If you follow training and design closely, you’re certainly familiar with recent trends to create more learner focused solutions. How do you address that trend, creating something customized for your student with a rapid development tool and short deadline? It will require great attention to detail, but using character states, variables, and triggers allows you to add a personalized touch! In addition to creating an engaging course, developing that sort of course logic is always a fun, professional challenge.
The following example uses all of those tools I’ve mentioned (Articulate Storyline’s states and variables) to allow a learner to select an avatar. The simple on-screen representation offers a more customized touch, especially when the character’s pose and expression are further developed (using triggers) to change based on the learner’s action, answer, and responses in the course. Again, it is a course development detail that will test your critical thinking skills, but the finished product is well worth that extra design effort.
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