Educational Animations in E-Learning #275: Challenge | Recap
Educational animations are an effective way to create focal points, illustrate complex procedures, and help learners visualize c...
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Hello! Hope you're all well.
Ever since the new 'Jump to Time/Cue Point' trigger went live, I've been investigating how it can be used to repeatedly change the state of an object to animate it like a GIF, with none of the drawbacks of a GIF.
This is more 'motivational' than 'educational', but with many of us currently on lockdown, juggling working from home and childcare, it feels like we're SPINNING PLATES at the moment.
Demo: https://bit.ly/elhc275
Download: https://bit.ly/elhc275dl
Ever since the new 'Jump to Time/Cue Point' trigger went live, I've been investigating how it can be used to repeatedly change the state of an object to animate it like a GIF, with none of the drawbacks of a GIF.
This is more 'motivational' than 'educational', but with many of us currently on lockdown, juggling working from home and childcare, it feels like we're SPINNING PLATES at the moment.
Demo: https://bit.ly/elhc275
Download: https://bit.ly/elhc275dl
- Nice one Jonathan. Very engaging and great design.
- So you're looping back to the beginning of a series of state changes to create ongoing animations? That's a cool application I hadn't considered yet for the new trigger. Time to try that one out!
- Thanks Dave, yep, that's pretty much it.
Each plate is controlled by its own layer, which loops back on itself to repeat the state changes until each plate falls. There's also a True/False variable tracking which plates have fallen, which means those plates/animations don't appear on subsequent questions.
I'm still tidying up my master file but will share it shortly.
- This is really fun. I just felt like crashing plates today. My first time through I got all the answers right so I had to go back and make them crash!
- I've felt the same this week Jodi. Stay well!
- It certainly feels like it. Great analogy and perfect execution! I've just learned about the new updates. Thanks for sharing.
- That's true, tha analogy is great! Nice idea with looping a timline with a new trigger :)
- Fun concept with breaking the plates.
- Great concept! Although, I found that once I broke a plate early on, I couldn't get any more answers correct because they wouldn't display if their plate was gone.
- Hi Lisa - thanks and, yep, that's deliberate. Every incorrect answer limits your choices for the next question - including, sometimes, by eliminating the correct option.
It's a 100% pass rate test skinned as a game of skill.
- Great idea Jonathan, I'll have to take a look at this update, it's nice to see the features in action!
- Thanks all. I've unpacked the design in a bit more detail here:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/free-spinning-plates-quiz-with-animations-powered-by-the-new-jump-to-time-trigger - Hey Jonathan, nice job! I always enjoy how you put your challenges together. Thanks also for having it in your blog, my firewalls won't allow me to go to tiny urls. I frequently will view your submissions from home just to see them.
One questions I have is what is the purpose of the 1st slide? I see the title is html5 load screen, then the trigger to jump to the next slide when the timeline starts. What does that do for us?
We're still coming to grips with updating courses due to end of Flash, so I'm still learning best practices with html5.
Thanks!- Thanks Trey, glad you found the blog useful.
That first slide just enures the title slide loads automatically without defaulting to that (slightly unsightly) grey screen with the play button on it. Looks better and keeps the clicking next to a minimum.- Oh ok. Thanks, I appreciate the insight.
