I'm looking for some ideas. I have a US map of Agricultural Rules by State and was going to make each state clickable and when a user clicks a state they will see the specific rules that pertain to that state pop up.
The challenge is that some of these Ag rules are over one MS Word page long, and that has already been pared down. It seems like alot of text to pop up on the page. Before I dive into this project I thought I would post on here to pick your collective wisdom and ideas.
You could do a mouseover with an abstract that is perhaps two sentences (this way it's consistent across states) and then click and it opens a lightbox like layer that show the detail. They close the layer and they're back on the map.
Thank you, Tom. In my further searching I found that I like this format for a pop up box. http://elearningdesigner.com/interactive-map/ Which makes the content chunked into 3 sections that the learner can click on without getting overwhelming amounts of text at once.
Any ideas as to how this "map location" box was made? I'm trying to recreate it from scratch and not sure if storyline already has something like this already built in.
They are actually pretty easy. Create a new slide that isn't linked to any other slide, then create a trigger for the pin that, when it's clicked will open a lightbox and specify the new slide you've created as the light box slide.
From there you can add a layers and replicate the layout you liked.
I'm sure there are tutorials as well, you will probably find some if you search lightbox in the forum.
I'm attaching the .story file for you. I built it quickly for an older Elearning Challenge so many of the elements are not editable. I hope the source file helps.
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Wow, thank you all so much. I decided to use a lightbox slide with one of the pre-populated storyline templates. I've done Virginia as my mock up. Still need to update the images.
Question: Are the lightbox slides supposed to show up on the left menu? For some reason I thought they would not show up. Is there a way to not have them appear on the left navigation menu?
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You could do a mouseover with an abstract that is perhaps two sentences (this way it's consistent across states) and then click and it opens a lightbox like layer that show the detail. They close the layer and they're back on the map.
Or just do a click to layer.
Thank you, Tom.
In my further searching I found that I like this format for a pop up box. http://elearningdesigner.com/interactive-map/
Which makes the content chunked into 3 sections that the learner can click on without getting overwhelming amounts of text at once.
Any ideas as to how this "map location" box was made? I'm trying to recreate it from scratch and not sure if storyline already has something like this already built in.
Carolyn
Looks like a lightbox with layers, which was one of Tom's suggestions.
Create a link from the pin to a lightbox slide and then add layers to the slide.
Super. I'll try that. I've never worked with Lightboxes before. Is there a good lightbox tutorial online that you would recommend?
Thanks so much.
Carolyn
They are actually pretty easy. Create a new slide that isn't linked to any other slide, then create a trigger for the pin that, when it's clicked will open a lightbox and specify the new slide you've created as the light box slide.
From there you can add a layers and replicate the layout you liked.
I'm sure there are tutorials as well, you will probably find some if you search lightbox in the forum.
Hi Carolyn -
I'm attaching the .story file for you. I built it quickly for an older Elearning Challenge so many of the elements are not editable. I hope the source file helps.
Hi Carolyn,
Just an FYI - I noticed that your email signature came through when you replied via email. You can remove that if you would like by clicking Edit beneath your response. Here’s a quick Peek video if you need help.
Wow, thank you all so much. I decided to use a lightbox slide with one of the pre-populated storyline templates. I've done Virginia as my mock up. Still need to update the images.
http://www.uvm.edu/~distance/PBIO/hempmap/story_html5.html
Question: Are the lightbox slides supposed to show up on the left menu? For some reason I thought they would not show up. Is there a way to not have them appear on the left navigation menu?
Carolyn
Hi, you can go to the Player and select menu and then remove any slides you don't want to appear in the menu.
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