How to Design a Custom eLearning Template in Articulate Storyline | How-To Workshop

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When you're designing and developing an eLearning course in Articulate Storyline, a good eLearning template can help you create a course that is visually consistent and matches your company's or client's brand standards. But, designing a good template from scratch can be overwhelming and leave you unsure where to begin, especially if you're not a graphic designer!
This is usually where a company's style guide becomes handy, providing high-level guidance on using the organization's fonts, colors, images, and layouts. However, a style guide doesn't always translate 1:1 for the creation of an interactive eLearning experience-after all, style guides are usually used for creating marketing collateral.
So, in this How-To Workshop, I'll walk you through how to design a custom eLearning template in Articulate Storyline that matches your company's or client's branding.
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Keep learning with these related resources:
👉 How to Use Canva Graphics in Articulate Storyline: community.elearningacademy.io/c/knowledge-base/how-to-use-canva-graphics-in-articulate-storyline
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:05 My Process for Creating a Custom eLearning Template
00:04:12 Starting a New Project
00:06:46 Reviewing the Client's Style Guide
00:12:04 Reviewing the Client's Website
00:13:38 Designing a Title Slide
00:33:24 Designing Title Slide Variations
00:45:54 Designing a Content Slide
00:48:55 Designing Content Slide Variations
00:54:30 Designing a Menu Slide
01:02:50 Designing a Scenario Slide
01:12:30 Customizing the Player
01:15:04 Designing Master Slides
01:23:22 Closing

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[@learningforfun9387]

This was so easy to follow. I love the conversational tone and simple explanations that you used. These how to workshops are really good 👍

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@daliaantunes1303]

Great video, as usual, thank you!

[@thatsquirrelcanjetski]

Thank you so much! This video is engaging and helpful!

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks for watching! I'm so happy to hear it was helpful!

[@AdamJKorth]

Brilliant work, Tim!

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks!

[@mohamedaitmous4609]

Great Work! keep it up ! 😊👍

[@MpomartMedia]

Hi Tim, thank you so much for sharing your Articulate expertise, although you mentioned that we could follow other ways of implementing the template, in my opinion the workflow you have demonstrated is far better than anything I could wish for! I am going to follow your workflow it religiously because it is a real time saver, once again thank you so much. Keep up the good work 🙏🙏

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks, Henry! I'm glad it was helpful!

[@krishnamogulluri8042]

Many thanks, Tim! The time spent watching and trying some of the points from this workshop is my best investment in recent times in building my design skill. I have a request - could you please make a video on how to create a storyline template based on a theme such as gamification, nature, finance, retail, etc.?

[@elearningacdmy]

I’m so happy you found it helpful! And I’ll add those other items to my list!

[@krishnamogulluri8042]

Tim! Is this the quotation you were referring to?: "I moved things around until they look right -- Milton Glaser"

[@adewuyiabiola5598]

Awesome 💛

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks!

[@AldoMenFashion]

perfect

[@elearningacdmy]

Thanks!

[@brookeflanagan6270]

SHIT!!!!!!LOL I love it!

[@Paquerette67]

Tim, what did you use to set up/format your screen capture + webcam shot? I.e., how did you tile the separate videos and apply shadows on the white background?

[@elearningacdmy]

Hey Mary! I get this question all the time, I think need to do a video on how I make my videos! 😂 It’s nothing special…I simply record both my screen and video with Camtasia…and I edit it all together in there as well. I just use the various visual effects in Camtasia to add the drop shadows, etc. I hope that helps!

[@prachids]

I couldn’t generate lores ipsum through the code.. can anyone help.

[@darthwilson]

05:00 - I'm not convinced with the 16:9 aspect ratio. I purposely stick to the 4:3 aspect ratio because 16:9 looks soo small when learners view storyline content on their phone. And most learners I have seen do not use their phone in the landscape orientation. I would love to see Storyline get a fluid canvas where elements would reposition based on the screen dimensions.