This chapter highlighted some of the techniques you can use right away to begin boosting your productivity with Storyline.

The title of the chapter is Rapid Development, but this is an overused term with many meanings. It's impossible for a software tool to help you rapidly develop e-learning courses. The tool can make the process more approachable, but as a developer or instructional designer, you need to have the know-how and skills to properly operate the tool. Great e-learning always begins with great content. You can dramatically reduce production time by spending more time up-front in the planning stages finalizing content and navigation prior to starting development in Storyline.

By practicing the top 10 productivity boosters, you'll be setting yourself up to work more strategically with Storyline, where you are seeing the full potential of the tool and will be able to apply your skills with the tool to specific learning events in your courses.

As you've seen, Storyline has an almost open door policy where they have made it incredibly easy to leverage the work you've already created in other tools. By extension, you can easily curate the content you've not created; this is a huge time saver and adds a level of depth that would have taken much longer to create any other way.

One of the best ways to become more efficient and effective in Storyline is to participate in the community of developers. This particular community is very active and the Articulate E-Learning Heroes Forums (http://community.articulate.com/forums/) are filled to the brim with helpful tips, techniques, inspiration, and conversations. Your participation in this community will help you to become an enthusiastic Storyline expert and a seasoned e-learning developer.