Check out our new video tutorial on how to add closed captions to an eLearning module in Articulate Storyline 360: #storyline360 #articulate #elearning #accessibility #closedcaptions #aoda #pathways

When starting a new project with a client, you likely will have to follow some sort of brand standards guide or corporate identity document defining your client’s logo, brand colours and fonts. Using theme colours Theme colours in Storyline will determine the default colour options for text, objects fills, object outlines and buttons. When you choose an object or text in Storyline and click Format on the toolbar, you can select a theme colour or shade for its fill and outline

In this video we will see how closed captions can be added to your Articulate Storyline 360 course. Click on the video to learn more! #ArticulateStoryline #storyline360 #closedcaptioning #TorontocompanycreatingeLearningstoryboards #trainingcompanyinToronto #companycreatingcustomeLearningcourses #customeLearninginToronto #TorontotrainingcompanydevelopingeLearning #topTorontoeLearningcompany #Torontotrainingvendor #eLearningandtrainingcompanyinToronto

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

When you are starting a new eLearning project in Storyline, it is always best practice to first take care of several elements that you know won’t change easily or at all. These elements could be: Player style Player buttons Master slides (for content, quizzes and feedback) Slide size Font style Working on setting the ground for all these at the beginning of an eLearning project will make your life easier and will certainly speed up your process and ensure consistency througho

Storyline is a great tool for eLearning, and has some great capabilities which include importing PowerPoint slides directly into a Storyline file, which can simplify programming if your storyboards are close to what the final eLearning product will look like. However, sometimes the programming may go in a different direction or include content not in the ‘final’ storyboard. So if the client wants the storyboard to be updated to match, or if they would like a PowerPoint versi

One of the things that I have always found challenging, ever since I started working in the eLearning field, is to gather feedback for an eLearning module. I have seen different ways in which this feedback is provided to the programmers by the client, like an Excel spreadsheet, Word documents, even long emails detailing all the changes. Ultimately, what’s important for the programmer is to receive clear instructions as to what the issue is and how it needs to be solved, or ho

An important part of making your elearning accessible to people with hearing disabilities or non-auditory learning styles is to include accessibility features such as closed captions. However, the little black bar of text at the bottom of your screen might not be what you want for your module. In the past, here are two more options we have used to provide a text-based version of the audio to learners who prefer reading to listening. 1. Elearning accessibility document This is

Lately, it’s becoming a trend in my job, that interactions designed for eLearning modules are becoming more and more challenging each day, especially, since it was announced that browsers will stop supporting Flash altogether, which means that all those cool interactions or animations, that were originally developed in Flash, will have to be developed either directly in Storyline or in HTML5. I admit that jumping into HTML5 development can be even more challenging an time con

Storyline 360’s made a lot of improvements over Storyline 2, one of which is the addition of more features to the Motion Paths animations for eLearning courses. This gives the programmer more control over the animations they put into their elearning, making for better, more interesting content. The first is simply the option to rename your paths, making it easier to keep track of which object you’re moving at a given time in your trigger panel. This is really helpful compared

The default elearning course frame in Storyline is an unremarkable gray gradient with gray buttons, but with some extra effort, you can change it to match your elearning branding colours or any other colour scheme you’d like! However, keep in mind that the interface for you to change these colours in Storyline is clunky and inefficient, so you may want to keep these changes to a minimum. When you are in a Storyline file, select Player (Properties), and then select Colors & Ef

So you’ve gotten all your content organized, you’ve decided on your themes and colours, now you’re ready to start putting it into Storyline! Before you really start coding though, here are some basic things you can change about the default settings in your Storyline template before you have to make changes and adjustments for everything later. Your elearning aspect ratio The default computer screen size and aspect ratio is wider and at a higher resolution than it used to be,

Storyline 360’s recent update added a closed captions editor right into the program, bypassing the need to create a separate SRT or VTT file of your elearning script to import. You can still import standard closed caption files, which Storyline 360 will convert into the editor format. Now, when you select a video or audio clip in your elearning, this section appears under Options in the toolbar. When you click on Add Captions, it opens the Closed Captions editor window. This

I’ve been coding eLearning modules using Storyline for a while now, and every now and again I find a feature or a different way to program something that could have saved me time if I’d only realized it had been in the system the whole time. Here are some of the best ones: 1. Turning off base layer objects In the past, sometimes I’d want an object to disappear once it had been clicked on, to free up the space for the layer content. I knew of several ways to do this – I could

It’s amazing how we continue to find new features as we explore Storyline 360 further, and I really believe, you can increase the engagement level of your eLearning modules with these new features. Let’s take a closer look at some of them. Articulate Review Technically, this isn’t a Storyline 360 feature, but rather an Articulate 360 tool, and even though it doesn’t add engagement or interactions to your eLearning module. Most importantly, it improves your workflow by allowin

Here at Pathways, we like to always use the most advanced tools when it comes to creating eLearning modules. Of course, that includes using the latest versions of rapid eLearning authoring tools, like Storyline or Captivate. However, it is always important to explore these tools and make internal tests, before considering using them for clients’ projects. Such is our case with the new Articulate Storyline 360, which was released a few weeks ago, and as part of our day-to-day