Screencast Monday

My apologies for the late post; I was going to do a first impression type of screencast with a new technology that has me pretty excited, but there was a bit of a glitch during the demo, and I’m still waiting for technical support to get back to me. Maybe you’ll see the demo next week…maybe not at all – who knows?!

This week we’ll look at how you can easily extend slide content using layers in Articulate Storyline.

Understanding all of the ways in which you can extend slide content is essential as it may allow you to reduce overall slide count in your projects, leading to a more streamlined and efficient project structure.

This week I wanted to discuss how I modified the Storyline course player for my recent course starter template, which you can download for free by clicking here.

To do this, I made some very simple modifications to the player tabs and controls, and then to the player colours. Check out the demo below to find out what I did!

One of my favourite ways of uploading and sharing projects for Subject Matter Expert (SME) review is to use Articulate Tempshare. Once again, the lovely folks over at Articulate have come up with a fantastic (and generous) solution to temporarily storing our Articulate outputs, and it has come in handy for me on more than one occasion.

What is Tempshare? Articulate Tempshare is a temporary store for your Articulate project outputs; it allows you to upload web-based project outputs and stores them for 10-days, providing you with a link to view your project. It is SO HELPFUL!

Another great use for Tempshare would be to share files with other developers (or Articulate) for troubleshooting purposes.

This week’s Screencast Monday is a throwback from last year. It illustrates one way – some may say an unconventional way, but one that is still functional – of creating custom feedback layers in Articulate Storyline. This approach does not involve using Feedback Masters, and may be effective in situations where you want to use multiple styles for multiple questions without having to create multiple feedback masters.

This week I wanted to show you how easily you can create an automatic scrolling effect in Articulate Storyline 2. Hopefully you can find some good uses for this effect in your e-learning projects and add a bit of flare to your Storyline interactions!