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

MartinDunne-949
Community Member
5 years ago
I have submitted another feature request for this via the location: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

I have also sent a link to this forum in order to highlight the high demand for this feature by all of us.

I would urge everyone on this forum to please do the same to bring some attention to this feature request, as it is not being addressed. Please submit the feature request and confirm you have done so. The only way we will resolve this is together.
KjellMathisen
Community Member
5 years ago
Thanks, good idea. Request sent. :-)

//KjellM
- MartinDunne-949
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  :)
JanBrianCaballe
Community Member
3 years ago
+1 on the "Autoplay" feature for both video and audio. I like the look and feel of Rise but not having the autoplay feature is a bummer.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
8 years ago
Thanks Dawn for sharing that insight - we've sent the feature request along to our product team, and from here they'll follow our process to evaluate and implement feature requests. You can read more about our process here.
- ReneReid
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  I would like to chime in and say this functionality would be extremely useful for us as well.
- HussainPanahi-5
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  Hi Ashley,
  
  I would like to know about bringing the audio feature on Rise. Is it currently under process?
  As it was a long time ago I hope the company fixed it already. thanks :)
  - Crystal-Horn
    Staff
    6 years ago
    Hello, Hussain. You can add audio blocks in Rise 360 lessons, and learners will click to play them. We aren't developing a way for audio to automatically play in Rise 360 courses at this time.
GeorgeDonahue
Community Member
6 years ago
Browsing web services and engaging in e-learning are different IMO and I wouldn't be so quick to use that standard as the standard for learning experiences. I'm deleting audio as we speak to eliminate the extra step for my learners.
SheenalPatel
Community Member
6 years ago
It's quite disappointing to see that Rise does not allow for the auto-play audio/video feature. We see auto-play as a huge benefit, especially for the businesses we support (Sales, Customer Service, etc.). Often times, if it does not auto-play, the end user will simply look past it and that alters the entire learning experience.
- MartinDunne-363
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  I am in the same space and totally agree with you. Learners can and will look past the audio block element. We totally need an autoplay feature.
MartinDunne-363
Community Member
6 years ago
We really need an auto-play feature, it really does not make sense for a learner to have to click a play button every single time. PLEASE introduce this feature. We have multiple courses that we use the audio block in and it's really challenging not having an autoplay option :( We have 2 seats and make pretty large courses. This would help us tremendously, pleasssse put in a good word.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
5 years ago
Hi Jeni! Thanks for letting us know this feature is important to you. We haven't made any updates yet, but in the meantime, this Storyline Block tutorial will get you going in the right direction.

Thanks for that insight, Owen. I understand where you're coming from, and I'll be sure to pass along your feedback to our Product team!
- SvenLaurik
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  I had clients interested in Rise, but they decided it was not usable due to the audio playback issue. It really limits the attractiveness of the platform for anything other than the most basic elearning design. Does anyone have any suggestions for alternative responsive development tools?
- MartinDunne-949
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Yes, this feature is of the utmost importance to the community of developers and Instructional designers that are CRYING out for this feature. I think it is pretty strange that something so sought after and requested, here in this thread and similar threads, has not been addressed. We understand that there are workarounds.
  
  Forcing the learner to click all the audio buttons by the idea of content locking, via the Continue button (complete all blocks above)". This is not a good workaround as it may confuse a user as to what interaction they need to interact with, also there's no way to actually see if a particular audio element has been clicked/interacted with. Maybe a tick indication to say that an interactive element has been activated would be something nice to add. I know similar learning tools that has this feature and it works really well.
  
  Inserting Storyline Block into a Rise course. Yes, there are times in which this is useful and is a fantastic feature BUT, it is totally counter-intuitive to have to insert a Storyline Block into Rise, to just enable an auto-play audio snippet. It defeats the purpose of using Articulate Rise.
  
  We are not asking for the world. I don't believe we are asking too much. What we are asking for are the following
  
  Inclusion of an auto-play feature for audio, whether it be a toggle button or option etc. This will allow for the instructional designers to make the decision on the best pedagogical approach to facilitate the most effective and meaningful learning experience possible.
  
  Please raise this again, as it is still hindering projects for many of your community of users.
  
  Kindest Regards,
  Martin Dunne
- KjellMathisen
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Hi,
  
  I dare to post again on this topic. This becuse it been put on the edge in my design of courses for the organization. There is courses that are ok without audio, but I am currently trying to manage a course which require audio and I have tested the walk-arounds.
  
  It is a bad solution. Adding that extra click, adding the confusion and the bloch "you have not completed all above" will ruin the learning experience.
  
  I do not agree to your reply for a unfied experience. I do not actuallt understand at all your standpoint. I would assume you have learners and instructional developers in organization so this is not jus another IT stuff.
  
  Rise360 has become a so fantastic tool, easy, looking good, and the scenario block is really nice. Then, having the autoplay issue to fail the whole experience seems odd to me, there is means to make it optional, and for restrictive browsers, in most e-learnings there is a pop-up window and you have to approve content, same here so blaming restrictive browsers is a poor excuse.
  
  I recently (yesterday) finished a course with auto audio play online (from IATA). Not a Rise course though. Looked like a SL or PPT converted corse.
  
  I am curious what the actual issues are? Does it cost too much? Is it to difficult and will be too complex? As I have seen in the posts on this topic it is a most wanted function from very many instructional designers.
  
  Please consider this option now, and listen to the community, please :-)
  
  Have a great weekend.
  
  PS. Btw, the course I needed to do with audio, on pause and I creating a classroom course instead, a pity DS.
DaneBoyington
Community Member
3 years ago
Yes, again a vote for this.
DonnaBoucher-fe
Community Member
3 years ago
Auto-play is not considered accessible under WCAG 2.1. It interferes with screen readers horribly and will drive some of your neurodiverse learners crazy. Please don't bring this feature to fruition.