I’m a firm believer in the power of an eLearning storyboard to reduce the overall amount of time and effort (read: money) required in training development. While I haven’t always use them when working on internal projects, I use them 100% of the time when acting in a consultant capacity. I define storyboards as a […]
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Social Networking Infographic
I recently worked with a client on a short eLearning course about digital prospecting for their employees. As part of this project, we determined it would be useful to have a job aid. This job aid would refresh employees with social networking best practices days or weeks after they had completed the course. It would […]
A Guide to Writing More Effective Assessments
One area in which new instructional designers can struggle is assessment writing. This can be especially true for SMEs-turned-trainers-turned-instructional-designers. For a lot of us, we haven’t had any formal training in assessment writing, so we try to emulate the assessments we saw growing up in school. And it turns out most of those assessments weren’t […]
An Interactive and Searchable eLearning Glossary
This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge was to build an interactive glossary. For this challenge, I decided to use a Spotify-inspired graphical treatment. This was fun for the demo, if not practical for an actual course. For the functionality, I wanted to build a glossary that has traditional browsing capabilities with the ability to search for […]
Creating Smooth Hover Movement in Storyline
In eLearning, there are a lot of ways to display a Next or Previous button. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with hiding navigation until the user actually wants to use it. This keeps the screen tidy and minimalistic. I wanted to create tabs that are just visible on the side of the screen, then expand when […]
