From the course: Instructional Design: Storyboarding

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Understanding mock-up storyboarding

Understanding mock-up storyboarding

From the course: Instructional Design: Storyboarding

Start my 1-month free trial

Understanding mock-up storyboarding

Here, you see a visual type of storyboard, sometimes called a mockup storyboard. Visual storyboards are often built in PowerPoint, and by nature focus more on what the learner's going to see onscreen. This is unlike text-based storyboards, which tend to focus on the content and the details of how it will be presented. Here is the opening screen of the scenario-based instruction course we are working with. This template, which is available to you as a download, is just a PowerPoint slide that I've sectioned off to include all the typical stuff a storyboard includes. You've got a space for the project title, screen title and the fact that this is the first of 42 screens. You've got a big old space for the onscreen graphics and text. Usually as a developer you are mocking up the main graphic for the screen, saving that graphic as an image and then pasting it in the space here. We will be covering how to build the main graphics when we cover rapid prototyping. Continuing on, you've got a…

Contents