Using Lightbox Slides in E-Learning #413: Challenge | Recap
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This week, your challenge is to show how Storyline 360's lightbox slides can be used as performance suppo...
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Thierry, I love your sense of style. I find your work always visually interesting. Would you have been able to create this presentation by simply using layers? Forgive me for this simple question, but why is lightbox preferable to layers?
J'attends votre réponse. :-)
J'attends votre réponse. :-)
- Hi Doris. It is obvious that this one could have been done entirely with layers. This demo is not a perfect example of how to use lightbox. In fact, I'm still trying to figure out where lightbox would be better than layers (and some clients have told me, "Okay, but no lightbox please"). But David gave some food for thought in his presentation, and thinking about last week's challenge, you can imagine ONE slide with the compliance rules summary that can be called up by each of the hundred slides in your module (but that's not very sexy to do in a demo). If you need to update the summary, you do it once, not a hundred times on layers. Am I right?
... On a second thought, in the case of my demo, the "map" slide could usefully be one lightbox allowing to navigate between the different rooms of the cave by clicking on the colored points.- Thank you Thierry for addressing this question. I would like to make a few comments on this myself. In my view, the great benefit of lightboxes is that they give learners the opportunity to pull content as needed. Here is an example from a previous challenge: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/1cba5e0a-f727-4010-8391-e97ea8e08377/review
This also gives the designer the opportunity to differentiate and customize the content of the lightbox according to the target audience. For example, there is more information at the time of practice, but by the time the exam is taken the entries will be adjusted and learners are expected to know something by heart. The reverse is of course also possible. Table of contents, progress meters, glossaries, abbreviations, learning notes ... can then be called up from anywhere in a comprehensive course. Another aspect is that quiz questions are traceable - cf. example from Montse - which is impossible with layers. I often find the default close button in the modern player annoying, as mentioned here several times. It would be nice if we could turn him off. I hope this helps.
- Thank you for shedding light on good uses of the light box, Thierry and Hilla.
