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NEW IN STORYLINE 360: Slide Numbers
We’re excited to share a powerful new feature in Storyline 360: slide numbers.
Now you can add slide numbers to your Storyline 360 project to show learners their progress through a course. Storyline 360 will automatically calculate how far learners have left in your course. And you can quickly exclude slides if you don’t want them counted toward the total.
Here’s how slide numbers work:
Enjoy!
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This great and I'm experimenting with it now. Question though when it comes to branched learning. Is the Exclude slides for the whole project or can it be set at different scenes.
The Learner has the option to either branch to a video or walk through a CBL. The slide numbers would vary depending on their selection.
The exclude is for the whole project, I put in a feature request during beta of the feature for a scene level exclude
That level of detail would've been nice. It won't affect me too much on this branching scenario but I can see how that may be an issue.
Any idea how to increase visibility of % progress? I increase the font size but it still displays smaller than slide #.
Is it just me or is the addition of the 20 or how ever many 'Built in' variables in the drop down super annoying after this update. I only want to see the variables that I create as I will never use this feature.
Hi Mike
you have the option to click a tab to see only the variables you created
Enhanced: Variables are easier to find and manage. We redesigned the variables window with separate tabs for variables you create and those that are built-in. And there's a search field that filters the list as you type.
I'm talking about the Trigger Wizard window. Click Variable and it is populated with all the new variables by default. Any way to have these not show?
There is an option to filter and show only user created variables.
I can see the tab in the variables window Phil but not in the trigger wizard or am I missing something
I find it helpful just to name my variables with starting letters (A-L), so they will be at the top of the list - since it displays alphabetically.
All the built-in variables start off with "Menu", "Project", or "Scene."
Naming your variables so they float to the top (or bottom if you use R-Z) helps to make this less frustrating.
Anyone else having issues with the font size for the progress %? I have it on the Master and it's considerably smaller than the slides viewed and total slides even when I increase the font size.
Hi Mike,
I'm not seeing this issue, but I'd be happy to take a look at what you are seeing.
With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. You can share it privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
I would may sure the text box is not set to autosize
Phil,
I just changed it to not autosize and still same issue. I'm sure it's something really simple that I'm missing.
Mike
Leslie,
I sent the file.
Mike
Hi Leslie, What issue? Open the Trigger Wizard and Action 'Adjust variable' and then click the variable drop-down. The 27 new variable appear at the top of the list now so all the created variables you need to scroll to. Either make it so created variables are at the top or make it so they can be disabled would be much more user friendly.
The feature is cool, but seeing the built-in variables should only be optional visible in the trigger section.
Thanks, Stefan. Our team was discussing similar earlier today - and we've got more to come with the trigger panel and our new variables on the roadmap. We'll let you know as soon as those features are released and in the meantime, you can share ideas directly with us by submitting feature requests.
Hi Ashley, thanks for the Slide numbers feature. I have just spent a lot of time doing it manually in my whole project which brought me to the following idea: is there any plan which features are going to be released and when? For example, if I had known about this Slide numbers feature, I would have waited for it and could have done some other adjustments in the meantime. Thanks a lot for your reply.
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, Jan!
Our team is committed to giving you the best information we can at the time so that you can plan ahead for your projects. I can understand you feeling like you're in the dark about when certain features might be released. We don’t have a public roadmap, as development and timing can shift, but we provide targeted release dates when possible.
Our What’s New, What’s Next page is the best place to see what features are in the immediate development pipeline, and here's some more information about our feature request process.
Nice addition. It would also be nice as a further option to provide an overall progress bar that can be place across the top or bottom (or even down the sides), for users to have a visual representation of their progress?
Hi, Mike Wilson!
It looks like Leslie was answering Mike DiFonzo's question. Sorry for the confusion. 😁 I'll be sure to pass along your feature request!
Hey, Darren! Check out this brand new example of how you can use Storyline 360's slide numbers feature to create a progress bar: Storyline 360 Visual Progress Meter
