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New in Storyline 360: Improved Player Controls
It’s easier than ever to give your learners an intuitive navigation experience. In our latest Storyline 360 update, now the built-in player controls are more in line with the way users interact with other media players. The new player controls are not only more intuitive but they’re also more accessible, since the keyboard navigation now moves from left to right.
You’ll notice these player improvements in Storyline’s classic, modern, and mobile players.
Adjustable Player Settings
You’ll also notice that we’ve added a new settings control to the player so learners can customize their learning experience. Within the player, they can:
- change the zoom mode to enlarge/reduce the zoom level of the slide’s contents
- turn accessible text on/off
- enable/disable keyboard shortcuts
Accessible Player Controls
Learners can now use keyboard shortcuts to access player controls to mute/unmute, replay the slide, and more, as shown in the screenshot above.
Keep in mind, you’ll need to install the update to see these changes in your new projects or in projects you republish.
And if you use navigation slides in your courses, now is a good time to update the instructions or any screenshots to reflect these new changes.
Want to get a feel for the new experience? See it for yourself here.
And to keep tabs on Storyline 360 features in the works, bookmark our What’s New, What’s Next page.
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Has anyone ever had the issue where if you restrict the seekbar in your Storyline project, it can still be dragged when previewing and viewing the project on mobile? This is so frustrating! Perhaps I'll bring this issue up in a new thread, but can anybody take a look at the attached video to see what I would like to fix?
I'm sorry, but it looks like you would have to download my video on to your computer if you want to watch it. If I do bring this issue up in a new thread, then I'll need to pare down the length of the video as well. I hope anybody can help me fix this problem
Hi Daniel,
I've created a bug report for the issue you described. Unfortunately I don't have a workaround to offer other than to remove the seekbar from any slides that you don't want to permit scrubbing when the learner views on a phone.
If you want to try that, you can set whether the seekbar is displayed by changing the setting in slide properties.
I must have missed it. Is there a way to disable the keyboard shortcuts from my end? Or at least some of them? I cannot have the replay slide option on one of my slides - the slide they submit to get credit for completion. Previous experience has shown that if that slide can be replayed, a bunch of different students will jump on after one student finishes, replay that slide and submit the slide in their name thereby escaping the need to complete the module themselves. :)
The keyboard shortcuts also do not work correctly on my computer - they bring up GeForce Experience instead which is also something I would not want students to do.
Thank you.
Hi Robin,
Are you able to share with us your course (or part of it) so we can see how you have the answer submission set up? Changing the setting in Slide Properties for revisiting a slide might prevent learners from replaying it, but without seeing the slide, it's difficult to say. Feel free to send it to us as an attachment to a bug report, if you're able to share it.
I was able to repro the shortcut key conflict you described. Although GeForce Experience specifies the combo as
alt+z, when I usectrl+alt+zit also opens the overlay. For now the only suggestion I have is to change the shortcut in GeForce Experience to use a different combo. I triedctrl+alt+zwith a number of other applications and that combo opens GeForce Experience with all of them.
Thanks, Mark. It is a web link to a google form and testing the ctrl alt r now with the setting to resume saved state did not renew the web site so it looks like I am ok there.
However, this brings up another point. if I allow students to return to the form slide after visiting another one - it does refresh that page no matter what the setting. I simply work around by having this be the last slide and not allowing them to move forward or backward from it. My long time desire - to allow them to return to any part of the module after completion to replay etc without allowing them to revisit this slide. Is this possible? Any ideas?
Thanks again.
Robin
Again - thanks for the info on GeForce. Right now I do not have students who need the zoom adaptation. I think I will just handle it on a case by case basis and have them alter their GeForce in some way on their computers as needed. It is nice to be able to offer these accommodations if needed. Robin
Hello,
The keyboard shortcut (Shift +?) to display the list of shortcuts doesn't work while I'm using NVDA screen reader (the rest seem to work, which is great). Is this a known issue with a fix in the works?
thanks!
Hi Olga!
Thank you for jumping into this discussion to share this with us! I understand that you aren't seeing the keyboard shortcut list appear when running NVDA. Unfortunately, I'm noticing the same on my end. You can see my test here. Link.
It looks like the keyboard shortcut menu can only be opened when the Menu is selected, or the slides in the Menu are selected. We have this logged as a software bug, and I'll add your comments to the report. We'll report back to this discussion when we have an update to share.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share this with us!
Thanks, Lauren!
I appreciate the video response. I think we can ask our users to do that until there's a fix.
Hi, Lauren,
Something else to consider while working on this fix. The NVDA reader doesn't read punctuation, so when reading the shortcuts for Display List, Next Page, and Previous Page, it doesn't announce the full shortcut. Can you build in alt text so that it does? or is there a way for us to do that on our end?
Thanks again.
Hello Olga!
Thank you for sharing this as well! We've logged this as well, where NVDA ignores the punctuation in the list of keyboard shortcuts. We are looking at adding alt text, so the keyboard shortcuts are announced properly. We'll update you in this discussion.
Am I correct in understanding that these accessibility features are not available when a course is published as a SCORM package through an LMS?
I am using Blackboard and AT Bar and I cannot make text adjustments to the content deployed in Blackboard, this is something we have had comments about from students but we also need to deploy as SCORM for tracking purposes.
Is adding these features to the SCORM deployment on the road map?
Many thanks
Katie
Hi Katie,
We test with SCORM and the accessibility features are expected to work in an LMS.
Without seeing your project, it's difficult to guess what might be preventing you from using accessible text. One thing to check is whether you have Modern Text enabled (In the Design tab, open Fonts, then scroll to the bottom. Use Modern Text should be checked).
If it's still not working, please create a bug report so we can investigate it.
Thanks for your reply Mark - I followed all of the instructions in this article and it bahves as it should when deployed for web. Which makes me think it must be in the SCORM settings not the actual slide deck.
I will submit the bug report though.
Kt
I did upload my Scorm file to our LMS and my only issue was the one I mentioned earlier about the keyboard shortcuts when using a screen reader.
Olga - may I ask what settings you used when you publised to SCORM?
Katie -
HTML5, Modern player, Scorm 1.2.
And in the player features, I left the Accessibility controls checkbox selected.
Hope that helps!
