This is the session deck for my Adobe eLearning World 2021 presentation.

1. CREATING MULTI-MODULE COURSES WITH
SCENARIOS AND BRANCHING
eLearning World 2021 September 22, 2021 – 12 - 1:55 PM EST
Multi-Module Branched Course Workshop - Guide To Scenarios And Branching
with Kirsten Rourke

2. WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
Demo/hands-on
 Simple Branching with Keywords - Captivate 2019
 First level action branching – The home button and jump to slide
 The illusion of branching – Triggering MSO’s
 What about responsive design? – what changes in your plan?
 Quick Start Projects - Free scenario and branching content to work with
 Branching with Advanced Actions and Variables
 Community Content with Scenarios and Branching
 Start With Simple
Q&A

3. THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
 Is the content right for branching?
 Should people be analyzing different approaches or learning one rote process?
 Planning
 Draw a branching map. Use anything (PowerPoint, sticky notes, scrap paper…)
 Simple is best – you don’t need every possibility
 Learning from mistakes
 Scenarios have paths, and often branching – how do you make sure it makes
sense?
 Realistic scenarios work well but absurd fantasy can get the point across well too

4. SIMPLE BRANCHING WITH KEYWORDS
 Regular branching uses Advanced Actions and Variables
 Easy Branching - The file can be either responsive or regular
 To trigger the behavior, slide names must be “branching” and “quiz”
 To make the connections, button and group names must be identical
 “completed” as a button state will automatically show on slide return
 The navigation allows you to visit the topics in any order
 The quiz only shows when all the topics are done

5. STEPS - SIMPLE BRANCHING WITH KEYWORDS
Simplest Version
1. Create file and apply a theme
2. Slide 1 – the opening should NOT be an action slide
3. Slide 2 – name the slide “branching”
4. Create smart shape buttons on the “branching” slide
For this example, name them module1”, “module2”, and “quiz”
These are the exact same names that the groups will need to be for the connection to
work

6. STEPS - SIMPLE BRANCHING WITH KEYWORDS
5. Add Content Slides
6. Name slide group “module1”
7. Duplicate the slide group and name it “module2”
8. Create question slides
9. Quiz group – name it “quiz”. The individual slides and button name can be
anything, but the group name and button object name MUST be “quiz”
10. Hide the visibility of the quiz button. It will show at the right time.
11. Test by previewing project or HTML5

7. STEPS - SIMPLE BRANCHING WITH KEYWORDS
A few extra steps
1. Create custom states (named “completed”) add star
2. Because of mobile devices auto play is disabled
 Preferences > Start and End – auto play, uncheck
 Add slide that looks like slide 1 (level 2)

8. BEST PRACTICES AND LINKS
 Use smart shapes as buttons – more options
 The “branching” slide must contain interactive elements
 You will need to manually update your table of contents
 Naming conventions – don’t mix cases on different objects
 Quiz keyword only shows the hidden slide – does not take you to the quiz
slides. Need to add simple action of Jump to
 For this example, we will do module/lesson in the file. For simple projects ,
this will work. Avoid Daisy-chaining because SO much needs to be redone if
content is renamed or moved. Use the LMS branching options if you want to
make a more substantial project

9. BEST PRACTICES AND LINKS
 Make slide #1 a few seconds of what is shown in the start/end preferences
(Because of mobile auto play disabled)
 You can do more than one set of lessons/modules and quizzes, but it’s not
recommended. Keep this very simple. For more options, you should move
onto Advanced Actions and Variables
 IF you put a button at the end of your module/lesson it will need to be
continue and not go to next slide

10. FIRST LEVEL ACTION BRANCHING

11. THE ILLUSION OF BRANCHING

12. WHAT ABOUT RESPONSIVE DESIGN?

13. BRANCHING WITH ADVANCED ACTIONS
 Actions – item does a thing
 Advanced Actions – contains multiple actions and possibly conditions
 Variables – track the contents of an empty container

14. ADVANCED ACTIONS Think of it as a sentence that
describes doing multiple things.

15. VARIABLES It’s just Tupperware– Variable hold things for you.

16. COMMUNITY CONTENT
 Clean branching 1. - Coffee Map
 Clean branching 2. - Mindfulness
 Kari Mueller – Build a character
 Pooja – Fitness drag and drop
 Damien Branching – branching audio

17. COFFEE MAP

18. MINDFULNESS

19. A FUN BEGINNING FOR A BRANCHING STORY

20. WHAT STORY WOULD YOU TELL TO SET THIS UP?

21. HANDLING AUDIO IN THE BRANCHING MENU

22. START WITH SIMPLE - TROUBLESHOOTING
Jump to a page with web object
Variables toggle the side menu
Multiple actions in one on the nav bar
Shows a learning objectives overlay
Plays external video gallery
Opens resources PDF

23. A FEW FUN LINKS
 Paul Wilson on Forced Navigation
 https://captivateteacher.com/articles/forced-navigation
 Mouse Party – Scneario
 https://youtu.be/DaLgWHfWzo4
 Haji Kamal - Branching
https://blog.cathy-moore.com/2010/05/elearning-example-branching-
scenario/