Responsive design in Storyline 360

Hi Max, 

It may not be the solution that works for everyone, but our team thought long and hard about how to best do responsive design and decided that having two tools, both as a part of one Articulate 360 subscription was the way forward. 

When Rise was designed our team looked at the example set by authoring tools such as Captivate where you have to manually redesign the content for each type of device. In essence creating a course X number of times - and that seemed like a lot of extra work. With Rise, you use the built in templates we have and the content is automatically going to reflow based on the device used. Understandably the templates may not be for everyone or every type of course, so you still have access to tools such as Storyline 360 and Studio 360 to utilize the responsive player. 

Within Storyline 360 the black bars you're seeing are based on the overall slide dimensions,  player elements you've added and the device that users are viewing it on. You could also restrict that within the new responsive player behavior and offer the reminder that it should be viewed in landscape mode for example. 

The invalid answer pop up you're seeing is by design.  It indicates as you've seen that the user hasn't chosen an answer and is a prompt for them to answer the question before proceeding. It's been noted as a feature request to have access to that layer, but it has not yet been included as a feature.