To Engage Learners, Welcome Them to a Custom Virtual World

We live in a 3D world, so it’s no surprise that many people learn best through hands-on experience. The more learners can see, hear, and explore through a virtual world that simulates the richness of real life, the more engaged they’ll be in interactive online learning.

That’s the reasoning behind a new Articulate Storyline 360 feature that transforms panoramic 360° images into immersive, learner-navigated spaces, bringing playful curiosity to online training. Storyline 360 makes it easy to create interactive experiences with 360° images for learners to explore as their curiosity dictates.

Research shows that personalized interactive online learning environments promote active learning to increase attention, interest, and perceived enjoyment. That translates to engaged, enthusiastic learners who retain more information—and have fun while they do it.

It takes just a few steps to transform any 360° image into a full-color immersive world that learners can explore at their own speed:

Choose a 360° image from the library, or upload your own.

Incorporate customizable clickable markers for text, audio, and video training content.
Add hotspots where learners can discover hidden bonus content.
Provide clues and context with hover triggers for more immersive interaction.
Guide navigation to enable discovery while covering all course content.
Add progress indicators to offer feedback and motivation.

Check out the video to see this feature in action, learn more at articulate.com, then sign up for a free trial to see for yourself what’s possible with 360° images.

13 Comments

Joshua Kaplan

over 2 years ago09/08/21 at 5:36 pm (UTC)

This article states that, "Research shows that personalized interactive online learning environments promote active learning to increase attention, interest, and perceived enjoyment." Can you provide the research that states this, please?

over 2 years ago09/08/21 at 7:27 pm (UTC)

Hi Joshua! Apologies - we failed to link this, but I will add to the article right now. Here's the source: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1249285

Jenny Swick

over 2 years ago09/08/21 at 7:59 pm (UTC)

Hi Kelly, Has Storyline been updated so we can create courses on a Mac?

over 2 years ago09/08/21 at 9:08 pm (UTC)

Hi Jenny. We don't currently have plans to create a version of Storyline for a Mac. Many people use Storyline on a Mac (myself included!) by running virtual windows environments like Parallels or VMware. Here's an article that walks through setting that up in case it's helpful to you: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-for-mac. And you're always welcome to share your needs directly with our engineering team via a feature request: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request if you'd prefer.

Wilco A
Trina Rimmer

over 2 years ago09/09/21 at 6:34 am (UTC)

I do not get that. People (customers) are asking for a MAC version for years now and why is it that you are still referring to Parallels or VMware? Why is it that there are still no plans to listen to your costumers?

Sparkle ELearning

over 2 years ago09/08/21 at 9:29 pm (UTC)

Great video! Is it available on YouTube? I'd love to share it on LinkedIn

Limor Grossman

over 2 years ago09/09/21 at 5:35 am (UTC)

Nice, but... When will you add support for writing LTR texts in HOTSPOT 360? We are in 2021, is not it time for it to be already built into the storyine fully and transparently?

Giux Sepe

over 2 years ago09/09/21 at 8:07 am (UTC)

Mac version please. No excuses; no Ifs; no maybes; Give your customers who use a major design platform the possibilities they require without running virtualization software. It's pretty clear that you really do not care about the Mac community.

Felix Pulido

over 2 years ago09/09/21 at 1:27 pm (UTC)

Sorry Mac users. Apple is fiscally and strategically invested in to the big name design software that you use. Articulate rewriting a program for a small segment of designers, at their expense, for it to be viewed on a PC (as a majority of professional computers are) makes little sense. Innovations like this 360 feature would be stunted and they would start falling behind their competition, namely Captivate. Which is by Adobe... which Apple is HEAVILY invested in. So I'd recommend routing your efforts to getting Apple on board to help because at the rate of the market, there may be more incentive to create a ChromeOS version before you ever see an iOS. Note to Articulate: Please continue your direction, these are the features that we need for our learners. Thank you!