Hi, Is there an option autoplay for the audio ? In storyline, we used to automatically launch the audio each time the learner change the slide. Here in RISE, I fear he will skip or forget to activate the audio block in a lesson.

In my own experience, when I offer clients the option to develop in Storyline or Rise, and have to point out that in Rise the audio will not autoplay on each slide, then unless the customer decides to skip audio altogether, they inevitably opt to go with Storyline because they feel (and I agree 100%) that forcing the learner to click to play audio on each and every slide significantly deteriorates the learner's experience. It flies in the face of decades of end-user eLearning experience. Stopping the course at every single slide for an extra click instead of offering a pleasing flow irritates the learner--or, as others point out, the learner simply skips the audio (and forcing them to go back to play it by means of an end-of-section control block only increases the resentment factor). While of course no crucial learning content should be in VO only, if one adds VO to a course it's there for a reason and needs to be heard smoothly and seamlessly. Back when Rise was first released I asked about this issue and Articulate said the various browsers were forcing this limitation. If that's not still the case, and if the autoplay option can in fact be offered, from a learner experience standpoint this should be a no-brainer. I realize it may not be easy on the development side. But isn't the learner's experience what it's all about? If the source of this issue remains the browser companies--then go back to the table with them and push back about offering at least the option. Articulate has added so many wonderful elements to Rise, including Storyline interactions and now branching scenarios. All wonderful innovations. But at the end of the day, if Rise can't autoplay the audio on each slide, that simple failing is a complete deal-breaker for most of my clients, and I don't get to use Rise and all those great features. In fact, it happened again with a new client this afternoon. He loved the idea of the online development tool and was all set to have me use Rise until I explained the audio limitation. He immediately said: "You're joking. That's ridiculous. That won't work for my audience." There you have it. Browsers, meet eLearning. Please, if this feature can be added, think of the learner's experience, and make it a priority. I almost never get to use Rise because of this one issue. "For want of the nail, the shoe was lost...."

"We believe that requiring some kind of action from the user, such as clicking a button before playing audio, is the right approach to ensure a unified experience for all learners." I guess I don't understand why this can't just be an option. That's like saying 'we believe that only using grey font color is the right approach to ensure a unified experience for all learners'. Yes, that ensures that everything looks the same but not everyone builds courses in the same way so users are all going to have different experiences. I am asking for audio autoplay because our users HATE the extra clicks. They like to scroll, read, scroll, read, scroll, watch a video. Not scroll, click play, read. They end up not clicking the play button and missing the audio altogether. Some have mentioned that clicking play for audio is not a meaningful click - 100% agree.

So our company create various courses for multiple use cases primarily software technical training videos along with on boarding, human resources, legal compliance training and internal staff training. A lot of the technical courses are converted from legacy content such as PowerPoints. The way we structure the content is a blend of theory and practical video labs. With each theory topic (theory being the written content) is being coupled audio underneath. For each topic we have may have few sections related to that topic. The audio piece (narration) will touch on the theory elements but provide a better contextual overview of that particular section or topic. In between each section we have continue buttons and I understand that we could lock this down and force people to interact with everything above. But this in turn will restrict the user and cause frustration (I know this because we did a trial user testing with this approach). You say you believe in creating a unified experience for all learners, I totally agree with this. I believe in creating a unified seamless solution and making people click an audio button every single time is going against creating a a n unified experience for learners, it's actually hindering them and causing frustration because people are at times not clicking it and just reading the theory thus missing out on relevant and important information. If there was a handful of audio blocks in a module all well and good, this wouldn't be so bad. But when we have 30-40 per module this becomes a great challenge. Through my education I have studied meaningful user interaction and design usability. I am a big believer in creating interactions and making the learner have to click buttons to increase interactivity and engagement but those are for when there are specific use cases for specific learning outcomes like sorting activities and knowledge checks or elements like accodians or flip cards...... However........ Forcing a leaner to press a play button is NOT MEANINGFUL and creates an unified, non seamless eb and flow to courses. You can see from peoples reactions that we is really sought after. There is a huge demand for this within the e-learning community using Rise as their main authoring tool. This community has world class industry leader in instructional designers, trainers and multimedia professionals. All we are asking is for a simple thing... Give us a choice of auto play, let the instructional designers and authors decide what works best for their particular instance/use case. This is something that I feel really strongly about as you may have gathered. So I ask you kindly, to please discuss this with your development team and leaders. Show them our messages and requests. If you could do that I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much for taking the time to read my message. Kindest Regards, Martin Dunne.

