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Adobe Captivate 2019 – Assets and Project Templates

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Adobe Captivate 2019 has updated their Assets menu and quick start Project Template functionality to make it easier than ever to get started fast, and still allow you custom control over your project look and feel.

The Assets tab has been moved and upgraded, and the starter Project Templates now let you apply more than one theme to your project. Let me show you how!

Scoring Storyline Variable Values in an LMS

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One of the important components of experiential eLearning is that the learner is going to be asked to perform a real world task. The next step is then to be able to quantify how they performed. We would like some way to be able to get data on how well they did. Depending on your LMS, and the addition of a little Javascript, let me show you how I use the variable values function built into Articulate Storyline 360 to help you do just that!

Articulate Storyline: Layers, States and Triggers

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The key to good experiential eLearning is knowing how to use the Layers, States and Triggers functions in Articulate Storyline 360. Layers allow you to determine what objects on screen the learner can interact with at a given time in the task. States allow you to change how an object on a layer looks, or even “hide” them, so that the learner’s experience and feedback changes based upon their choices. Finally, Triggers are what you use to tell objects on the screen to change and reveal unique feedback based upon the learner’s choices. Triggers are how you code consequence or success of real word practice, but isn’t all that heard to learn. Let me show you! (Note that the sample below is not from an actual course, but is being used to demonstrate how these three actions relate.)