Are you an "e-learning team of one"? 🤔
Hey E-Learning Heroes, and welcome to our new forum, Exchange Best Practices! 🎉 We added this forum because we know that your expertise extends far beyond what you do with our products, and we've heard from lots of members that you love using this community to network with other e-learning professionals about a wide range of topics in the E-Learning Industry. We hope this becomes your go-to space to start conversations about anything that's on your mind in the E-Learning industry, even if it extends a bit beyond what you do with Articulate's tools. We're excited to see discussions, questions, and idea-shares around everything from... How you work with SMEs on their first draft of an e-learning request How you approach creating a portfolio to support your e-learning career How you think about infusing your e-learning courses with adult learning & pedagogical best practices... And so much more! To help grease the wheels and kick off interactions within this space, I thought I'd ask a starter question: Would you describe yourself as an e-learning team of one? Do you work as a generalist managing everything from needs assessments to storyboarding to publishing courses on an LMS, or do you work with a group of collaborators who manage different steps in that workflow? If it's the latter, what do those collaboration flows look like? Let us know in the comments—our community team is selfishly interested in learning more about you, but it's also our hope that with prompts like these we can help surface for you other members who work in similar ways so that you can find the right people to network and collaborate with. Excited to read your responses!Fun Animated Timer for Gamification Projects
Hi Articulate heroes, I wanted to highlight one very fast but fun-looking way to create timers for interactive projects. I've learned about this way from "Gamification Series; 05: Creating Tension with Timers." You can check out these amazing webinars Gamification series, and there was a few different ways to add timers to projects. I used it in my recent project "Cooking Frienzy" - Jeopardy-style cooking-game. (btw you can check out the full game: Cooking Frienzy So, here are the steps: 1) Create / find a "timer" picture - it could be any image with transparent background what works for your theme (in my case it is "Pomodoro" timer, made with AI help, saved as .png ) 2) Add this image as a picture (insert an image). 3) Go to Animation tab 4) Choose Exit Animation - "Wipe", go to "Effect Options" - "From Right". Set the animation timer for whatever time you need (10 sec., 30 sec., 1 min etc.) 5) Set triggers to what will happen after the timer is done (animation completed): i.e. jump to the next slide, show "result-fail" etc. 6) Preview and adjust if needed 🤞✨ Friday Fun Prompt: What’s Your “Dream Build”?
It’s Friday, so let’s daydream a little… If you could build any e-learning project, with no limits, what would it be? We all have that one idea that’s been in the back of our minds… maybe it’s too big, too niche, or you’re just waiting for the right time (or tools). 🎯 Share your “dream build” in the comments! This could be: A concept you’ve always wanted to explore A course you’d create if tools/time weren’t a constraint Something you started but never finished (yet!) 💬 Bonus: What’s holding it back, and what would help you get started? Can’t wait to see what’s on your e-learning wish list!Organising project phases
Hi there! I'm curious to learn how others organise the workflow when creating E-Learning content. I personally find kind of challenging the final revision, in which I need to check that everything in the content is well and adjusted. I was thinking in creating a checklist that could be used as a support but I don't really know what kind of format could really be useful... any idea? How do you usually check that everything is perfect right before delivering?Quick Tips & Tricks: Episode 110 – Persistent Panel on Storyline Player
Hi Community, in Quick Tips & Tricks: Episode 110 Tom Kuhlmann is showing a "lightbox" that is triggered by a boolean (true/false variable) and controlled by a “Persistent Panel on Storyline Player” - in this case the customer did not want a native lightbox that is shown over the entire player. I think there is a much simpler way without any further slides: 1. create a true/false variable, e.g. “LB”. 2. create a layer on the slide master, e.g. “Lightbox” 3. create the desired content and a “close” button on this layer 4. create two triggers in the layer: a. If the variable “LB” changes, show this layer. b. When the user clicks on “close”, hide this layer. Now switch to the player view and add a tab like Tom, e.g. “Legend”. However, select “Execute Javascript” as the action: setVar('LB', !getVar('LB')); // “!” sets the boolean to its opposite value (true or false) That's it. The “Lightbox” layer is displayed on each slide when the “LB” variable changes - in this case when the user clicks on “Legend”. It is hidden via “close” or by switching slides. This can also be used by hyperlinks (switching variables) to show up tooltips (layers) defined for all slides. Best wishes PeterQuiz Results issue
Hello all, I need your help! I’ve created a short 10-question quiz in Storyline 360. Each question is a graded slide worth 10 points, for a total of 100 points. The passing score is set at 70% (70 points). The issue: When I complete the quiz and answer every question correctly, my results only show 90 points (90%) instead of 100. I’ve tested the quiz multiple times, made several adjustments and tried adjusting the point values, but I still get the same outcome. Has anyone run into this before or know how to fix it?Alt Text for System Screenshots
I got into a discussion today with someone developing a training manual/users guide for our program, about appropriate alt-text for a screenshot of a system. Let's say you have a brand new program, and you have to get everyone up to speed on its functionality. You have a step by step guide of how to do the XYZ task. And you throw in some screenshots to help callout buttons to give the viewer an idea of what they will be looking at. But, what kind of alt-text do you put for that image? I follow the rule of "what do you want the learner to see" in the image. If your tasks are highlighting the tabs on the screen, then maybe my alt-text is "Main page, with the following tabs available - one, two, three, four". For me, its providing enough context so that the screen reader user "sees" what a sighted learner sees. If its an eLearning course, sometimes I will have a hidden text box to provide more information or context. I'm curious how others have handled writing alt-text for progam screenshots. Please share!Starting a Learning Design Business
Hello E-Learning Heroes community! I'm Erin from Toronto, Ontario Canada. I'm an instructional designer, currently in the process of opening my own business (website coming soon!). I have some ideas on next steps, but I would love to hear from anyone who has launched their on instructional design business. What did you do to market yourself?
