11 • Preserve: This feature in Storyline means that if you’re not using a specific set of master slides in a course, you can preserve them for possible use later if you wish. Note: Keeping them in your Storyline File will increase the file size. • Placeholders: Storyline’s default sub masters have built-in placeholders for various elements such as titles, content, and images, which can make it easier to insert or update elements in the course as you’re building slides. • Duplicating slides: You can duplicate a slide and adjust it to save time. • Problems with copying and pasting slides from one course to another: If you copy a slide and paste it into another course while you’re in slide view, it drops the slide in, but it also brings with it ALL the related master slides from the original. To avoid this, paste the slide in at the slide level. Q&A • Doria asked: What’s an instance where you’d want to add more than one slide master to a course? • Patrick: You might do that if you want different sections of your course to have a different look and feel, and you have layouts already developed that you’d like to use for one section. • Mohamad: An example might be if you have a Q&A or scenario at the end of the course that takes the user outside the course structure/content. Also, if you’re introducing a “warning” slide to bring attention to something. CMS NTP has a master slide and layout in PowerPoint that includes colors, fonts, designs, themes, etc., and it’s comparable to the master slides and layout features in Storyline. • Patrick: Slide masters will help us update the color theme in the courses being updated this year. Homework for Next Week • Build 1 new slide master (VIEW>SLIDE MASTERS>INSERT NEW MASTER) • Include 3 elements on the master slide that you want on all slides (e.g., header, footer, slide number, logo, icon). • Adjust the sub master layouts as you like. • Pick one topic you’ve not touched on in your practice course. • Create 5 new slides in that topic’s scene, and use each of your sub masters as your layouts for those slides. • Go back to the slide master and make some formatting adjustments to see how they populate across the course. • When you’re done, just republish the course to 360 and select the 2 nd option: “Publish a new version of an existing item”—this will auto-update the course at the original link you sent out to Patrick, reflecting all your changes from the new version. Just shoot him an email after that so he can review. Next Training Session • Tuesday, March 5, at 1 p.m. ET • Please have Storyline open on your desktop when you join the call.
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