The Articulate Trainer – As heard in training…

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...

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...

In a previous blog entry, we addressed this and many other things to consider as you create your course. But this question comes up again, and again, so I wanted to revisit it, and provide you with yet another reason why it can be important.
I like order rather than chaos. I like straight lines and properly spaced objects, and yeah…it probably makes me a little bit boring. And during the three days in Storyline training, I find out that I’m not always alone. One of those ways I find that...

In our last entry, we discussed how to make a dial look like a timer in a course. Because we know that there’s never any ONE way to do things in Storyline, this entry will focus on using some advanced options to make the timer user-controlled rather...