My name is Milan and together with three colleagues we're building e-learning at an energy business school in the Netherlands. We are not trained instructional designers but a bunch of ambitious guys with a lot of freedom in our modules. Our first module is now finished and we would love your feedback on it.
We are building at least ten more similar to this one about the energy system. We want to keep improving each one and therefore please give us feedback so we can keep making better modules.
My name is Milan and together with three colleagues we're building e-learning at an energy business school in the Netherlands. We are not trained instructional designers but a bunch of ambitious guys with a lot of freedom in our modules. Our first module is now finished and we would love your feedback on it.
We are building at least ten more similar to this one about the energy system. We want to keep improving each one and therefore please give us feedback so we can keep making better modules.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me.
Hi Milan,
Great job on your first module! I really enjoyed it. I loved the 3D animations and think that the non-linear, scenario-based learning will help keep your learners' attention. It's also highly interactive, which made it fun to view. Amazing work coming from people who are not trained instructional designers!
Would have preferred the Player to Scale To Fit, as on my laptop I lose half of the Go button.
Like Phil - I would prefer Sans Serif fonts - I think the modern look and feel is discordant with the Serif you have used.
Love the 3-D models - not sure if a big red "warning triangle" is meant to come up on the first one - or whether that was my PC! If it is meant to come up - why?
Convention is to have "speaking" in italics.
I got the first task incorrect but it then quickly went to "Congratulations on your first task"
Only got as far as the first quiz I am afraid - but a lovely concept - well done.
Thank you for your suggestions and positive feedback.
@Jennifer - thanks for making the link work. I copied it out of an email, didn't check it before I uploaded it here.
@Phil - can you give us some tips on how to use the screen better? Our goal is a uniform overall look and feel. To achieve this we developed transparent grey and white text boxes in different sizes to align the question, answer and feedback. We struggled with filling up the screen on some questions/quizzes but not sure how we could improve. Could you give us some tips and an example?
Serif fonts/font size - we'll look into font sizes and the sans serif font suggestion. Because of time pressure we noticed it to late to change. We think this has to be done on each screen, or is there a feature in storyline to change all fonts in go?
Transparent shape over your videos - good suggestions we'll change this. Noticed it especially when I tested the module on my ipad
Player to Scale To Fit - Our story size is 930x630 to work on ipads. We received some technical advice on this but would like to have modules scale to fit or go fullscreen on any device. What is the best setting to achieve this?
Warning triangle - The animation should indicate the nuclear power plant to close or malfunction. That was hard to visualize and the warning triangle is supposed to visualize that. A suboptimal solution. We'd love to get suggestions on integrating animations better and to more effect.
Congratulations after a wrong answer - the storytelling could have been better if we'd developed the story earlier. In the last few days we added this and should have added a more alternative screens to cope with people giving wrong answers. The story is could be less linear.
Thanks for all the compliments, we are really proud of this module but want to keep improving it.
For the closedown, I would have a (?) sign and explanation. Perhaps make it "flash" by just having several fading in and out of the Storyline timeline.
There is no "Search and Replace" (fonts) yet in Storyline. The best way to do this is to do a Translation Export, change the fonts in the appropriate sections in Word, then re-import.
Thanks for these tips. We'll check out the translation export for the fonts. The closedown animation has a sign flashing in and out but it wasn't working for us. So we added the warning sign.
If you set uo the project correctly using the fonts on the design ta then it would be a simple case of changing these on the design tab, I am presuming this has not been done so Bruce's suggestion is the right one.
The questions were where I found the screens were not being used well, I try to stray away from the templateddesign and go more for an adaptive/evolving design based on what needs to go on the screen, you can still maintain your design but let it fill the screen better.
From a basic design point of view you could enusre you follow CRAP (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Position) these simple principles can help you to design your courses.
You should continue to question your design ideas, over time you will find that this attention to detail will mean you do it correctly everytime.
From a font size point of view choose two - three sizes, I often go with 20 for headings, 18 for Sub-headings and 16 for main body text (I try to never use smaller than 16).
I loved the 3D animation/videos and the very professional look and feel of the course.
In addition to Phil's point about the go vs continue button - I think it would compliment your course well if you gave it a 3D look and a hover over state to make it more obvious to the user that it is a clickable object.
