Articulate Storyline Certificate: Next Level 2

A Series of 4 Online Sessions Starting May 6, August 5, or December 2, 2025


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Certificate Overview
 

Certificate Overview

Articulate Storyline is a robust and powerful elearning authoring environment. You can develop highly customized experiences with its default features. But what if you wanted to take your ideas to a more complex level? This certificate course builds on existing intermediate Storyline skills by introducing complex combinations of interactive experiences, thinking through logic, and game-level thinking. This certificate course provides the hands-on practice to dive deeper and elevate your skills to develop more advanced interactions and experiences. We will explore the logical thinking around exploratory navigation, scenario development models, calculator-type interactions, and gamification scoring. The course will build your confidence with conditional triggering and variable programming, which will provide you with many tips and techniques you can immediately apply to your projects.

In this certificate you will learn to:

  • Think differently about how to leverage Storyline’s features in new creative ways.
  • Leverage Storyline’s Master Slides to calculate global conditions.
  • Use Layers to validate calculations and control navigation.
  • Leverage off-slide objects to act as additional functions to trigger variables.
  • Design adaptive quizzes, conditional feedback, and display custom results with relative scoring.
  • Design and map out custom scenarios with game-like consequences and reward branching.

See important 'Technical Requirements' below.

Bonus Items:

This is the only Articulate Storyline course offering you: 

  • A focus on interaction design using Storyline’s features in smart, creative new ways.
  • Dozens of free Storyline source files for continued practice and self-paced learning
  • Detailed step-by-step exercises for self-paced learning. 
  • Custom course templates. 
  • Custom interactions templates. 
  • Instruction blended with practical design and development guidance from an award-winning elearning developer with 20+ years of industry experience.

Course Details

During this certificate course Kevin will guide you, step-by-step, through the process of using Articulate Storyline to build effective and appealing elearning. Session assignment(s) will be integrated into each one hour segment – teach/demos for 40-45 minutes with 10-15 minutes to practice. This approach will allow you to practice the concepts taught in that previous segment while still fresh on your mind. At the end of a session (3 hours), additional practice files will be distributed for continued self-paced practice between sessions.

Prerequisites:
Each of the Articulate Storyline certificate courses is designed to stand alone with no prerequisite. However, we recommend that you complete our Articulate Storyline Fundamentals Certificate and the Articulate Storyline Next Level 1 Certificate before registering for this Articulate Storyline Next Level 2 course. If you had completed our Articulate Storyline for Next Level Design course through 2023, then you're ready for our Articulate Storyline Certificate Next Level 2 course.

Who Should Attend:
This certificate is for those who have mastered the basic features of Storyline such as story view, scenes, slides, layers, triggers, the timeline, importing assets, and creating simple quizzes and interactions. This certificate assumes you also have a basic understanding of variable programming.

Technical Requirements

Participants with either Storyline 3 or Storyline 360 can attend. All demonstrations are shown in Storyline 360.


Important:
If you do not have a licensed copy of Articulate Storyline, you must download a complimentary trial version prior to the start of the course no sooner than 1-2 days before the class so that the trial does not expire prior to completing the course and related homework assignments. For a trial version, go to Articulate Storyline.

Your trial period for this software is 30 days from the time you install. Therefore, we recommend that you install the trial version no more than one or two days prior to the first session. This allows you a few weeks to practice after the last session. Articulate Storyline software FAQs (including tech specs).

All versions of Articulate Storyline are independent of each other and all can be installed on the same computer. While the current version can support previous versions of software, they are not backward compatible. Each new version of Articulate Storyline has new features.

MAC Users: Articulate Storyline is only a Windows-based program. Currently, there is no version specifically for a Mac. However, you can run Storyline on a Mac. For Intel-based Macs you can run Storyline with Parallels, VMware Fusion, or Boot Camp. For M-series Macs (M1 or M2), you can only use Parallels with Windows 11 Arm.

Microsoft no longer provides support for Windows 10 Arm. As a result, Windows 10 is no longer supported in Parallels Desktop on Mac computers with Apple M-series chips. However, Windows 11 should be fully compatible with all applications that Windows 10 is compatible with.

Email us with technical questions.    

Kevin Thorn

Instructor

Kevin Thorn
Chief NuggetHead/NuggetHead Studioz

Kevin Thorn is an award-winning eLearning designer with over 20 years’ experience in the training industry. After retiring from the Army as a trainer, Kevin earned a Technology Management degree in pursuit of an IT career. When his interest in technology mashed with his passion for visual design along with his experience in training, he founded NuggetHead Studioz, LLC. The Studioz is a custom design and development company providing services in instructional design, storyboarding, elearning development, Articulate Storyline training, illustration, graphic design, storytelling, cartooning and comics.

Course Dates

Course Dates

Register early. This course is limited to 30 participants.

COURSE DATES

MAY 2025 
Session 1: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Session 2: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Session 3: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Session 4:  Thursday, May 15, 2025
RAIN DATE: Friday, May 16, 2025
The "Rain Date" is a date to reserve on your calendar. It will be used in the unlikely event that an earlier session can not run as planned due to technical difficulties or a speaker emergency

AUGUST 2025
Session 1: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Session 2: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Session 3: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Session 4:  Thursday, August 14, 2025
RAIN DATE: Friday, August 15, 2025
The "Rain Date" is a date to reserve on your calendar. It will be used in the unlikely event that an earlier session can not run as planned due to technical difficulties or a speaker emergency.

DECEMBER 2025
Session 1: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Session 2: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Session 3: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Session 4: Thursday, December 11, 2025
RAIN DATE: Friday, December 13, 2025
The "Rain Date" is a date to reserve on your calendar. It will be used in the unlikely event that an earlier session can not run as planned due to technical difficulties or a speaker emergency.

Each session is 3 hours in length.

All sessions start at 12:00 noon Eastern Time (New York time). Here is the time of the sessions listed in various time zones:
  • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time (PT)
  • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Mountain Time (MT)
  • 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Central Time (CT)
  • 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm Eastern Time (ET)

For times in other cities, visit Time and Date Converter. All sessions are recorded. In order to earn your Certificate of Completion, you must log in for and participate in each live course and successfully complete any homework assignments by specified deadlines. Recordings of sessions are intended for review purposes only.

Course Rates

Course Rates

Register early. This course is limited to 30 participants.

Early-Bird Registration 30+ days prior to the course start date: $1,045

Registration within of 30 days of course start date: $1,195

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Course Equipment

Course Equipment

IMPORTANT - You'll participate in online and collaborative activities in a number of ways, each designed to provide a unique means to interact and learn from experts and colleagues. All course delivery software operates at Internet connection speeds of 56.6 kbps or better, on PC, Mac and Unix platforms. Programs will use teleconferencing or VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol.) The login instructions emailed to you approximately one week prior to the start of the course will outline platform use as well as any headset requirements or suggestions. Each registrant must provide their own laptop or desktop computer and other equipment (such as a headset, if noted in your login instructions) in order to fully and successfully participate in the course. Please test your login information a minimum of 48 hours in advance on your course start date on the computer you will be using for the course.
 

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