Here’s a fun sorting activity we built that requires the learner to drag and drop number of items into one of three buckets. This uses the Storyline freeform drag and drop interaction, but with custom feedback layers. This was also published on Storyline 360's review site. Click the image to play the demo! #customeLearninginToronto #CanadiantrainingcompanycreatingeLearning #storyline360 #interactiveelements #trainingcompanyinToronto

Without interactivity and the ability to engage your learners your eLearning and digital training won’t be able to effective teach your learners the key concepts it needs to. Using text and images might be a quick and easy way to convey information on screen but it doesn’t mean your learners will understand or retain the information that is being shown to them. Adding interactivity to your eLearning is crucial to keeping your learners focus, engaged and enthusiastic about lea

A few months back, I spoke to a recruiter who asked me if I knew articulate. I secretly grinned, 'Didn’t she mean do you know 'how to' articulate?' I was also a little peeved, how could she ask me about my articulation skills when she herself wasn't being grammatically correct! "I think I have decent communication and articulation skills"; I said. Now, it was her turn to chuckle. Turns out she was referring to Articulate-Articulate Storyline-the e-learning authoring tool!! Si

When creating elearning training for a new process, for new hires, or inform your employees on policies and procedures, one of the challenges is to make sure that the information that needs to be conveyed is correct and consistent. Potential elearning content may come from several different sources, from people and/or documentation. The most valuable source of information on the content you want to produce is a Subject Matter Expert, or SME. A coordinated team of instructiona

When creating eLearning modules, the transition between slides in Storyline is somewhat limited, especially compared to the variety available in Powerpoint! However, you can still create interesting and impressive transitions for your elearning just from the animations used on regular Storyline objects. Here are two transitions we developed. Swivel out This one makes use of the Storyline swivel in and out animations. When the learner leaves the slide, the object flips around

Next in my ongoing series on adapting to using Captivate, here is a comparison of how to program drag and drop activites in each of the two elearning authoring tools. Storyline When you make a new slide in a Storyline elearning module, you can choose from several pre-built drag and drop interaction templates. These can be easily and quickly filled in with your question content, and have one of your own layouts applied, and you’re done! However, if your activity involves match

Two weeks ago, I provided an introduction as part of a review of some of the exciting projects we worked on in 2016, so for the next few weeks I am going to go in to a bit more detail, with the focus this week on a project that involved eLearning, facilitation and one on one coaching. One of our clients is a luxury automotive company that, while they are already an industry leader when it comes to the “car buying” journey, continue to look for ways they can improve the custom

Last week I provided an introduction as part of a review of some of the exciting projects we worked on in 2016, so for the next few weeks I am going to go in to a bit more detail, starting with an on-boarding program we are developing for a large transit company. The training program is being designed for the control centre inspectors whom are part of a larger group made up of four separate contracting companies. Each company is responsible for bus service in a specific geo

While most authoring tools do have some options for premade interactive buttons, often a particular module job or client will call for something with a bit more care and uniqueness when developing an eLearning module. I would like to share a simple walk-through which I use to create unique reusable buttons for use in any eLearning authoring tool. STEP 1 – DESIGN I begin in Adobe Photoshop. Create a canvas with a transparent background, that snugly fits the desired shape. Be s