We’re excited to share a powerful new feature in Storyline 360: slide numbers.
Now you can add slide numbers to your Storyline 360 project to show learners their progress through a course. Storyline 360 will automatically calculate how far learners have left in your course. And you can quickly exclude slides if you don’t want them counted toward the total.
I love this new feature! One caveat - "slide number in project" doe not appear to work currently for slides in question banks. I guess that makes sense since it isn't exactly in the project, but it would be nice to be able to use this when you want the slide numbers to reflect the overall number of slides, e.g. if you have a quiz at the end of a presentation that is 20 slides long, and you want the first question to show that it is slide #21.
Based on Alyssa's video though you canuse Slide number in Scene.
Following Alyssa's video the slide numbers in scene being added to each question in the QB worked perfectly. The numbers correctly increased and decreased dependant on the user moving forward or back through the questions, and they worked perfectly during the review quiz from the result slide.
If I have understood you correctly if you added the question bank within your project scene and the slide number in the scene is added I cant see why the question numbers would not continue on in sequence from the pre quiz slides in that scene.
The "video" above is not working, and I am wondering if someone is teasing me about this. As I am aware this has been a feature request for ages, so fingers crossed if it is really coming true now.
Are you not able to see my Peek 360 video titled, "How to Add Slide Numbers to Random Questions in a Question Bank?" Let me know if the link below isn't working for you!
I took a look at your file and recorded a quick screencast video with Peek 360 (approx. 1:30 minutes) to showcase what I'm seeing. The animations look to playback at about the same speed in Publish, Timeline Preview, and the individual Slide preview. Do you spot the same issues in my video? If so, can you point out where exactly?
Peek 360 allows you to create and easily share screen recordings. They'll upload to Review 360 or you can use the MP4 file that's created to embed a video into a Storyline course.
How would one reference a Built-In variable value inside an Email: link on the trigger wizard for a custom player tab?
I want to have the blank in the following email address replaced with the value of the built-in Menu.SlideNumber or Menu.SlideTitle variable.
someone@company.com?subject=Issue with Bridgestone Tire course&body=I found an issue on page ____ of the course %0D%0A %0D%0A(Please describe the issue as clearly as possible.) %0D%0A
Today a new version of Storyline 360 was released and I notice that the preview feature now uses HTML5. I immediately tried a preview of my troubled project, and unfortunately it is the same for the CTRL+F12 preview, but the Timeline preview is smooth.
So I've discovered that if you want "slide number in project" to show on a slide draw from a Question Bank, you can if you make sure and select "Show Slide Draw Content" from the menu settings in the player (otherwise it will not show):
You're right - we are moving along in our progress to remove Flash from all elements of Storyline 360 and in the latest update you'll see an HTML5 preview of your slide when you click the play button in the timeline panel. Timeline previews no longer rely on Flash. We'll keep folks posted as we continue to remove Flash from other areas!
We use both Storyline 3 and 360 - happen to know the release date for page numbers in Stroyline 3 ? Since we cannot open 360 files in 3 that use page numbers.
Secondly: would be nice not to have a drop down menu when selecting what type of page number (drop down requires an extra step, have it open and static) or at least remember the last 3 the designer used to replace your pre-built 3 we do not need.
We've had Storyline since version 1 - took you a little time to figure out courses require page numbers.
Can I add slide numbers to the Menu or the player? I'd like the slide number total to be part of the player, rather than the course itself. I tried creating a menu item and calling it %Menu.Progress% as variavble but that didn't convert into a slide number, I simply see %Menu.Progress% in the top menu now.
There aren't plans at this time to add page numbers to Storyline 3. The future updates of Storyline 3 will focus on bug fixes and will also bring compatibility back to files from Storyline 360. You'll see this article notes which features exist in Storyline 360 and can still be opened in Storyline 3.
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You're in luck, Adam.
Alyssa created a Peek 360 video to share how you could use this new feature to do just what you're asking :)
Fantastic :)
That has made my day. Thank you for sharing.
I love this new feature! One caveat - "slide number in project" doe not appear to work currently for slides in question banks. I guess that makes sense since it isn't exactly in the project, but it would be nice to be able to use this when you want the slide numbers to reflect the overall number of slides, e.g. if you have a quiz at the end of a presentation that is 20 slides long, and you want the first question to show that it is slide #21.
Based on Alyssa's video though you can use Slide number in Scene.
Will,
Following Alyssa's video the slide numbers in scene being added to each question in the QB worked perfectly. The numbers correctly increased and decreased dependant on the user moving forward or back through the questions, and they worked perfectly during the review quiz from the result slide.
