Project Description

In the Spring Semester of 2020, Tom Smalling, owner of Smalling Studios, took the EME 6209–Multimedia Instructional Systems II course as part of UCF’s Instructional Design Master’s degree. The project was to demonstrate our abilities to design a branching scenario in an interactive e-learning environment. The training aims to inform the more than 300,000 people that move to Florida every year about the dangers present after hurricanes come through. 

Learning Objectives
  • The learner will correctly identify food suitability in a refrigerator without power.
  • The learner will determine how to set up a generator properly.
  • The learner will understand the dangers of standing water after a storm.

The story, written with humor, follows John through three decision points after a hurricane. The images for the project were licensed from Adobe Stock, or public domain sources, and prepared in Adobe Photoshop. I developed the final interactive branching scenario using H5P, an open-source interactive e-learning development tool. H5P is available as a WordPress plugin, or users may create a free account on the H5P website. I installed H5P on the Design Studio Academy website to test the functionality in a production WordPress environment.