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Storyline 360 Collaboration Possibility?
Hello I'm wondering if there is a way to collaborate on Storyline 360 projects- like our team has in the past with an owner and a couple of collaborators in Rise.
Attached are two photos, they are the closest pieces of information I found that are what I am looking for.
We tried using team slides today, and it appeared to be an issue, as it seems we were both in one of the projects at the same time, and when this would happen before in Rise you could see that someone else was in a certain Lesson because Rise would let you know.
Could team slides be used like this for us in the future, but we would have to coordinate on who was working on which projects at what time? Or will it always make us save the project as a new project? Essentially duplicating the project each time it is opened by someone else and edits are made?
I am looking for a good way to collaborate on our projects in Storyline 360 where we can all make edits- and not have to worry that we are making edits or changes to an 'older version' of our training modules.
Hope this makes sense! Any help would be great! Thank you!
Hi, everyone!
I have some great news to share!
We’ve just released an update for Review 360 which includes cool new features:
New: Create shared team folders in Review 360 to organize your content, assign permissions, and invite collaborators. You can even allow multiple authors to publish new versions of a course to the same Review 360 project.
And because Review 360 is a web app, there's nothing to install! New features and fixes are available immediately.
Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Have a great day!
Hello, Arin!
Collaboration in Rise and Storyline are a bit different. Let's explore the options in each one!
- In Rise, collaborators can create and edit different lessons in a course at the same time or take turns fine-tuning the same lesson. As you mentioned, Rise will let you know who is working on what lesson.
- In Storyline 360, team members can create a library of shared team slides that everyone can access right from Storyline 360. But unlike Rise, only one person can work inside a Storyline file at a time.
I would suggest having each team member work on one section of the Storyline course in separate files. Once each section is complete, share the slides with the whole team. Then, combine all the shared slides into one final project!
Hello Alyssa,
Thank you so much for this information!
This was very helpful, considering our projects we will have a little bit more trouble working on separate sections, but we may be able to coordinate better now knowing that only one person can be in certain modules at one time.
We will communicate who is working in which module, and when, so that our edits are saved.
Thank you!
Happy to help, Arin! And as you're collaborating with your team, be sure to share any feedback you may have on how we can make Teams collaboration process and features even better! 🌟
Any changes on collaborative work in Storyline 360 for 2020?
Hi Manoel!
We don't have any upcoming changes to share publicly but we love hearing new ideas. Is there a specific feature you're looking for?
As always, you can share ideas with us in the form of a feature request!
It would be nice if access to review-publishing and Rise-embedding could be shared by collaborators (or in a user group).
We are working on a project with 10 Storyline courses with multiple users. Feedback on the modules can be processed by any user, but only the first publishing user can publish a new version of the same course and only this user can embed the storyline object in a Rise module.
Are there any plans to improve this (or are there options available already that we don't know about)?
Kind regards,
JorisI second the above request. Thanks, Joris. This is a major usability issue as team members transition in and out of a L&D team.
Our team is new to Storyline 360 and while we've figured out to assign each scene to a different developer, it's not an ideal collaboration situation. I can't make changes to my colleagues scenes as she is the original owner of her project and vice versa. So there is a lot of copy and paste going on once we find which slides were updated in the other project.
Ideally, we would be able to have one project, therefore only one working file, that all team members can update. We're currently collaborating this way in spreadsheets, documents, presentations, etc. but not in Storyline.
Hi Christina!
I hear exactly what you're saying and shared the comments with our team!
Since Storyline 360 is a desktop-based application there aren't ways for real-time collaborating like there is in Rise 360 which is a cloud-based application.
However, you could try to use Team Slides so there is a consistent theme throughout each individual project!
Yes, we are already using Team Slides. Since we're in different time zones, each day we work on our assigned scene, then publish/share the project. The alternating person opens the shared project, copies in the updated scene and tries to overwrite the existing scene. This is definitely extra effort and could easily lead to confusion. There isn't even a way to determine which slides actually got updated so that we only copy over the updates rather than an entire scene. Just a lot of work. Meanwhile, we use all our other tools collaboratively. My suggestions would be to allow for Team Project, rather than just Team Slides. While each person might download an update of the project in order to view the updates, the entire team would be able to edit the one project rather than the need for multiple projects and copying over changes each day. I'd be happy to show you what we're doing in SharePoint, MS Teams, Word, Excel, etc...
Regards,
Christina Bayma
Good morning, Christina!
Thanks for taking the time to walk us through your team's process! It helps us understand the need for enhanced Teams collaboration features. I'll highlight your insight with the right folks and let you know of any changes.
A few related resources ↡
- Storyline: Recommended Workflow for Collaborative Network Environments
- How We Prioritize Feature Requests
One more thing! It looks like you may have replied by email where your contact info came through to the public forum. Feel free to edit it out right here!
