511 BYOD: Mastering Storyline Variables and Triggers
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, March 28
Tools
Salon 11
Looking for ideas of how to create more interesting learner experiences in Storyline? Wishing your eLearning projects could be more interactive and engaging, perhaps even including gaming elements? If so, then you’ll want to explore what you can do using variables and triggers. This hands-on session will provide you with tips, tricks, and techniques you can use to put them to work immediately and unleash your creativity.
In this session, you’ll learn how to apply variables and triggers within your Storyline projects and, as a result, develop more engaging courses. Understanding variables and how to manage them with triggers will improve your skill set, and your projects will now be limited only by your creativity. The possibilities for your designs become unlimited when you incorporate variables and triggers into your projects. This session will expose you to variables and triggers and allow you to work through exercises that will let you put them into practice immediately.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the difference between text, number, and Boolean variables
- How to create the different types of variables
- How to manipulate variables with triggers
- How to control objects, layers, and states with variables and conditional triggers
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline 3 and 360.
Participant technology requirements:
A laptop running Storyline 3 or 360.
Tracy Parish
Education Technology Specialist
Parish Creative Solutions
Tracy Parish is an accomplished instructional designer, eLearning developer, and consultant based in the Greater Toronto area. With a unique blend of skills in computer programming, adult education, and eLearning design/development, she has built a successful career in instructional design. With over 18 years of experience in instructional design, development, LMS implementation and administration, Tracy is a respected figure in her field. She is a speaker, active Articulate Community Hero, co-host of the Toronto Storyline User Group and webcast Nerdy Shop Talk, the marketing director for the Canadian eLearning Conference, and moderator of the monthly Twitter event #lrnchat.