Here are four concrete reasons to ask your e-learning outsourcing partner to develop courses using Articulate Storyline.
Is your organization looking to convert legacy courses into effective online trainings? Do you need extensive customization, quick results, courses that reflect your branding, and shorter turnaround times in e-learning course development? Then Articulate Storyline is a ‘Must Try’ tool for you.
Here are four concrete reasons to ask your e-learning outsourcing partner to develop courses using Articulate Storyline.
1. Build Multiple Interactivities Without Programming Skills
Building multiple interactive elements is the key to learner engagement in online learning. Your e-learning outsourcing partner can build interactivities using Articulate without any programming skills. Developing Click, Hover, Drag and Drop, and Variable interactions is is very easy with Articulate Storyline.
Click: Used to click an object or navigational buttons to view details or relevant content.
Hover: Used to move the cursor over on image, menu, or subhead to display labels or additional content.
Drag and Drop: Used to drag objects, images and drop them at the desired locations.
Variables: Trigger related events such as hyperlinks, branching scenarios and more, based on learners’ activity.
When you want to provide an enriching and engaging online training experience to your employees, Articulate Storyline gives the best possible results.
2. Create Branching Scenarios Easily
As a learning expert, you know how strenuous it is to develop branching scenarios in PowerPoint. But you can do it with ease using Articulate Storyline.
Branching scenarios show the consequences of different choices learners make. Giving real-life scenarios in online training improves the decision making and problem solving abilities of learners. They also engage learners better and enable them to apply the learning in practical work-life situations.
Branching scenarios allow learners to analyze complex situations by exploring all possible avenues of action, give chances to learn by trial and error, making assumptions, mistakes and retry.
Creating branching scenarios in PowerPoint takes several slides and often, you lose the actual learning track in this process. But you can develop branching scenarios and interactions in just a few slides using various layers in Articulate Storyline. It simplifies a whole lot of steps in creating branching scenarios.
So it’s better to ask your e-learning outsourcing partner to use Articulate Storyline for your course development.
3. Large User Community
When you allow your e-learning outsourcing partner to develop with Articulate Storyline, you are not alone. This helps you even after the project completion. If you need to do some changes or update the existing courses and have doubts, you need not worry. Articulate Storyline has a large active user community where you can get insights, advice, and troubleshooting tips.
4. Ample Scope for Customization
You should customize your e-learning courses because you know your business and training needs better. Customization brings the relevant content into your e-learning course. It also boosts your employees’ knowledge retention and their familiarity with business processes.
You can do a lot of customization in your e-learning course using the triggers, variables, characters, and templates available in Articulate Storyline. For example, you can customize your assessments and final quiz with Articulate Quizmaker. You can have a guided learning approach or even turn that into scenario-based learning with the characters available in different poses and expressions.
So, when you direct your rapid development partner to use Articulate Storyline, you can transform a mere page turner course into a dynamic e-learning that incorporates some of the best instructional design strategies.
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