It is a necessary step in your course review process- reviewing slides’ functionality and appearance in a published state. This is your opportunity to ensure triggers and variables are working correctly. You can see how objects, texts, and images look on the screen. Even though it can sometimes seem like a tedious time-drain, I think it is much easier to review a lesson that is drafted than correct an lesson that has already forwarded to your LMS or launched!
But what if you only want to look at one scene or one slide instead of the entire lesson? If you publish the full project you’ll either have to review EVERY slide, including the one’s you’re not interested in reviewing yet. If your next buttons or progress process is “locked”, you will need to develop some sort of way to fast-forward through the lesson
Thankfully, the publish options at Storyline give you a choice on how much you’ll publish. Once you’ve clicked the PUBLISH ribbon and the pop-up appears, look for the publish line in the PROPERTIES section.
After you have open the PUBLISH PROPERTIES, you’ll see another pop-up appear. Here, you will select the portion of the Storyline file you would like to publish: the entire project, a designated scene, or a single slide.
Not only can this publish option save time during your review processes, it can also come in handy when you only want to publish a small section of a larger Storyline file. As example, each demonstration I feature at my blog is a scene from a larger Storyline file. (Since most of these examples are relatively short, I’ve learned it is easier to develop it in one file versus keep up with multiple files.)
It is a simple function but one I did not know about until recently. This reminds me that Storyline is rather robust, and there is always more to learn, especially regarding the features I do not use often enough. If there’s a Storyline trick or e-learning shortcut you’ve recently discovered, be sure to share it in the comments section!