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Looking for Storyboard Software
I'm looking for software to help create storyboards for eLearning content. I would appreciate your recommendations.
Storyboarding is a big challenge out our organisation too: Daniel Brigham's comment on version control is a biggie. It'd be great to have a platform that would have the following attributes:
1: VERSION CONTROL !!!! The amount of times I've had customers send me back old versions of a sb because they couldn't be bothered to read their mail (or are deliberately playing silly buggers to sneak in changes) is uncountable
2: OFFLINE/ONLINE HOSTING & SECURE SERVICE: I recognise the value of the cloud, really I do! BUT Our company has a massive focus on security and data protection, thus we aren't allowed to host sensitive information on some of the more interesting platforms as mentioned above, having a secure hosted version is important.
3: VISUAL/DESIGN CONTINUITY: Nothing makes a customer go 'eh?' like a badly drawn / executed storyboard. Making design impact, particularly when emphasising transitions or animated elements is important. Powerpoint does it quite well in some cases, but it'd be great to have a sketching tool integrator to bring things to life.
4: INTEGRATION WITH OTHER TOOLS/RECOGNITION THAT STORYBOARDING IS ONE PARTOF AN OVERALL DESIGN PROCESS: So you've got your sb. Signed off. Great! BUT exporting the storyboard to a different format is sometimes a challenge (avoiding the obviously crappy ppt import features in Captivate and storyline). Often stuff gets lost in translation in team projects so you end up with time spent on stuff you hadn't had in mind. Perhaps a side-by-side comparison where you can see what's going on? Anything in this regard need would have to be half dev tool half storyboarding.
Just a thought, but have you ever look at Articulate Online? I haven't used it much but from what I have it seems pretty solid - https://www.articulate.com/products/ao-features.php
It's not a traditional storyboarding tool, but in today's fast-paced environment we do more wireframing in the actual authoring tool than we do old-school storyboards, and something like this may also help facilitate the storyboarding/wireframing/versioning issues...
Thanks for the response!
Not sure this is quite the kind of thing I had in mind. More like a CEM/LME?
For my work storyboarding is a process that is inherently visual and whilst some degree of 'wireframing' does take place, it's about perhaps 10% of the total storyboarding effort.
