Export to Powerpoint from Storyline

Hi Steve,  I work in a Hospital in New Zealand and we do offer staff Storyline Education for staff that want to do basic edits but this has not worked well in the past.  If they make a mistake, it can be lots of work to recover the work.

They have basic skills and most people can open a word document, add words to it, save it and send back to me to make the changes.

Nurses and Educators have enough to do and keeping the process as simple as possible for them makes it easier.

For images they can either add them to the same Word document or email them separately, as long as they label them and tell me where they want them put.  

The trouble sometimes is that we over complicate things and wonder why it takes so long to develop elearning content.

Something I have also learnt with Content Experts, is if recording for different screens, write down the script first and then a recording session is quick and less stress on the staff.

Have  great Storyline day.

Hi Steve,  I am totally liking working in the hospital environment where I can create eLearning programs to benefit the staff in their education.  Best job in the world. :)

Interesting discussion.   I create interactive educational material using Articulate Storyline 3 so that our Hospital Staff can receive material to learn from on their own without having to go to a classroom session. We have too many staff for face to face instruction so use a blended approach.

Use eLearning for staff to gain an understanding of the theory, watch some instructional videos, review some case studies and do a few quizzes to test knowledge.  This can then be combined with a practical session to put the theory into practice.

The eLearning session and the face to face sessions complement each other and so need to be treated seperately.

If you are wanting a review of the online session for a classroom, use the original Storyline version and make a different version for the classroom. It will take less time than screen shots and adding to PowerPoint.

Have fun creating amazing educational material that people can learn from. :)

My opinion has changed on this, I have always said why would you want to export to PPT. However Ppt is almost universal and it may be good or bad most SMEs will deliver content in PPT, being able to export something backing PPT that is editable (if only the text) can be better for reviews. Also I have known a few companies want PPTs that they can translate for niche markets where the cost of a full translation is not financially viable.

I can see a use case for this. They definitely should be able to do it technically. As Phil said, having stuff editable and shapes in SVG would be nice.  The issue will be, what parts of each slide's timeline get exported? Perhaps some sort of marker that will export a particular frame of each slide. Other than that, I would recommend using Snagit to capture your screens at specific points. It has some good features for moving parts of the image and easily adding things.  I imagine you can also just export to a video and grab specific frames from the thing. 

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.

My company wants PPT export also. We have clients in several countries who wish to see PPT versions of projects, with all of the links, animations, etc. intact so they can give feedback or make edits. Right now, anything that's exported will be static, so the client can't tell how things interact or if the visuals or links do what they are supposed to. 

On a separate but related concern, I've found that creating things in PPT first, then uploading them to Storyline (or even Captivate) causes some significant changes to the functionality of some of the links or even drastic changes to images or animations. I still haven't figured out why, so it doesn't seem practical to create things in PPT first since SL has its own ideas on what it wants to do to the PPT when it's converted. As such, an option to export to PPT would be an ideal way for us to create materials, then send them to clients for review before we place them in our LMS. 

Some of these customer contributions are almost laughable, for several reasons:

1. Articulate did not build Storyline because they had enough feature requests for a long enough time period.  Neither did Apple build the iPhone or the iPad because enough people complained for far too long.  Great things are built by outstanding engineers doing what they do best--innovating.  Articulate innovates better than most, and they shouldn't allow themselves to be distracted by noisy chatter about feature requests, particularly if the request makes little sense (see #2).
2. Expecting Storyline to export to PowerPoint is like asking AutoCAD to save drawings as text, or like asking PhotoShop to save images as word documents.  It could probably be done, but it makes literally zero logical sense.  I don't expect Articulate to divert precious Engineering resources away from Rise and Storyline to spend months building something that 0.01% of their customers will use.
3. We shouldn't attack staff who are only here trying to help.  Not only are the Community Moderators not decision-making executives, but they're also kind, helpful, and technically adept at what they do.  Even offering to monitor such a wacky request is a gift.  Greet kindness with kindness.

I understand that not everyone has worked in software, but let's be reasonable.  Thank you Articulate for focusing on the right things, and thank you staff for devoting your days to helping people!

Hey, all.

I'm really sorry that my reply came across as disrespectful.  I'm super passionate about treating support staff with kindness, and I have a bad habit of going on the offensive when I perceive that this ethic has been violated.  I sometimes learn more from the way my dinner date treats our server than from the way he engages with me.  😀

I do think Articulate understands the importance of listening to their customers, as evidenced by the list of features and fixes they've added since Storyline 360 was released.  I just happen to disagree with the notion that this particular feature request passes the ROI sniff test.  I can't imagine the amount of effort that it would take Articulate to digest PowerPoint's 649-page proprietary file format and develop an algorithm that converts a .story project file to that format and dumps everything of value (triggers, layers, variables, and so on) that Storyline adds to the equation.  It feels like a feature that looks backward instead of forward, and I'd rather see their product team spending time on things like improved learner Accessibility.

Who knows, though?  I heard a rumor that Articulate might add a slide numbering feature soon, and that's something they've opposed for years.  Maybe export to PowerPoint will come.

Happy Super Bowl Sunday, and may the best team win!

I am a little over this and don't know why anyone would want to export back to Powerpoint.

The way I do it, and users are happy to do this is to export the Storyline project as a Word Document and get the users to comment in the Work Document as they are progressing through the Course.  

This means that they are seeing exactly what I have created and can easily add information into Word for me to update and change.

Also means that I copy and paste stuff to make it quicker.

I only use PowerPoint to import their initial screens and then work on making it more interactive and interesting for them to view.

Over and out.  :)