Creating elearning: Storyline explainer 2 of 8

Create a title slide.

Posted by By pixel perfect 5 Min Read April 8, 2022

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Create a title slide using text and images.

Overview

Name of explainer: Create a title slide using text and images

Creative theme: Creating elearning

Software used: Articulate Storyline

User level: BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE

This is explainer 2 of 8 in this series

This series includes:

  1. Create and save a Storyline project
  2. Create a title slide using text and images
  3. Add an interactive button and preview the project
  4. Embed a YouTube video and publish the project
  5. Add text-to-speech narration and timed animation
  6. Embed an interactive 3d object and import music
  7. Add quiz question slides and a results slide
  8. Final checks and export options

The Software

This series of explainers uses Articulate Storyline, one of the most popular elearning content creation tools. It’s part of a suite of programs called ‘Articulate 360’ which also includes RISE (a tool for rapid content creation) and the online review and commenting platform Review 360.

You can download a free 30 day demo of Articulate Storyline from Articulate’s website. This gives you access to a fully-functioning copy of Storyline (though with a reduced asset library of characters, photos and icons).

Over the course of these eight explainers we’re using Storyline to create a simple elearning package including buttons, video and 3d object interactions, before going on to add quiz questions and a results slide and export the package for use on the web.

The finished product

This is how our final Storyline project looks at the end of this explainer series. Welcome to an introduction to Immersive Technologies!

Note the version created in the explainers also includes a menu students can navigate. This is switched off in the version above. All embedded videos / animations were tested as working when this page was last updated.

The pre-requisities

This is a BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE workflow explainer series. Ideally you’ll already be familiar with simple text and image editing.

If you’re new to IT / computing, you may need help downloading and installing the software. Start with a search for ‘how do i install Storyline’ or speak with someone familiar with downloading and installing.

Why would I do this?

A title slide often functions as a ‘welcome’ to a module of content, and usually contains the course or module name as well as any introductory or contextual information.

Text and images form the foundation of most informational elearning content. Leter in this series we’ll embed video and 3d objects as well as importing music and animation to create a richer multimedia experience. If your target audience is business-focused or your elearning offers help for a specific program or process you may only ever work with text and images.

Let’s do it!

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Good to know

Often you’ll want every slide in your project to adopt a basic ‘template’ including a company logo and/or background colour or image. This is where SLIDE MASTERS come in.

Where to next?

Remember, this is part of a series of explainers for this software – Join us again for the other explainers in the series 🙂

Notes and updates

There are no notes or advisories at this time. This video explainer was last updated in April 2022. This page was last updated in April 2022.

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This is number 2 of 8 explainer videos in this series. Make sure you check out the others!