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Using Rise to create a technical, step-by-step user guide
Hi Stefan,
Curious about how you are developing this! We create software training and were trying to create a guide that has a combination of steps and quick videos. Not sure if you could share an example of how you are developing this guide.
Hi Erika,
I am afraid I can't share an example in public.
In my experience it is all about keeping it simple.
If you look at how classroom software-training works, it is a prototype scenario of Watch-Try-Do: a teacher/ trainer shows how something is done within the software (WATCH), students are trying to accomplish similar task (TRY) -if they struggle the teacher/ trainer gives hints and finally they are working with the software on their own (DO).
With an e-learning course those principles stay the same:
- Watch: Show how things are done in a screencast
- Try: try to do something similar in a simulation
- Do: work with the real software (this is not a part of the e-learning anymore.
I use Rise as a container for all elements.
As I do not like the screencasts you can create with Storyline, I use Camtasia instead.
I do use Storyline for simulations, but I am creating them from blank (for the same reason: I absolutely do not like Storyline screen recordings). I use screenshots, transparent objects, various objects like sliders or dragable elements to mock the UI of the software.
Finally it is all about planing: keep lessons short, make sure it is a usefull path, introduce features one after another and - considering simulations: only create one, if it helps to understand a task and always a quick mockup in storyline first to see if it is feasible at all.