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New in Storyline 360: Check out the New Modern Player in Storyline 360
Hey folks! Recently we released a beautiful new modern player for Articulate Storyline 360. The player is the frame around your slides and it can include features like navigation buttons, the course menu, resources, a glossary, and more. The new modern player is sleek and beautiful, and best of all, it gives your learners the same experience across all devices.
The modern player scales to fill a learner’s browser on every device and the player controls melt into the background to maximize screen real estate. This makes sure your content is always the star of the show.
The modern player is available in a light or dark color theme, with the option to pick a custom accent color. You can also adjust the font and the navigation button styles—and you can choose to display or hide menus and controls just like you could with the classic player.
Watch the quick video below for an overview, then follow along with this helpful tutorial to start working with the modern player in Storyline 360.
I haven't ignored them, but because there is a black on white option I think it is a non-argument.
thanks to admit
The modern player only works with HTML5, it will not work with IE8 and IE11 must not be in compatibility mode.
The modern player has two themes one is a light theme, that said the modern player does not change the slide content.
Sorry I am confused here, your post talks about white text on black, I just wanted to let you know there is also a light theme with black text on white background.
The player is only the frame surrounding the content, the great thing about the modern player is that it is designed to get out of the way and allow the content to come to the forefront.
Also the Player allows for a contrast between your content and the frame itself and direct the viewer to the content rather than the surrounding frame.
I believe the aim of the player is to be more generic more like a video player.
The modern player has two options white on black and black on white, I don't see it as an issue. You have a choice.
The menu can be collapsed and the modern player is designed to move out the way and remove any distractions, I think this is an improvement.
This is a professional looking player.
First of all when I saw the new light modern player I was pleased with the way it looked and worked. Stripping it down to a minimum made it suit our needs. Testing it though made us come to the conclusion that the player has issues with what seems to be a loading problem. Between every slide, whether it's online of offline, published or previewed it shows briefly a black screen with three loading dots. Since we are creating software demo's this is a real nuisance. Our reseller said that it was discussed with Articulate. Apparently the recent update resolved this issue, but replaced it with another issue. Now while transferring to another slide there seems to be repetition of a certain frame since the transition is not smoothly. Can this be solved as well?
Kind regards Harold
The new modern player looks great, but please find a way for more options to customize it, e.g. to change its colors. Up to now, none of my customers liked it the way it is.
Another reason why my customers reject the modern player is that the menu takes too much space on the screen. Ironically, my customers also often dislike the menu of the classic player, because it is too small. Is there really no way to adapt the width of the menu?
I also experience these issues with the modern player: When loading there is often a black screen with three loading dots between the slides, and the voice-over stops everytime I switch between the menu tabs.
Please read my previous post. The loading dots issue might be resolved if you update. (Assuming you didn't do already). It seems to resolve it.
Thanks for sharing your post-update outcome with us and Lea, Harold.
Hi Lea. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on additional customization options you'd like to see in the new modern player. Our dev team loves to hear from customers directly, so if you have a moment, please consider completing a feature request detailing what enhancements you'd like to see and how they'll help you: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
Regarding the loading experience with the player, it seems that a recent update has addressed this behavior so you'll want to make sure you've got all of your Articulate 360 updates installed.
Hi John,
The latest update of Storyline 360 includes the fixes mentioned here. We haven't yet included the changes folks requested in terms of more color options, but let me know if there is something else you're looking to see!
Hi, I like the modern player, think it looks good. Is there any plans to release this for Storyline 3?
What I tend to do for the majority of my clients is entirely disable all the player functions and design a bespoke container using the slide masters, triggers and buttons. This allows the most control over design and layout. This has always worked well for us and is my preferred way of working. I'd recommend this to people looking for maximum control over design.
Hello,
Are you sure Articulate guys are working to deliver a tool to create online pedagogy? E-learning is firstly "pedagogy", and not graphic design.
Therefore, just in term of comfort of reading, have you ever read a book with white letters on a black background, or how many website use white letters and black background?
How experts in online pedagogy can promote or design a player with a dark background and white letters, while it's not advised everywhere, just taking account of reading comfort reason?
Could you send me the link where scientific researches have proven that dark background and whiter letters are useful for online pedagogy?
Please find here links that say the opposite (among billions of other links):
https://adpearance.com/blog/light-vs.-dark-web-design
https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/08/the-dos-and-donts-of-dark-web-design/
E-learning designers are struggling to keep our learners online until the end of the module, and Articulate is designing players that will make learners want to end up the course asap.
Really, I don't understand.
(and please don't reply "but your slide can still be black letter on white")
