Storyline 360 Returns
Today's post is simply to update anybody reading my almost daily battles with Storyline 360.
The real positives so far have been how easy the programme is to use, animations are simple, design is simple and the trigger system is great. I completed a voice over yesterday, with imported sound effects and video. My only problem was that I couldn't stop laughing.
My real struggle comes with the Quizmaker.
OK, so I created one the other day and it all went awry. It took as long to put it right once imported, as it did to create it. I should have learned some kind of lesson.
But that lesson is not how to use the progamme, that lesson should instead be the old Einstein maxim of insanity, repeating the same thing and expecting a different result.
This time I thought I had it mastered. I chose a ready made template, instead of using my own design. There were only three questions, yep, just three. All I changed was the colour scheme. OK, I admit I added some animations, but hey, my subject is related to the study of statistics and being honest, a little bit of humour or added interest doesn't go amiss.
But even that was too much.
On import, actual questions disappeared. They are there on slide view but not on form view. They just don't show up. I checked all the boxes to make sure they weren't hidden, or had been turned white for whatever reason, but no. They just disappeared.
So, may be the issue is my computing capability, but I have run the tests and there is no identifiable problem, in fact there is no problem at all. I would expect this. The computer was purchased at Xmas, and I have added to it to make it slick for this type of material. Quizmaker is the ONLY programme where I experience any problems.
Now it is entirely probable that all this is no more than the rantings of an extreme amateur when it comes to these things, but that is also the point. I shouldn't have to be a software engineer to do the simple things.
I'm beginning to think there may be a problem! So I have four modules to include, and two more tests to go...........................
The real positives so far have been how easy the programme is to use, animations are simple, design is simple and the trigger system is great. I completed a voice over yesterday, with imported sound effects and video. My only problem was that I couldn't stop laughing.
My real struggle comes with the Quizmaker.
OK, so I created one the other day and it all went awry. It took as long to put it right once imported, as it did to create it. I should have learned some kind of lesson.
But that lesson is not how to use the progamme, that lesson should instead be the old Einstein maxim of insanity, repeating the same thing and expecting a different result.
This time I thought I had it mastered. I chose a ready made template, instead of using my own design. There were only three questions, yep, just three. All I changed was the colour scheme. OK, I admit I added some animations, but hey, my subject is related to the study of statistics and being honest, a little bit of humour or added interest doesn't go amiss.
But even that was too much.
On import, actual questions disappeared. They are there on slide view but not on form view. They just don't show up. I checked all the boxes to make sure they weren't hidden, or had been turned white for whatever reason, but no. They just disappeared.
So, may be the issue is my computing capability, but I have run the tests and there is no identifiable problem, in fact there is no problem at all. I would expect this. The computer was purchased at Xmas, and I have added to it to make it slick for this type of material. Quizmaker is the ONLY programme where I experience any problems.
Now it is entirely probable that all this is no more than the rantings of an extreme amateur when it comes to these things, but that is also the point. I shouldn't have to be a software engineer to do the simple things.
I'm beginning to think there may be a problem! So I have four modules to include, and two more tests to go...........................
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