Math Project Idea in Storyline

Bill, the real challenge here is the logical design / learning design of everything you want students to do!

I can't see anything you plan that Storyline itself would have a problem with.

With the use of branching, variables and states you should be able to do all of this. I would start looking at help / tutorials for SL and fire questions at the forum when you get stuck.  You can always send in a part-completed or problem storyline file and many kind souls here will spot the problems for you.

John.a.

From what I've seen and seeing what other people have done.  Most of this is possible with storyline, but  you will have to apply some out of the box solutions. You can do the video and "you try it" questions, (as long as you keep it to just answer text boxes), but the badges and levels are another thing.

Once a student closes the storyline page, they lose all information. So all the badges and leveling up wouldn't be saved, unless you use some javascript to store info on an external databases. I've seen this done on this thread where they kept track of user scores, but I haven't seen anyone pull in info from an external database.  I'm sure it's possible, but if you are not comfortable with javascript than you'll have to find someone that is.  If you don't have some extreme hackers in your class, than maybe a simple xml based database will suffice. 

If you don't need to save the badges or levels than it doesn't really matter.  You could use just use a score based system like the example and have your students compete for the highest score.  1st Correct answers would be worth the most points, and than a retry will lower the points worth by a few points.

Hi Bill,

Have you seen Mathletics?  I was a K-12 teacher prior to jumping into the world of e-learning development/consulting.  Mathletics is a great site full of math games used to reinforce concepts.  My own kids are big fans and it has created a love for math unlike anything I've seen   It's not the solution you are asking about, but I thought I would pass it along to maybe generate some creative ideas.

Chantal 

Chantel - do you use Storyline for the development of education-focused e-learning?

Sadly no, I work primarily in corporate training now.  I'm currently working on a teacher professional development piece and have some ideas for things I'd like to build for the K-12 world but time is sometimes not always easy to come by!

Try evaluating a text entry string using javaScript..

Example:

//get the player
var player = GetPlayer();

//Get the student text entry
var StringToEval = player.GetVar("MyValue");

//evaluate string
var ShowAnswer = eval(StringToEval);

// display results back to storyline
player.SetVar("DisplayThis",ShowAnswer);