Using Story View
Articulate Storyline uses a hierarchical structure
of scenes, slides, and layers to organize content. Scenes are the largest
organizational units. Each scene contains one or more slides. And each slide
can have multiple layers.
Story View gives you a big-picture view of your
entire project. It's where you manage scenes and the layout of your course.
Switching to Story View
Storyline initially opens in Story View. At any time
thereafter, you can switch to Story View by clicking the Story View button in the lower right corner of
the screen (near the zoom slider).
Or, go to the View tab on the Storyline ribbon and
click Story
View.
If you're in Slide
View, you can also click the Story
View tab
just below the Storyline ribbon.
Working with Scenes
Every Storyline project has at least one scene.
Story View is where you manage scenes, including adding scenes, deleting
scenes, and rearranging the slides that appear in those scenes.
Setting the starting scene:
The starting scene is the first scene learners see
when they launch your course. In Story View, the starting scene has a small red
flag next to its title. To designate a different scene as the starting
scene, do either of the following:
·
Select the scene, go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Starting Scene.
·
Right-click the scene and
choose Starting Scene.
Adding scenes:
To add new scenes to your course, do any of the
following:
·
Go to the Home tab and click New Scene.
·
Right-click anywhere in the
workspace and choose New
Scene.
·
Duplicate an existing scene
(and all its slides) by selecting the scene and pressing Ctrl+D, or by right-clicking
the scene and choosing Duplicate.
Renaming scenes:
Titles appear at the top of each scene. By default,
each is called Untitled
Scene, but you can change it by doing either of the following:
·
Double-click the title to open
it for editing, type the new name, and press Enteron
your keyboard.
·
Right-click the scene and
choose Rename. Type the new name and
press Enteron your keyboard.
Storyline displays scene titles in your course menu.
You can remove or rename scene titles in the menu without affecting the scenes
in Story View.
Deleting scenes:
To delete a scene (and all its slides) from your
project, do either of the following:
·
Select the scene and press Delete on your keyboard.
·
Right-click the scene and
choose Delete.
Collapsing and expanding scenes:
By default, Story View displays a thumbnail image
for every slide in your course. If you have a large course with lots of slides,
it can be helpful to collapse scenes to get a better picture of your course
layout. To collapse a scene, click the triangle in the upper right corner of
the scene. To collapse all scenes at once, right-click anywhere in the
workspace and choose Collapse
All Scenes.
To expand a scene, click the triangle in the upper
right corner of the scene. To expand all scenes at once, right-click anywhere
in the workspace and choose Expand
All Scenes.
Moving slides between scenes:
You can move slides from one scene to another to
better organize your content and change navigation. Just select one or more
slides in a scene, then drag them to a different scene.
In Story View, lines and arrows indicate the
relationship between slides and scenes. Use triggers to
customize navigation and create branched scenarios. See the section called
"Controlling the presentation order" later in this tutorial for
details.
Working with Slides
Most of the work involved in building slides will be
done in Slide View, but Story
View is great for organizing slides, adjusting slide properties, and
controlling navigation.
Adding slides:
To add a slide to your course in Story View, select
the scene where you want it to appear, then do any of the following:
·
Press Ctrl+M.
·
Go to the Home tab and click New Slide.
·
Go to the Insert tab and click New Slide.
·
Right-click the scene and
choose New Slide.
·
Duplicate an existing slide by
pressing Ctrl+D,
going to the Home tab and clicking Duplicate, or right-clicking
a slide and choosing Duplicate.
·
Go to the Home tab and click Record Screen to insert a screencast.
To learn more about the different types of slides
you can create, see Adding New
Slides.
Renaming slides:
Titles appear below each slide. By default,
each slide is either called Untitled Slide or uses
the text from the title text box on the slide itself. You can change a slide
title in Story View by doing either of the following (without changing the
actual text on the slide):
·
Double-click the title to open
it for editing, type the new name, and press Enter on your keyboard.
·
Right-click the slide and
choose Rename.
Type the new name and press Enter on your keyboard.
Storyline displays slide titles in your course menu.
You can remove or rename slide titles in the menu without affecting the text on
the slides or the slide titles in Story View.
Rearranging slides:
To rearrange slides, just click and drag them to a
new location. When you drag a slide, a small blue arrow will appear to show you
where it'll be inserted. Release your mouse button to drop it into place.
You can also use Shift+Click and Ctrl+Click to select multiple slides at
the same time to move them as a group. Slides can be rearranged within the same
scene or moved to different scenes.
Editing slides:
For most slide-specific tasks, you'll switch to Slide View, but some edits can be made
in Story View.
·
Change
the layout: Right-click any slide, scroll
to Layout,
and choose a layout. Or, go to the Home tab, click Layout, and choose a
layout for the selected slide(s).
·
Reset
the layout: If you've modified elements
of a slide that are inherited from its master layout, you can always revert
back to the original layout. Right-click the slide and choose Reset Slide, or go to the Home tab and click Reset.
·
Change
the background: Right-click a slide and
choose Format Background to add a different fill to the
slide's background. Another option is to go to theDesign tab and click Background
Styles, then right-click one of the styles to apply it to the
selected slide or all slides.
·
Switch
to a different design theme: Design themes are a quick way to change the background,
colors, and fonts in your course. Go to the Design tab, right-click any theme, and
apply it to the selected slide or all slides.
·
Add a
slide transition: Select a slide, go to the Transitions tab, and click any of the slide transitions.
If the Effect Options button lights up, it means you can
modify the slide transition by choosing an effect from the drop-down.
·
Add
or edit triggers: Triggers tell Storyline how
to respond when learners interact with your course. Select a slide and use the Triggers panel to add, edit, and delete
triggers
·
Adjust
slide properties: Use the Slide Properties panel in the lower right corner to
change how slides advance, how they behave when revisiting them, and which
player controls they display.
·
Duplicate,
rename, or delete slides: Right-click any slide, then choose Duplicate,Rename,
or Delete.
Controlling the Presentation Order
By default, scenes and slides follow a linear order,
but you can add branching with triggers. To branch from one scene to another,
click the chain link icon at the bottom of the scene, then choose Link to Slide or Link
to Scene.
To branch from one slide to another, select the
slide and double-click the Jump
to next slide trigger
in the Triggers panel. When the Trigger Wizard appears, select the slide to which you
want to branch and click OK.
Managing Question Banks
Question banks are groups of questions from which
you draw slides to create dynamic quizzes in your courses. A question draw can
be a subset of questions or an entire bank, and it can even be randomized.
Question banks are managed in Story View. When you go
to the Home tab and clickQuestion
Banks, you'll see the following options:
·
New
Draw from Question Bank
·
Create
Question Bank
·
Manage
Question Banks
Existing question banks will also be listed. Every
project has one question bank by default, called Question Bank 1, but you can
add more.
Undocking
and Redocking Panels
Here's a helpful tip: You can undock panels and move
them to another monitor if you need more room to work. Just click the title of
a panel—such as Triggers orSlide Properties—and drag it
to a new location.
To redock a panel, click the Redock button in the
panel's upper right corner.
To redock all panels at the same time, go to the View tab on the Storyline ribbon and
click Redock All Windows.
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