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Share Your Favorite E-Learning Challenge Examples for 2023

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DavidAnderson
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10 months ago

Best of 2023 E-Learning Challenges: Challenge | Recap

Undoubtedly, the weekly E-Learning Challenges are one of the best ways to try new skills, find inspiration, and build your portfolio.

But practice takes time. Building examples takes time. Coming up with design concepts takes time.

I’ve heard from hundreds of challengers over the past 10+ years that their average time on a demo is around four hours. Whether that tracks with your experience, creating e-learning examples requires a small investment of time, creativity, and problem-solving.

And to help celebrate your Herculean achievements, I want to showcase your favorite examples from 2023. And that's what this week's (unofficial) challenge is all about!

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share your favorite e-learning challenge example from 2023. You can choose any example from the 2023 challenges.

When you share your examples, please briefly describe your project.  Here are some prompts to help you get started:

  • Why was this your favorite project?
  • What were your specific goals or objectives for this project, and how did you meet them?
  • Tell me about the software features, design elements, or concepts you incorporated into this project.
  • Was your project designed for a specific industry?
  • Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently in this project?
  • How much time did you spend on this project?

💡 Writing Examples

Looking for inspiration? Here are some writing examples from our team that should help give you an idea of what I’m looking for:

And remember, you’re always welcome to include a link to a long-form blog post or discussion in the community.

✨ 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 reflecting on your 2023 challenge examples, check out the ways your fellow challengers are using Pantone’s 2024 color of the year in e-learning:

Pantone Color of the Year 2024 RECAP #444: 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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    • JustinCollinge's avatar
      JustinCollinge
      Community Member
      9 months ago
      Hey Richard.

      Thanks for sharing this. It's very cool. :-)

      I'm creating a course next year that includes a 3D office section. I was going to simply photograph an office using a 3D app and insert it into SL. But I really like your digital version of a 3D office.
      Can I ask where it came from?
      Thanks
      Justin
      • RichardMulca257's avatar
        RichardMulca257
        Community Member
        9 months ago
        Thanks Justin. I used a 3D software application called 3DS Max to create the office environment, lighting, cameras etc and also added pre-made 3D models. Then put it all together and had different camera angles for the different scenes.
  • ChrisHodgson's avatar
    ChrisHodgson
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    This year I have very much enjoyed any opportunity to explore what's possible when combining Articulate Storyline 360 development with the OpenAI platform.

    My 'Generate Your Own Text-Based Storyline Adventure' project for ELH 416 is my favourite of all, as this was my first attempt at using both the Create Chat Completions API and Create Image API synchronously to generate everything shown on screen completely dynamic to the player.

    Not even a year has passed since creating this entry and already so much has evolved in the generative AI space, so to see out 2023 I've spent some time upgrading my original project to use the latest models, including Dall-E 3, to generate stunningly detailed illustrations that visualise every story.

    https://discoverelearninguk.com/projects/generate-your-own-text-based-storyline-adventure-dec23/
  • CourtneyMRobert's avatar
    CourtneyMRobert
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    This was a hard decision, but after some deliberation with friends, I've settled on my submission for challenge #422 Using Isometric Shapes in E-Learning as my favorite of the year. I particularly like this one because I set out to pay special attention to the accessibility for screen readers. I learned a lot about focus order and accessibility text when creating this one. Plus it's like a little digital dollhouse, which is always super fun!
    https://360.articulate.com/review/content/c0c2580d-4241-41ba-a6dc-848369e496da/review
  • EkaterinaMar356's avatar
    EkaterinaMar356
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    Hello everyone!

    My favorite challenge this year was challenge 436. I tried to dive deeper into the new opportunities of Rise. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/4011dd62-ca30-49d3-8f27-c34d498ab3a5/review

    My goal was to explore the Rise update in more detail, apply Ai, and experiment with design.

    I tried:

    1. Implementing a solid dark background for all blocks. This allowed me to achieve the following effect: the divider-button has no background and appears as clickable text. For the timeline blocks, I used wave photos with a smooth transition to the main color, so that the separete blocks look like one.

