eLearning Heroes #413
Let’s go “under to hood” a bit, if you’re new at all to Storyline or still learning some workflows and like to see how other people do stuff, the next video will show my actual Story file. Lightboxes are a built in feature that’s easy to use (you just click “Lightbox” and pick a slide in triggers). The slides you are lightboxing are just designed normally as slides, and Storyline does the lightbox and close button for you (you can edit some of this with JavaScript, though I didn’t in this case). I find lightboxes a bit of a challenge not to actual navigation but to my view of navigation and I tend to sort them into their own scenes, as you can see in the video. I also tend to favor tabbing over lightboxing in many cases personally.
eLearning Heroes #403: Using Accordion Interactions in E-Learning (2023)
I finished this fairly early in the week but didn’t get to the video recap until late! This was a fun challenge I was eager to tackle because I always do enjoy a good accordion. Honestly, these are just all creative ways of chunking information, acting like the instructor with none present, silently guiding the learner to construct knowledge through steps and examples, one bit at a time, so they aren’t drinking from the firehouse, but it’s what rapid authoring tools do best, frankly.
eLearning Heroes #402: Using Background Textures
Takeaways: I would use all of these covers but for different things. The 2nd one is the one I’m actually using for the local arts project (some texture, not maximum) but I’d use the plain one or a more intense one like the last one, just depending on the project or client. I do enjoy thinking about how to layer objects to create effective backgrounds and scenes as seen in the last screen of the Review. This was a fun, simple challenge eLearning Heroes gave us this week!
What tool for the job?
This was designed as a Storyline sample, meant to practice the tool, so I never questioned, “What is the best medium for this learning?” But I did wonder, even though it only took me about 6 hours to source, edit, and lay out the graphics and another 2 hours to plug it into Storyline (which is pretty rapid for eLearning, even a short one), “Was this all necessarily helping?”