Learning Articulate Storyline: Harness the Power of Storyline to Create State-of-the-Art E-Learning Projects - Brossura

Harnett, Stephanie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849694222 ISBN 13: 9781849694223

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

This book provides one-on-one tutoring to help you quickly get up to speed with the basics while also learning how to best apply Storyline features in the context of the work you do. If you're an e-learning developer, writer, designer, subject matter expert, or all or any one of these, this book is for you. This book is not just for novices, but also for seasoned developers, transitioning from PowerPoint and Articulate Studio '09, and for those who are already working with Storyline.

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L'autore

Stephanie Harnett

Stephanie Harnett is a learning consultant who has over 20 years of training and communications experience. She has worked with business leaders, key stakeholders, and project teams, designing, developing, and delivering collaborative solutions, online learning, and interactive communications. Her areas of expertise include governance, compliance, operations, human resources in oil and gas, and government.

Stephanie is passionate about learning and technologyit is her work and her hobby. You will frequently spot her in the global community of learning professionals, sharing her knowledge through guest blog posts and tutorials. Her contributions to the community can be viewed on stephanieharnett.ca and by following her on Twitter (slhice).

Over the years, she has developed a keen awareness of adult learning in a corporate setting and uses her research and analysis, instructional design, writing, presentation, and technical skills, along with a dash of common sense, to produce effective, engaging, and on-target results that meet business challenges.

Away from the office? This is a foreign concept for Stephanie. She weaves learning and technology when she works and when she playsfinding new devices and effective ways to communicate, collaborate, work, play, learn, and share, no matter where her GPS coordinates are.

Specialties include instructional design, writing/communications, technical writing, storyboarding/layout/design, advisory, and technical support/training.

Contenuti

Preface
Chapter 1: Creating a Story
Chapter 2: Adding Content into your Story
Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity
Chapter 4: Adding Characters and Audio
Chapter 5: Extending Slide Content
Chapter 6: Using Variables to Customize the Learning Experience
Chapter 7: Creating Learning Paths
Chapter 8: Testing Learner Knowledge
Chapter 9: Adding Visual Media to a Story
Chapter 10: Publishing your Story
Chapter 11: Rapid Development
Appendix
Index

Preface

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Chapter 1: Creating a Story
Launching Storyline
Creating a new story
Storyline interface
Story View
Normal View (also known as Slide View)
Preparing a story
Story size
Adjusting the story size
Creating a story based on a template
Importing content from external sources
Importing PowerPoint content
Selecting slides
Importing Articulate Quizmaker content
Importing Articulate Engage content
Importing Storyline content
Saving a story
Give it a try
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Chapter 2: Adding Content into your Story
Working with the Timeline
Controlling the appearance of objects
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Reading the Timeline
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Inserting content into a slide
Grouping objects
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Working with text
Scrolling panels
Slide notes
Working with pictures and screenshots
Inserting a screenshot
Adjusting the properties of pictures and screenshots
Visual help
Working with slides
Organizing slides in Story View
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Customizing slide design
Slide Masters
Design themes and backgrounds
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Adding animations and transitions
Previewing your work
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Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity
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Working with states
Working with triggers
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Adding hyperlinks
Adding buttons
Button icons
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Quick publishing
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Chapter 4: Adding Characters and Audio
Examples of the human touch done well
About Storyline characters
Character states
Adding a character
Adding a state to a character
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About character conversations
Speech bubbles
Adding a speech bubble
Audible conversation
Recording narration
Importing an audio clip
Editing an audio track
Accessing sound tools
Synchronizing objects and narration
Adding cue points
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Creating interactive conversations
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Chapter 5: Extending Slide Content
About layers
Adding a layer
Adjusting layers
Ordering layers
Editing the properties of a layer
Formatting a layer
Adding visibility of base layer objects
Adding consistency with master layouts
Adding content to a layer
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Showing and hiding a layer
Displaying a layer by mouse action
Hiding a layer
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Features that extend a slide's content
Hotspots
Adding a hotspot
Markers
Adding a marker
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Button sets
Turning a set of objects into a button set
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Lightbox
Triggering the display of a lightbox
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Chapter 6: Using Variables to Customize the Learning Experience
Storyline variables
Types of variables
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Part 1 – creating a new project and adjusting the slides
Part 2 – Adjusting formatting
Part 3 – adding new slides and previewing functionality
Creating variables
Using variables
Inserting a reference to a variable
Data Entry
Inserting a Data Entry box
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Part 1 – adding a Data Entry box to solicit learner thoughts
Part 2 – adding a Data Entry box to collect a learner name
Refining action based on conditions
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Part 1 – setting up variables and tracking progress
Part 2 – controlling learner navigation to prevent skipping sections
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Chapter 7: Creating Learning Paths
Principles of branching
Controlling presentation order
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Understanding slide properties
Slide advances
When revisiting
Slide navigation controls
Player features
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Customizing slide navigation
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Chapter 8: Testing Learner Knowledge
Question categories and types
Creating, editing, and customizing questions
Creating graded or survey questions
Initial setup of graded or survey questions
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Configuring graded or survey questions
Question feedback
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Scoring, results, and review
Inserting a result slide
Customizing feedback further
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Converting static content
Freeform question types
Pick One, Pick Many, and Text Entry
Text Entry and hotspot
Drag-and-drop
Shortcut key
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Customizing your quiz
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Chapter 9: Adding Visual Media to a Story
Working with visual media
Supported media
Bringing media into a story – part 1
Video
Inserting video to a story
Editing video
Basic tasks
Inserting video from a website
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Bringing media into a story – part 2
Flash files
Adding Flash to a story
Web content
Adding web content to a story
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Screen recordings and interactive simulations
Recording a screen
Steps to record a screen
Step-by-step recordings inserted in View mode
Step-by-step recordings inserted in Try mode
Step-by-step recordings inserted in Test mode
Fine tuning the recording
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Creating emphasis with pans and zooms
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Tips on working with video
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Chapter 10: Publishing your Story
Previewing projects
Customizing the Player
Player properties review
Features
Menu
Resources
Glossary
Colors and effects
Text labels
Other
Current Player
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Publishing
Published output
Publishing to the web
Publishing with tracking
Considerations when tracking
Other publishing options
Considerations when working with HTML 5 output
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Chapter 11: Rapid Development
Concept of reusability
Leveraging existing assets
Importing external content
Considerations when importing
Build once, and reuse many times
Question Banks
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Interaction templates
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Reusing glossaries and resources
Reusing characters and images
Creating images from video
Best practices for organizing assets
Productivity boosters
Top 10 Storyline productivity boosters
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Appendix
The Articulate community
Design and development
File locatio...

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849694222
• ISBN 13: 9781849694223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 277
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile