From the course: Elearning Tips

How to create a visual elearning storyboard

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How to create a visual elearning storyboard

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- When you're drafting a storyboard, it can sometimes be hard for your stakeholders and subject matter experts to imagine what your course will look like, and a great way to overcome this is by creating a visual storyboard. Now, unlike the other types of storyboards, a visual storyboard outlines your learning contents slide by slide, but it also includes mock ups of how your slides might look. Let me show you an example. Here's a visual storyboard that I'm currently working on for an e-learning course I'm developing. Now, while there isn't a single layout or tool you need to use when creating a visual storyboard, I like to use PowerPoint. Let's take a look at this slide here for slide number four within my e-learning course. First, you'll see here, I've included the title of my slide and this will help my reviewers navigate the storyboard and see how the content is laid out. Next, I've included several sections here that outline the audio narration and functionality of the slide. And as you can see, this is a scenario slide, where my learners will need to select how to respond to an angry customer. And finally here, you can see that I've included a much larger area to show a mock up of the slide, which I've created using basic shapes and text in PowerPoint. This'll give my reviewers a sense of how this scenario might look with the customer and the different responses the learner will be able to choose from. Now, I should mention, when you're creating a visual storyboard, it's not important that your mock ups look beautiful or pixel perfect. What's important is that you give your reviewers a sense of how your learning content might look when you actually develop your course. All right, so, that's just one example of how you might create a visual storyboard for your e-learning course. So the next time you need to create a storyboard, but you also want to show how your slides might look, consider creating a visual storyboard.

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