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KatiePorter-68d
2 years agoCommunity Member
Need advice on setting up Storyline template to share with design team for use on over 100 courses.
Hello all! We are looking to move several of our regulatory courses from Captivate (heavily customized, not easy to update) to Storyline. But we want to go about it the right way. We want to cre...
JudyNollet
2 years agoSuper Hero
re: Master Slides
Set up Master layouts for kind of slides you'll typically have in a course, as well as Feedback layouts (which are used for layers). Keep in mind that a Master placeholder can be edited and moved while editing a slide. Standard text boxes and shapes on a Master cannot be edited or moved. Also, all slide elements will appear on top of any shapes on the Master (even if the shapes are at the top of the Master Layout timeline). Here's the User Guide info:
- Slide Masters in Storyline 360 - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
- https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-use-feedback-masters
re: managing portfolio of courses
- Follow a good naming convention for files.
- The file name might include an abbreviated version of the title. If courses have ID #s, those might be in the name. File names might also include a version # and/or the final date for that version.
- For example: HR123-benefitEnroll-v2-2023-08-23.
- The file name might include an abbreviated version of the title. If courses have ID #s, those might be in the name. File names might also include a version # and/or the final date for that version.
- Have a good naming convention and folder structure for storing the files in a shared location.
- Editing Storyline should always be done on a copy of the file on your local drive. (In other words, never edit SL over a network.) That means folks need to back up a file to a shared location whenever they work on it.
- If multiple people will work on the same file, you need a process for ensuring that they don't work on the wrong version or overwrite the most current version.
- I recommend having a main folder for each course. Within that, have a folder for each version of the course. Within a version folder, there might be folders for resources, graphics, and source files. (It all depends on what you might need to refer to in the future.)
Good luck!