Big Picture: DevLearn! DevLearn is a magical place where L&D geeks gather annually to learn, unlearn, share, and network. While there are multitude of sessions to choose from, the magic doesn’t come from platforms, knowledge, skills, or even the Vegas...

Need a customized certificate? To-do list? Agenda? Jobaid? I helped someone earlier this year to create a certificate for download that included the name and date of the user after completing a course. This is a prototype I wanted to...

Unboxing Challenge If you want to put your eLearning design skills to the test, eLearning Heroes weekly challenges is the way to go. It is amazing to see how different designers approach the same challenge weekly. I’m stealing and learning...

Let’s solve a puzzle! Someone read my blog about how to use text entry in Storyline by monitoring every letter typed, rather than waiting until “it loses focuses” and asked if that solution could be used for a crossword puzzle...

Drag and Sort Articulate Storyline provides drag and drop question type activity out of the box. You simply add a new slide as a graded question, and select the drag and drop feature. It even gives you the opportunity to...

Business Problem When you use a text entry object in Articulate Storyline, the text you type in the field does not get registered until the field loses focus. That means you need to click outside the field (for example, on...

Using JavaScript to Create Random IDs I wanted to share a quick solution I showed the other day for solving the following challenge: how to create a random ID (alphanumerical)? In this case, it was for a certificate. Create a...

2017 What a year! We’ve raised 5 minute microlearnings to the heights of registered deity, explored fantastic AR/VR experiences that will revolutionize learning one day (just because we’re so bored with our normal R(eality)). Robots are on the rise to...

Showstoppers are sometimes good! This example shows how to embed a Storyline interaction in Rise as a “showstopper,” meaning the user can’t continue with the Rise content until they complete the Storyline module. UPDATE: Articulate now has a built-in feature...

The story(line) behind xAPI Santa With the holidays on the corner, I rewrapped one of last year’s xperiment (xAPI) for the Articulate eLearning Heroes challenge. In this interactive piece, you send a “prezy” to other folks in the L&D community...