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Building Custom Navigation Into Your Storyline Projects

Want to have your own custom, onscreen navigation buttons in your Storyline project? No problem! Just disable the default next and back buttons and customize the look of your player. It’s quick and easy and I’ll show you how! Select the “Player” button in the top right of the Storyline editing window to select the […]

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"How To" Guides Accessibility Elearning Accessibility Tips and Tricks

Accessible Storyline Projects: Keyboard Navigation and Alt-Text

Articulate has made amazing strides to develop accessibility features in Storyline. Accessibility is becoming must more of a focus in the elearning industry, and Articulate is at the forefront. Each year they make improvements to accessibility features and add new ones, and while many of their accessibility features are unique to Storyline, they are generally […]

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10 Mistakes in Elearning Design

10 Mistakes in Elearning Design: Obvious or Confusing Quiz Answers

Last time we talked about the horror of dead-end quiz questions. When left to the default setting “infinite tries,” quiz questions can be a trap with no escape. Drag and drops, in particular, are a nightmare when attempts are not limited. But any poorly-written quiz question is a problem, and quizzes are too often left […]

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10 Mistakes in Elearning Design

10 Mistakes in Elearning Design: Dead-End Quiz Questions

Navigation design, visual design, auditory design – these are all important! But I think my biggest frustrations as a learner have come from poorly designed quizzes. There’s nothing like encountering an overly difficult quiz question and then getting stuck there, so close to the end, and yet so far! So let’s chat today about quiz […]

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"How To" Guides

Hosting Your Courses for Pennies with Google Cloud Storage

*Updated 9/28/21* The easiest way to share your courses with your reviewers and with learners is via web hosting. Being able to just hand over a link is simply the best, especially for your learner. Whether you’re using Captivate, Storyline, or some other software, the published files can be large and clunky to share with […]

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Online Learning in Academic Libraries: Showcase of Library Tutorials

When I was a new Instructional Design Librarian in 2014 I sought out examples of great online tutorials from other academic libraries to get ideas for what our own library should have. Our library at the time was seriously lacking in online learning. When I joined the library, the newest YouTube videos were four years […]

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eLearning Explainer Instructional Design

How interactive is your elearning? H5P, Storyline, and Captivate compared!

By now, I hope you’ve heard of H5P, and that you’ve had time to give it a go. Its name belies how fantastic it is. H5P is an open source platform for developing interactive elearning. Haven’t tried it yet? Give it a go. I’ll wait. If you really want to dive in, I’ve got a […]

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Embed your Storyline and Captivate courses using iframes

In today’s post, I’ll show you how you can embed your published Storyline and Captivate courses into any webpage using iframes, which is a very simple HTML code. If you can copy and paste, you can do this, I promise! You encounter iframes all the time without knowing it. Iframes are just “frames” that feature […]

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Hosting your Captivate or Storyline courses for free

So you’ve developed a fabulous course using Adobe Captivate or Articulate Storyline. Now, you want to show it off. Maybe you want to feature it in your elearning portfolio, or send it to your subject matter expert for review. It’s clunky, to say the least, to send over the zipped version of your published course. […]

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Storyline and Sparks: Five Years of Elearning Development

I’ve just updated my academic library’s library orientation tutorials, the Spark Tutorials, for the 2018-19 school year! These are the third iteration of the Spark Tutorials as they exist today. And I just realized – I’ve been developing elearning for five years now! I’ve been developing elearning with Articulate Storyline since 2013. I’ve also been using […]