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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.
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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.
The modern player only works with HTML5, it will not work with IE8 and IE11 must not be in compatibility mode.
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.
Ok, posted it on the main thread but this might be a better place. How do we autoplay in the new player. I'm sure I am missing something simple. I don't want the dark screen with the play button just straight into the content.
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.
OK, done a heap of testing. Really like the new player in light theme now. All I have on my wishlist is some customise options on the Play button screen and with the restart prompt or just lighten it all up when the light theme is selected.
