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Put Storyline Interactions Into Rise!
We’re so excited about the latest new feature in Rise: Storyline blocks!
You can now have the best of both worlds: custom interactivity with Storyline 360 and easy web-based responsive authoring with Rise.
Create any custom interaction you imagine with Storyline 360, and then easily add it to the responsive projects you create in Rise. And of course, your interaction will work perfectly on any device!
To try it out, just make sure you’ve updated to the latest version of Storyline 360. Then watch this video by our CTO Arlyn Asch to see how easy it is to add Storyline interactions to your Rise courses.
It would be lovely if the 'Play Button' could feature on top of a white block rather than a black block but I guess this is subjective.
Agree, this doesn't match the rest of our courses.
Have to agree with Daniel as I spend the time to craft a nice flow. On the PC it works so well, the big ugly play button and the jump into a full screen window is a little odd. It's nice to have this feature but I question on whether or not I use it now as the mobile experience is very different.
Adam, I must say that this is quite confusing: on mobile "play" button perplexes users if this is not a video content, because they expect video behind (even if textual instruction is given a few lines before - people sometimes are not too attentive), and it takes them a few moments to realize why suddelny you can click on stuff inside.
The current setup on mobile is a big problem for us. If we want to insert a Storyline interaction into Rise, or even just a single basic text slide for formatting reasons, the user sees what basically looks like a video box first. It's an extra click, which creates more friction for the user and makes the experience worse. I know this is intended, but it seems like a very poor choice for both the developer and the user.
This is very helpful and just in time!
Sorry to be a nitpicker. In the video, Arlyn didn't demo the phone preview options.
Is the mobile preview and mobile playback set to improve in the future. Currently, I can't interact with the mobile preview mode and the playback on phones requires the user to click a play icon on a black box (a white box would look nicer). My colleagues don't seem as concerned about this as I am though! :-D
Hi Ruth,
Storyline blocks won’t work when you click the mobile phone icons during preview, but they will work as expected in published output on mobile phones. I understand how helpful it'd be to see Storyline blocks in mobile phone previews, so I've sent your request to our development team. I'll be sure to let you know if we add this feature to Rise.
Thanks!
I agree, black box around SL block breaks the elegance of the Rise course on mobile. I cracked open the export package and looking for a way to change the code, a bit tricky - can't see the solution yet.
Sounds like a great option. I second James Lavis' questions.
The support site gives a bit more help: Rise: Use Storyline Blocks to Embed Storyline 360 Courses Article Last Updated Oct 9, 2017 https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-Use-Storyline-Blocks-to-Embed-Storyline-360-Courses
Agree this is a great addition and certainly heading in right direction to add to Rise's fairly limited question options, but not transferring any data from SL panels inserted suggests that you may have popped the cork a little before actually adding the really critical outcome we need to make Rise more saleable to clients. Is there a plan to include the tracking of interactions into an LMS?
With Rise we have half a great jigsaw puzzle and with SL we have another great one 9but with much less responsive behaviour)
fixing the tracking would make it a lot more useful to us (the ones selling your package into the community)
cheers from oz
Hi Jon,
We're working on some additional, tighter interactions between Storyline and Rise - so we'll let you know about those as soon as we have them ready! Glad you're enjoying the set up so far.
IS there a recommended/optimum story size for output destined to be embedded in Rise?
Great questions, H B.J.!
Storyline blocks won’t work when you click the mobile phone icons during preview, but they will work as expected in published output on mobile phones. I understand how helpful it'd be to see Storyline blocks in mobile phone previews, so I've sent your request to our development team!
In regards to the play button you're seeing, I wanted to connect this to a post earlier in this thread where Adam clarified that the play button for the Storyline block is expected on iOS devices.
Hi Math,
Thanks so much for your feedback. What you're seeing is expected behavior for Storyline Blocks. There isn't a way to remove the play button you see when viewing the course from a mobile phone, but I'll let our team know that you need a seamless Storyline Block display in all devices.