Also, I sometimes found that I glanced over some of the information. I think this may partly be due to the font size being a little small and partly because the crucial text was off to the left of the screen and my eye was drawn to the center by the graphics and/or interaction. Perhaps simply making the font larger would alleviate this, or maybe changing the font colour to make it stand out from the background a little more.
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Cannot make the link work I'm afraid.
Bruce
Me niether
not working for me as well :(
Try this link:
http://edi.articulate-online.com/p/6796206529/DocumentViewRouter.ashx?Cust=67962&DocumentID=647c6ce3-799b-459c-b6b6-218dac388d40&Popped=True&InitialPage=story.html
Hi Milan,
Great job on your first module! I really enjoyed it. I loved the 3D animations and think that the non-linear, scenario-based learning will help keep your learners' attention. It's also highly interactive, which made it fun to view. Amazing work coming from people who are not trained instructional designers!
Jennifer
I loved the look and feel nicely done.
I would add a transparent shape over your videos as by defualt storyline will pause a video if you click it.
The flont size is very small and uses a serif font, I would try and use a larger font and a non-serif font which looks better on screen.
In places you could have used the real estate better, epecially the interactions where there is a lot of wasted space.
I liked the navigation buttons, but got confused about why switch from "Go" to "continue" which looked squashed in the available space.
Overall this is a great module, well done.
Hi,
Lovely "crisp" feel to it.
Only the "Exit" icon works on the opening page.
Would have preferred the Player to Scale To Fit, as on my laptop I lose half of the Go button.
Like Phil - I would prefer Sans Serif fonts - I think the modern look and feel is discordant with the Serif you have used.
Love the 3-D models - not sure if a big red "warning triangle" is meant to come up on the first one - or whether that was my PC! If it is meant to come up - why?
Convention is to have "speaking" in italics.
I got the first task incorrect but it then quickly went to "Congratulations on your first task"
Only got as far as the first quiz I am afraid - but a lovely concept - well done.
Bruce
Hi all,
Thank you for your suggestions and positive feedback.
@Jennifer - thanks for making the link work. I copied it out of an email, didn't check it before I uploaded it here.
@Phil - can you give us some tips on how to use the screen better? Our goal is a uniform overall look and feel. To achieve this we developed transparent grey and white text boxes in different sizes to align the question, answer and feedback. We struggled with filling up the screen on some questions/quizzes but not sure how we could improve. Could you give us some tips and an example?
Thanks for all the compliments, we are really proud of this module but want to keep improving it.
Milan
Hi...
For the closedown, I would have a (?) sign and explanation. Perhaps make it "flash" by just having several fading in and out of the Storyline timeline.
There is no "Search and Replace" (fonts) yet in Storyline. The best way to do this is to do a Translation Export, change the fonts in the appropriate sections in Word, then re-import.
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for these tips. We'll check out the translation export for the fonts. The closedown animation has a sign flashing in and out but it wasn't working for us. So we added the warning sign.
If you set uo the project correctly using the fonts on the design ta then it would be a simple case of changing these on the design tab, I am presuming this has not been done so Bruce's suggestion is the right one.
The questions were where I found the screens were not being used well, I try to stray away from the templateddesign and go more for an adaptive/evolving design based on what needs to go on the screen, you can still maintain your design but let it fill the screen better.
From a basic design point of view you could enusre you follow CRAP (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Position) these simple principles can help you to design your courses.
You should continue to question your design ideas, over time you will find that this attention to detail will mean you do it correctly everytime.
From a font size point of view choose two - three sizes, I often go with 20 for headings, 18 for Sub-headings and 16 for main body text (I try to never use smaller than 16).
As Phil mentioned it - more on C.R.A.P.
De link geeft een waarschuwing dat het gevaar kan opleveren, dus ik ga maar niet verder. h.vandoor@documa.nl
Hey Milan,
I loved the 3D animation/videos and the very professional look and feel of the course.
In addition to Phil's point about the go vs continue button - I think it would compliment your course well if you gave it a 3D look and a hover over state to make it more obvious to the user that it is a clickable object.
Also, I sometimes found that I glanced over some of the information. I think this may partly be due to the font size being a little small and partly because the crucial text was off to the left of the screen and my eye was drawn to the center by the graphics and/or interaction. Perhaps simply making the font larger would alleviate this, or maybe changing the font colour to make it stand out from the background a little more.
Hope this is helpful.
Fantastic looking course, though.
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