Creating organic courses with Storyline
Aug 19, 2013
Hi,
I am working to create a organic course that is more focus on covering one key topic from a variety of different areas related to the said topic. Ideally, I would want the user to come in, receive a start page setting up the course for it's content by introducing the topic, and then from there have a slide that is constantly being used as a "home" where the user returns at the leisure from one focus area to find another area to explore. The tracking will not be based on sort of completion but rather a place where the user can go to find all the information for said topic and only be tracked by the slides he/she completes.
As I try and storyboard this out for storyline, does any one have any suggestions as if this layout can work? If it can, do you have any planning tips/storyboarding ideas to make the branching work efficiently into storyline?
Have I completely out did myself with my imagination this time? Oh, and by the way, I need this course ready for launch by Oct 1st.
Any help at all is appreciated!
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Hey Lenea! Welcome to the community, and thank you for posting your comment!! This sounds like a really interesting/cool e-learning course you're looking to design, and I think its definitely do-able in Storyline... sounds like you're looking to have a Home page that has mulitple icons (or images, buttons) that links to various pieces of content, all related to one topic. The users can click on the icons and visit the content in any order that they want, but you'd like users to be able to tell which content they've already seen? You can achieve this simply by using states and variables in Storyline. Create a variable for each slide that they visit with a default value of False, and on your home slide add a Slide trigger that "Adjusts the state of your object to "Completed" when Variable is false". Let me know if this is what you're looking to do, if you need more clarification, or if you need help building an example .story file for this type of interaction!!
If I'm understanding this correctly, I think that what you want to do is relatively easy in Storyline. It reminds me of a thread a saw a little while back in which one of our community members, Bruce, posted a sample file. It's short but I think it demonstrates the main concept of what you want to do.
Completely missed this one - thanks for posting that example Natalie.
This is what I have started to call a "Hub Menu", and I use it almost consistently now.
The only thing you cannot do is use this in conjunction with a "standard" left-hand-side SL menu - the "auto-collapse" functionality of the menu does not play well with this.
However, to run a course - it works fine, and is totally "doable".
Shout if you need any more help Lenae.
Bruce
Many thanks for all your suggestions. Both are applicable. I am building out the storyboard now (though I have never storyboarded for Storyline and it seems redundant to do in word when I feel I could do it directly in Storyline). Any thoughts on that would also be beneficial. As I build this thing out, I will probably run in to someone 'thinker' questions and will give some shout outs for support.
This is the best forum I have ever been on by the way.
Thanks for the help friends!
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