Day 42 / 60Week 5 · DevelopmentLesson

Storyline 360

Learning goal

Understand slides, layers, states, triggers and variables well enough to plan a build.

Estimated time

40 minutes · self-paced

Warm-up

What can Storyline do that Rise cannot?

diagram

Slides hold objects; objects have states; layers show alternate content; triggers respond to events; variables remember things.

example

Write your trigger logic in the storyboard: 'When user clicks X, change state of Y to Z, show layer Feedback-A'.

Set focus order, alt text, closed captions and keyboard operability from the start — retrofitting is painful.

You need to remember a learner's earlier choice. Which feature?

Does your design need Storyline, or would Rise do?

Write the trigger logic for one interaction in plain English.

Add the interaction spec to Project 5.

Ten assistants for this lesson

Instructional design questions only

Hi! I'm your ID Mentor. Ask me anything about storyline 360 — or instructional design in general.