If I have understood you correctly if you added the question bank within your project scene and the slide number in the scene is added I cant see why the question numbers would not continue on in sequence from the pre quiz slides in that scene.
Hope I made sense there, does in my head anyway.
I'm talking in particular about the "slide number in project" not working when in a question bank.
The "video" above is not working, and I am wondering if someone is teasing me about this. As I am aware this has been a feature request for ages, so fingers crossed if it is really coming true now.
Joe,
Not sure if you're talking about the main video or Alyssa's Peek 360 video but I just clicked on both and they both definitely play.
The feature has come to fruition. I've used it in a current project.
Mike
Hey Joe!
Are you not able to see my Peek 360 video titled, "How to Add Slide Numbers to Random Questions in a Question Bank?" Let me know if the link below isn't working for you!
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d106a8f8-1481-4325-8d46-0bb319111b90/review
the 3.27.18822.0 build suffers from very slow preview animation playback to the point of it being useless.
I am forced to revert back to 3.26.18601.0, where preview animations are smooth as usual.
To reproduce, open the story file, preview and notice how animations are very jerky when playing back. It does not affect final output.
Yes, I see that too. Using same version.
Hi Soren,
I took a look at your file and recorded a quick screencast video with Peek 360 (approx. 1:30 minutes) to showcase what I'm seeing. The animations look to playback at about the same speed in Publish, Timeline Preview, and the individual Slide preview. Do you spot the same issues in my video? If so, can you point out where exactly?
Funny I tried using peek on my local pc, and when that records, it preview much more smooth. I am not sure what Peek 360 does.
I had a support response from Cleo, who was able to reproduce the behaviour I originally reported.
Hi Soren,
Peek 360 allows you to create and easily share screen recordings. They'll upload to Review 360 or you can use the MP4 file that's created to embed a video into a Storyline course.
Hi,
I have been working with Articulate Storyline 3 and I do not find this functionality of the number of pages. Is it just a 360 version feature?
How would one reference a Built-In variable value inside an Email: link on the trigger wizard for a custom player tab?
I want to have the blank in the following email address replaced with the value of the built-in Menu.SlideNumber or Menu.SlideTitle variable.
someone@company.com?subject=Issue with Bridgestone Tire course&body=I found an issue on page ____ of the course %0D%0A %0D%0A(Please describe the issue as clearly as possible.) %0D%0A
Hi Catia,
You are correct, slide numbers are a feature of Storyline 360.
You can check out a list of features in this chart.
Hello Al,
Check out this brief tutorial shared by a fellow community member on how to populate an e-mail with content from Storyline.
Today a new version of Storyline 360 was released and I notice that the preview feature now uses HTML5. I immediately tried a preview of my troubled project, and unfortunately it is the same for the CTRL+F12 preview, but the Timeline preview is smooth.
So I've discovered that if you want "slide number in project" to show on a slide draw from a Question Bank, you can if you make sure and select "Show Slide Draw Content" from the menu settings in the player (otherwise it will not show):
Hi Soren,
You're right - we are moving along in our progress to remove Flash from all elements of Storyline 360 and in the latest update you'll see an HTML5 preview of your slide when you click the play button in the timeline panel. Timeline previews no longer rely on Flash. We'll keep folks posted as we continue to remove Flash from other areas!
I have been asking and waiting a long time for this feature, thanks for adding it!!
I just did some testing and I miss a reference to the name of the scene (now Feature Request Number: 01832126)
We use both Storyline 3 and 360 - happen to know the release date for page numbers in Stroyline 3 ? Since we cannot open 360 files in 3 that use page numbers.
Secondly: would be nice not to have a drop down menu when selecting what type of page number (drop down requires an extra step, have it open and static) or at least remember the last 3 the designer used to replace your pre-built 3 we do not need.
We've had Storyline since version 1 - took you a little time to figure out courses require page numbers.
Great feature. I will try to use it next.
Can I add slide numbers to the Menu or the player? I'd like the slide number total to be part of the player, rather than the course itself. I tried creating a menu item and calling it %Menu.Progress% as variavble but that didn't convert into a slide number, I simply see %Menu.Progress% in the top menu now.
Hi Robert,
There aren't plans at this time to add page numbers to Storyline 3. The future updates of Storyline 3 will focus on bug fixes and will also bring compatibility back to files from Storyline 360. You'll see this article notes which features exist in Storyline 360 and can still be opened in Storyline 3.