The best place to begin is always the problem you're trying to address. This section will help us identify problems and formulate them in a way that our course or project can answer.

Once we've identified our problem and reflected on our intended audience, it's time to plan our way forward.

An overview of the Storyline 2 interface that will help us as we start to dive into the software's various features.

In this section, we will cover some best practice for planning your course. Spending a little extra time upfront to get organized pays large dividends as we start to build out our project in Storyline 2.

This lecture will get us started by talking about outlining a course in Storyline 2.

Scripts are a helpful tools for keeping any course organized during the development process. They are also essential for recording voice-overs. This brief lecture shows us how to insert scripts into our Storyline project for later reference.

How to insert basic graphic content (.jpeg, .png, .tiff) into a Storyline 2 project and how to manipulate them within the project.

How to insert pre-recorded video content into a Storyline 2 Project, and how to optimize the settings for learner playback.

Discover the functionality of Storyline 2's Screen Record feature and discuss situations in which this feature might be useful.

Learn how to add narration or a soundtrack to your project by inserting audio. We'll also cover how to use the audio editor interface within Storyline 2.

Add motion and excitement to your project by using Flash objects. This lecture covers the basic steps of inserting Flash content and includes guidelines for correctly formatting your content for optimal playback.

Engage your users with animations that transform content from static to interactive. Animating standard images, creating motion paths, and working with Storyline's pre-built animated effects - you can find it all in this lecture.

Learn how to take your course presentation to the next level by providing seamless transitions between content, slides, or scenes.

We will begin our coverage adding interactivity with Storyline's layer feature. Layers are attributes of a given slide that allow us to control the appearance of selected content as well as tie the appearance or disappearance to user action(s).

In this section, we'll introduce a key feature for building interactivity into your course or project - buttons. We'll cover the pre-built buttons as well as how to build custom buttons from shapes.

Triggers are the magic behind building interactivity in Articulate Storyline. Simply put, triggers control what happens when a user interacts with an object in your project. In this lesson, we will insert our first trigger, explore the trigger wizard, and discuss some best practices for improving workflow when working with triggers.

A central part of building interactivity is working with states. In Storyline, a state refers to the appearance or quality of a specific object. When you complete this lecture, you'll know how to create different states for a single object, connect those states to other objects through triggers, and the best practices for using states in your own projects.

The second part of our previous lecture on layers, this lecture builds on a basic knowledge of how layers work by showing how layers interact with the other interactivity generating tools of this section.

Only available in Storyline 2, sliders are a variable-based interface that allows a user to move through content by interacting with a timeline on the slide or layer. This lecture will give you the knowledge needed to build a slider using variables of your own creation.

Learn how to emphasize important information or change the depth of field on a slide with the Storyline's Zoom Region function.

A brief look back at some content we've already covered, this lecture reviews how to insert a basic screen recording as video content on a slide. This function was introduced earlier in our section on Adding Content (Section 5, Lecture 14).

Make navigating your project easier by guiding users with demonstrated mouse clicks. In this lecture, you'll learn how insert a mouse cursor and control its path on the slide.

Learn how to insert and customize scrolling panels to ensure that your users will be able access even longer content with ease.

Adding text or numeric entry options to a project allows users to respond to prompts or answer questions. In this lecture, we will insert boxes for both kinds of entry and capture the information entered in a variable for later use.

Tell a story with Storyline's illustrated character sets. This lecture covers the basics of inserting characters, controlling their appearance, and using states to build in interactivity.

Similar in many ways to the illustrated character states, the photographic characters included with Storyline do have some different features. We'll cover what those are, and everything else about the photographic character sets in this lecture.

Although we've already touched on variables, this section will go deeper and unpack the powerful tools that variable can be. Here we will cover the definition of variables, how they function within Storyline, and how to create and manipulate them. If you're skipping around the course, you may want to check out Section 6 on Building Interactivity, specifically Lectures 25 and 26 before proceeding.

In this lecture, we will learn about True/False variables by creating an interactive microwave that a user can turn on and off.

Making a seemingly complex interaction look simple, this lecture covers numeric variables by showing us how to create a calculator interaction.

What is Game Logic? That's what you'll learn in this lecture as we use variables to construct a Jeopardy-style game that automatically scores our responses.