Articulate Storyline Training Overview
Accelebrate's Articulate Storyline 360 with Articulate 360 Suite Overview teaches attendees how to use Storyline 360 to create self-paced, engaging, and highly interactive training applications for web browsers and mobile devices. This course includes a one-day introduction to the Articulate 360 tools Rise, Replay, Peek, and Studio.
Note: This class can also be taught using Storyline 3.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Design an e-learning interface most suitable to the subject matter, target audience, and deployment method (desktop computer or mobile device)
- Add text, photographs, shapes, illustrations, characters, audio, video, screen recordings, and web objects
- Provide access to job aids and other learning resources
- Make effective use of animation to draw attention to key elements of a slide
- Add instructional dialog to your course and sync the narration with display elements
- Develop engaging interactions to keep the user's attention and encourage exploratory learning
- Use branching to direct learner paths
- Incorporate review questions
- Design assessments and surveys
- Use the Articulate 360 Suite tools Rise, Replay, Peek, and Studio
Prerequisites
All attendees should have fundamental PowerPoint skills. While PowerPoint will not be used in class, many of the features of PowerPoint are replicated in Storyline 360. Prior experience developing e-learning applications is helpful, though not required.
Outline
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Introduction
- What is Storyline?
- How Does Storyline 360 Compare to Articulate Studio?
- How Does Storyline 360 Compare to Rise?
- Core Features
Getting oriented with the Storyline 360 Interface
- Story View
- Scenes
- Slide View
- Dockable Panels
Building a Slide
- Importing Graphics
- Creating Text Boxes
- Adding Animation
Using the Storyline 360 Timeline
- Set the Slide's Duration
- Establish When an Object Appears and Disappears
- Hide/Show an Object
- Lock an Object So It Isn't Accidentally Moved
- Arrange the Stacking Order of Objects on the Slide
- Zoom In/Out on the Timeline
Previewing Your Work
Auto-Recovery
Customizing Your Project's Player Interface
- Adding a Topic Menu
- Activating Tabs: Glossary, Resources, and Custom Tabs
- Activating Interface Controls: Volume, Search, Etc.
- Setting Colors and Effects
- Text Labels
- Right-To-Left Languages
Using Slide Properties For Branching
Content Library Templates and Characters
Using Characters to Make Your Course More Engaging
- Photographic Versus Illustrated Characters
- Selecting a Character
- Assigning an Expression to the Character
- Assigning a Pose to the Character
- Scaling, Cropping and Positioning
- Adding a Text Balloon
- Personalizing the Character's Dialog to the User
Animating Objects Using Motion Paths
- Orienting Objects to Motion Paths
Animation Painter
Allowing the User to Enter Information Using the Data Entry Feature
Using Variables to Store and Display Information
Using Triggers to Trigger an Action or Event
Triggering an Animation
Restricting Progress Until a Condition is Met
Buttons
- Creating and Editing Buttons
- Working with Button States
Creating Interactive Sliders and Dials
Adding Markers (Like Those in Articulate Engage's Labeled Graphic Interaction)
Creating a Custom Menu
- Adding Slide Layers
- Copying/Pasting Layers
- Using Variables and Triggers to Track and Indicate Progress
- Creating New Variables
- Creating Conditional Triggers
- Duplicating Triggers
Inserting Video
Adding Instructional Dialog
- Adding Audio
- Recording Narration
- Using Text to Speech (TTS) to Generate Narration
- Editing Audio
- Exporting Audio
- Syncing Displays With Audio Using Cue Points
- Providing a Narrative Transcript Using the Notes Panel
Creating a Lightbox Effect
Using Storyline's Accessibility Features to Make Your Project Section 508 Compliant
- Considering Vision Impairment, Hearing Impairment and Mobility Limitations
- Establishing Tab order
- Adding Alt Text
- Hiding Objects From the Accessibility Features
- Adding Closed Captioning
Creating a Screen Recording
- Importing As a Video
- Importing As Step-By-Step View Mode
- Importing As Step-By-Step Try Mode
- Importing As Step-By-Step Test Mode
Quizzing
- Creating Intermittent Review Questions Using the Freeform Question Feature
- Selecting a Question Format
- Entering the Question, Answer Choices and Feedback
- Using Question Banks
- Creating a Results Slide
- Reporting Accumulated Results of Multiple Quizzes Within a Course
- Importing Questions From Excel
Importing Content
- PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter Files
- QuizMaker Quizzes
- Engage Interactions
- Another Storyline File
Publishing Your Project
- Publishing Individual Slides or Scenes as Well as the Full Project
- For the Web in HTML5
- For Mobile Devices
- For Deployment on an LMS
- To Microsoft Word Format
- Articulate Review
Overview of Rise
- A web-based app for building compact training modules
- No software to download and very little learning curve
- Responsive – will automatically adjust to look great on any device (PC/Mac, tablet, or phone)
- Exceptional quality yet very easy to use
- Lesson Types
- Blocks
- Add Peek- or Replay-produced screencasts
- Publish to SCORM-compatible LMS
Overview of Replay
- Recording
- Editing
- Importing videos
- Importing images
- Lower thirds
- Edit audio volume
- Publishing mixed video to MP4 format
Overview of Peek
- Screen recording tool for Mac and PC
- Always accessible from the menu bar (Mac) or system tray (PC)
- Ideal for when you need to generate a quick passive narrated screencast
- Publish to SCORM-compatible LMS
- Publish video for use in Rise
Overview of Content Library
- Use with Storyline 360, Studio 360 and Rise
- Updated continuously at no additional cost
- Templates
- Interactions
- Scenarios
- Infographics
- Color and font themes
- Photos, videos and icons
- Illustrated and photographic characters; lots of diversity included
Articulate Review
- A collaborative review tool: gather AND share feedback
- Works with all of the tools in the Articulate 360 suite
- Stakeholders can create multiple individual comments on a single slide
- Individual comments can be resolved rather than having to resolve everything for a single slide
- Screenshots accompany all comments so you can see the comment in context to what the reviewer was seeing at that moment
- View comments and replies as threads
Overview of Studio
- Tools included in Studio
- Introducing Presenter
- Accessing Presenter features from within PowerPoint
- The Presenter Menu
- Overview of interface options for your published work
- Building a Player Template
- Including a narrative transcript
- Adding characters
- Working with special media types
- Slide Properties
- Audio Basics
- Introducing Engage
- 20 interaction types available with Engage
- Introducing Quizmaker
- Graded question types
- Survey question types
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Storyline training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Windows 10 or later with at least 8 GB RAM
- Web browser
- Articulate 360 (complete suite; trial version can be used)
