Transcripts embedded in Articulate

Hi Robyn,

You can move the Notes panel to be a top tab, similar to the Resource tab, but then it will appear as a drop down over your slide content. You can see more information about that here with the player properties.  

As for taking up screen real estate, the elements that the player will add to a story size are detailed here. 

HI Ashley, thanks for the reply.  So does this mean I cannot have the menu pane with a transcript appear on command?  If so then my best option would be the transcript in the top tab and have it open in a separate document. 
Many thanks.

Hi Robyn,

Correct, there isn't any way to trigger the transcript of menu pane - the user could click on it from a top tab to allow it to appear as a drop down - so it's at the user's discretion to use it as such, but no way to force it to open. 

Robyn,

If you're not confined to using the built-in Notes feature, you could create your own layer that contains the Notes information, and display that when and where you like. We did this for our Notes and Glossary, as the built-in functionality didn't give us enough control over those elements.

Mike

We use a system of showing/hiding the transcript layer outlined in this solution: Getting a layer to stay turned "on" after being clicked once

Thanks Steve and Mike for your feedback.  However, both of these cover the slide content when the transcript is visible.  The user needs to be able to see the whole screen and be able to read the transcript.  I also looked the hidden menu option but again this covers the content on the screen.  As this is a requirement we are thinking of adding it to the top right as a link and it will open in a separate PDF file until Articulate Storyline develop an option to display the menu pane on command.  So that the whole screen shrinks to accommodate the menu pane.

In the meantime, any further suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I work with Robyn and have come up with a work around for this:

I used an invisible player and then within the player:

Changed the Notes tab custom text to Transcript
Changed the Resources tab custom text to an ellipsis
Back under Features, moved the ellipsis tab to sit above the transcript tab. The transcript is hidden unless you click to view.

Here's what it looks like.

Thanks Jenny for sharing here - really interesting way to cover it up and have it still look like it fits in with the set up of the course.