Good to know (08_CECFR_23)

We focused on Storyline’s essential functionality for this series. You’ll also need to become familiar with the following to take your project to the next level:

LAYERS are used to display assets ‘on top of’ the current slide (including text / images etc) when a specific condition is met. You may have noticed our RESULTS SLIDE uses different layers to display a ‘passed’ or ‘failed’ message depending on the student score. Here’s the SUCCESS layer:

…and here’s the FAILURE layer:

Discover more about Storyline layers.

STATES can be applied to most assets to change how they look based on the current user interaction. For example, our ENTER button on the first slide has the following states automatically applied:

Though the colour difference is subtle, you can see that when the user hovers their mouse over the button it adopts a lighter blue colour. You can edit all these states or delete them if you don’t need them. Be careful not to over-use colour states as it can be distracting to users when colours ‘flash’ unnecessarily. As always, a balance must be struck between improving your project visuals and ensuring accessibility stays high.

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VARIABLES are used to store information. As your project develops you are likely to need to use them. Variables can store anything from a student name to the number of times a quiz has been attempted. When we added the quiz questions and results slide, Storyline automatically created the variables Results1.ScorePoints and Results1.PassPoints as shown below, to determine whether to show the SUCCESS or the FAILURE layer:

Discover more about Storyline variables.