Articulate Storyline Training: Introduction to Articulate Storyline

Course Number: ART-200
Duration: 3 days
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Articulate Storyline Training Overview

Accelebrate's Introduction to Articulate Storyline training teaches attendees how to use this innovative tool to create self-paced, engaging, and highly interactive training applications for deployment to web browsers and mobile devices.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

Articulate Storyline Training Prerequisites

Attendees should have fundamental PowerPoint skills. (Although PowerPoint will not be used in class, many of the features of PowerPoint are replicated in Storyline.) Prior experience developing eLearning applications is helpful, though not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Articulate Storyline Training Materials

All attendees receive a workbook with a course syllabus, practice exercises, and resources, as well as media files for lab exercises.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or later (32- or 64-bit), Windows Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)
Core 2 Duo processor or faster
At least 2GB RAM
At least 1GB available disk space
Articulate Storyline (trial version can be used)
.NET 2.0 or later (will be installed by Storyline if not present)
Adobe Flash Player 10 or later
Modern web browser with Flash support
Monitor capable of at least 1,024 x 768 screen resolution (1,280 x 800 or higher recommended)
Sound card and speakers
Microphone (recommended)
Keyboard
Mouse

Articulate Storyline Training Objectives

All students will learn to:

Design an eLearning interface most suitable to subject matter, target audience, and deployment method (desktop computer or mobile device)
Add text, photographs, shapes, illustrations, 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
Use 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

Articulate Storyline Training Outline

What is Storyline?

How does Storyline compare to Articulate Studio?

Core features

Getting oriented with the Storyline interface

Story View
Scenes
Slide View

Building a slide

Importing graphics
Creating text boxes
Adding animation

Using the Storyline 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 order of objects on the slide
Zoom in/out on the timeline

Previewing your work

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

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

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

Restricting progress until a condition is met

Buttons

Creating and editing buttons
Working with button states

Adding markers like those in Articulate Engage's Labeled Graphic interaction

Creating a custom menu

Adding slide layers
Using variables and triggers to track and indicate progress
Creating new variables
Creating conditional triggers
Duplicating triggers

Inserting video and Flash files

Adding instructional dialog

Adding audio
Recording 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

Setting tab order
Adding Alt text
Hiding objects from the accessibility features

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 content

PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter files
QuizMaker quizzes
Engage interactions
Another Storyline file

Publishing your project

For the Web in Flash format
For HTML5
For mobile devices
For deployment on an LMS
To Microsoft Word format

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