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Responsive design in Storyline 360
Hi,
I know we can preview the course in desktop, tablet and phone mode. But can you actually do responsive design in Storyline 360? If yes, how so?
-Ben
- DavewillinghamCommunity Member
That makes sense. Can you lock orientation on a slide by slide basis or is it all or nothing? Curious if I can lock everything but the video slides.
It's an all or nothing setting as it's controlled for the entire course.
Hey John, sorry that's happening! Let's test your course in another LMS environment, to be sure. If you don't see the problem there, then we know that this issue is Moodle-related.
Upload you published zip file to SCORM Cloud, then test it on your mobile device. If you'd like me to help you with that testing, just attach your file here and I'll take care of the rest. 😊
- JohnFitchett-dbCommunity Member
Is it on the Storyline roadmap to be able to also make slide content responsive?
This is a really important feature that I am sure everyone needs if they plan to build courses that are more than just slides. I have already put in a feature request, but want to know if there is a chance for this feature to appear soon?
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!
- JohnFitchett-dbCommunity Member
Hi Ashley
Thanks for your email. Just to confirm - there is no plan to make slides in Storyline responsive, is that correct?
Many thanks
John
Hi John,
Not at this time - if you have yet to test out Articulate 360 to see how the responsive player works and how Rise is responsive, I'd suggest starting a trial! It's a great experience within both tools and provides the best experience with the content.
Also, looks like your email signature came through when you replied via email! No worries, this Peek video will show you how to remove it.
- JohnFitchett-dbCommunity Member
Hi Ashley
That is a shame as while Rise is good for some projects, Storyline and the levels of interactivity possible just can't be done in Rise.
Anyway I have added it as a feature request, but very sad to hear it doesn't seem to be on the radar. In all honesty this puts us in a position where we will have to re-evaluate our use of Storyline.... If there is anything we can do to boost this, would love to know.
Hi John,
Did you know we're currently working on a Storyline block for Rise? With this new feature, you'll be able to insert Storyline projects into Rise and have the best of both worlds! It is SUPER close to being released so stay tuned.
Hi Darren,
Storyline 360 has received a bunch of updates and new features since it's release last year. A lot of this has been driven by customers sharing in ELH what they wanted and needed to be productive! Just in the last few months we've added:
- Articulate 360 Teams Slides - making it easy to collaborate on projects and maintain consistent design themes.
- The ability to create and edit closed captions right in Storyline 360.
- Supports for XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0, which work with more translation tools and give translators more information.
- The option to work with tables directly in Storyline 360
- Updates to course navigation/restriction so you can now choose whether it impacts just the course menu or also disables the Previous and Next buttons. And you can use triggers to override restricted navigation for individual slides.
- Courses published for CD are now HTML5-only, so learners no longer need Flash plugins (to help move away from Flash
I'd love to know more about what new features you'd like to see in Storyline and/or Rise! We're working hard to make sure Articulate 360 is a product you love!
- MathNotermansCommunity Member
Bummer that the Team Slides are only in AR360 Team subscription and not in the personal subscription.
Hi Math,
As an individual, you can still purchase a Teams subscription and there are a lot of benefits to doing so! You can see the additional features at the bottom of this chart:
Individual 360 Teams
Our Sales team is happy to talk through the upgrade cost or ways in which you could utilize the 360 for Teams! You can reach out to them here.
- MathNotermansCommunity Member
;-) well the prize is also disencouraging...
personal $599/y - Team $799/y versus Storyline3 - $699 onetime fee...
when the only thing atm i do really like is TeamSlides...