How to Export Storyline 360 project to PowerPoint?

Hi Calvin!

As of now, there isn't an option to move Storyline files back to PowerPoint. One option that I could see working for you is using the Slide Master feature. 

Slide Masters are used to control the default themes, colors, fonts, text, and objects for slides throughout your course. They're big time-savers, letting you apply the same look and feel across multiple slides all at once.

Here's the thing - I need to create downloadable job aids to go with our elearning. I don't need animations or triggers for handouts. If I was able to export to PPT, I'd have at least a similar looking framework from which to create complimentary materials.

Without the option to export to PPT I'm left with creating it from grainy screenshots, or converting to Word and then converting to PPT which again, leaves the visual quality lacking. I know our c-suite is looking for all our materials to have the same high quality, and I'd like to give it to them without having to recreate the wheel from scratch for every single project.

I'm reading posts about this from 4+ years ago, and it makes me fret this isn't going to be a priority for some time to come. I just want to put in my 2 cents - I'm jammed for time and recreating already edited and lovely content is a bummer.

I know that this thread is older, but I wanted to add my 2 cents as well.  With the coronavirus shutdown of most businesses, my company is looking for a way to allow people to take their mandatory training off-site in something similar to how PowerPoint prints out.  I suggested the word printout but then all animations are overlayed and the slide is not as readable.  We cannot access our PCs on-site remotely for security reasons.  This is really something that Articulate needs to look into.  If you can import, you should be able to export even with limited functionality.

Hello, same issues here. Some of our new staff and volunteers have MAC computers so can't access course easily. As an interim measure i want to create a PP so they can at least view the material (it is mandatory child safeguarding training). This is not easy! Have tried publishing to Word but it hasn't came up well.

Hello Simone and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thanks for contacting us to share that you are experiencing a similar issue.

You mention that it's mandatory training. Do you have an LMS for tracking this content or how are you publishing and sharing the content?

Viewing published content on a Mac is supported in these environments:

• Safari (latest version)
• Google Chrome (latest version)
• Firefox (latest version)

This is something we are in dire need of as well. We have to create read and sign copies of all WBTs developed in SL360, in PowerPoint or even to Presenter 360. It would be so helpful having an export feature like that or an easier method than taking screen shots for every single page

In my past organization, with a reduced number of employees due to the pandemic, it became important for other teams who didn't have Articulate licenses to repurpose my created training content. When I used Presenter 360, I could hand over the PowerPoint slide decks with the exclusion of Engage interactions and QuizMaker slides. Also, the QuizMaker slides could be published to Word (I do wish there was an export from Engage to Powerpoint or to Word also).

But with Storyline and Rise, I lost that ability to share content easily with other teams. These other teams used PowerPoint so our team stopped using Storyline and Rise, in spite of their benefits.

Rise is appealing since it has the best size scaling for use in tablets and smartphones, better than Presenter and Storyline, but the inability to repurpose that Rise content by other non-Articulate teams means that we stopped using it.

Another problem with Rise is that it is stored in the Articulate cloud. I couldn't back up the files locally and if our Teams license expired, we couldn't get to our files at all. Please correct me if I am mistaken on these points.

Hi Claude!

We don't currently offer a way to open Storyline 360 courses in PowerPoint. Storyline projects are saved as .story files which is an unsupported file type in PowerPoint. 

We'll let our community members chime in to share workarounds!

Just want to say I LOVE Storyline and our community :) I'm also adding my voice here, as I've hired a remote copy editor to revise the copy in my courses, but he'd needs the text to be selectable/editable in the version I send to make his changes, or he'd have to re-type everything. He has a Mac. A PPT file would be perfect so he could have all the slide elements in context along with editable text boxes.

If Storyline can already export each slide image (including layers) as a Word document, would it be possible to simply add a way for certain aspects of each slide to be exported as editable content?

Hi Kathryn and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

I appreciate you chiming in to share your thoughts and use case. I've added it to our report as we continue to track user requests/needs.