Export to Powerpoint from Storyline

Hi Tanya,

No this is not possible.

Objects created in SL have their own format and are not compatible with PPT. The other wau around is.

It is not even possible to copy/paste elements from SL into any other application.

Cheers

Geert

Hey Tanya, you mentioned earlier that you need to provide a storyboard for a client - have you tried the Publish to Word option for that? This would give them a screenshot of each slide - perhaps that would suit your needs? 

I've been asked to turn my Storyline course back into a PowerPoint so that SMEs can use it for an in-person presentation. Just in case anyone else runs into this, I see two options:

1. As noted above - Export to Word as a storyboard, then cut and paste each screenshot and Notes narration to a PowerPoint slide. I recommend publishing with "large" screenshots if you do this. Obviously, the screenshots can't be edited (unless you want to Photoshop) - but new PowerPoint text boxes, etc. could be superimposed.

2. If the PowerPoint needs to be more exact, I toyed with - but did not try - a second idea.  Run the published Storyline course and capture it using Captivate. Now you'll have all of your Background.png files in Captivate, and you could go through a similar process of inserting them into PowerPoint with accompanying narration from your Notes sections. It would be a lot of extra work, though, and of course you'd still be limited as to what you could edit on those screenshots.

I think it is a true shame that you can't copy storyline objects into PPT. 

I've also come across a situation where it would be helpful to export to PPT, so I wanted to add my support  for this idea.

Mmmm, I sincerely disagree with that solution Bruce. If you've properly designed a self-paced elearning course, it is not appropriate for presenting in person. (The whole point of good design being that it is appropriate to the context and audience).  Interactivity and other things that should be in such a course can cause confusion at worst or fall flat at best in a classroom setting. Not to mention that asking a SME to "present well" because we aren't able to make it easier for them is not the best way to serve a client or client business line!

I still think that my solution of publishing a storyboard and pasting screenshots and narration back into a PowerPoint is the best we can do at this point in time. It's not really that time-consuming, either.

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

Looking for urgent options in converting Storyline course to PPT. Reason: Need to support standup ILT. We tried options mentioned by Leslie but they dont turn out to be good quality in PPT format.

Instead of using ppt you could use storyline in the classroom just publish to CD, otherwise I dont see any way apart from taking screen shots yourself

Just my 2 cents...

SL does output to Word.

Once output, you can copy and past your choice of static images to PPT. Like with most of us elearnig developers, we are usually pros at the copy/paste process and can burn up a PPT presentation in quick -time.

Best Regards,

Dennis Hall