Learning Consultant & Agency CEO | Developing custom training courses for corporate clients
𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢 wrote most of the custom JavaScript for our Articulate Storyline project. This past year, a client asked us to quickly develop a digital trivia quiz. And I do mean quickly. The request: 1. Create a simple Trivial Pursuit like quiz game. 2. Have it run as a single instance on their LMS. 3. Ask one question a day for one week. 4. Employees who answer all five questions correctly will advance to a separate final challenge quiz to be eligible for a prize. Due to the quick timeline, we decided to modify an existing Articulate Storyline quiz template for the trivia game. We created custom Trivial Pursuit like game pieces that matched the client's color palette. I always like to use branded colors for cohesiveness. The biggest challenge was developing a single object quiz that would allow employees to only see one question a day. Since the trivia game was intended only for a specific week, I decided the best approach was likely to use JavaScript to detect the weekday and then use that day to control which question to display. Truthfully, my JavaScript know-how is fairly basic. I can write enough to get it started in Storyline and then ask someone to tell me how to fix it. But now we have AI. I prompted Gemini, "Write JavaScript to check today's system date and then set a variable to what day of the week it is." Boom. Gemini produced the script I needed. I then added the usual JavaScript that will pull variables into the Storyline course itself from outside the player. I also wrote some JavaScript that will pull the current quiz score from the LMS each day and then update it in the LMS after that question is answered. And it all worked. Here's what happens when the trivia quiz is launched. 1️⃣ The Welcome slide detects the day of the week and your current LMS score. 2️⃣ When you click the Start button, triggers take you to a specific question based on the day. 3️⃣ After you answer the question, you get corrective feedback, plus the score is updated in the game and in the LMS (so that the training department can track progress during the week, if desired). 4️⃣ If it's Monday through Thursday, you see a slide that tells you to come back the next day for the next question. 5️⃣ If it's Friday, you see your final score, and the quiz is considered passed if all 5 questions were answered correctly. A good bit of Storyline and graphics development, and testing, still went into this project. But, it is a good example of how AI can be a useful time-saving tool for us.