This week’s challenge set for the e-learning heroes community was to sharean example that demonstrates how lightbox slides can be used in e-learning courses.
I personally love lightboxes, since they help me to not overwhelm a slide with information and make it more appealing. Allthough Storyline already uses such a feature and works great, I tend to create my own lightboxes since I can customise them the way I like based on the course I am developing.
Lightbox slides give course designers an elegant solution for presenting learners with important resources without leaving the current slide. Some of the most common use cases for lightbox slides include:
- Job aids and handouts
- Tables of contents and menu navigation
- Extended resources and reading lists
- Video how-tos and other types of media
If you want to quickly add lightboxes in your Storyline projects all you have to do is follow this 3 steps:
- On the main slide that you are going to use the lightbox, add a button that uses the following property.
- Action: Lightbox slide
- Slide: Select the slide you want to lightbox. Leave it empty for now
- When: User clicks
- Object: Select the button that launches the lightbox.
- Use navigation controls: Mark this box if you want to display previous and next buttons on the lightboxed slide(s)
- Create the lightbox slide, just after your main slide.
- Return back to the main slide that hosts the button for the lightbox. Change the Slide variable to your lightbox slide
You are good to go