This week’s challenge was about building a simple interaction or course starter template using a single illustration. In my mind, at least, this means combining Adobe Illustrator with Articulate Storyline. 
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Adobe Illustrator and Storyline

Using software such as Adobe’s Illustrator and inserting your designs into Storyline can make your work stand out.

Articulate Storyline is fantastic. Hands down. Despite being awesome, Articulate poses some limitations in terms of design. For example, I still haven’t found a way to create good-looking shapes. As the correct visual representations are essential for creating a worth mentioning course, I had to come up with a solution. What I like to do, is to design my shapes using Adobe Illustrator, export them as images and then import them into Storyline. It is a pretty straightforward process and makes the course look more appealing and professional at the same time.

Adobe Illustrator and Stock images

Of course, there are cases where instead of shapes, I needed to create some more advanced and appealing. There was a minor problem, though. I am no graphic designer. Therefore, I had to use a stock library with vectors and manipulate them to achieve what I was looking for. Here is where Freepik comes into play.

Freepik contains an extensive library of stock photos and vectors that will allow everyone to use great-quality visual elements even without being a graphic designer.

My submission for the #ELHC376

So, as already mentioned for this challenge, we were tasked to find a pre-made template made with Adobe’s Illustrator and transform it into an elearning course.

Since I lacked time, I decided not to go for an entire course but rather take an Illustrator file and turn it into a slide.

I looked for infographics that were fit for the task and eventually found this image from Freepik, which I felt I could use within Storyline.

What I did was this:

  1. After selecting each layer one by one, I exported them to .png images.
  2. When the exporting process was over, I imported the images within Storyline.
  3. Of course, I had to put all of the images in the correct place to recreate the initial template I got from Illustrator.
  4. The rest of the things I did are pretty simple. I inserted the outer rectangles containing the information into five layers. These layers become visible as soon as the learner clicks on the respective hotspot or the arrow pointing towards them. And that’s all.

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Did you like it? As sharing is caring, everyone who fancies my example is free to download the .story file by clicking the button on the right.

In case you have any questions, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn 🙂

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That was all, folks. Hope you liked this week’s submission. If you speak Greek by any chance, feel free to join my Youtube eLearning Academy and broaden your elearning and instructional design knowledge! Until next time, peace!