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Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
Helpful ideas. Squeaky value.
Step-by-step, hands-on walkthroughs for building a specific feature, interaction, or effect in your course.
Slides are a natural starting point for Zoom presentations, but they have real limits. Rise gives you built-in interactivity, a sidebar for navigation, and a shareable link that doubles as a leave-behind resource. One Articulate trainer made the switch and hasn't looked back.
Every time you build a branched scenario in Storyline, you probably spend minutes hunting for background images. There's a better way. Two methods turn that setup into a one-time task.
A lot of people think e-learning is just about speed. But speed only helps if you've set yourself up properly. The right tools, accessible assets, and a predefined course structure are what actually make rapid development work.
Most e-learning developers avoid gamification because it feels too complex to build quickly. But you can take a template you already have and add just a few interactive elements to change the experience entirely. Here's how a simple meet-the-team template became a decision-making challenge.
Screencast tutorials are some of the most common forms of online training. This makes sense since a large part of e-learning is predicated on learning new software. One challenge is creating effective and engaging screencasts. So today, we'll look at a few simple production tips to help you get started.
Come back to a Storyline project after six months and you'll see immediately whether your variable naming was thoughtful or rushed. Good names are easy to read at a glance. This post lays out a practical system for getting it right the first time.
You've built a course with a dozen variables and need to test whether a specific trigger works on slide 20. That means clicking through every screen just to get there. A variables dashboard fixes that, and this post shows you how to build one.
Tired of right-clicking and saving images one at a time? Here are two quick tools that pull every image off a webpage in one shot, so you can grab on-brand visuals for your e-learning courses without the tedious clicking.
Most e-learning courses have natural pause points where learners need context before they move forward. Gate screens fill that role, and they show up in more courses than you might expect. Planning for them early makes the whole production process faster.
If you've ever updated a theme color and found that half your template didn't change, you've run into the custom color problem. This quick trick makes it easy to spot every object that isn't using a theme color before it becomes a real headache.
A lot of drag and drop problems come from decisions that weren't made before building started. Knowing your interaction type, how you'll mark targets, and how you'll give feedback will save you a lot of rework.
Most drag and drop interactions leave learners wondering what to do when they drop something in the wrong place. Hotspots offer a cleaner solution. They can provide feedback and give you precise control over where objects land.
A spinning 3D object looks impressive in a slideshow. But when a learner clicks a tab and the object rotates in response, that's something worth remembering. This post picks up where the PowerPoint video tutorial left off and shows how to wire the full interaction in Storyline.
tuck with a great course image that leaves zero room for text? This duplicate-crop-stretch trick opens up space without touching the photo. It works on solid backgrounds, patterns, and even blurry beach shots.
After sharing a Rise interactive scenario demo, I got a lot of questions about how the graphics were built. The headers, flashcard images, and character graphics all came from PowerPoint. This post walks through the exact workflow, including how to set slide sizes and export images for Rise blocks.
