Storyline360: Video on Single Slide vs Step-by-Step

Hi Ashley,

You can absolutely record more than one clickable action during your screen-recording. When you use the Step-by-Step options, Storyline 360 will then break each click action into individual slides.

If you'd like to include the mouse movements and sounds while teaching the software, try using the View Mode Step-by-Step option!

• View Mode Step-by-Step Slides

Hi Ren - Thank you for responding! So I think I understand the basics pretty well; I'm just not clear on good execution I think. 

Do I need to change the start and end frame to capture more of the software cursor movements? I want to have several short screen recordings each one self-contained demonstrating simple functionality. For example, I want to show how a person can collapse the menu on the left by clicking the menu icon in the player. When I use View Mode, it only captures me moving the cursor to that icon and clicking it once. In one capture I'd like to show how I can toggle it back and forth, off and back on - so this would mean the screen recording showing me click the icon and move the cursor several times, back and forth in one take.

Can I do that on just one slide?

Thanks!

Ashley

I believe I'm thinking about this incorrectly:

So I should consider the View Mode series of slides that are generated a SINGLE SCENE which I can then direct learners to view using buttons on a base slide somewhere else?

Thanks again!

Hey there, Ashley!

Thanks for writing back, and good question.

The possibilities for approaching this are endless, but if you need to have multiple quick recordings, each one self-contained, then I agree that the View Mode step-by-step option is right for the job. That way, your labeled slides will be inserted as a demo under a scene.

Check out this short Peek 360 video of how that could look!

P.S. Here's an excellent, related resource on creating helpful software sims:

• Everything You Need to Know About Creating Software Simulations with Storyline

Katie thank you so much for taking the time to hold my hand here - really grateful for your help and the special Peek instruction!

So what I need to show my learner is a very simple process that involves three clicks. However, it looks like the step by step creates slides that only show one click per slide. To show the entire process, I would need to have the learner watch the entire scene of three slides.

Can I set up a button that allows the learner to jump to that scene to view the entire process? Jumping to layers using buttons is not big deal, but I'm not sure if jumping to an entire scene works in the same way.

Does that make sense?

Really appreciate it - thank you!

Coming together better in my brain now: I'll just create step by step type scenes for each of my short process demoes and jump to those scenes when the user clicks a button. Then I can hide all those demo scenes from the menu itself.

Could still really use help on scaling though! :-)

Looks like you found your solution, Rich :) 

Linking for anyone following along.