Course Description

Articulate is one of the hottest eLearning development tools in the world. It is being used by 93 of the Fortune 100 companies and 19 of the 20 top-ranked universities. This course will focus specifically on how to create engaging content for learners. We will explore instructional design practices for designing eLearning, as well as have the opportunity to get hands-on experience using the Articulate Storyline tool. You will learn the basics of how to get started with the tool: creating projects from scratch, adding text, images and shapes, creating quizzes, adding interactivity via buttons, triggers, and hotspots, publishing your projects for the widest audience, and many more.

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Professional Standards

The following standards from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI) were covered in this course:

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• Design & Development

  • 10. Use an instructional design and development process appropriate for a given project

  • 11. Organize instructional programs and/or products to be designed, developed, and evaluated

  • 14. Select or modify existing instructional materials

  • 15. Develop instructional materials

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Artifacts and Reflections from Course

This course allowed me to work with the Articulate 360 suite and design a project within Storyline 360. I throughly enjoyed working with Storyline 360! It was very simple to understand and utilizes a intuitive user interface. We had to suggest three (3) topics to our peers and allow them to vote on what topic we created a module on. My peers voted on a module that would be designed for Girl Scout Troop Cookie Managers to provide them with best practices on how to run the cookie program at the troop level. Our guidelines were to create a 15-30 minute module. 

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I strived to create an interactive module that would provide the learner with an adequate amount of information, engage them throughout the entire module, and give them resources that they would be able to use within their troop. I was happy with the way this turned out. My design document had twice as much information planned; however, as I began to design the actual module I found that I needed to break my initial plan into 2 separate modules. As a result, this project covers the time from Troop Cookie Manager training through cookie delivery. A separate module will need to cover the period of time from cookie delivery through booth season. 

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To view the module, please click HERE.