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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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First, we love the Player Control that have been added to Articulate Storyline 360. However, while some of these controls can be turned on/off at the slide level (i.e., Menu, Glossary, Seekbar, Resources, Notes) several cannot (Play/Pause, Volume, Captions, Playback Speed, Accessibility Controls, Full Screen, Search). Can you please add Play/Pause, Volume, Captions, Playback Speed, Accessibility Controls, Full Screen, Search to "Custom Player Features for the selected slides"??
For example, if we insert a web video that has most of these (playback speed, captions, full screen etc.) having them showing on that slide is confusing. We have tried removing the player features from the inserted web video, but Articulate's player features (for the most part) don't control the web video so, again confusing for the learner.
We genuinely appreciate your help with this.
Hi, all!
I have some great news to share. We just released a new version of Storyline 360 which included a fix for the issue where NVDA didn't read the punctuation for keyboard shortcuts
To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions by posting here or reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Hi, all!
I have some great news to share. We just released a really cool feature that allows you to add a player toggle to let learners view courses in full-screen mode.
To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions by posting here or reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Hello everyone,
Question related to the original post, though I don't believe I've come across this question yet. It is possible to change the default accessibility keyboard player controls to other keys/key combinations?Hello Kataryna!
Great question! We don't currently offer the option to customize the keyboard combinations, but I'm happy to share this idea with our team. You can also share it with our team in the form of a feature request!
I'll keep you updated in this discussion if this makes it on our roadmap!
Thanks for sharing that image, Alison.
Do you know what version of Storyline you're using?
- You can check by going to Help > About Articulate Storyline
We are currently on Build 3.52.25247.0 of Storyline 360. You can read all of the details here.
Yeah... it's not there. (see attachment)
Why doesn't the settings button show up for me? I'm on Articulate 360. Is there something I need to do???
Hello Allison!
The settings button is connected with the Accessibility Controls option in the Player. Here's a screenshot of where to find this setting: Link
Would like to see a full screen ability so that the navigation only shows at the bottom when the mouse goes into that area but otherwise the full screen is used. The player makes a large area of the screen redundant and should be utilised.
I second that motion! That will be very helpful for our eLearning site
PLEASE, just give us the option to choose which side we want the volume, CC, and accessibility controls on!
I don't know why you guys decided to move all the controls to the right. Before, it was nice and easy. You had your misc controls on the left side and your next/back buttons on the right. There was a nice separation between buttons, which not only looked cleaner but helped in avoiding confusion (especially when disabling the next button as it was easier to notice when it became enabled because it wasn't crowded by other buttons). Now, the buttons are all jumbled up on the right side. It not only looks messy, but you also end up moving your mouse over the other controls (and the volume pops up) on the way to the next/back buttons.
Your players already have a ton of customization/positioning options. I don't think this would be a difficult feature to add.
@staff
I have a problem. When rise was first launched the block feature the auto colour was #FAFAFA which was fine and I produced all my storyline slide backgrounds to that colour too, in order to make the block blend seamless.
Previously when using the modern player as I had all controls turned off no trace of the player showed, now since I have chosen to feature the accessibility option it has activated the player in white creating a border around my blocks.
If I use the classic player with more control I do not get the full accessible control.
I now face the prospect of having to go through all my storyline blocks and the rise insert block to change them to white or black only. Can the player not include a #FAFAFA option at least?
Hi Louise,
I have a couple of suggestions that might help.
1) Accessibility controls are also available through the player's shortcut keys menu, displayed by pressing
shift + ?. Even when the gear control is not displayed, learners can turn on Accessible textctrl + alt + tor Zoom to fitctrl + alt + z. And you, as the author, can also turn on Accessible Text by default, if you want, using one of Storyline's built-in variables:2) For the classic player, the accessibility controls only show two settings. The Zoom to fit option isn't in the list since the classic player has always supported browser zoom. The player's shortcut keys menu
shift + ?also works in the classic player, so the gear doesn't need to be visible.I have also added your comments to the feature request that we have for making the colors of the modern player more customizable.
Please reach out to me if these suggestions aren't clear, or if I've misunderstood the issue you're reporting.
Regards,
--Mark
