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Using Storyline to storyboard projects
At last week's workshop with Charity Learning, we talked about storyboarding courses and the formats available to designers.
It doesn't matter at all how designers choose to write and storyboard ...
Interesting topic. I’ve done my storyboarding right in Storyline for my last two elearning projects at Langevin Learning Services and it’s worked great for me.
Disclaimer: I do the instructional design, storyboarding and development for the e-learning, so the amount of people involved, and the tools they are familiar with themselves, are something to take into consideration when choosing your storyboarding tools.
I always do my up-front task analysis and writing in Word; that’s where I do all the editing and content organizing. Then I storyboard in Storyline. I move “chunks” of text from my Word document onto the slides in Storyline, and I put basic shapes and placeholder images. I will even do some basic linking just to make sure all the functionality I want will work out.
When the Storyline storyboard is finished I know what each slide will have on it (content wise) and how the course will flow. And then, the REAL time-saver, is that I will just create a copy of my storyboard file and develop my course right from there. This means all the text, shapes and image placeholders are already there, I just have to style, add animations and ta-da!
