Dry, text-heavy documents to into Storyline 2

Before jumping to the solution I would look at why they need to read all of this information and what you want them to do afterwards?

Also is the content something they will need to refer to often and need easy access to?

Thanks for your reply, Tristan.

It is continuing education for doctors and nurses in a specialized area of care.  There is no assessment for this particular course.  It is simply information to allow them to perform better in this specialty.  They may refer back to the content or the linked PDFs but the content will only be available to them online for a limited time period.

I am also working on healthcare modules. It's very difficult and some of the content just doesn't lend itself to interactivity.

I would look to use as many pictures as you can (I do realise how hard these can be to source) and if it isn't going to be interactive then not waste the time making e-learning modules but rather format the PDFs more like an e-book. Make quotes/key points bigger different colour/font etc, get some colour in there.

Thanks, Tristan, that may be a better use of my time.

Hi Audrie

Check out David's interactive screenshot example - it might give you some ideas for adding emphasis even if you can't do full on interactivity https://community.articulate.com/series/45/articles/interactive-screenshots-online-training 

Holly

Thanks, Holly, I'll have a look.

If you determine that the content has to be tracked in some way, hence an LMS, you could add interactivity with some basic "flip the classroom" methods.

I would think through what a person "needs to do" with the information rather than what they "need to know."

Then create contextual challenges, like scenario-driven stories with decisions to be made along the way.

Make the PDF content available as resources that may include some new information they may need to accomplish the challenges.

If you make your challenges contextual to the "real world" activities they "need to do", and they successfully complete them in your course, you've validated that they understand what they "need to know."

It sounds like the most useful and helpful "interactivity" in this case would be to make it easier to find particular parts of the text -- a specific exercise, an important piece of information, or a helpful chart. Making a table of contents that linked to these key pieces of info, and a button to return to the TOC on each page, might be an appreciated addition.

Storyline has a great resources area.  Are they mandatory documents or additional information?  About the worst e-learning course I ever took was one that linked to document after document. The bank had requirements that everyone in certain jobs had to read these government documents. What you can do is break your lessons into very small segments and link one document per segment. What I also did was invent some interactive games after each document that were fun and broke up the tedium.

I agree with the text changes and styling ideas here. You could also open a discussion board for each section of the document. Ask participants to comment on each section of the text and share ideas. An additional layer of support would be to give participants a digital badge as a reward if they comment on every section of the text. Microcredentials and badging are a growing movement to highlight skills and knowledge.