I am wanting to find out what the best way would be to convert an eLearning course to a paper based course for those that may not be able to use screens, for whatever reason?
I am trying to be as inclusive as possible for this course, so one way of doing this is to put it on paper. I presume that with quizzes and the like, they would write the answers long hand, then we would scan those answers online......but maybe i'm clutching at straws.........maybe even a bad idea...
You could paste screenshots of each slide into a Word or PowerPoint file, and then print that. That would let paper users read the content and easily mark their answers to quiz questions (assuming you don't use any drag-and-drops). However, someone would have to collect and grade those quizzes individually...
If you are using Articulate Storyline, I would try publishing the course in word format and then go from there. You have the option of including or excluding layers when you publish to word. I think if you have a lot of layers, you will need to massage the word document or maybe even turn some of those layers into their own slides, or otherwise rewrite some of it so that it can be looked at one screen at a time. But if you original e-learning piece is not layer heavy, you could probably give it to folks after publishing to Word. Of course if you are like me, you might have some things appear and disappear within the same slide -- if that is the case I would duplicate those slides and then split them into multiple slides, so that people looking at the word doc. can see all of the content on the slides.
The interactivity is where things will get difficult, and I think you will have to rewrite interactivity.
... if you have Storyline but didn't use it for the original training, as long as it is not Articulate Rise (the browser application) you should be able to easily import the files into Storyline.
Articulate Presenter should allow you to print slides via PowerPoint.
And yes for the quiz in particular, I would probably just retype the questions from scratch and put them into a word doc.
Hope that helps and was not too confusing. Let me know if you have any questions.
It's been a while since I used Engage, but I do now recall that Engage files are best published to word via the Engage interaction itself. If you try to publish an Engage interaction from Storyline to word, it won't show you all the steps of the interaction. So if you have an Engage interaction, you will need to publish it separately to Word and combine word docs.
That has reminded me of a program I have called help and manual, which is a help authoring tool, i can copy everything into that and print that out or use it in any format.
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You could paste screenshots of each slide into a Word or PowerPoint file, and then print that. That would let paper users read the content and easily mark their answers to quiz questions (assuming you don't use any drag-and-drops). However, someone would have to collect and grade those quizzes individually...
If you are using Articulate Storyline, I would try publishing the course in word format and then go from there. You have the option of including or excluding layers when you publish to word. I think if you have a lot of layers, you will need to massage the word document or maybe even turn some of those layers into their own slides, or otherwise rewrite some of it so that it can be looked at one screen at a time. But if you original e-learning piece is not layer heavy, you could probably give it to folks after publishing to Word. Of course if you are like me, you might have some things appear and disappear within the same slide -- if that is the case I would duplicate those slides and then split them into multiple slides, so that people looking at the word doc. can see all of the content on the slides.
The interactivity is where things will get difficult, and I think you will have to rewrite interactivity.
... if you have Storyline but didn't use it for the original training, as long as it is not Articulate Rise (the browser application) you should be able to easily import the files into Storyline.
Articulate Presenter should allow you to print slides via PowerPoint.
And yes for the quiz in particular, I would probably just retype the questions from scratch and put them into a word doc.
Hope that helps and was not too confusing. Let me know if you have any questions.
It's been a while since I used Engage, but I do now recall that Engage files are best published to word via the Engage interaction itself. If you try to publish an Engage interaction from Storyline to word, it won't show you all the steps of the interaction. So if you have an Engage interaction, you will need to publish it separately to Word and combine word docs.
Thanks for the information Alicia
Brilliant idea, thanks Alicia
Thanks Judy,
That has reminded me of a program I have called help and manual, which is a help authoring tool, i can copy everything into that and print that out or use it in any format.
Kind regards
Ross
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