At Yukon Learning, we believe that e-Learning should be engaging with graphics, animations, and the like. Sometimes, however, we’re asked to display a large amount of text on screen, such as legal material or a Terms of Service policy. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a specific Storyline 360 build that’s perfect for this use case. The Scrolling Panel is a Storyline 360 feature we really can’t get enough of. It helps us display endless content without ever leaving the page (since space on a single slide is in
How Can I Make a Slider More Engaging?
Our latest blog entry demonstrated how to customize a Dial and make it more engaging. Now, in the second half of this two-part series, let’s dial back the clock in honor of #FlashbackFriday to the original Storyline interaction of this type: Sliders. At Yukon Learning, we’re always finding new ways to utilize the Slider interaction, allowing learners to drag a handle up and down a track in order to uncover content, or trigger actions to occur. They’re fast and easy to develop, and make learning entertaining. However, since the Slider
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