Auto play audio in Rise?

I agree with the above - it's absurd to not allow creators the choice to autoplay audio like in every other authoring tool. We can't include audio in our courses currently because it requires you to click on a tiny bar for every interaction which causes a horrible user experience for our clients. 

I would like to add my voice to the request for auto play for both audio and video in RISE360!!

Agreed!  Please make autoplay an option in Rise 360.  It is "clunky" and frustrating for learners to complete this manually.  I know it's just one click, but if they read the whole slide and they can't continue because they didn't press "play" on the recording at the top of the lesson, we have lost our credibility and their attention.

I'm evaluating the Articulate Suite and I have now ruled out Rise because of this issue.  I use audio to enhance my user's experience and add clarity to the content on the screen. Reading is just plain boring. But having users click to start audio disconnects the user from the content and makes for an inconvenient and frustrating experience.  I agree with everyone on this post. It should be up to the developer to decide to enable auto-play. 

Yes, feels weird not to autoplay (or maybe autoplay on first entry and then make optional?)--would love to know the rationale as to why the industry is moving that way? I assume because of offensive content, maybe you don't want audio just blaring on randomly, or for accessibility reasons. Even if for this, I feel like within an online course...it feels strange to follow other web standards. Thanks--would love to see this feature added!

I would also like this added. My boss is a big fan of autoplay and I will probably need to go back to using Storyline for everything if I can't convince her otherwise.  

It is much slower to develop in Storyline so I'd prefer to use Rise.  As an alternative, could you please allow Rise projects to be brought into Storyline?  Then I could use the nice layout and built-in games. 

It's worth noting that if you have users who use screen readers, autoplaying audio and video often causes havoc with these (as they navigate by listening autoplay can interrupt the flow of the page unexpectedly). It's best practice to have video/audio activated/deactivated by an action (IE selecting a button) so the user is always in control regardless of any accessibility needs. Likewise if you have users with particular attention disorders.

I have created a Storyline block, threw an image on it so all the user sees in RISE 360 is an image but ultimately it is the Storyline block with audio that auto-plays. However, the tricky thing is this...

I had a deck of Storyline that's with 30 slides and have divided them into blocks. Each "block" is about 2 to 8 slides from the actual Storyline deck. Before each "block" I've placed an image that lasts for 1 sec, and then it auto plays the audio/ animations.

It works well for some (plays image and auto-plays the audio+animation) but there are others which doesn't auto-plays the audio. I will need to click on the "play button" and audio will come out. 

I'm not using a different deck of Storyline but using the same deck, just that I've deleted those that I didn't want, to make up a "block".

What actually went wrong? Can anyone advise me?

Hi Calvin! 

Usually you'll see a play button when there is audio or video on the first slide of the Storyline block. Did you insert the audio on the first or second slide?

If you'd like us to take a closer look, please share a link to your course here!

Just want to add my support for easy to use auto play functionality (without needing to imbed a Storyline block).  We want to include audio with much of our content, and requiring the learner to click the play button for each audio clip really diminishes the user experience.