Rise Template Using Tropic Tonalities
This is my very first ELH Challenge, and wow, did I pick a doozy! I decided to make a Rise template course focusing on four colors from Pantone's suggested palette, Tropic Tonalities. Cloud Dancer served as the foundation (of course) with Kiwi Colada as anchor, and Capri and Bright Marigold as accent colors. I used playful and modern Rise fonts—Maven Pro for headers and Poppins for paragraph text—to reflect the nature of the color palette and inspirational photo. One thing that is both a blessing and a curse when using Rise is the limitations in customization (although Articulate has made great strides in improving that!). As such, I created my own previous and next buttons just so I could use the green anchor color while retaining the Cloud Dancer theme color. The other thing I discovered was that when using a color background for the tabbed interactive, the font color didn't change for better contrast (e.g., active tabs show white text on light green background, yuck). So I had to save a low-opacity kiwi rectangle as an image, upload that as a background with no overlay, and that seemed to do the trick 🥵 If I were to do it over again, I would probably make the kiwi green the theme color, and then upload Cloud Dancer as an image background over and over again, just so I could easily have functional navigation buttons in my anchor color. All in all, this was a fun experiment on seeing how I could make Rise bend more to my will, but I'd probably go with Ye Olde Storyline for better customization ☺️ Cloudy With a Chance of Dancing Rise TemplateRISE Course Starter Using Pantone Cloud Dancer
Hello everyone, For challenge #535, I’ve been experimenting with colour combinations while staying true to the lesson’s theme. I focused on various text features, keeping things simple and easy on the eyes. To create a pleasant visual palette, I chose soft shades with Cloud Dancer as the foundational colour. I’m excited about the possibility of further developing this course and making it more engaging with fun activities. I would really appreciate any feedback on my initial work! Course SampleThe Million Dollar Challenge: An engaging and fun gamified quiz
Hello! 👋 I would like to share another project I’ve been working on — The Million Dollar Challenge, a fully interactive, game-based quiz experience that I built with some help from AI. This project is based on a popular gameshow, applying the same mechanics and gameplay to the quiz. With some prompts, guidance, and code generation from AI, here's a game that’s fun, challenging, and suitable for embedding into any course. Just tweak the question and answer choice sets and you'll have a game that could help achieve your course learning objectives. Usability: Easy to Play: One click to start, intuitive question/answer flow. Engaging Learning Tool: Perfect for knowledge checks, gamified assessments, or review activities. Customizable: Swap out questions, tweak prize amounts, change colors, or edit sounds to match your brand. Accessible Interaction: Clear text, large clickable buttons, and visual cues. Give The Million Dollar Challenge a try in this demo and let me know your thoughts on how you can integrate this into your e-learning projects if this is something that you would actually use for serious topics (compliance, safety training) or lighthearted refreshers. If you have suggestions on how to make the game even better, feel free to let me know; would love to know what you think. 🙂Mr Plow Saves Christmas
It's that time of the year again, folks! I was a little underwhelmed when Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as their next Color of the Year, but I had a lot of fun making this snow-themed interactive quiz. It's a surprisingly versatile base color. For almost as long as I have been building MCQs in Storyline, I've enjoyed showing immediate and visible 'consequences' for right or wrong answers. In this demo, a correct answer will clear the road and allow the delivery van through. But an incorrect answer will cause a blizzard, and a naughty dog will change the color of the snow in subsequent questions. Get the final question wrong, and you'll set off the car alarm, too. These little details are designed to make it more appealing to try again if you fail. So you not only improve your knowledge, but also improve the on-screen outcomes. Anything less than 100% isn't good enough. Watch out for yellow snow! The 'Mr Plow' character was made with Powtoon. Isometric assets from Freepik. Can you clear the road and help Mr Plow save Christmas? Mr Plow Saves Christmas | EngageBrainTrain.com Happy Holidays!
Pantone COTY 2026 - Creative GSAP 3D Effect for Articulate Storyline 360
For this year's Pantone COTY E-Learning Heroes Challenge, I wanted to explore how motion and perceived depth could be pushed further within Articulate Storyline 360 with the help of the GSAP animation framework! This demo creates the illusion of a living, breathing scene that subtly responds to the user's mouse or finger movement across the screen. Combining parallax and masking techniques together with GSAP scripting, the result is an interaction where each illustrated element appears to rotate and drift in three-dimensional space, even though everything is built using flat 2D shapes. Check out the interactive version here: https://discoverelearning.com/insights/pantone-coty-2026-cloud-dancer-creative-gsap-3d-effect-for-articulate-storyline-360/Coffee Chat 101
Hello, everyone! 👋 This is my very first e-learning challenge submission! I began taking Instructional Design courses this academic year, and I just completed an Instructional Systems Design course earlier this month. Though I've only been using Articulate Storyline for a few weeks, I can say that it as been a wonderful and creative challenge. Professionally, I am a Career Coach, so I thought it would be fun to start off with a topic that I am comfortable with. Skill Focus: I explored using markers in this quick interactive slide, which focuses on the essential elements for an effective & professional coffee chat. The Cloud Dancer color is utilized as the background color and text color within the title & marker numbers. Link:https://360.articulate.com/review/content/8b4ce6b8-e9c9-47dd-98d1-493d2d5ca76c/review Let's Connect! LinkedIn Profile Feedback is welcomed and appreciated! 😄 Kindly, KatCloud Dancer 2026: Interactive Exploration
An interactive exploration of Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201), Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year - and the first white shade ever chosen in the program's 26-year history. Link: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/05fb936b-0a99-4717-9f62-5b4f76926188/review What's inside: Interactive hotspots revealing the story behind the color: The science of warm/cool undertone balance Cultural context: why white, why now? A clickable timeline wheel comparing Cloud Dancer with past colors (2018-2026) The controversy: minimalist praise vs. "playing it safe" criticism Real-world brand applications from Motorola to Play-Doh The approach: Built with pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript to ensure it runs smoothly in any environment. The design itself reflects Cloud Dancer's minimalist aesthetic: clean, spacious, and elegant. P.S. I've been missing these challenges lately due to work commitments, but it's always wonderful to come back and see familiar names still creating and sharing. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with creativity and inspiration! Jayashree Ravi My LinkedInCustom Glossary Interactions in E-Learning #396
Using Custom Glossary Interactions in E-Learning #396: Challenge | Recap Glossaries are a common interaction in e-learning courses. Course designers use glossary interactions to define key terms, explain industry-specific jargon, and provide context and understanding of cultural phrases. By including a glossary in your e-learning course, you're providing learners with a valuable tool that they can use to enhance their understanding of the material. Not only does this help learners to better engage with the content, but it also allows them to interact with the course on a more meaningful level. If you're working in Storyline 360, you can easily add a glossary using the quick-and-easy glossary import/export feature. But you're not limited to the defaults. When you need your glossary to align visually with the rest of your course, you'll need to build it from the ground up. And that's what this week's challenge is all about! Challenge of the Week This week, your challenge is to create a glossary interaction to show how they can be used in e-learning. Resources Using Glossary Interactions in E-Learning #192: Challenge | Recap Storyline 360: Adding a Glossary Share Your E-Learning Work Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post. Forums: Start your own 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 back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure. Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness. Last Week’s Challenge: Before you get started building your custom glossary interactions, check out the certificate examples your fellow challengers shared over the past week: E-Learning Certificate Examples & Templates RECAP #395: 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 challenges anytime 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.
