I have a back catalogue of small instructional design challenges and charrettes that I’ve been meaning to build into something bigger one day. That is obviously taking too long, so here’s a new idea. The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community runs a weekly eLearning Challenge. I’ve mentioned before that often different IDs in different contexts will use different tools, and while I’ve used some of Articulate’s products, I’m primarily a Mac user. This means that a number of their products are not available to me. So instead, I thought, rather than being an Articulate eLearning Hero, that I could be an InArticulate eLearning Hero. So here it goes.
Challenge of the Week
[quote style=”default” cite=”David Anderson” url=”https://community.articulate.com/articles/convert-static-content-to-interactive-elearning”]This week, your challenge is to take a static content slide and convert it into each of the six freeform question types. The only new content you should add to the freeform questions is instruction and feedback. You shouldn’t have to create new content to make the questions work.[/quote]Note: the options Articulate Storyline’s convert to freeform option includes
- Drag & Drop
- Pick One
- Pick Many
- Text Entry
- Hotspot
- Shortcut Key
I’ll do my best to stick to these types.
My Submission
For this first challenge, I went back through some of the slide decks I had for the ProCom OER project. That project was created with classroom sessions in mind, and had slide decks included. One such slide deck/lesson was on Using Visuals in Communication
So for this challenge I took slide 9 as the one to make interactive using H5P’s Presentation content type.
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Slides are part of Professional Communications OER by the Olds College OER Development Team and used under a CC-BY 4.0 international license.
3 responses to “Converting Static Content Into Interactive E-Learning #299”
Great idea to do these challenges. I’m doing a huge project in Rise and the limits of the tools creates opportunities to recast the things my content writers ask for (like they want do open ended answers in text boxes).
And yes that copy command in H55 is powerful also the only way I saw to duplicate something made.
The combo tools like Presentation, Column, even Interactive video make it a tool with these remixing type features. I’m eager too to try the Interactive Book
Thanks Alan!
I’ve been using RISE360 with one group in particular, and like all tools there are things I like and hate about it, but one thing’s for sure, it can present opportunities to think creatively. I have one personal project with RISE I hope to get out of the gate before 2020 closes so this isn’t the last you’ll see it here on the blogwall.
For the longest time I didn’t really ‘get’ what the copy paste function in H5P was all about and now I’m shaking my fist at past JR for not finding it sooner.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with with H5P’s interactive book. One drawback I found with the background I used and the presentation was the colour of text on many content types cannot be edited, so I stripped those out of the questions and used the ‘text’ feature in the presentation itself. Got it to work in the end, just left me wanting a bit more from the RCE.
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