Articulate Storyline Beginner Course outline

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the Storyline Interface
• Understand Scenes and Slides
• Import PowerPoint slides into a project
• Understand Branching
• Understand Timeline features
• Use interactive Objects
• Understand Triggers and Conditions
• Understand Variables
• Understand Layers
• Add narrations by recording or importing audio
• Understand questions and results slides
• Know How to Publish

Get to Know Storyline

During this module you’ll begin to learn the Storyline interface and views. You’ll open an existing project and explore the Storyline interface.

• The Articulate Storyline User Interface
• Feature set review
• Planning your Storyline Project
• The Story View
• Triggers Panel
• Slide Properties Panel
• Layers Panel
• Timeline Panel
• States Panel
• Scenes Panel 

Creating New Projects

You’ll begin the process of creating an eLearning project. You’ll create a project from scratch, add scenes and slides, apply masters, and import content from Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Set up Scenes
• Apply a theme
• Modify Master Slides
• Update Color Schemes
• Modify Font Families
• Arranging Slides 

Adding Content

You’ll add common slide elements such as text, images, characters, and captions. You’ll also learn how to create and format shapes and work with a bulleted list.

• Create slides
• Work with Slide Properties
• Import PowerPoint File
• Add Text
• Add Shapes
• Add Animations
• Synch objects on the timeline
• Add Buttons
• Add Button Sets
• Add Web objects 

Interactivity

You’ll learn how to engage your learner by not only adding buttons, but also controlling appearances. You’ll learn about the power of layers and give learners a place to use entry fields.  You’ll use Triggers to slide objects. You’ll also work with Hotspots. 

• Create Triggers
• Edit Triggers
• Adding Data Entries
• Make Triggers Conditional
• Hide and showing Objects Conditionally
• Add a Variable
• Use Variables in Conditions
• Allow Conditional Navigations 

Working with States

You’ll learn to manage object states to control appearance and base use states as conditions in triggers. 

• Make Button States
• Make Object States
• Edit States
• Use States as Conditions               

Working with Characters

Learn to use and modify photographic and illustrated characters and to use various states in scenarios.

• Insert Characters
• Work with Character States
• Edit Characters
• Modify Character States with Triggers
• Working with Media
• Add Video
• Add Audio
• Record Audio
• Edit Audio 

Layers

Layers are the at the heart of feedback and content display. No other authoring tool comes close to Storyline when it comes to layers functionality.

• Use Slide Layers
• Modify Layer Properties
• Change Layer Visibility Options
• Affect Base Layer Navigations Control 

Questions and Quizzes

Storyline includes a wonderful array of Quiz Slides including Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, Fill-in-the-blank, Pick One or Many, and even Drag and Drop. During this module, you’ll get a chance to add a quiz and a few questions.

• Understand Quiz and Survey Slides Workflow
• Add Graded Question Slides
• Add Free-Form Question Slides
• Customize Question Slides
• Add Results Slide 

Screen Recordings

You can use Storyline to create screencast videos of anything you can do on your computer. During this module, you’ll capture a video and insert it into an existing Storyline project and the Storyline Recording Workflow. 

• Capture a Screencast
• Use Screen Recording as Full Motion Video 

Publishing

You’ll also learn how to publish your finished eLearning project for the widest possible audience.

• Learn the Various Publishing Options
• Output to Web
• Output to LMS
• View Finished Output

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Articulate Storyline Advanced Course outline

Lesson 1: Themes & Templates

• Create a Theme
• Format a Master Slide
• Create Layouts
• Save a Theme
• Load a Theme
• Add Slide Navigation to the Slide Master
• Create Variables
• Add Triggers for a Progress Indicator
• Create and Use a Template

Lesson 2: Custom Navigation

• Create a Motion Path
• Change Motion Path Options
• Change the Duration of a Motion Path
• Add a Second Motion Path to an Object
• Delete Specific Triggers
• Edit “When” a Trigger Occurs
• Add Triggers that Reset Motion Paths
• Copy and Edit a Trigger
• Add Triggers that Disable States
• Add Triggers that Enable States
• Add a Trigger to Show a Layer

Lesson 3: Gamification

• Start and Stop Media
• Change the Hover State
• Make a Trigger Conditional
• Show Layers Conditionally
• Hide Objects Using States
• Adjust a Variable
• Change a State Based on When
• Calculate a Score
• Adjust Variables Dynamically

Lesson 4: Video Control and Sliders

• Work with Web Objects
• Edit Video Parameters
• Add Cue Points to the Timeline
• Add Triggers Based on Cue Points
• Change a Character’s State Based on Time
• Insert and Format a Slider
• Set Slider Values
• Add Triggers to a Slider

Lesson 5: Advanced Quizzing

• Modify Drag and Drop Questions
• Add an Image as Question Feedback
• Set Remediation
• Import Questions From a File
• Create a Random Quiz
• Redirect a Quiz

Lesson 6: Extending Storyline

• Execute a Print JavaScript
• Save Variables To a Text File with JavaScript

Lesson 7: Accessibility and Reporting

• Make an Image Accessible
• Control Accessibility Visibility
• Edit the Tab Order
• Add a Keyboard Shortcut to a Button
• Add Closed Captions
• Upload a Project to an LMS

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.