Articulate storyline essentials : discover Articulate Storyline's ability to enhance your e-learning by allowing you to create engaging and interactive stories

Discover Articulate Storyline's ability to enhance your e-learning by allowing you to create engaging and interactive stories About This BookFamiliarize yourself with the need-to-know functions of Storyline to develop and publish your first projectLet your creativity run wild by creating interactive stories to enchant your audienceA comprehensive fast paced guide to help you explore the many options Storyline offers to get you up to speed in developing e-learning coursesWho This Book Is ForThis book is for intended for all those interested in working with Storyline to develop engaging e-learning projects. With a user-friendly interface, you don't need any prior experience with Storyline to create and publish your first project. What You Will LearnBuild a new story and familiarize yourself with the user-friendly Storyline interfaceDiscover how to let your content do the talking with the help of text, images, and charactersImprove the quality of your story using buttons, markers, and hyperlinksCreate enhanced interactivity by using elements such as triggers, states, and hotspotsAssess your learners using built-in question types or custom freeform questionsPreview your story and modify the player settings to create a customized learning experienceShare your story by exploring the publishing options that are available and choose the option that works best for youIn DetailStoryline is a powerful e-learning authoring tool that allows you to take your creativity to the next level and easily author your own stories. It helps you to leverage built-in development functions to quickly create interactive and engaging e-learning experiences. This book will walk you through the life cycle of a story, from creating a new story up to publishing and sharing your story. You will be taken on a tour of how to effectively enhance your story, including how to add images and audio, how to add triggers and assessment items. You finally round off by learning how to customize the player to suit your purposes. Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Building Your Story; Introducing Articulate Storyline 2; Getting started with Articulate Storyline; Adding new scenes and slides; Working from a template; Importing content; Importing from PowerPoint; Importing from Quizmaker; Importing from Storyline; Importing from Articulate Engage; Saving your story; Summary; Chapter 2: Using Content to Tell Your Story; Telling your story; Adding and formatting text; Inserting images; Inserting screenshots; Adding characters; Summary Ways to make your story more realisticIncorporating audio; Cropping audio files; Deleting sections of audio files; Inserting silence into an audio file; Adjusting the volume of an audio file; Recording audio narration; Adding videos; Adding a video from the file; Adding a video from the website; Recording a video from the webcam; Editing your video; Trimming your video; Cropping your video; Summary; Chapter 6: Testing Your Learners; Basic assessment concepts; Question types; Adding and editing questions; Adding a results slide; Using question banks; Summary; Chapter 7: Sharing Your Story Chapter 3: Using Content to Enhance Your StoryEasy ways to enhance your story; Adding and formatting buttons; Selecting a new button; Creating a new shape; Using markers; Adding hyperlinks; Summary; Chapter 4: Making Your Story Come to Life; Ways to make your story come to life; Using triggers; Adding a trigger; Editing a trigger; Deleting a trigger; Using states; Adding a new state; Editing states; Deleting a state; Specifying an initial state; Making your states work; Using hotspots; Adding hotspots; Adding a trigger; Summary; Chapter 5: Making Your Story More Realistic Previewing your storyThe player; Publishing your content; Publishing to the Web; Publishing to Articulate Online; Publishing to LMS; Publishing to CD; Publishing to Word; Summary; Index