Creating Course from Scratch with Newbies

Hi Rachna,

I'm sorry to hear you're finding it overwhelming to get up to speed on Articulate Storyline. Have you checked out our tutorials and webinars?

I'll make sure to talk to my coworker David, who runs the challenges, about your idea to have a follow-along challenge for beginners.

In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!

Hey Allison, Thanks for your concern. Well, it is exciting most of the times to try new things but yes I won't deny that sometimes it become overwhelming too. Yes, I have checked them.

Thanks for checking with David for this. Looking forward for a positive reply. 

Thanks for asking. 

Sure thing! My advice would be to take it one step at a time. Don't feel like you need to know EVERYTHING there is to know about Storyline from day one. Start simple and go from there. :)

I wonder if it would be helpful for David to categorize the challenges? Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. That way someone could build their basic skills and then progress using the challenges. When someone searched they could see all the challenges geared to their level? Also, if they are tagged with the features used in the challenge as well as the tutorials then a user who is learning could work through things logically. 

I think some of what you are looking for Rachna is the instructional design supports (needs analysis, storyboarding template, good practices for creating a course). Sounds like a good idea. Let me know if I can help.

Good idea, Holly! I'll pass that along to David as well. :)

Great suggestions Rachna and Holly. I have a list of the challenges grouped by task (design, multimedia, instructional design, production/development) as well as the 10 challenges new users should do.

It's a Google doc I use when people ask about getting started with the challenges. I'll clean it up and post as an article this week.

If you want any help David, just let me know. I'd be happy to pitch in. 

Thanks David. Along with categorization of challenges, it would be awesome if we have a practical course design challenge for a newbie. Like Day 1 - Task 1, Day 2- Task 2, etc, set of tasks that takes a newbie from basics of course designing to publishing. The idea is to have those tasks designed in such a way that a newbie gets familiar with features of Articulate 360 while understanding nuances and real challenges of course development. In nutshell, learning by doing (real course designing scenarios).

Thanks Holly for the suggestion. I loved the idea of categorization.

How about starting with something like 100 Days of E-learning? The idea is to propose a small challenge for starters every day for 100 days and make e-learning development part of their normal schedule. It would be great if anyone from Articulate team or community can take this forward.

Great idea, Rachna! I'll be sure to pass it along to David. :)