Create Flash-like Interactivities Using Storyline

多年来,Adobe Flash是t的无冕王he e-learning world. The powerful authoring tool, Flash, demonstrated a high degree of flexibility in terms of creating online learning interactivities – you could incorporate a wide variety of Flash interactivities, ranging from simple click-on-tabs to complexbranching scenarios. It seemed that the reign of Flash would never end, until authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline came into the picture.

Despite its capabilities,Adobe Flash has a major limitation– online course developers needed to develop learning interactions from scratch, and this took several weeks, if not more. This made the authoring application unsuitable to meet the technology-enabled learning development requirements of today’s organizations that need to develop web-based courses rapidly, to meet their dynamic learning needs.

Moreover, Flash is incompatible with most mobile devices, which are used widely to deliver training. A new e-learning course authoring tool was needed, one that could overcome the shortcomings of Flash, yet demonstrate its power.

The web-based learning development community soon found the answer –Articulate Storyline, a simple tool thatexhibited capabilities to develop Flash-like web-based learning interactions. Storyline, unlike Flash, comes with in-built templates that allow online course developers to create interactivities rapidly, with minimum effort.

Furthermore, the output of Storyline is mobile-friendly. That’s why Storyline is a preferred tool toconvert Flash to HTML5. Storyline also comes with a highly intuitive, PowerPoint-like interface, lowering its learning curve considerably.

Comparison of Interactivities

Here is a comparison of Articulate Storyline’s capabilities to develop Flash-like online learning interactions.

We thus see that Articulate Storyline exhibits Flash-like web-based learning development capabilities. Indeed, it is a very useful tool to create interactive, engaging e-learning courses. Isn’t it?