The Concept This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge was Keep It or Trash It: Drag-and-Drop Sorting Activities #439. Now, I’ve created a drag-and-drop activity for an actual course that involves taking items and sorting it as either trash or recycling. I could have taken that interaction, sanitized it, and called it a day. But that’s no […]
A More Complex Drag and Drop Interaction: OSHA Hazard Mapping Interaction
What do you do when you need to create a more complex drag and drop interaction? One with multiple groups of drag items? Will you throw the learners into a world of chaos where they can drag whatever they want wherever they want, or can you use intuitive design to cut through the chaos? The […]
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 […]
Moving Circular Navigation Menu
Circular navigation menus are not something that I use very often in eLearning design. I find that they don’t always allow for the most efficient use of space. This week’s eLearning challenge was to build some kind of circular menu, so I took this as an opportunity to try to solve the space issue. I […]