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States, Triggers, and Layers Training- Initial ideas for a starter slide?
Hi friends.
I'm a new member of a team with members that have minimal Storyline experience. They have built a course or two, which are basically PPT slides that they click through. I have been asked to do a morning workshop with them to help them understand states, triggers, and layers. We will be live and in person for this.
I know we have all the how-to's in the user guides and Storyline tutorials and webinars. I am looking to create something with a finished product on Slide 1, have them deconstruct it to see how it was built, then work to recreate it, learning the different aspects along the way. I would start them with the pre--created Slide 1, then work together to rebuild, teaching the steps along the way.
I anticipate there will be some remedial discoveries along the way, but that will help fill in the gaps.
My ask: I know there are many in this group who teach Storyline as well as talented developers. Does anyone have a suggestion for the opening slide? I was thinking perhaps about a simple house built of shapes that gets remodeled (layers), a facelift (states), and has a door that opens and closes (triggers) but not sure this is the best way to approach this.
I appreciate any ideas the community might share.
WOW!, Do you have any projects half complete? Maybe start there and examine what was done. The steps used to get there. Then work as a group to complete it?
When we have newbie's, we give them a finished project to look at. Then give them the storyline file to review. Then review how it was made,
Good luck
Thanks Eric. The only one that I have mid-stream is the Escape Room that I started in Alexander Salas's course (which is a ton of fun!) and but would overwhelm them.
I hadn't thought about digging though my stuff though. I have a bunch of need-to-be-deleted drafts of projects since I start with File->Save As every time I begin working. Maybe there's an early version of one of those that I might try. I shall go digging. Thanks for the idea.
First thing I get them to build is a tabbed interaction, would get them to build from scratch.
I was going to add the same thing Phil shared. The tab type interaction (click and reveal) is probably the most common and covers all of the basics.
- I'd start with building a simple tabs to layer interactions.
- Then add visited states
- Then add some conditional trigger such as not being able to advance to the next slide until all of the layers have been visited.
That's a good basic overview of Storyline functionality.
Thanks Phil and Tom. That’s just what I needed!
