Responsive design in Storyline 360

Hi John,

Storyline 360 and Studio 360 content is delivered via a responsive player.

This was the intent of our team, because we feel strongly it's the only approach that works for slide-based courses because the relative position of content matters in slide-based courses. This is in comparison to Captivate’s responsive solution which requires course authors to tweak slides for every device learners use, which is difficult, tedious, and cumbersome. You end up building the same course over and over.

For an example in Storyline, if you build a slide with a person pointing at a map, you don’t want the map repositioned above the person’s head when the slide is viewed on a phone. With the responsive player, you can rest assured that the slide-based content you build in Storyline 360 will work perfectly without you tweaking a thing. This video overview has a nice look at how we've set this up and why.

On the other hand, we know that some authors need courses that are fully responsive and aren't restricted to slide designs. For that we built Rise, a web-based, course-authoring tool that produces inherently responsive courses. Every Rise lesson was designed with mobile in mind. What this means is that the entire course and its content automatically adapt to any screen size and orientation.

Hope that helps clarify our position on responsive design!