Tiny E-Learning Examples #331: Challenge | Recap
This week's challenge was inspired by a chat I had with Dave and Nejc on their E-Learning Guys podcast.
During the show, we started shar...
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I created a text animation in PowerPoint and exported it as a GIF. It looks great in the GIF Viewer I have installed on my PC, But after reading some of the discussion about various problems that others encountered, I'm curious to see how mine will look in the browser. However, that's where I got stuck!
Review360 won't let me upload a GIF. Facebook has apparently changed their rules while I've been ignoring it and I can't post it there. And it's been so long since I posted on my own blog that the prospect of logging in there feels overwhelming.
I even tried to start a new Storyline file, thinking I would insert my GIF on a slide there. But I've never changed the slide dimensions in Storyline (since I mostly use Rise) and surprisingly David's post for this week's challenge doesn't mention anything about how to do that.
I have dozens of tasks waiting for my attention in the current course I'm developing, so I'm giving up on sharing my 100x100px GIF unless somebody can tell me a fast and easy way to share it.
Review360 won't let me upload a GIF. Facebook has apparently changed their rules while I've been ignoring it and I can't post it there. And it's been so long since I posted on my own blog that the prospect of logging in there feels overwhelming.
I even tried to start a new Storyline file, thinking I would insert my GIF on a slide there. But I've never changed the slide dimensions in Storyline (since I mostly use Rise) and surprisingly David's post for this week's challenge doesn't mention anything about how to do that.
I have dozens of tasks waiting for my attention in the current course I'm developing, so I'm giving up on sharing my 100x100px GIF unless somebody can tell me a fast and easy way to share it.
Hi Susan - I like your idea of exporting .gif files from PowerPoint to use in either Rise and Storyline.
Rise accepts .gif files just like Storyline. What type of error did you see uploading a .gif file to Rise?
To change the slide size in Storyline, you got to the Design tab > Story Size. Here's more info on how to change the size: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-set-your-slide-size
Rise accepts .gif files just like Storyline. What type of error did you see uploading a .gif file to Rise?
To change the slide size in Storyline, you got to the Design tab > Story Size. Here's more info on how to change the size: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-set-your-slide-size
- Hi David - I didn't try bringing the GIF into Rise. I know that works; I've used it a lot in the courses I'm working on. But I didn't think I could change the layout size in Rise so I didn't even try that.
I was trying to just upload the GIF directly into Review360. Since I had read you could upload an MP4, I thought I'd try a GIF, but no luck with that.
If I can find some time this weekend, I'll try creating a new tiny Storyline course and inserting my GIF so I can upload that to Review360.
Thanks for your reply. I thought it was a cool challenge, but I've just been too overwhelmed with work projects. After spending the time on animating the GIF, I didn't have the patience to deal with the roadblocks for sharing it.- My apologies on Rise 360 and gifs. I now see you mentioned Review 360. My poor eyes:-/
If you wanted to give it one more go, you could export your animated gif from PowerPoint as an .mp4 file. That way you can upload to review. The benefit to inserting the gif into Storyline is that you can loop it.