Course Description
Certificate Overview
To keep pace with today’s fast-moving world, training organizations are increasingly including the use of more technology – especially eLearning. Articulate Storyline is an eLearning authoring tool built from the ground up with the goal of making the process of designing, developing, and implementing eLearning faster, easier, and more affordable. Using an intuitive interface, Articulate Storyline is easy enough for novices to learn quickly and powerful enough for advanced developers to build highly sophisticated and interactive eLearning. With its easy to use features (no programming required) and robust capabilities, Storyline lets you focus on what’s most important: delivering more effective and appealing eLearning that saves your organization time and money.
Not sure if you should start with the Articulate Storyline 'Fundamentals' or Articulate Storyline for 'Next Level Design' certificate? The Articulate Storyline Fundamentals Certificate covers the basic building blocks and widgets in Storyline. See the ‘Fundamentals’ course session-by-session course agenda here. The Articulate Storyline for Next Level Design Certificate starts exploring how to leverage all those building blocks and mashing them together, along with thinking through the what's and why's of designing an interaction. See the ‘Next Level’ course session-by-session course agenda here.
BONUS ITEMS:
This is the only Articulate Storyline course offering you:
Dozens of free Storyline source files for self-paced learning.
Detailed step-by-step exercises for hands-on practice.
Facilitated labs so you can learn and practice with the support of your instructors.
Instruction blended with practical design and development guidance from an award-winning eLearning developer many years of industry experience.
YOU’LL ALSO RECEIVE A FREE CUSTOMIZED CHARACTER PACKET ($1600 VALUE) BY: eLearning art
PROGRAM DETAILS: During this certificate program your instructors will guide you, step-by-step, through the process of using Articulate Storyline to build effective and appealing eLearning. You will build a small eLearning project during this certificate to gain hands-on practice applying your new skills.
PREREQUISITES: A basic understanding of computing concepts and of eLearning is helpful. Already have basic Articulate Storyline experience? Consider registering for our Articulate Storyline for Next Level Design certificate.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This certificate program is for non-programmers who wish to learn basic to intermediate authoring features of Articulate Storyline. Managers may also benefit from seeing the creation and development process so they may more accurately estimate course development time and cost.
Instructors
Kevin Thorn
Chief NuggetHead, NuggetHead Studioz. Kevin Thorn is an award-winning eLearning designer with over 20 years’ experience in the training industry. After retiring from the Army as a trainer, Kevin earned a Technology Management degree in pursuit of an IT career. When his interest in technology mashed with his passion for visual design along with his experience in training, he founded NuggetHead Studioz, LLC. The Studioz is a custom design and development company providing services in instructional design, storyboarding, eLearning development, Articulate Storyline training, illustration, graphic design, storytelling, cartooning and comics.
Technical Requirements
If you don't have a licensed copy of Articulate Storyline, you must download a complimentary trial version prior to the start of the course at: https://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-why.php. The current trial version is Storyline 2 but if you already have Storyline 1 installed, you can still participate in this certificate by downloading Storyline 2 trial version. The two versions are independent of each other and both can be installed on the same computer. While Storyline 2 can support anything in Storyline 1, you will find that Storyline 2 has quite a few new features.
Already using Articulate Storyline and not sure if you have Storyline 1 or 2?
Start by locating your license/serial number by right clicking on your desktop link for Articulate Storyline, then choose ‘properties’ and it should say ‘Articulate Storyline’ (if you currently use Storyline 1) or ‘Articulate Storyline 2’ (if you currently use Articulate Storyline2.) Still can’t find it? Please contact the Articulate directly for assistance at support@Articulate.com.
Your trial period for this software is 30 days from the time you install. Therefore, we recommend that you install the trial version no more than one or two days prior to the first session. This allows you a few weeks to practice after the last session.
For Articulate Storyline software FAQs (including tech specs) go here.
NOTE TO MAC USERS: Articulate Storyline is a Windows-based program. Currently there is no version specifically for a Mac. However, you can run Storyline on a Mac with Parallels, Boot Camp, or VMware Fusion virtual machine. Please contact us if you have questions.
Course Objectives
In this certificate you will learn to:
Become acquainted with Storyline’s user interface and features.
Organize your course by scenes and slides.
Move more rapidly from storyboard to Storyline by importing existing assets, including PowerPoint slides and other Storyline files.
Use the basic building blocks of Storyline such as states, layers, and triggers.
Use Storyline’s robust audio and video features.
Create simple interactions: drag and drop, hide-reveal, rollovers, and more.
Understand object states, including characters, buttons, and shapes.
Understand interactive objects including markers, hotspots, buttons, and scrolling panels.
Use best practices for leveraging Storyline’s basic quizzing features.
Implement ideas that help you to convert text-heavy content into easy to navigate, branched lessons.
Publish your project.
Leverage creative ideas and techniques for enhancing your learning content.
Identify opportunities to leverage variables in your projects.
Sessions
Sessions
Click here for a sample session-by-session course agenda.
Course Dates
Register early. This course is limited to 50 participants.
AUGUST COURSE DATES:
(Register by July 3 and automatically save $150 with our Early Bird rate!)
Session 1: Monday, August 3, 2015
Session 2: Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Session 3: Friday, August 7, 2015
Session 4: Monday, August 10, 2015
SEPTEMBER COURSE DATES:
(Register by August 9 and automatically save $150 with our Early Bird rate!)
Session 1: Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Session 2: Friday, September 11, 2015
Session 3: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Session 4: Friday, September 18, 2015
NOVEMBER COURSE DATES:
(Register by October 2 and automatically save $150 with our Early Bird rate!)
Session 1: Monday, November 2, 2015
Session 2: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Session 3: Friday, November 6, 2015
Session 4: Monday, November 9, 2015
Each session is 3 hours in length. The first two hours are instructor-led and online. The third hour is an online facilitated lab where participants can work on their assignments with the support of the instructor. Participants will also have access to the instructor via email for additional support after each session and for the duration of the certificate program.
All sessions start at 12:00 noon Eastern Time (New York time). Here is the time of the sessions listed in various time zones:
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time (PT)
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Mountain Time (MT)
11:00 am - 2:00 pm Central Time (CT)
12:00 noon - 3:00 pm Eastern Time (ET)
For times in other cities, visit this link. All sessions are recorded. In order to earn your Certificate of Completion, you must log in for and participate in each live course and successfully complete any homework assignments by specified deadlines. Recordings of sessions are intended for review purposes only
Registration contact:
Vicki Blomquist
Marketing Director
P. 952.929.7194
E. vicki@trainingmag.com