During our hands-on Articulate 360 training sessions, we have lots of fun creating and editing professional-quality training videos with Articulate’s intuitive screencast tool, Replay 360. When working with Replay 360, I’m often asked about creating a fade-in or fade-out effect for the beginning or ending of the video. Although there is no built-in “fade-in/out option” in Replay 360, it’s relatively easy to create, and can really add a nice touch to your training videos. Let’s take a look! Step One: Video Once you’ve launched Replay 360, record your video or
How Can I Make a Dial More Engaging?
Want to create e-Learning that’ll spin your learners right round? Learning theory suggests that bestowing knowledge should involve actively engaging the learner because the more engaging your content is, the more easily it’s retained. In e-Learning, this requires creativity on the part of the developer! At Yukon Learning, we’re always striving toward newer, fresher interactions to shake things up for the learner. Plus, wouldn’t it be great if that unique interaction was fast to build, and meets accessibility guidelines? Enter: the custom Dial. With a Dial, learners rotate a knob
Best of 2018
As 2018 comes to a close, we reflect back on all of the wonderful things that happened this year. Yukon Learning celebrated its 10-year anniversary and Articulate came out with some amazing updates. We’re going to celebrate those accomplishments by highlighting some of our student’s favorites: Rise: Block templates Sidebar search Labeled graphic blocks Interactive sorting activity Process blocks Timeline blocks Shortcut bar Storyline: Modern text Course completion trigger Modern player Conditional seekbar As we here at Yukon Learning close 2018 and our 10-year celebration, we would like to share a
How Do You Get an Item to Disappear After the Learner Clicks?
State changes are sometimes overlooked by many new users in Storyline, mainly because they are apprehensive about how they can be used. A question was asked in one of my recent courses about how one might get buttons or other items to disappear when they were clicked. A specific use case might be if you are using a button to start the motion path of another object, but you do not want the button to distract the learner or be “in the way” of the object that is moving, or
How Can I Use the “=NotAssignment” Trigger in Storyline 360?
UPDATE! As of October 2019, the Storyline 360 trigger wizard was updated to use the same intuitive language as the triggers panel so it’s consistent and understandable. For 360 users, “Assignment and Not Assignment” have been replaced with “Set and Toggle.” The language is different, but the steps listed below still work. Learn more about the new trigger workflow here, and then read on! Although not used as often, the “=NotAssignment” (also known as “toggle”) variable/trigger can be a great way to help you create engaging interactions for your learners!