High-quality visuals are crucial to the success of eLearning courses and videos. Photoshop lets you create these quickly and easily, but many eLearning developers find the program too complicated and either avoid it altogether or don’t take full advantage of the features available.

Storyline offers so many layers of possibilities, with its various trigger and variable functions, that it can feel overwhelming with the level of customization at your fingertips. You may have seen eLearning with characters that can respond directly to you, ask you questions, or move and interact with other characters based on what you input—but how would you create such engaging interactions and fit them all on screen?

Captivate’s built-in features can do a lot, but sometimes your project just needs to do more. By using JavaScript, you can extend Captivate and leverage the broader capabilities of HTML5 and other web technologies. This approach makes it possible for designers and web developers to collaborate to produce projects that can communicate with systems outside of an LMS, or to create individual multimedia components that communicate with one another.

While the basics are quite easy to pick up on your own, many self-taught Storyline developers are able to explore the functions of only the tool that they need immediately, particularly when multiple projects and tight timelines are involved. As a result, it’s easy to overlook some of the newer and lesser-known features. But it’s these deeper features that can do the most to make your eLearning more versatile and original.

Selecting the right virtual classroom platform can be challenging! There are so many programs available, each with its own sets of tools and features. And each platform offers a unique angle on virtual training classes. With all those differences, it’s hard to know which platform is right for your organization.

Photoshop is the de facto standard for image creation and manipulation, and over the years, more and more features have been added to this tool. Some of these features are real time-savers and also have the ability to make your images stand out. However, if you haven’t taken courses on Photoshop, or haven’t taken any recently, chances are you may be underusing these helpful new additions to the tool.

To some, variables may be an unknown function in Articulate Storyline. Many haven’t had the opportunity to use variables or have been confused by them and what they are capable of adding to the learning experience. Whatever the reason for pleading ignorance, this session has it covered!

When building interactive screens, you need to put some thought into how to place the objects on the screen. And for responsive interaction, you need to take a step further and think about how to display the interactive objects in different breakpoints so that learners can interact with the content easily.

When you want to implement your best instructional designs to help your learners in the best ways possible, you may often find yourself limited by the tool you use or a lack of understanding of the tool’s features. The result? eLearning that is less than stellar, bores the learner, and results in few productivity gains. Often, designers are led to believe that’s the best they can do.