At Yukon Learning, our mission is “Making e-Learning Easy for Everyone.” One of the ways we do so is by coming up with mnemonic devices (or just parodied song lyrics) to help participants in training remember key things about Storyline 360. In this article, let’s review some of these phrases you might hear from our trainers. “If you like it then you shoulda put a name on it.” Our beloved Ron Price likes to say that Beyoncé was once an e-Learning designer and that while developing, she came up with
What are Some Best Practices for Storyline 360 Translation?
¡Hola! Ciao. Bonjour! Are you distributing Storyline 360 e-Learning in multiple languages? The Yukon team is asked all of the time what this entails, so we’re sharing some of our best practices both during and after development to help make translation seamless! We love to plan ahead whenever possible and mitigate any issues before they can ever occur. So, when we’re developing e-Learning in Storyline 360 that will go out for translation, here are the things we prepare in advance: Ensure that text will shrink Languages use different amounts of
How Do I Loop a Video?
Video is a great way to communicate a message to learners in your courses! We’re often asked in training how to make a video automatically play over and over again or “loop.” Let’s look at how this can be done in Storyline 360! To begin, insert a video onto a slide via the Insert tab, be it Content Library 360 media or your own. (You may want to have your video fade in and fade out. Visit this blog post to add that effect in Replay 360.) Tip: Although there
Do I Need to Do Anything About Flash Going away?
You probably knew it was coming and may have mixed feelings about it, but the time is officially here: Adobe will discontinue Flash completely at the end of 2020. So, what does this mean to you as an Articulate developer? Here’s the scoop: How does this affect you? If you have courses that rely on Flash animations or videos, were developed in previous versions of Articulate Storyline or Studio, use the Articulate Mobile Player, or if you haven’t yet upgraded to Articulate 360 or Storyline 3, you need to take
Can I Make a Video Un-Clickable?
As many of you may know, if a Storyline 360 video is playing and a learner clicks on it, the video pauses. If they click it again, it resumes. Let’s answer the common “as heard in training” question: “How do I make videos un-clickable?” Why are videos clickable in the first place? Well, this click-to-pause design mimics how other software and social media use video. If you were watching a video on a platform like YouTube or Facebook right now, you would experience the same action. (Go ahead and try