Export to Powerpoint from Storyline

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing that here - and our team continues to gather feedback on such things here in the forums and in the form of feature requests. 

Has anything been done about exporting to PowerPoint? I notice several of the requests went in over 3 years ago...that seems like a long time. Anyone have new solutions?

Hi Alicia,

Since Storyline includes a number of interactive elements along with things such as timelines, layers, states, etc. there hasn't been a change in our inability to export to Powerpoint. That being said, I know it's been talked about a lot here - and so our team will continue to discuss and evaluate feature requests as they come in. 

Best I can think of would be to export to Word, save as PDF, then run it through some OCR tool. But that's a pretty roundabout trip when the text is there in the obfuscated .js and the working file

I also endorse the need for a feature that would take SL either back to PowerPoint, XML, or just plain text. 

I generally begin SL2 work with a PowerPoint file as part of a collaborative workflow, or just for speed, efficiency and the option to single source materials out for different uses.

However, I am now charged with taking a big, native SL2 course back into an instructor-led format, and this is looking like a cut and paste operation - blah.

Using materials designed self-paced SL content as the backdrop for facilitated instructor led events is far from ideal, as message design and pacing for the two use cases is very different.

This is as bad an idea as trying to use unmodified instructor-led decks as e-learning slides. Further the notion that "SL is a Lexus, PowerPoint is a Ford Focus" is also misguided.

Haters gonna hate, but PowerPoint is an excellent, highly efficient tool for its particular use case, if not all use cases.

Shudder at the thought of using it, but Adobe's bug fest, Captivate, exports editable Word, XML, etc. Lack of an export feature is very significant missing piece of an otherwise great product.

Brom Kim (posting as Robert Connor)

This is a big problem that hopefully the next version of SL will resolve. Most companies do not have the funds to purchase licenses for everyone needed to review and make major edits. 360 is great for minor edits, but sometimes you have to go back to the drawing board only extrapolating key elements.

Here's a tip. If you publish to Word, then save the doc as a .docx, you can unzip that document, and you will find that all the slide images will be in a folder in .jpeg format in this directory: Word > media

Just thought I’d share this tip I learned yesterday. When developing an elearning course that will be paired with a classroom training, for example when developing blended learning, and if you have a 360 subscription, develop your course in Studio 360. That way you can share your PowerPoint slides with the classroom trainer and have a consistent theme. 

Hi Leslie,

I have to agree with Bruce on this one.

Prior to SL most of us started developing our courses in PowerPoint, it was convenient, easy to use and cutting pasting slides was easy. Storyline is a new development platform  that offers  a full IDE (Integrated Development Environment). For our convenience it uses a PowerPoint-like interface. A lot of SL users would like to develop in Storyline, then copy their development back to PowerPoint because that is the environment they best known.

I can see two solutions, either cut the umbilical cord we have with PowerPoint and use Sl at it fullest. Or continue to use Articulate Studio (Engage, Presenter, Quizmaker) in conjunction with PowerPoint.

If one only uses SL to develop pure sequential courses, then what is the added value of SL.

The approach of publishing a storyboard and pasting screenshots into PowerPoint is like you invent colour television, then take pictures of what is shown on the screen, print it an stick them in a book…

In a lot of cases, the underlaying reason is that it is of course much easier to rip a PowerPoint presentation/course and pull slides out of their context...

Cheers

Geert

IMHO, PPT & Storyline are like two GM cars. They are both Vettes. Storyline is a Corvette. PPT is a Chevette (remember those?).

Storyline is far better a platform for sure. But It would be nice if there was a way to export a PPT file because I work in a bilingual company and everything needs to be translated. Our translators do not have Storyline and when you start to design a more sophisticated non linier courses. it becomes a nightmare for our translators to fallow in the exported Word doc that I have to now send them...even with an attached web version of the course so they can see the context in which its created.

The only solution I can see right now would to be to get our translators a copy of storyline and train them which I cant see happening... there is just too many of them to be cost effective.