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Articulate

What is Articulate?

Articulate is a suite of apps that the RRT has a limited license for. These apps allow us to create training and educational modules (Rise 360) as well as gamified learning activities (escape rooms & Jeopardy) 

Delivery:

Articulate assets can be embedded as SCORM files into pages or assignment in MyCanvas and/or shared with a review link.

Reporting

Escape rooms do offer minimal tracking, they can be added as assignments in MyCanvas and marked as complete/incomplete in gradebook. Most faculty choose to include escape rooms as a fun review activity done in breakout rooms or as an optional study aide.

Storyline 360

What is Storyline 360?

Storyline 360 is another e-learning authoring tool developed by Articulate, part of the Articulate 360 suite. It is known for its versatility and powerful features that allow users to create highly interactive and engaging online courses. Key features of Storyline 360 include:

  1. Customizable Course Design: Storyline 360 provides a flexible and robust environment for creating custom e-learning courses. Users can design unique layouts and interactions without extensive programming knowledge.
  2. Interactivity and Multimedia: The tool supports a wide range of interactive elements, including drag-and-drop activities, quizzes, branching scenarios, and simulations. Users can also incorporate multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video.
  3. Timeline and Animation: Storyline 360 offers a timeline feature that enables users to synchronize animations, objects, and other elements to create dynamic and engaging content.
  4. Triggers and Variables: Advanced triggers and variables allow for complex interactivity and personalized learning experiences. These features enable the creation of adaptive learning paths and customized feedback.
  5. Responsive Player: While the courses themselves are not fully responsive, the Storyline 360 player adapts to different devices, ensuring that content is accessible on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
  6. Accessibility: Storyline 360 includes features to help create accessible courses, such as support for screen readers, keyboard navigation, and customizable tab order. However, the level of accessibility depends on how the course is designed and implemented.
  7. Templates and Themes: Storyline 360 provides a range of templates and themes that users can customize to quickly build courses with a professional look and feel.

Overall, Storyline 360 is aimed at instructional designers and e-learning developers who need a powerful and flexible tool to create interactive and visually appealing online courses.

Examples

Here is an example of an Eye Spy Activity developed in collaboration with Christy Taberner

Here is an example of a Jeopardy game done with Articulate-Storyline 360 (SME: Tara Dinyer)

Escape Rooms

What are Escape Rooms?

A virtual escape room is an activity designed to gamify learning. Learners interact with a virtual room that is designed based on the Subject Matter Experts (SME) specifications (e.g. hospital room, home, classroom, etc.). By clicking around the room, learners will uncover “clues” which are activities or questions developed by the SME based on the course curriculum; clues can also be videos the learners must watch before moving on. Once the learner completes the question, activity or video successfully, they will earn a key. Escape rooms can have an unlimited number of clues/keys and can expand into multiple rooms.

Our escape rooms are built in the platform Articulate Storyline 360, for which only RRT has a license.

Considerations:

Escape rooms are built from scratch and thus have a turn around time of about 2-4 weeks. Depending on the complexity of the activity, it may not be appropriate for individuals with visual impairments or other vision-related challenges.

Examples:

Here is an escape room tutorial video:

Here is an example of an Escape Room developed in collaboration with Maurine Parzen, Cynthia Hammond, and Deborah Davidson for the Nursing program

Rise 360

What is Rise 360?

Rise 360 is an e-learning authoring tool developed by Articulate. It enables users to create interactive and responsive online courses without needing advanced technical skills. Key features of Rise 360 include:

  1. Responsive Design: Courses created in Rise 360 automatically adapt to different devices and screen sizes, providing an optimal viewing experience on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
  2. Easy Content Creation: Users can build courses using pre-built templates and multimedia elements such as text, images, videos, and quizzes. The drag-and-drop interface simplifies the process.
  3. Interactivity: The tool supports interactive elements like quizzes, knowledge checks, and interactive scenarios to enhance learner engagement.
  4. Collaboration: Rise 360 offers collaboration features that allow multiple authors to work on a course simultaneously. This is useful for teams and organizations.

Overall, Rise 360 is designed to streamline the course development process and make it easier to create quality e-learning content.

Considerations:

While Rise 360 aims to create accessible content, the level of accessibility may vary depending on the specific features used and how the course is designed.

Example:

Here is a training module done with Articulate-Rise 360.

Getting Started

The RRT offers an escape room template faculty can complete when requesting an escape room, click here to download a copy of the Escape Room Template.

License

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