Getting Organized E-Learning Course

Hi Tara,

Sounds like a nice course.

When you ask about ideas for how to do this, can you be more specific? Do you mean that you want to know where the tools are in Storyline? Or are you more looking for ideas about where things may be placed initially...poor organization, and then where to place them for good org?

I'm interested to know how you'll resolve the issue of everyone's organizational style being different. Clearly, some things are not advisable (like the pile of books on the right of your screen shot that may topple over any minute ). But what about situations where it might be more ambiguous? Can't think of anything brilliant right now, but say keeping photos on the desk, vs. the bookcase, vs the file cabinet. Storyline certainly allows for that, but I"m wondering how dicey it could get.

Looking forward to hearing more!

Thanks Rebecca for your reply. I am trying to figure out the best way to set up the course. Right now I have been using Storyline, but I also have Engage, Presenter, and Quizmaker. The training specialist sent me the PowerPoint that is use during the training, and it talks a little bit about ambiguous situations like the hanging photo frames rather than having them sit on a desk. I work in a hospital so everyone's organizational style is very different depending on their role. I wanted to create a course that's applicable to everyone (if that's possible, ha). The PowerPoint for the training begins with 9 slides of statistics on organization and why organization is important. It discusses how to organize your filing system, your email, and your schedule. I guess the content of the course is pretty general so I am trying to find a way (if appropriate) to make this course interactive. Maybe a scenario based course? Like I said, this is my very first course and this course will be the first e-learning course we roll out.  

Maybe to address the different roles within the organization, I can identify the major roles within the hospital, i.e., nurse vs. admin. Create a slide allowing for the user to click on the role that best describes their role and have them go through a scenario that best applys to that role.

As far making a scene interactive, I am not quite sure how I would create an interaction where users can drag and drop each item in a place they think it should belong. Does all this make sense?

Hey Tara,

I am working on a course like this right now too!  Check out a site called 'Mind Tools' they have a lot of great resources.  In Storyline, you can create drag and drop interactions with triggers.

I attached a .Story with a basic drag and drop for you.

Hi Tara,

I consulted in a major hospital for several years, although more specifically within a specialty clinic. Still, I got a feel for the hospital as a whole and all the rules and regs.

Relevant to ME!

I agree that scenario based is best...and making the situation relevant to the Learners. So in our clinic, for example, we wouldn't have wanted to spend time going through a training on how to keep the OR organized. So, you could maybe do a branching scenario where the first thing Learners would do is choose the role that most closely matches theirs.

The 3 C's

My facilitating practice has always been (and Tom talks a lot about this) to pull the Learners in and have them make decisions and choices. Tom calls it the 3 C's: challenge, choice, consequences.

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/build-branched-e-learning-scenarios-in-three-simple-steps/

So here's an example from one "no no" I remember specifically from the hospital. We were not to store items any less than 12" (number may be wrong but you get the idea) beneath the ceiling. So you might have some boxes or file folders and allow users to place them in file cabinets, desk drawers, shelves, AND the top shelf that's clearly close to the ceiling.

Challenge: where is it safe to store these

Choice: cabinet, drawers, shelves: top, bottom, middle

Consequences: you'd have feedback slides indicating all the choices were good, but for the top shelf slide, the feedback would be that  items can't be stored there. You might tell them why in the feedback, or you might give them an opportunity to "remember" why this is a bad choice.

Storyline has a great drag/drop feature that would work for this. Be back in a minute with a couple URLS...or maybe someone has already done so as I've been typing!

One more thing about drag and drop - the target object has to have a fill color otherwise the drag/drop will not work.  You can make the object transparent, but the object has to have a fill color.

Hi Again,

Jeanette has created a Drag and Drop sorting activity

• Published  example here: http://sl-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/dragdrop/story.html
• Tutorial here: https://tom.viewscreencasts.com/463f4cb1769b41d5bf9c0928152cae7d
• Practice files downloadable here: http://sl-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/dragdrop/DragAndDrop.zip
• Looks like there's documentation here: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/drag-and-drop.aspx

David has a neat drag/drop activity with a different take. You actually "drop" a character into a location. Might work for something you want to do.

Drag and Drop Navigation

• Published example: http://sl-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/dragdrop-door/Published/story.html
• Tutorial here: https://tom.viewscreencasts.com/2c730e78a3a54bbf9c302565419b133b
• Practice files downloadable here: http://sl-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/dragdrop-door/DragDropDoors.zip

Let us know if you have more questions!

Rebecca, thank you so much. This gives me everything I need to get started. Sounds like I have a lot of reading and learning to do before I jump into this project, but I will let you know how it turns out. I read about the 3 C's just now and it sounds great!  I'm very excited!!

 Eric, thank you for the drag and drop and the recommendation. It will definitely help. Let me know how your course turns out.