Tools Integrating with Storyline?
Dec 08, 2016
Hi everyone,
I'm new to Articulate, and I'm using 360. I was wondering if there are additional software tools/programs etc. that integrate well with Storyline 360? For example, if I wanted to build my own form-based assessments in, beyond what is offered in the templates in Content Library? Would Google Forms integrate with Storyline? (I'm just using this as one example, but I'm interested in learning about a wide array of things that would integrate well.) Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hi Tara,
A really good question and I'll defer to the community's expertise here, but I did want to at least respond to the question about Google Forms! Things like that can be inserted as a web object within Storyline. That way the form still lives within Google, but users can access it from directly within the Storyline course.
Hi Tara! I wanted to point you to a guide on adding Web Objects to your content.
Thanks Ashley and Alyssa. Stupid question, but I'll ask anyway - what exactly is a web object?
Hi Tara,
A web object is any web-based applications, games, videos, reference materials, and more—whether they're online or stored on your local computer. You can insert them into Storyline using the steps here.
I use that for Survey Monkey and large movies that won't fit in the project itself. Never got around to doing anything more fancy than that.
Thanks Soren for chiming in here - the Survey Monkey set up would be similar to use the Google form and having that included as an option that your users would enter text and content into.
To answer your question, there's no tool I've needed (so far) that did NOT integrate SOMEHOW with Storyline. You may have to think outside the box a bit to get it to do what you need, but nearly everything is possible.
You may have to find someone who can help you with javascript or some technical imagination, but don't limit yourself to what CAN be done - think what NEEDS to be done and then find a way to make it happen. Good luck!
Agree with Nick. The usual limit to what Storyline can do is your assessment and skill. You can easily embed any content, or extend functionality with some basic Javascript. I commonly use videos that I author in different tools and surveys created in surveymonkey or google forms.
In the interest of maintenance it's always nice to keep content in Storyline and its native capabilities, but that being said my most common additions are embedded Web objects and a bit of JavaScript now and then.
I often use gonaimate, screenflow to add in some things I cannot do directly inside of Storyline. Otherwise a sparkling of javascript and magic can eelpout.
I use a lot of different tools with Storyline. Here is a partial list:
Really helpful list, Nancy! Thanks for sharing it. :)
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