Mastering Articulate Storyline - ebook

Build up your e-learning development skills with Articulate Storyline

About This Book

• Develop interactive e-learning projects using advanced techniques
• Impress your clients and/or audience with out-of-the-box interactions
• Step-by-step walkthroughs provide practical solutions

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone experienced in using the basic functions of Articulate Storyline who are yearning to learn more. It's designed to provide a brief overview of key concepts, to help you refresh your knowledge of common functions, and teach you how to push Storyline to the limit!

What You Will Learn

• Familiarize yourself with best practices for e-learning development
• Review key Storyline concepts before diving in deep with development
• Discover new ways of working within Storyline to extend slide content and enhance interactivity
• Personalize your story with advanced variable-based interactions
• See how JavaScript can be used in your stories to do some really neat things
• Assess your learners using customized assessment options and find out how to troubleshoot common issues
• Customize the learning experience by modifying the player properties and publishing settings
• Customize your story and prepare it for publishing

In Detail

Storyline is a powerful e-learning authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level. However, more often than not, projects don't require such complex interactions, leaving Storyline's full capabilities untapped.

This book will provide you with the information you need to take your Storyline development up a notch by leveraging the full suite of possibilities Storyline has to offer.

You will be provided with a refresher of the key concepts before we take you deep into the exciting world of enhanced interactivity, variables, and even some JavaScript—oh my! With downloadable activities, you can either follow along and compare your output, use the activities as they are, modify the activities to suit your own needs, or reverse-engineer the activities to better understand how they were developed.

Style and approach

You'll get hands-on working with project files that were created with you in mind. As you move through each chapters, the practical, step-by-step approach will get you using some of the more advanced features of Storyline to create polished and snazzy interactions.