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Storyline: Employee Conversation Branching Scenario
Prompting learners to practice navigating difficult conversations through e-learning is an excellent way to help boost their confidence—and get it right in real life. In this inspiring example featuring a Storyline 360 branching scenario, learners take on the role of a manager and try to uncover why an employee is showing up to work late. Based on their choices, they’re presented with custom feedback to see how different decisions lead to new outcomes.
Creating custom, immersive scenarios like this one is easy in Storyline 360. Combining features like layers, triggers, conditions, and variables lets you create a scenario that feels tailored to your learners’ needs.
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- This is very detailed but I would really like to see the full project in Storyline to see just how the branching is organized and how many paths there actually were. Even a flow of the branches would be greatly appreciated.
- Actually, there are only two endings to this interaction: A failure path and a success path.
The user stays on a main path and then there are choices that will cycle to one or other depending on their choice. However, they are always on the main path.- Would you be willing to share this as a template?
- This is fantastic! Well developed. Is it possible to share the source file. I'd love to see how it works. Teaching myself but getting a few pointers from a pro is helpful!
- Hi Eva, wonderful example! Did you use SL characters and was it difficult to apply the filter you did? I would appreciate hearing your process.
- I used eLearning Art for the characters and the filter was super easy to apply in PowerPoint. If you go to their Artistic Effects gallery under the Picture Format Tab, you will find all of these filters to use for images.
- Thank you Eva, did you import your characters into Media Library and edit them in PPT from there?
- I went the longer (probably more arduous route) by importing straight into PowerPoint, and adding the filter there. Then exporting the pictures and saving them with a transparent background.
- I'd also be interested in how this looks in the back end.
- Great job on this Eva! Anytime you do scenarios like this there are always logic issues to workout which if not executed correctly can make your entire project obsolete. I saw none.
- I love this, Eva. I ESPECIALLY loved that it went back and reviewed my decisions. That feedback was essential; I would not have learned as much without it. I got through the scenario the first time with a happy ending, but in fact one or two of my choices were not the best possible choice. This made me want to re-do the scenario with different choices, which gave me better feedback and absolutely reinforced the learning. You put a lot of work into this -- fantastic job!
- Thanks Judy for going through it.
- I agree, having your choices analyzed at the end is a great addition to a great scenario. Can you let me know how you /did this at the back end?
- Number variables track your answers on the question slides. These same variables also will change the state of the feedback text at the end.
So when you assign a number to the variable depending on a user's choice, you will call on that same variable to change the state of the text box (or the feedback) on the final slides.
- For more information on Interactive Storytelling, I would definitely recommend checking out eLearning Secrets with Anna Sabramowicz and Ryan Martin. I took their course and they helped me work on this to make it the best interactive narrative it could be.
- This is FANTASTIC, I went through this 3 times haha
- Thank you Martin!
- Excellent
- Thank you.
