Rema Merrick is owner, lead instructional designer and eLearning developer at Enovate Learning LLC. She has eight years of experience developing eLearning (CBTs and WBTs) and other training modalities for corporations in the airline, utilities and other industries. She holds a master of science in Instructional Technology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and is a member of ATD Florida Suncoast. Her hobbies include running, practicing yoga and participating in Articulate’s E-Learning Heroes E-Learning Challenges.
Author: Rema Merrick, MSIT
Published: November 26, 2022
Time to Read: 8 minutes
Glossaries make terms and definitions easy for users to access during an eLearning activity. Here’s an example of a glossary I created for a recent Articulate E-Learning Heroes E-Learning challenge. The Human Skull Bones project presents content about the bones that make up the human skull.
Articulate Storyline has a system glossary that allows you to manually add terms, or import terms from a CSV file, into the glossary. However, if you want more flexibility with how the glossary behaves or to change the look of the glossary, your options are limited with the system glossary. To have more freedom with the behavior and design, you can create a custom glossary.
In this post, I outline how I created a custom glossary for the Human Skull Bones project. Feel free to use this project as a framework to develop your own custom glossary. In addition to the glossary, the project has other slides and interactions. I did not include instructions for building these slides and interactions in this post. This post only includes instructions for creating a custom glossary. Mentions of “the project” in this post refer to the Human Skull Bones project.
Below are the specifications I used for the project.
The full project includes 19 slides. It took me six hours to design, build and QA (quality assurance check) all 19 slides.
To successfully complete this interaction, you’ll need to know how to do the following tasks in Articulate Storyline.
This project develops in two main steps: 1) create a content slide to access the glossary; and 2) create the glossary lightbox slide.
5. Add an object trigger that opens the glossary lightbox when the user clicks the Glossary Button.
Download a PDF version of the table.
NOTE: The system close button displays on the lightbox slide in preview mode. Once you publish the file, the system close button disappears.
Creating the custom glossary involves two main steps. First, create the content slide with the glossary button, which allows the user to access the glossary. Then, create the glossary slide
Please share your comments regarding the project and development process. I would love your feedback on what you found helpful, what you found confusing and what additional information would have been more helpful.
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