    2. Adding an animated map. This is a gif created in Adobe After Effects.

    3. Using Ai for text and image generation.

    It was a creative experiment, and I understand that I can use some of these ideas in other projects :)

    Now, I would like to try adding more interactivity and incorporating them into the overall canvas to see how I could stylize it in a pirate theme.
  • ValerieThomp440's avatar
    ValerieThomp440
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    I'm sharing my late addition to #441, which is course customization using variables. I built the skeleton of this game a while ago and it's a stretch for me, and I'm pleased that I got it across the finish line and was recently able to update it. I want to give credit for the design of this dice game to Joanna Kurpiewska and Belvista Studios ("How to Use Advanced Triggers") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-q-14gVKE

    Here it is:
    https://360.articulate.com/review/content/dfba136d-2553-400d-a845-07fa0ee288ad/review
  • HillaSchlegel's avatar
    HillaSchlegel
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    Whew... Making this decision was quite a task. I weighed the options between more recent projects and those that have captured my attention for an extended period. In the end, I settled on #401, a bit of a classic :), because I believe it holds potential. I see it embodying qualities crucial for a robust e-learning experience – captivating visuals, an immersive approach, and encouragement for learner participation. I've put in dedicated efforts to enhance accessibility, and the technology used, incorporating videos behind cutout letters and acronyms as tabs, is versatile and adaptable to various projects. To boost its usefulness, a job aid has been integrated into the original #401 project. I truly hope you find it enjoyable. Thank you all for another engaging EL challenge year. Enjoy your holidays and Merry Christmas!

    https://360.articulate.com/review/content/a83521dc-fc53-4c78-9a62-d140e8cf095a/review
  • Ron_Katz's avatar
    Ron_Katz
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    I didn't participate in as many of the challenges this year as the last few. My favorite for this year was using Isometric Shapes in eLearning.

    Demo: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/5c2ac357-0078-4c33-86bb-2844d18f40b2/review


    Download: Available in the feedback/review section.

    Why was this your favorite project? I liked trying to recreate a Q-Bert type game and the 3D Isometric challenge was perfect for it.

    What were your specific goals or objectives for this project, and how did you meet them? I wanted to create a game with multiple levels and to use the background music feature. I wanted the controls to be key presses. I used triggers and layers to track where the Alien character was and to change the state of visited cube to track level completion.

    Tell me about the software features, design elements, or concepts you incorporated into this project. Movement between the cubes was the biggest challenge as using motion paths did not play well. I settled on giving each cube 3 states (a unvisited state, a visited state, and a visited state with my monster on it.) So instead of "moving" the monster, I had to figure out where he was abd where he was going based on the keypress. Then I would change the state of the cube he was moving to to "monster" and change the state of the cube he was just at to "visited". To do this I had three variables I was constanlty checking. (old cube, current cube, direction)

    Was your project designed for a specific industry? No it was just a game.

    Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently in this project? Sometimes if you move to fast you end up with multiple monsters because there is no way to slow the recognition of the key press feature. If I had to do it again I would figure out how to regulate that. (maybe slow it down with a timer)

    How much time did you spend on this project? I spent at least 6 hours on this project.
  • ZetaKilbride-11's avatar
    ZetaKilbride-11
    Community Member
    9 months ago
    My favorite eLearning Heroes Challenge last year was #432 escape room. Demo: https://zkelearningchallenges.s3.amazonaws.com/escape+the+music+room/story.html

    This challenge gave me an opportunity to play with the 360 degree picture feature which I had never used before, and to make a "notes" feature using variables that collected answers for the user when they came up with them.

    It probably took me around 6-8 hours to put together, but there were a lot of starts and stops as I worked on this in between other thigs. It was a great learning experience as it challenged me to solve some problems using variables in ways I never had before, so I really enjoyed that.

    One thing I didn't love about the 360 feature is that the green hotspots are visible to the player when they click on them, hopefully that's something that's on Articulate's backlog to fix.