Source .story file for ChatGPT

December 19, 2022

Download the Storyline source file (.story) for the ChatGPT experiment detailed in my elearningindustry.com article. The source file includes two slides. The first slide is for the follow-along, and the

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Playful Entry in Storyline

October 1, 2021

This is the starting screen for the interactive game taxonomy example I shared at the ATD international conference in 2021. Many designers asked how to do something like that in

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How to export Storyline variables to Smartsheet?

September 12, 2021

This is a follow-up article on my previous xPorter 2.1 demo. When you build a large and complex project, you end up with tons of user variables in Storyline. Keeping

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Storyline Variable xPorter 2.1

September 6, 2021

A couple of years ago I made an auto-hotkey script (xPorter 1.0) for Storyline. I wanted to export the list of variables into an Excel sheet so I can document

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Let’s Celebrate!

December 20, 2020

We often forget to celebrate our accomplishments and move on to the next big challenge. If you ever wanted to add a little confetti celebration in your Storyline course, this

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Top 10 things you missed in 2020

December 19, 2020

Of course, you missed traveling, relatives and friends, eating out, staying out, anything out, haircuts and all… What I’m talking about is my articles 🙂 If you missed any of

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Free-Text Input for Recall

August 2, 2020

A couple of years ago I played around with the Sørensen–Dice coefficient algorithm to innovate simple multiple-choice challenges for terms vs. definition types of questions. This creative approach works when

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The Dundeal Mifflearn Challenge

July 19, 2020

This post is a challenge. I’ll get to the challenge at the end. For now, let’s look at this fictitious company called, Dundeal Mifflearn. Good news is, you’re hired! Bad

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All about learning design

May 16, 2020

I’m writing a two-part article for eLearningIndustry.com for aspiring learning design professionals. If you’re a teacher and you’re thinking about instructional design, learning design, learning experience design, or you’re not

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What I Learned in 2019 (and you might find interesting)

December 26, 2019

Every year, you start the calendar with blank, grey months to fill in with colors. You may never notice this colorful change daily, but you’ve probably done a lot in

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