New to Design/Training and looking for a mentor
Jun 27, 2022
Hello All, I recently started a new job creating training via Articulate storyline. In my previous job we just used Power points. There are only 2 of us in this job now because several have moved on recently (there should be 7), and I would like to be more useful and functioning for my employer. we currently have a Learning management system we upload all of our training onto which has well over 400 topics, and we have over 5,000 employees, these employees all take over 40 hours of computer based training each year. Unfortunately, these trainings all have about 25 triggers per page, and several different layers and it seems that there should be a better way to produce these trainings. Here is a quick screenshot of one of the more challenging stories I need to recreate. This is a CPR/ Basic first aid training. Thank you for any help, I truly appreciate it.
- Overwhelmed!
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Hey Melissa, and welcome to the community! That all sounds like a lot, but don't worry. We're here to help make it more manageable.
Being understaffed with a lot on your plate is rough. And I think many of us have been there at one point or another in our careers. In an ideal situation, you'd talk with your organization and triage the workload while your team staffs back up—concentrating on the projects that are the highest priority and/or with the largest impact.
Depending on your situation, though, that might be easier said than done. So the next thing to consider is where you can simplify course development without taking away from the learning experience. That can include:
Hopefully, at least some of those tips work in your specific situation. Also, in the long-term consider:
Good luck and be sure to reach out for any additional help!
BIG learning curve for you if you were power pointing before.. Good news is a lot of the basics in Storyline are just like PPT.
My 5cents is that plan the content so that anything basic, tracked quiz, untracked knowledge self assessment exercises , images, video and more ... add that in rise. Good, quick work process.
What you need storyline for is the interactions that bridge from basic to advanced/custom or the interactive intensive parts. Then you add the storyline block to rise and still present your advanced storyline parts in rise. I choose to present with a "clean look so storyline player interface is customized to not be visible and seemlessly integrate with white rise pages, but this can vary from the purpose with the storyline block. I use full HD project sizes in Storyline, nothing less. Consider your users devices. Test the scaling.
Hint, via storyline you can add content from other authoring tools officially unsupported by Rise.
Using powerpoint for creating videos with or without narration, animated gif graphics or just plain graphics of any sort, is also part of how you create content. So you have that already going for you! Powerpoint is now part of your content creation kit. Like Adobe suite etc..
But now and going forward, you present your content via rise and you learn to live with its limitations - which by the way gets less annoying every year. :) Great improvements and feature enhancements always on the horizon.
So in summary you stay in rise and you use storyline blocks with storyline for anything out of the ordinary.
Hope this helps.
Thank you all for all the help, I appreciate it!
Thank you! I will discuss some of those options with my boss, to see what we do moving forward! Do you know if there is formal training for storyline 360? I work for the State of Arizona and with such high turnover almost nobody currently working here has experience with it.
The self-paced Articulate 360 Training included in an Articulate 360 subscription is often enough for people to get comfortable with Storyline 360. It has tutorials, recorded webinars, and live webinars. There's a ton of helpful content there for Storyline 360 beginners, plus more advanced tutorials for when people move beyond the basics.
If you're looking for longer, instructor-led courses, though, I'd recommend checking out the programs offered by our training partners.