📱 Mobile Learning that Actually Works – What are Your Best Practices?
Hello everyone, I’m currently preparing a project involving several Web-Based Trainings (WBTs) that will primarily be used on mobile devices. Based on the nature of the content, I will have to use Storyline most of the time. While researching, I came across a “definitive guide to multi-device e-learning”—it already offers a bunch of practical insights. However, I’d love to hear perspectives from the community as well. So I’m curious: What are your go-to principles for designing effective mobile learning? What are your biggest takeaways or lessons learned? Do you have any examples of successful mobile learning activities or formats? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences, ideas, or even challenges you’ve encountered along the way. Looking forward to your insights!🔎Lost In Translation🔎
Have you ever encountered an idiom that makes no sense, a word that has no direct equivalent, or a word that comes with unexpected connotations while translating? You’re not alone! Translating takes tremendous skill, and localizing requires significant understanding of both the initial language and culture, as well as the language and culture you’re localizing for. But wait, you may be asking… 📍What’s the difference between localization and translation? Localization Translation Takes into consideration the cultural, social, and connotative aspects of language Rendering from one language into another Example: Example: Car Park (Australian/UK English) Parking Lot (United States English) Log (Record, piece of wood, mathematical abbreviation) Bûche (piece of wood, de noel cake) Common translation issues are idioms, direct translations, and proper nouns. Localization errors are more commonly about context and consistency. Localization can take place even within the same language! 🗨️What's your favorite example of localization vs translation? 🔬Haven’t had a chance to try? Check out our new localization features now! Log into Articulate to get instant access to Localization. Start an Articulate 360 trial to try Localization—no credit card required.Looking for Gamification ideas/templates/resources
Hi, I've an old assessment in Storyline where there is branching and learners have 3 avatars from which they can select, selecting each avatar takes them to an individual set of drag and drop questions which they can answer using the resources provided. Looking for some ideas to redesign this assessment using Gamification, can you also provide links to resources here I can use?AI Voices in eLearning
Hi all! I'd like to hear your thoughts about AI voices in training and educational material. As a neurodivergent, I personally find them distracting and less supportive of learning, despite increasing popularity. I've read that human voices improve learner outcomes/retention etc, yet many folks in our industry seem to love AI narration features. As someone who has both recorded voiceovers and generated them, I don't see an obvious reason to rely so heavily on the latter other than time constraints. Sure, it may save a couple hours of production time, but if learner outcomes aren't improving, shouldn't we reconsider this approach and put the audience experience first? Please share your thoughts! I'm really curious to hear more about this. Maybe I'm missing a key point here! Maybe I'm in a minority of disliking AI voices? And just to be clear, I’m not referring to screen readers or assistive text-to-speech. Those serve a completely different purpose and are essential for accessibility! I’m talking specifically about replacing full-course narration with synthetic voices.Security declaration separate to course?
My security team have asked if it is possible to have a deceleration process created that is separate to our security course. This has something to do with reporting and legislation. Has anybody created a 'declaration' activity where an employee has sign or write their full name in a section after reading a blurb of information to declare that they understand their requirements etc? Maybe something in Storyline? I would then add it as another task within the LMS under the full course that they need to complete to be deemed as completed. Any ideas welcome please.RISE- Automatic Certificate Creation
I've been playing around with how to create a custom certificate in a Rise course and I've finally found a workaround using an embedded form that creates and delivers a PDF. Check it out: https://share.articulate.com/IcrVo3X-PV5k7x9CMMFkx I've been struggling with this for a long time and I know a handful of you have been too. Hope it helps! ps. I used the AI Assistant to create this mini course based off of the video I recorded outlining the steps, which I also included as content within the course to follow along.Audio-Button functions and states within selfbuild WBT menue and options
Hi everyone, currently I am working on a selfbuild WBT menue with own options on buttons (like refresh, fullscreen, turn on/off subtitles, etc.). This also includes a button for un/muting audio. (Screenshot "Menue 1") Until now I tried a lot; made my way through own ideas, tutorials in various forum posts or videos, asked colleagues, tried prompts in Copilot and so on. The thing is, I always get stuck evertime at the same point. Therefore, I am reaching out to you in hope that you can help me out. My setup is the following - first slide in master slide view: I have a button that consists of these elements grouped together: a circular “Ellipse” element, and above it a vector graphic of an ear. This vector graphic has the normal state (regular ear Icon) and the state selected (ear Icon crossed out). (Screenshot Icon states) The Ellipse has also a second state for hovering with a slight shadow around the circle. Then, to make things even a little bit more complicated, when the user can either click this button directly from the side menue. But if they navigate to the "Menue"-Button, the side menue will expand, laid out on another layer (Screenshot "Menue 2 Expanded"). Next to each button is a section reading the function of the button and thanks to a hotspot over each section, it is also clickable. So the button must be functioning and changing it's states in both ways: regular menue and expanded menue - and from the expanded menue as well. Goal; what should be the effects by clicking the Audio button? As soon as the user clicks on the button group, the audio on the slide should be muted and the state of the vector graphic should change: an ear crossed out. When the user clicks this button again, the audio should be unmuted, and the vector graphic should return to its original state (the normal ear). So, the audio should not be stopped and resumed: The audio should be "playing" without sound in the background with continuous timeline. A slide can also contain multiple consecutive audio files that play one after the other. The audio button un/mutes all of them when the user clicks the button. And when the user moves to the next slide, the WBT should remember that the selected function (audio is turned off/on) and show the ear icon accordingly (as crossed out/normal). Point 3 and 4 shall also apply for the audios of videos: So the video-part is still going on while the audio can be muted/unmuted. --> To make it trickier: This should also work for the case when there are audios and videos on one slide. Hay anyone an idea how to solve this riddle and incorporate all the required speficiations? I would be beyond grateful. Thanks in advance Best regardsIt may be April Fools’ Day… but we aren’t joking.
We aren’t joking when we say this community is full of thoughtful, creative, generous practitioners. Every week we see members: • Share clever builds • Offer practical feedback • Ask smart questions • Help someone get unstuck So in that spirit… If we were to crowdsource the “unofficial rules” of great e-learning from this group, what would make the list? 💬 What’s one “rule” you try to follow in your work — or something you’ve learned from another member here that’s made your projects stronger?How to set up spaced learning for e-learning
Hi there! I've read a lot about spaced learning, and I'm all in - but I'm at a loss on how to actually do it. I typically use Rise with some Storyline blocks embedded. I'm hoping to make multiple scenarios and space them out, but I don't know how to actually do this. I'm thinking the learner would be able to do a max of 2-3 per day, then it would be "locked" for 24 hours until they can do more. I don't know how that would be feasible, so I'm open to creating multiple microlearnings where they automatically get assigned the next one 24 hours after completing the previous one. Is this possible with Storyline? Or is this something that needs to be set up using the LMS? (We use Absorb). Thank you!
