Using Interactive Dials in E-Learning #453
Using Dials in E-Learning #453: Challenge | Recap Interactive dials are a great way to simulate real-world objects and tasks in your e-learning courses. Dials are similar to sliders, but where sliders move along a straight path, dials move in an arc or a circular path. Dials also use less space than sliders, so learners can quickly scroll through large amounts of data. The best part? Dials are super easy to use and customize. With just one click, you can easily format pre-made dials or convert any object, graphic, or image into a unique dial. Here are a few ways dials are commonly used in e-learning: Reveal or step through a process Choose avatars or e-learning characters Create draggable menus 🏆 Challenge of the Week This week, your challenge is to share an example that demonstrates how you're using interactive dials in e-learning. 🧰 Resources Downloads Storyline: Rotating Objects Template Storyline: Dial H For Help Storyline: Stacked Dial to Create a Gauge Storyline: Monarch Metamorphosis Dial Storyline: Dial Infographic User Guide Storyline 360: Working with Dials Storyline 360: Adding Variable References On-Demand Training Using Dials in Storyline 360 Using Dials to Create Menu Navigation in Storyline 360 ✨ Share Your E-Learning Work Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post. Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example. Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure. Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness. 🙌 Last Week’s Challenge: Before you dial into this week’s challenge, check out innovative ways course designers are using AI to help build better e-learning: Using AI in E-Learning Design #452: Challenge | Recap 👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges? The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challengesanytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos. Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article. 📅 Next Week’s Challenge Challenge #454 (03.22): Using variables in e-learning. This variables challenge will be different because you'll be asked to share a demo that uses all three variables. 🚨 Contact Information Just a quick heads up – if you want your blog, website, or LinkedIn included in our recap posts, could you do me a favor and add or update those links onto your ELH profile sometime this week? I found some broken links last week when I pulled the recap together. You spend a lot of time building creative examples, and your work deserves all the attention it can get. If you make changes, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks!Voyage experience - Signature venues
Hello! I've been lurking around for years, and this is my first challenge (a bit late, I know). Since I develop Travel Advisor training courses for a storied cruise line, I thought a ship's wheel (well, an old-timey wheel) would be perfect for a dial to page through our ship's signature venues. Animating the dots was a bit of a chore (lots of triggers), but I like the way it turned out. Signature venuesStrong Password Practices - Interactive Dialer E-Learning Course
Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with Password Safety Fundamentals. This custom-designed course uses a dialer-style interaction to deliver training that’s simple, engaging, and effective. Take the first step toward protecting your digital identity. Click below link to explore the course today! https://www.swiftelearningservices.com/cybersecurity-password-training-online/Unleash the Legend!
This challenge gave me the chance to try something a little different. I’ve always enjoyed comics and superheroes, so I built an interaction where learners could select a power and a background using two dials to reveal a matching hero. I put together a quick prototype in Storyline to prove out the idea, then brought the idea into ChatGPT to help me shape the content. I worked through the hero grid, tightened up the descriptions, added flavor text, and refined the overall look and feel. About halfway through, I had the idea to present each hero like a Magic: The Gathering–style card, which gave the whole thing a more collectible feel. From there, it was all about polish: adjusting the instructions, finding the right button label (Unleash the Legend), and even adding some sound effects to give the interaction more punch. This was a fun back-and-forth with ChatGPT — starting simple, then layering on details until it started to feel complete. You can see the final version here: Unleash the LegendELC #522 - Life Cycle of a Frog
For this e-learning challenge, I decided to create a sample that represents something cyclical - and that made me think of the Life Cycle of a Frog. So, that's what I created this sample on. I set the dial up for multiple rotations, enabling users to spin it multiple times. I also used Emphasis Animations on some illustrations to subtly enhance them. Here's a link to the sample - Life Cycle of a Frog Let me know what you all think, thanks!Global calendar: where is autumn now, and where is spring?
Hello everyone! When I saw this week's challenge, I immediately imagined the Earth that can be rotated. And I also remembered that different continents have different seasons at the same time. Find out where it is spring and where it is autumn. Take a look at the example About Me Kate Golomshtok Website Email LinkedInVictorian Alphabet Project
A Most Curious Diversion: The Victorian Alphabet Dial Though I am tardy in submitting this humble creation, I felt compelled to share my vision nonetheless. Ever enchanted by the elegance and refinement of the Victorian aesthetic, I have embarked upon a whimsical endeavour: an interactive alphabet dial. With a gentle spin, the player shall unveil a letter accompanied by a charming illustration and a verse, each rendered in the ornate style of the age. It is my sincere hope that this modest project shall delight and amuse, and perhaps even transport you—if only for a moment—into a bygone era of beauty and imagination. Enchanted AlphabetCoin Operated
Hey you guys! I Never Say Die when it comes to these demos, and following last week's Merge Shapes challenge, I thought it'd be interesting to work with a dial that has holes in it. There are actually two 'coins' in this Goonies-inspired interaction. It's the same image, initially housed in a slider, then formatted as a dial. This creates an 'on rails' drag-and-drop, that is fully accessible from the keyboard. (Because when you change the underlying variable of a slider or dial, this also changes its position without the learner having to touch it.) But it's certainly more fun to interact with the coin using a mouse or on a touchscreen. Give it a try here.
33 Interactive Conversations in Chat, Text, and Email Formats for E-Learning #361
Interactive Conversations in E-Learning RECAP #361: Challenge | Recap This week's challenge asked course creators to show how interactive conversations can be shown in e-learning courses. Charity Malone Example | Charity Malone Yekaterina Martynova Example | Yekaterina Martynova Daniel Cañaveral Example | Daniel Cañaveral Jonathan Hill Example | Jonathan Hill | Website | @DevByPowerPoint Kandice Kidd Example | Kandice Kidd Joanne Chen Example | Joanne Chen | Website Teo Karageorgakis Example | Learn more | Teo Karageorgakis | Website Jodi Sansone Example | Jodi Sansone | Website | @jodimsansone Samuel Apata Example | Download | Samuel Apata | Website | @afrostem Ron Katz Example | Ron Katz | Website Karin Lorbeck Example | Download | Karin Lorbeck Nancy Woinoski Example | Nancy Woinoski Matt Wright Example | Matt Wright Larry van wave Example | Larry van wave | Website Sandy Henderson Example (v1) Example (v2) | Sandy Henderson Ernesto Yannini Example | Ernesto Yannini | Website Kelsey Corder Example | Kelsey Corder Emine Sharma Example | Emine Sharma Sharon Plunk Example | Sharon Plunk New to the E-Learning Challenges? The weekly challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos. If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure. If you share your demos on Twitter, please include #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness. Share Your Interactive Chat Examples! The email, chat, and texting challenge is still open! If you have one or more ideas you'd like to share, please jump over to the original challenge and post your links in the comments section. I'll update this recap page to include your examples.E-learning Alchemy
Thought I'd use a circular menu to create a kind of portfolio. For this, created two dials (in the form of test tube) for the user to pick an e-learning format and a topic to "create" a course. With four formats and four topics, there are sixteen possible portfolio combinations. Launch E-learning Alchemy
