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Anyone built e-learning courses for trade industries like property maintenance?
Both Rise and Storyline have their strengths. Articulate put together some examples here: Rise 360 or Storyline 360: Which One Should You Use for Your Project? | E-Learning Heroes
Having used both, I'd be curious how you see the content being completed by your audience/learners.
Storyline has timelines we can manipulate and ways to block user interaction (e.g., mouse clicks.) The effect can be like Storyline producing interactive movies. Objects can move around the screen and we determine whether the user or the course goes to the next slide and when. That last point is important because it lets you setup scenarios where clicking a "positive" button on slide 1 takes the learner to slide 2 while clicking a "negative" button on slide 1 takes the learner to slide 3. That can let us show different outcomes from choices.
Storyline also features robust text-to-speech so you can create a course that speaks to the learner as they go through it--basically the content designer becomes the teacher.
Rise does not have timelines in the same way Storyline does. Rise could more be thought of as an interactive library. Content is broken up into sequences of lessons, and you cannot control when voiced narration automatically plays. Learners have to click a button to play the narration, which I feel can give content created in Rise a museum-type feel, as opposed to the more complex Storyline, which can simulate websites and software and more.
Storyline has very robust quizzing capabilities--more than a dozen kinds of question slide. There's a "Freeform Interaction" slide type called Pick One, and it gives you a bunch of buttons rigged to a quiz results slide. You replace the image of each button with an example of decay (or non-decay) and delete the unused buttons. The images become your buttons. Add in the text of the question on screen, and text-to-speech a voice to read it to them. Badabing.
Rise has similar but narrower functionality. There are only four kinds of questions and each one can show one video, image, or audio file, and it goes where Rise puts it. And there's not as controllable an audio situation. Someone would need to combine the correct and incorrect images of decay into one single image, probably labeled with A, B, C, and D, and then that saved as one single image to upload to Rise. Then the question would just need to be setup for its A, B, C, and D options to align with whichever one is correct in the image.
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