Articulate Engage™ has many great interactions. A great technique that I favour is using Articulate Presenter™ to generate an animated swf that can be EMBEDDED in the Engage™ interaction. However, this technique has one big problem – the swf size can end up being quite small if you use interactions like the time line (in which case its 413 x 310). Of course you can make it FULL SIZE, but that can be confusing for the user. Well here’s a way around it:
Step 1
Here’s a screen shot of my original Engage™ interaction with and EMBEDDED .swf. As you can see it is a bit on the small size - it gets somehat “lost” inside the other features of the Engage™ timeline interaction.
Step 2
Here’s first frame of my animation for this event in the Engage™ timeline. I’ve added a PLAY prompt to for the user to click on the Flash “play” button once it’s published (you’ll see why in a later step).
Step 3
Ok, let’s publish the swf from Presenter™.
Step 4
Now I import the swf into Engage™ and set the display size to “Full size”.
Step 5
It’s a good idea to check the custom size option and set to the max 413 x 310.
Step 6
Now here’s the relevance of that first frame editing in the original swf authored in Presenter™. Check the thumbnail option to “First frame of Flash movie”.
Step 7
Now here’s how it looks once the Engage™ interaction is published inside a presenter wrapper. The user sees the PLAY instruction and clicks on the Flash™ play icon.
Step 8
The swf then plays full size.
Step 9
To prevent the user getting stuck I’ve faded out the final frames of the swf from the original Presenter™ file and added a CLOSE prompt.
So there you are, make the most of your screen real estate with Engage™.
