Can I add an audio file into the tabs or accordion dropdowns?

Hi Elijah,

You could add a "multimedia" block just below your accordion or Tabs interaction, so that way you could stack all the elements together. Here's a quick look at the sample Accordion stacked on top of a multimedia block, and then another Tabs interaction below it. 

Hope that helps! 

So I need to make the audio file into a video file to do this the way i want?

Hi Elijah, 

If you wanted it within one of the tabs itself, you could certainly turn it into a video file and then insert that using the "Upload media" option:

If you take a look at my sample though, you'll see the multimedia block includes audio and that I've placed just below a tab interaction. 

I also recorded a quick Peek to show you how I inserted that audio in between two of the block types you mentioned. Let me know if you have any other questions! 

Is it possible to request that the ability to add audio files is made available in accordian and tab interactions? (similar to the process interaction?). The ability to add audio would greatly help, especially where one needs to expand or talk around information presented in these interactions- it makes for a richer learning experience.

Whilst I appreciate that audio files can be added outside the interaction, the ability to include them within a tab or accordian slide would make the experience more seamless and provide better context for learners. Thanks!

Hi Allison

Yes, of course. No problem. Thanks for the suggestion.

Related question: I need to embed links to resources in an accordion. These resources exist in other lessons as multimedia blocks. The resources that are PDFs work fine (I tested the course in our LMS), but two of the links don't work. One is a Word doc, the other is a PowerPoint. I followed the same steps as for the PDFs. The URLs do look different, so i'm guessing that is a clue. Is there a way to do this? I tried hosting the word doc on our website and using that link, but so far it doesn't work great and it's a download -- the document doesn't open automatically like the PDFs. Thanks for any help you can give.

Allison -- I go to the attachment block, open the attachment (pdf), copy the URL (in this case: https://articulateusercontent.com/rise/courses/GJZiWf2YuCxVx_8q01VrG_UY95mOtIfX/Qrl0RjNvhpUTVlHm-hasbro-20-mission-20-and-20-vision-20-statements.pdf) then embed it in the accordion text. Works fine for the the PDFs, but not the Word doc or the PowerPoint. I did notice that the URL for those is different -- starts with https://rise.articulate.com/author/...

I have inserted the accordion into my .story.  It will work on the first layer for audio, but then it will stop and you have to click the play button for it to continue to move through the other layers.  We are just beginning with Articulate and not doing any student lead courses at this time, so I am recording and moving the content by the timeline.  When I deleted the "Show layer when user clicks" it messed the accordion up!  So I just added "Show layer when timeline reaches #s" , still not help, so I then added "Play media ___when the timeline reaches #s".  Still wants to stop and make the user click the play button.  I thought about adding a condition, but it won't let me use "and".  

Will accordion not work in Articulate 360?

Plus one for audio integration in accordion and tab interactions please! I'm not really sure why this isn't already available - it is in processes and timelines.