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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.
E-learning is not only about content, it's about pedagogy and online cognitive learning, and therefore efficiency of the module. Cognitive online learning goes through a few tips that make e-learning design pretty rational, and black background and white letters doesn't improve online learning, but rather impair it.
But I am still waiting for the evidences you base your design choice.Phillipe, popular e-readers like the Kindle have the option to read black text on a white background or white text on a black background. Windows also has the option to have a light or dark frame on Windows10. At the end of the day this is nothing new and since the frame only applies to the area outside the main window then it is for minimal reading content anyway. I really like the look of it and it does look modern and in line with current sites like Amazon - white main page with black frame. I suggest you do some research. It is an OPTION at the end of the day. I really like it so each to their own.
The player contain the title of the module, the menu and other elements.
The menu is seen during all the module.
I really think that if it's well acknowledged that white on black impair learning, therefore it should be avoided in any ways, and especially in the player, because it's what you keep in front of your eyes for the duration of the module.
An other reason, is that white on black writing create retinal persistences, and especially online because a screen is a source of light, but not a book.
Studies just says "better to not use white on black for online learning", so why it becomes one of the default player of Storyline?
For me, typography and writing style are very important. I never use white text on a dark background for large blocks of text. That said, a menu is not really "reading," but more skimming and scanning. Also, if your course background is light, a dark player can help your learners to focus attention on the content i.e. the content doesn't bleed into the player. The two are segregated by the higher contrast.
and if the content isn't impacted by the black background of the player, many of the templates of Storyline propose a black background for the content of the slides, which doesn't support online learning, and it's proved that it impair it.
:) you don't take account of any my arguments. They are based on researches about online learning.
The only thing I want to say to Storyline deciders: Black backgrounds impair online learning, and we can find them in the Storyline player and in many Storyline templates.
Hi.
The Morden player is not allowing me to view on IE but on Chrome it does. Am I doing something wrong maybe?
Thank you.
anyone else having issues with the modern browser freezing? I converted a course I was working on to the modern browser and published. When testing in LMS prior to deploying I am getting intermittent freezing of the course.
Hey Kyle. I haven’t personally seen this behavior, but I checked in with our support crew and they’ve gone ahead and opened up a case on your behalf so they can take a closer look. You should hear from them shortly!
Thanks, Trina!
YUP!! Since we installed new Storyline, we are having problems with everything we publish freezing!!!
I like the clean look from the modern player but will there be an option to change more of it (style and color schemes etc.) in the future?
Our company is working with it's very own colorscheme and would like to keep it in it's courses.Hi Christiane,
Glad you're liking the new modern player :)
This article outlines the features of the Modern Player and how it differs from the Classic Player. If you need additional color options for your branding/style, you can certainly switch back to the Classic Player.
The intent was 'less focus' on the player:
The neutral tones of the dark and light themes allow your content to be the focus of learners’ attention, while the player performs a supporting role in the background. And the accent color is used throughout the modern player to tie it all together.
You are welcome to share your ideas with our team here though :) Please be sure to share your use-case as well, so that we can better understand.
Leslie,
As you can see from the discussion forum, it would be great as stated by Christiane to have the option to customize the modern player. For now, it's just not efficient and effective for corporate use.
Thanks.
It's freezing on 360. Particularly can't get past the first slide to the second.
Hi Mark. It looks like a recent Articulate 360 update may have addressed this problem. If you've installed the latest update and you're still experiencing this issue, please let us know so we can get you into a support case.
