Share Your Interactive Budgeting Tools, Games, and Financial Calculators #162
Financial Calculators in E-Learning #162: Challenge | Recap Regardless of whether you’re building finance or business courses, knowing how to build a basic calculator interaction will give you a solid foundation for working with variables. And once you’re comfortable working with variables, your e-learning world of possibilities grows exponentially. With variables, you can design personalized learning experiences, dynamically present content based on your learner’s choices, and move beyond linear “click next” courses. And that’s the sum of this week’s challenge! Learn How to Build Your Own Calculator Learning to build complex interactions is always easier when you have prebuilt source files to deconstruct. Below you’ll find a handful of free calculator templates and downloads to help you get started with this week’s challenge. Feel free to rework the examples and/or use as a starting point for your own project. Click to view the calculator downloads Already know how to build a calculator? Wondering how or why you’d even use one in a real course? Check out the following examples for some practical ways calculators can be added to your projects. Using Calculators in the Real (E-Learning) World I like Nicole’s Training ROI calculator because it’s a practical example of how calculators can be used in typical courses. Sure, it doesn’t look like a regular calculator, but under the hood it’s doing exactly what a calculator does best: calculating. Click here to view and download the calculator Working on a health-related course? Try dropping in a BMI calculator to let learners assess the overall state of a patient’s health. Click here to view and download the BMI calculator Before we move into the challenge, I’d like to share some calculator examples from different industries. The examples weren’t created with e-learning tools like Storyline, but that doesn’t mean you can’t build something similar after mastering variables, sliders, dials, and other core concepts. Is It Better to Rent or Buy? Use this interactive calculator to determine whether you should rent or buy your next place. The calculator features data entry fields and sliders to help you compare the costs of buying and renting. Click here to view the interactive financial calculator Challenge of the Week This week, your challenge is to share an example of a financial calculator that can be used in e-learning. If you're new to variables, try starting with one of the free calculator templates below. Depending on your comfort level, you can simply redesign one of the calculator templates or use as a guide for creating your own example. Already comfortable working with variables? Try adding multiple variables, sliders, and interactive elements to create a more advanced calculator. Storyline: Free Calculator Templates and Downloads Storyline 2: JavaScript Date Calculator By Steve Gannon Storyline 2: Square Root Calculator By alphonso hendricks Storyline 2: Equation Calculator By Preston Ruddell Storyline 2: Calculator By David Charney Storyline 2: BMI Calculator By David Lindenberg Storyline 2: Better Calculator By Dave Mozealous Storyline 2: Training Return on Investment Calculator By Nicole Legault Tutorials and Resources Share Your Tips for Getting Started with Storyline's Variables #2 Understanding Variables Introduction to Variables The Case for Variables in E-Learning Last Week’s Challenge: Before you budget time for this week’s challenge, check out the fantastic mockup templates your fellow community members shared over the past week: Mockup Templates for E-Learning #161: Challenge | Recap Wishing you an exponentially rewarding week, E-Learning Heroes! 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.Football Manager
Hello there! 👋 I've been looking for different ways to start building out a portfolio and this weekly challenge caught my attention! I love football, despite supporting Everton... and wanted to trial some gamification in storyline! ⚽ Please have a look using the link and let me know your thoughts in the comments! 👇 Confession: I spent a bit more time on this than I planned! 😅 Enjoy! 😄 Link: Football Manager Module Website: 22Studio.ukE-Learning Icebreakers: Two Truths and a Lie #313
Two Truths and One Lie for E-Learning #313: Challenge | Recap Challenge of the Week This week your challenge is to create a playful interaction using the Two Truths and a Lie icebreaker game. Possible variations could include Two Truths and a Dream. Or go with your favorite icebreaker game to share a little about yourself. Here are a couple examples from a previous challenge: Two Truths and a Lie with Phil Think you know everything there is to know about Articulate Super Hero, Phil Mayor? You might be surprised after his e-learning icebreaker. Check out his creative example to see if you can uncover his two truths and a lie. View demo 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 tell your truths and a lie, check out the creative ways course designers are mixing photographs and illustrations in e-learning designs: Mixing Photos and Illustrations in E-Learning #312: 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.Would you survive a 1912 physiology exam?
Hi everyone, I'm so excited for this challenge because this is my first project with Storyline 360. Take a look at my project. 👉 Would you survive a 1912 physiology exam? This challenge reminds me of the time at university, when I crammed all night to learn all the scientific terms and mechanisms to pass those biology and physiology tests. 😅 For this test, I don't want it to be too formal with no multiple choice and no instant feedback. Thus, I decided to add some interactivities with witty feedback and instant results. I also applied Bloom's Taxonomy to classify the questions. Feel free to share any thoughts or feedback! Happy to hear from you!Stop Answering Questions. Start Redesigning Them.
This week's E-Learning Heroes challenge dropped a fascinating artifact in our laps: the 1912 Bullitt County Schools eighth-grade final exam. And everyone's first instinct was the same: could I pass this thing? And honestly — maybe not. There's a grammar question asking students to write a single sentence containing four specific grammatical elements simultaneously. There's compound interest math done by hand. There's a civics question — "What is the proper basis of civil government?" — with no word limit, no rubric, and apparently no fear of what a fourteen-year-old might actually write. It's a fascinating artifact. And the obvious eLearning move would be to modernize it into an assessment. Swap the open-ended questions for multiple choice. Add a scenario. Slap on some feedback. Done. I went a different direction. What if the learner was the designer? Instead of asking people to answer the 1912 questions, we asked them to redesign them. Pick a question. Tag the instructional design strategies you'd apply — scenario-based, cause-and-effect, perspective-taking, transfer task, twenty options in total. Watch a live compatibility meter tell you whether your combination is a strong pairing or a bit of an overcrowded mess. Then get feedback: a scorecard rating your approach on cognitive load, authenticity, and transfer potential, plus a specific strength, a push-it-further nudge, and one genuinely hard reflective question to sit with. And at the end — a before/after reveal comparing the original 1912 question to an expert redesign, so you have something concrete to react to, agree with, or argue against. The whole thing runs in a single HTML file embedded in Rise via a Code Block. No frameworks, no dependencies. Why this framing works Most eLearning about instructional design is passive. You read about Bloom's taxonomy. You watch someone explain cognitive load theory. You take a quiz about it afterward. This puts you in the seat. You make a call — I'm going to apply scenario-based learning and cause-and-effect framing to this arithmetic problem — and then you get a mirror held up to that decision. The compatibility meter alone has a way of making you pause and ask whether you're building a coherent design rationale or just stacking strategies because they sound good. The 1912 exam is the perfect raw material for this because the questions are so far from modern practice that every design decision feels deliberate. You can't default to habit. You have to think. Give it a try below and let me know — which question did you pick, and did the compatibility meter surprise you? Built with Articulate Rise 360 and Claude by Anthropic. Stop Answering Questions. Start Redesigning Them.