I agree with nearly everyone else's statements above that having an auto-play option for audio I'm inserting is crucial for my courses. The audio isn't just an 'extra' or a learning block on its own (this wouldn't be in line with best practices for either learning or accessibility), but is an important part of the learning that happens through an entire course.

Came here looking for why autoplay couldn't be activated while testing a trial, what a disappointment...I don't understand the reluctance after reading this forum? It seems like lots of people aim to use this in closed systems. Why does the development team not want to offer it as an option? This system would have been perfect for my needs but is a deal breaker, every person will ask why the audio doesn't autoplay.

Is there an autoplay for the audio ? | Articulate

SvenLaurik
Community Member
5 years ago
No audio autoplay option in Rise is a deal breaker for me as well. I am on a 360 trial to test out whether this will be a viable option for responsive elearning, and it looks like it will not work for the standards expected by my clients. REALLY disappointed.
MikeYin
Community Member
5 years ago
Please add option to auto-play audio.
JeniRisgaard
Community Member
5 years ago
Has anything new happened on this to either be able to autoplay audio and video, or at least a viable workaround? I saw an earlier comment about inserting a Storyline block that will autoplay - is there a tutorial for how to insert that somewhere?

I'll add my voice to the crowd - I've worked with Storyline for a while but just recently discovered all the great features in Rise. I'm creating my first course now, but the lack of an autoplay feature likely means I won't be using it much, which is really disappointing.
DeanErnst-376a9
Community Member
5 years ago
Ill try again'...

Autoplay audio in Rise!!!

Stop ignoring the request based on your "philosophy". Please listen to the ID's that work with learners/clients etc

Seriously, this is beyond frustrating - your competitors are supporting/making happen autoplay functionality for HTML 5 based responsive courses, why are you still refusing to make this an option for ID's?

Your focus needs to be on making features that enable ID's to have flexibility and options to develop great learning, not limit ways to to use a fundamental media component as basic as audio.

I'm sorry for the tone, but to not listen to the community (3 friggin years!!) and base feature decisions on your fixed ideology not user requests is very insulting :-(

Sheesh...it shouldn't be a difficult task to implement autoplay for anybody with decent JS skills

Regards

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- MartinDunne-949
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Well said :)
PatriciadeSouza
Community Member
6 years ago
I am currently evaluating Articulate 360 (we currently use SL3 and are considering moving over to 360!)

The feedback for the e-learnings I have created using Rise has been extremely positive except for the need to click on the audio to play it... as with Dawn above we want to ensure clicks and interactions are meaningful and learning focused... the addition of the continue on completion means the learner now has 2 non learning focused clicks!

Has any progress been made on adding the Autoplay feature??... or is there a time frame for this?
IVHEducation
Community Member
5 years ago
I agree with all of the other comments here. In order to have our courses be ADA compliant, we must have audio and it is a huge hassle to the learners to always click on the play button. Please reconsider, and create a way to have auto-play for audio. Unfortunately, I think this will be a deal breaker for me as well. I was really looking forward to utilizing Rise 360 when creating courses.
AhmedKandil
Community Member
6 years ago
I would like to add my voice to Dawn, Patricia and Rene as well. Having this feature would be very useful for us as well.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hello, Ahmed. Web browsers are moving towards stricter auto-play policies in order to improve the user experience. We agree that requiring some kind of action from the user, such as clicking a button before playing audio, is the right approach to ensure a unified experience for all learners. To that end, we won’t be adding any auto-play features to Rise 360.
  
  However, we are looking at ways we may be able to provide narration features that don’t auto-play. We'll keep you posted on any changes!
  - MartinDunne-363
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    :( we need it though.....
JessicaRose-78a
Community Member
6 years ago
this is unfortunate news. Autoplay is a great way to reduce clicks, something my users often complain about.
KieraMcAuliffe
Community Member
6 years ago
Agreed, the option of having hot spot elements playing an associated audio file on open automatically would be particularly helpful....
LaCaraBlack
Community Member
6 years ago
Unfortunately it literally seems like Articulate is ignoring what appears to be the majority opinion... Which is to have some way to auto-play audio. In most instances my company's learners are in a controlled environment or are aware ahead of time whether or not they need headphones while viewing a course. I would like to make use of Rise but it doesn't seem as if it is feasible without an auto-play option. Just as others have stated, I feel having to click on every block with audio breaks up the flow of the course and takes away from the learning. The intent is that it should be seamless for them with the exception of those places that are value added clicks to advance or segment the lessons. It'd be very much appreciated if this could be revisited/reconsidered.