another designer.

    The storyboard documents need to be simple and easy to use for both the designer and SME.

    Here's a zip with three templates I use and share in my workshops. Simple storyboard template, an example usage, and the assessment storyboard template. Enjoy!

    https://nhs-templates.s3.amazonaws.com/NuggetHead-Studioz_storyboard-templates.zip
  • TeresaVanderpos's avatar
    TeresaVanderpos
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    I work a lot like Jonathon, I tend to have flipcharts and sticky notes and markers everywhere. But recently, they have implemented a new editing process. I now must have my SME send me everything in Word, then we look through all the content/script, and then put it in the storyboard and work with an editor to work on structure and substance edit before I can go into Storyline. I also used to design directly in Storyline as I am rarely given a lot of time. So here is hoping since they want a new process they will give me more time ;) wishful thinking....
    I don't use google drive, much I hope this works...

    I should add the first page is like an overview/sample for the SME and then they start on the second page for their content.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OBfEXHx28tBWxWw8x81Z-bMM1JiZV1y7/view?usp=sharing
  • alexjinca's avatar
    alexjinca
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    Hi Everyone! I really enjoyed going through the tread post as this is such a hot topic and there is so much discussion around storyboards, storyboarding (as a verb) and when and why we'd need one in our project. I'd like to come back to this challenge with a couple of storyboards I foresee drafting in the near future, but for now I'd thought to share an infographic I did on Storyboarding.

    Link here: https://filedn.com/layUfATUCp200BIaKm5jwWj/Demos/alexjinca.com/%2314/A%20Short%20Guide%20to%20Storyboarding%20-%20LexDigiLab.pdf
  • MykhayloZakr254's avatar
    MykhayloZakr254
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    Hey everyone,

    I enjoyed seeing everyone's storyboard examples, and what I would like to share is slightly different. The document I am sharing is a tool that is meant to help someone design a course from start to finish. It is closely aligned with the ADDIE model for instructional design and does feature a storyboard component in it. I do not have answers to the questions David posed because I may need more time to think them through. Here is my tool however! Enjoy!

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MpTXNSfsOAIBBzq6sbxN3kmm5GCvkpeaG4y-LniyO0I/edit?usp=sharing
  • AndrewGeaghan's avatar
    AndrewGeaghan
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    This week was a real eye opener. Mainly as tend to work pen and paper before mocking up a draft. This allows me to work with out the perceived prescriptions to i may have within Articulate or any system or falling into the same design steps that i have followed before.
    From there ill get SME's review and work towards final concept and sign off.
    In saying that reading the posts before me was a great learning curve for me and allowed to mock up a simple document that i can use going forward to ensure that i follow a set process once i add my companies set design rules and branding.

    I look forward to seeing what else comes through this week.


    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ue8uCefXr-viLDEbY77FxkT1yxVqAeg4/view?usp=sharing