A Yiddish Tale

Glossaries are a common interaction in e-learning courses. Course designers use glossary interactions to define key terms, explain industry-specific jargon, and provide context and understanding of cultural phrases. 

By including a glossary in your e-learning course, you're providing learners with a valuable tool that they can use to enhance their understanding of the material. Not only does this help learners to better engage with the content, but it also allows them to interact with the course on a more meaningful level. 

If you're working in Storyline 360, you can easily add a glossary using the quick-and-easy glossary import/export feature. But you're not limited to the defaults. When you need your glossary to align visually with the rest of your course, you'll need to build it from the ground up. And that's what this week's challenge is all about!

For my entry I wrote a little story where the learner is presented with a story in English that they have to replace some words with Yiddish words. The drag-and-drop options are presented one at a time and the user gets instant feedback with the "drop-correct", "drop-incorrect" built in states. There are no next buttons in this interaction. The learner automatically advances to the next slide when the state of all drop objects is "drop-correct".

Storyline makes drag-and-drop interactions easy by allowing you to turn any screen with objects in to an interaction by inserting a "Free-form Quiz"

Rather than creating a lot of triggers you just identify which items are draggable and which objects are targets for the drag. Storyline does all the heavy lifting.

As you can see, each page of the story only has one trigger.

At the end of the interaction I again provide the entire story but with the Yiddish words in place and hightlighted. This gives the learner an opportunity to check for understanding. This is in a scrolling panel so I can provide a lot of information in a small space.

Below the story, in the same panel, is a glossary of all of the Yiddish words used with some fun definitions.

Finally, at the very bottom of the scrolling panel is a button which opens up a window to the source document of the glossary words and definitions.

As a final touch, I added a custom designed CreateStudio short video introduction which gave examples of people using Yiddish words in common every day speech. For this I imported assets from Giffy and Pexels.