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How Can I Make a Dial More Engaging?

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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

How Can We Submit Answers to Quiz Questions “On-Click,” Without a Submit Button?

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We are often asked this question when we teach the quizzing portion of Storyline 360. Selecting the answer and then asking the user to hit submit feels awkward for some designers. In this quick blog entry, we are going to show you a simple way that you submit an answer by simply clicking the choice. Disclaimer: (usually read fast at the end of a commercial – don’t worry – no harmful side effects like constipation or rashes) Before we show you how we probably need to tell you why this

Best of 2018

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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?

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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 Create a Spotlight on a Slide to Highlight Some Information?

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A great question surfaced in a training class a couple of weeks ago – “How can I create a spotlight on a slide to highlight some information?” Storyline has some great ways for you to highlight information: Zoom Region, Zoom Picture, creative animations, markers, and state changes; just to name a few. There is a cool spotlight annotation in Studio 360, but there is not a built-in spotlight widget in Storyline. So, let’s show you one way you may accomplish this in Storyline. Step 1 Find or create a slide