Storyline 360: How to Embed Published Content in a Web Page - Articulate Support
iFrame code for embedding Storyline on a website
A Quick Guide to Using Tweego
One problem with Twine is that it can start to lag when your story gets too big (often around 300 passages). For larger games, it may be better to break it up into multiple smaller files. This guide explains how to use Tweego to combine multiple HTML files created in Twine into a single file.
How to debug slow playback in Adobe Captivate courses - Infosemantics Pty Ltd
Troubleshooting for Captivate
Twine: The basics (browser-based)
A tutorial on the basics of Twine. This uses CSS rather than enchant macros for formatting (which is probably a better strategy in the long run, especially for larger games, but a little harder for people to learn initially if they don't already know CSS). The course is built in Rise with an overview of the features.
A Total Beginner’s Guide to Twine 2.1 – Adam Hammond
This guide is to Twine uses the Sugarcube format, which allows more control via CSS and Javascript, rather than Harlowe, which allows easier internal customization but isn't as easy to implement with CSS and Javascript.
Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer - Apple Support
When installing Twine on a Mac, you may get a warning about it being an "unidentified developer." This is just Apple trying to restrict you from leaving their walled garden and using an open source program where they can't make any money. Follow these directions to change the security settings and install the program.
Articulate Storyline to Create a Customized PDF on the Fly? – Rabbitoreg (Zsolt Olah)
How to create a PDF from Storyline variables using the PDFMake Javascript library
Storyline 360 - Generating a PDF Certificate using JavaScript - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Directions and sample file for creating a PDF certificate
REQ: Javascript Date Variable Help. - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Notes on Javascript date formatting and how to add 365 days to a date (e.g., for an expiration date on a training certificate)
Pulling first name from LMS - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Javascript snippets for pulling names from the LMS so they can be used in a Storyline module
How To Create A Printable Certificate Of Completion In Articulate Storyline
Video tutorial plus transcript and files for creating a printable certificate of completion in Storyline
Watch "Creating a Branching Scenario Quiz with Camtasia" on YouTube
Matt Pierce shows how to create an interactive video with custom feedback. Matt notes this is challenging to troubleshoot and needs to be planned in advance, but this is an interesting possibility.
Zoom breakout workaround
Want to let people choose their own breakout rooms in Zoom? Check out this solution. This would probably work best with an audience with at least some prior experience with Zoom (so they don't do anything as co-hosts accidentally), but it wouldn't take too much training to give people enough skill to manage it.
Proofing copy - Word processor - Twine Forum
Suggestions on ways to make an editable copy of a Twine story in Google Docs. None of these are as easy as they should be, but at least there are some workarounds.
Create Beautiful Custom Dropdown Menus With jQuery—Storyline Edition - eLearning Brothers
Storyline doesn't have built-in dropdown menus. This jquery example (with sample files) shows a method for creating them without using a bunch of layers and triggers
A better way to create a custom PDF of lesson variables from captivate | eLearning
A javascript solution to printing text from variables in Captivate
How to Merge Multiple Word Documents in Microsoft Office 2016
I use this merge function regularly, but I'm surprised how many people don't know this feature exists.
Fix - Firefox compatibility & Smart Shape b... |Adobe Community
How to fix the bug with smart shape buttons in responsive Captivate projects (slides with smart shape buttons appear blank in Firefox).
How to Make Social Media Banners in Photoshop - GraphicStock BlogGraphicStock Blog
Sizes for different platforms and quick directions on how to create banners
Google Forms: Create a Branching Quiz Question - Teacher Tech
Use Google Forms to create a branching quiz. This could be used for a branching scenario as well. You can add images in Google Forms, so you could add some visual interest as well. A tool called Flubaroo can be used for scoring.
Replay (slide) Button - Captivate blog
Two methods for creating replay buttons in Captivate. I have needed this before and never come up with as elegant a solution as Lieve offers here.
Make Captivate HTML5 Work in Firefox
When Captivate publishes HTML5, it doesn't work in Firefox. Captivate exports only MP3 audio, and Firefox only plays OGGs. This post provides some tweaks for the Javascript to get rid of the error message and look for OGG versions of the file when needed. You have to create both versions of the audio files.
Matchstick Game - shared actions - Captivate blog
Lieve explains how she used shared actions to create a game. She also details how she labels and groups everything. The labeling system would be usable for many other situations when you have a plethora of objects on a single slide.
Understanding Layer Masks In Photoshop
Nice explanation of using layer masks in Photoshop, with a clear example of why you would want to use them instead of other tools.
Creating a Slider in Captivate 8 – An Experiment
Create a slider with rollovers and advanced actions in Cp8, similar to the Storyline 2 slider. Also includes the failed first attempt and explains why it didn't quite work as desired. Purchasing the Infosemantics slider component widget would be faster, but it's nice to see how it would be possible.
How I Built This Branched E-Learning Scenario - E-Learning Heroes
Nicole Legault explains how she built a branching scenario in Storyline 2 in about 6 hours. She explains her process for building and saving time, along with details on creating a progress meter and where she found images.
Moodle - Removing Country field from New User Registration Page - 916 Networks916 Networks
Notes on how to comment out the requirement for a country for Moodle sign-ups. It's dumb that Moodle doesn't have the ability to customize the country field by default, but this workaround did what I needed it to.
Unprotect a Word form easily, even without the password | Examiner.com
Great tip for unprotecting a Word form when you don't have the password, by inserting the text of the file into a new blank document. This gives you the form but without protection turned on. Useful if you need to clear out all form fields at once to reset a form to blank. Once you get the form unprotected, you can use the Reset Form Fields button on the Developer toolbar.
Excel Blog - Using multiple criteria in Excel Lookup formulas
Good introduction to the different options for lookup formulas in Excel when you need more than one criteria and therefore can't use VLOOKUP. Shows SUMPRODUCT, SUMPRODUCT with INDEX and ROW, LOOKUP, and an array formula with INDEX & MATCH. SUMIFS would work in some situations shown too.
New Course + Quiz Template using the Power of Adobe Photoshop! « Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog
How to create a Captivate template in Photoshop, including notes on all the elements needed and tips (like saving captions as BMPs)