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Interactive Career Lattice with eLearning
Hello! I am wondering if anyone has any experience using Articulate 360 tools (I'm primarily a Storyline user) to develop an interactive career map. While not technically training and perhaps outside the scope of my role as an instructional designer, I have been asked to develop an interactive tool that our employees can use to learn more about their own roles, other roles at the same level in the organization, and higher level roles that use similar skillsets for the purpose of professional development and career pathing. I don't have a solid set of requirements quite yet but my stakeholders liked the examples I found online so I'm trying to build something similar to https://www.cyberseek.org/pathway.html or https://cleanenergyeducation.org/career-pathways/business-development-marketing-sales.
My initial thought was using a data visualization tool like Power BI but I'm finding this is way outside my skillset, so I thought I'd check in with you folks to see if anyone has any experience or ideas that might help me get started. Thanks!
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Based on those examples, I think you could do that in Storyline. For example, showing extra info via states. Or via objects that hide/show. Or on layers. Lots of options.
Obviously, the more roles and connections involved, the more complicated the design and programming get. I suggest you get a better idea of the scope before committing to anything.
Thanks, Judy! My preference was to avoid storyline because it's so manual but I agree there are a lot of options. And unfortunately, we are trying to represent a lot of roles so that's going to mean a million triggers and states and layers which is all cumbersome to manage but I'll definitely share what I come up with! I appreciate your insight!
Rise is certainly simpler to user. That's because it doesn't allow the customized programming that Storyline has. At best, you could reveal info in Rise via a labeled graphic (again, depending on the actual content). But you couldn't get the functionality shown in the examples you linked to.
So, yeah: "Layers and triggers and states! Oh my!" 😁
I love the ideas JudyNollet has shared here about what parts of Storyline to start digging into to accomplish this.
One other idea comes to mind I thought I'd chime in with—it's not an exact 1:1 match to the use case you described, but this week's E-Learning Challenge is on creating interactive org charts 🤔 It strikes me solutions to that problem could be useful to your idea as well with some minor tweaks. At the end of the week you'll be able to see all the examples that people have shared on this which usually include some actual files or how tos you can follow to try to reproduce their approach.
And whatever you do end up creating, you should absolutely come back and share with the community, too :)
Thanks, Noele! I meant to look for relevant challenges and completely forgot after I posted this! I've also been wondering if an org chart format is the best fit so it's perfect that was the challenge this week!
It's so funny how timing can work out perfectly like that sometimes :)
