First Week at New Job - Storyline 2 Rookie

John:

1. Each layer can have its own notes and audio.
2. The Previous/Next buttons can be hidden on a per-slide basis. In slide view you'll see a little gear in the Base Layer on the lower right. Click that and you can select which buttons are shown. If you are in story view, you can select the slide and you'll see the properties where you can select which buttons to show in the lower right.

Hope that helps.

Hi John,

Nice job getting started with Storyline and reaching out here - welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community.

Each layer can certainly have it's own audio and information on the layer itself, but elements such as the notes panel that you'll see within the Player are slide specific so they will be seen across the slide and all it's successive layers. The same is true of other player elements such as the buttons, seekbar, etc. - they'll be visible on all the layers associated with a slide that has those turned on. 

You may also  want to bookmark the Storyline tutorials page here, and the information on how to disable the next/previous button on a slide by slide basis is available within the section on Slide properties. 

Steve,

Thank you for your prompt reply. [I see that Ashley has provided an explanation on the Notes/Layers issue]

In regards to question 1, when I add text to Notes on my first slide layer, it updates the notes for all the layers.  Then, if I add/edit notes on slide layer two, the notes on layer one are also changed.

I didn't see a setting on Slide Layer Properties, allowing for unique editing of Notes for each slide layer. 

Thanks again!

- John

Hi John:

Ashley's description of how the Notes TAB works is correct. 

You can only utilize this Notes aspect in your slide and in the Course Player using just the one screen, regardless of how many layers you have in your slide. 

As far as I know (AFAIK), there is no such thing in Storyline 2 as "Multiple Notes Tabs".

That being said, you can add details that act a little like a note does, say, for example, a Marker, that are unique to a particular Slide Layer, so you can build in different content on those layers.

Make sure you adjust/remove any Base Objects from layers over and above the base, so that you do not end up blending the content of two different layers by mistake!

I tend to reuse set items on the base layer, such as Text Boxes and Speaking Characters, on other layers.  Most of the other items that LOOK LIKE they could be re-used, such as Captions, Buttons, etc, typically need to be duplicated and customized/tweaked so they serve a typically differing purpose of/for that layer.

Hope this helps, and good luck in your new job! 

I remember what it was like starting out as a Storyline 2 novice a little over a year ago. 

How time flies...;)

Sincerely,

-Mark

Mark,

Thank you your comment. The idea of a marker for each Slide Layer sounds interesting. Can you provide some more insight?

The content notes are simply the transcript of audio.  It is quite long for some of the tabs, which may prove to barrier.

Thanks again. I appreciate it.

- John

Hi John:

I first got the idea for using a marker to simulate a very small note or Post-It on Slide Content.

Most designers/developers usually tend to build content using Text Captions or Graphics, but a Marker provides an interesting "extra" element in certain situations.

Mark,

Interesting idea! As someone completely new to this, I can already see the amazing creativity of folks using the software.