From your own experience how has Articulate Storyline 2 worked as far a user friendly, editing content, getting up to speed and dynamic performance. I am starting out looking at different options for e-learning tools and read 3 party blogs but would love to hear back from present users. Positives and maybe the short coming if possible.
As a complete n00b into the eLearning world I tried Captivate 8 and Storyline 2.
After half an hour I figured Storyline was the tool for me. It looked familiar (Office interface) but it also has some really smart features to make a very interesting eLearning module.
Nice things:
Ease of use, small learning curve! Office interface Story view Slide layers Object states Triggers Variables Publishing options.Performance SUPER SUPPORT (Tutorials, eLearning heroes), really helped me a lot!
Missing things:
No audio(clip) normalization No noise gating on audio(clip) No video editing (cutting bad parts from your screencast) you always must do your screencast in one take (in a Capture to single slide scenario). Only the start of object timelines can be attached to Cue points, not the end. You can't zoom out a complete timeline when the time line of the slide is very long (e.g. 3 minutes or more) Grouping triggers and be able to trigger that group at once.
Well, that's a wrap ;)
Having it a lot of fun with Storyline 2. Now I have a collegue how has started using Storyline too. He's also very enthousiastic about the ease of use of the program!
Try setting your triggers to fire when an object changes state, or when a variable changes. Then when you change the state or variable, they all fire, even though they aren't officially "grouped".
If you have static triggers (go to slideXXX), dragging and dropping can't work for reorganizing, but if your triggers are relative (go to next slide), you can drag pages (both individually and in groups) around in Story View and change your organization.
Try setting your triggers to fire when an object changes state, or when a variable changes. Then when you change the state or variable, they all fire, even though they aren't officially "grouped".
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As a complete n00b into the eLearning world I tried Captivate 8 and Storyline 2.
After half an hour I figured Storyline was the tool for me.
It looked familiar (Office interface) but it also has some really smart features to make a very interesting eLearning module.
Nice things:
Ease of use, small learning curve!
Office interface
Story view
Slide layers
Object states
Triggers
Variables
Publishing options.Performance
SUPER SUPPORT (Tutorials, eLearning heroes), really helped me a lot!
Missing things:
No audio(clip) normalization
No noise gating on audio(clip)
No video editing (cutting bad parts from your screencast) you always must do your screencast in one take (in a Capture to single slide scenario).
Only the start of object timelines can be attached to Cue points, not the end.
You can't zoom out a complete timeline when the time line of the slide is very long (e.g. 3 minutes or more)
Grouping triggers and be able to trigger that group at once.
Well, that's a wrap ;)
Having it a lot of fun with Storyline 2. Now I have a collegue how has started using Storyline too.
He's also very enthousiastic about the ease of use of the program!
Keep up the good work!
Marc,
Try setting your triggers to fire when an object changes state, or when a variable changes. Then when you change the state or variable, they all fire, even though they aren't officially "grouped".
KP,
If you have static triggers (go to slideXXX), dragging and dropping can't work for reorganizing, but if your triggers are relative (go to next slide), you can drag pages (both individually and in groups) around in Story View and change your organization.
Ok, going to try that one.
Thank you,
Marc
Marc, check out these steps for editing your recorded screencasts - https://community.articulate.com/series/20/articles/editing-screencast-videos
Thanks so much for sharing the link, Brian, and I hope you find that helpful, Marc. :)
Hi Brian,
I wachted that too!
You can only trim the beginning and the end, crop the video but you can't cut parts from the recorded video or screencast.
Thank you for sharing.
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