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Blurring text for privacy
I'm building courses for the staff at a college and it is sometimes necessary to display personal information on students in screenshots. Is there a way to blur this information to keep it private? I can do it in my photo editing software before importing the picture but was wondering if there is a way to do it after bringing the picture into Storyline 360.
I found a free blurred transparency png and have used it as an overlay. Works, but agree that this is a much needed feature.
Do you mind sharing where you located the blurred transparency png?
Any update on if this is now a feature?
Thanks for reaching out, Ryann! The blur feature in Storyline is currently out of our feature roadmap, but I'll be sure to update this discussion if our team decides to reroute.
Here's our process for managing the feature requests we receive. If this makes it into a future update of Storyline, we'll let you know!
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I have asked for blurring function from Articulate Storyline 1, we work a lot with privacy, especially on simulations. So disappointing that this request does not even in roadmap. I was not the only one that made the request.
Hello, Is there an update on this request? can we blur content from storyline software simulations?
I believe there's nothing much more important than privacy these days, I wonder how Articulate team prioritizing their features. In my opinion (and I believe others as well) this blurring function is way more important than a better "text-to-speech". It would be great if you can implement AI to do the blurring or text modifying function.
I find it both hilarious and concerning that so many posters expect Articulate to address their data integrity concerns, while continuing to engage in unsafe PII practices. Don't want a stranger walking into you house unannounced? Lock the bloody door. Don't want the dog chowing down your dinner when go get a drink? Don't leave it in a location the dog can easily get to. Don't want sensitive information to get out into the wild? Don't capture screens from a production system with sensitive information on it in the first place. This isn't rocket science.
It's too simplistic way of thinking. Clearly you haven't worked for a large multinational companies with their immense IT and high security demands on one hand and various systems on the other hand which you have to build a simulation to learn the complex systems using real data because there are no sandbox available. If you are using Articulate to build simple things for elementary school, then you don't need anything particular. Just try working for multinational company and demand them to purchase a sandbox on existing systems because you need to build a training simulation. Then you will know what we are talking about.
you are totally right, my friend, "just ask them to purchase a sandbox" and see yourself growing old :))))
But sometimes we need to train staff internally. With FERPA we cannot have actual student names. But staff still need to learn the student information systems.
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hi Steve, if you create a new layer with a rectangular shape that covers it, and then apply 2% transparency to it? will that work?
Having a blur tool would be really beneficial. With the importance of PII on the rise - it would be more useful now than ever.
How is there no blur tool in Storyline?
