Storyline vs. Rise

Hi Dianne! Thinking about ways to stretch your skills is always worth pondering—as is considering which projects are the best ones to use for that stretch.

Storyline 360 is often an excellent fit for anything involving software training. That's because the Record Screen feature is an easy way to record video tutorials. And even better, you can also turn those recordings into interactive tutorials and practice in just a few clicks with the Step-By-Step Slides feature. Both those features are quite newbie-friendly, so this might be a good way to get started with Storyline 360. And there's no reason you couldn't also add case scenario slides to that learning experience too.

That said, Rise 360 can also work well for this topic. Obviously it's easy to include the case scenario content you mentioned in a Rise 360 course. But you can also record video tutorials with Peek 360 or Replay 360—they're both straightforward to use if you haven't checked them out yet—and add them to your course to provide more information about the new system. You can use knowledge check blocks to help people try out their new knowledge. And if you want to give your learners more hands-on practice but don't want to commit to building an entire course in Storyline 360, there's a block that can help. Make a few practice activities in Storyline 360 with the Step-By-Step Slides feature and then embed them in your Rise 360 course using the Storyline Block.

So on the plus side, you can create an effective learning experience no matter which option you go with. It's just a matter of what you think is the better fit for your audience and the project timeline.