Storyline Tutorials
I am not a gatekeeper. For ideas, knowledge, and everything related, the more you share the more you have.
Another philosophy of mine is that the best way to learn is to copy a variety of projects, and you’ll slowly start to develop your own knowledge database where you can start generating new ideas to solve problems. So my goal with Storyline tutorials is simply to share some neat things you can do with it, and hopefully it sparks some even better ideas from people who watch them.
My most popular tutorial is how to create a timer. More interesting than the timer itself, though, is the larger concept of what I call layer loops. Similar to a loop in Javascript, you can use layer loops in Storyline to do all sorts of things. So when you watch my timer tutorial, yes, you learn how to create a timer, but hopefully you take away a bit more.
Another insight from research coming in hot: learners want to see their progress in a course*. So that’s the main goal of this tutorial, to show a fun way to make a pie chart progress meter. But maybe you’ll come away having some more ideas about what else you can do with object States…
*If a course is longer than 10-15 minutes, the opposite is actually true, where seeing how little progress you’ve made actually de-motivates you. In my opinion, that just means you shouldn’t have e-learning courses that last more than 15 minutes.
Did I mention I’m a fan of video games and gamification? Are you ready for some more research-based design? Well, people apparently love selecting and/or creating their own avatars. Sometimes it’s because they like seeing someone that looks like them represented on screen (the above example is not as diverse and inclusive as I would do it in a real course). Sometimes it’s because it gives them a chance to be someone else for a change. You won’t always get a chance to incorporate avatars in a course, but when you do, here’s how you get started!
I know they’re called “easy” avatars but it turns out they’re a bit more complicated to set up, hence the two-part series.
You may have seen some creative uses of Storyline in my other portfolio projects. I plan on creating tutorials for those as well.