Now that my trial is up, the AI Assistant section of the toolbar is taking up space on the toolbar. Can we have an option to turn this off? Without having this feature, this is just visual clutter.

Just keeping this thread alive because this still hasn't been addressed. Not only is there no way to disable/hide/move the AI Assistant related features in the toolbar, but they take up the 2nd and 3rd positions on the "Home" and "Insert" tabs respectively. That is some mighty important positioning for a feature that I don't even have access to. I'll regularly click on the Insert Text, Insert Image, Insert Audio, etc. because even on their "Insert" tab those options are furthest to the left on the toolbar (the actual "insert" options are in the 4th and 5th positions down on the toolbar). Most software will set the order of toolbars based on highest priority/usage from left to right. But not Articulate, they set the priority even when you can't use the features.

Here to upvote this! I'd love to be able to hide these features in my toolbar as it's definitely snagged up my productivity while working in Storyline. The company I work for is large and they aren't sure if they're going for the add-on (as it would have to be for every user), but the AI demo has run its course and we'd love to be able to hide those buttons in the meantime. It'd be a huge user experience upgrade to be able to adjust ribbon buttons in preferences. Please add a toggle or customize option for users to streamline their experience!

I get what you're saying there Nathan, and I'm glad it worked for you. I think the solution you navigated absolutely reinforces the need for an in-app solution. If that is the best solution they can provide then that is some abysmal user experience planning and only reinforces the need to give a better option, and why this discussion is taking place in the "Suggest Ideas" corner. Even then, putting that aside, I work for a large company with multiple subscriptions and I doubt I have any ability to make edits to our company subscription.

It would be great to have the option to hide the AI Assistant section of the Storyline toolbar, especially once the trial period is over. The ability to disable this feature would help reduce visual clutter and make the toolbar more streamlined for users who no longer need it. Hopefully, this functionality can be added in future updates!

Adding another voice to the thread. Having an unusable set of AI Assistant tools is confusing and clutters up the toolbar. It's basically advertising on Software we are paying for.

Ability to hide AI Assitant section of Storyline Toolbar

33 Replies

KatherineWal270
Community Member
4 months ago
Thank you for your response, Steven! I'd just like to clarify, my organization currently does not have the AI Assistant. However, there are features, such as the voice to text, that use AI voice regardless of having access to the AI Assistant. Are you saying that if we need to turn off the currently available AI voices or any other AI feature all must be disabled together?
KatherineWal270
Community Member
4 months ago
Hello E-Learning Heroes!

Happy to hear we are able to have non-functional AI Assistant features disabled if necessary. To tack on to this, is it also possible to disable AI functionality separate of the AI Assistant feature, like the AI text to voice capability or others, on or own or via a request to sales?
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  4 months ago
  Hi KatherineWal270!
  
  Happy to share some insight on this!
  
  Currently, granular control around disabling specific AI features, such as AI Tex-to-Speech is not supported. When account owners e-mail sales@articulate.com requesting disablement, all AI Assistant features will be removed at once.
  
  Please let me know if you have any more questions!
CraigFerguson-a
Community Member
4 months ago
I want to keep this thread alive - keeping nonfunctional features in such valuable screen space feels very hostile to your customers.

Please let us turn this off.
- KellyAuner
  Staff
  4 months ago
  Hi CraigFerguson-a,
  
  Thanks for following up on this. I understand how irritating it can be to have unused features taking up valuable space in your toolbar. Account owners can email sales@articulate.com at any time to request that AI Assistant be disabled for their subscription or free trial. This will remove AI Assistant features from the toolbar. If you have any questions, please let me know!
JillTsu-37e00e1
Community Member
6 months ago
Commenting to bump this back up. Let us remove the AI toolbar buttons. They get in the way if we aren't using them.
- LucianaPiazza
  Staff
  6 months ago
  Hello JillTsu-37e00e1,
  
  Thanks for sharing your voice with us! I've shared your insight with our product team. We'll be sure to share any future updates in this thread so all are in the loop!
DanaRemian-4742
Community Member
8 months ago
The provided solution is not agreeable. This should be as simple as unchecking a box in a "customize the ribbon" pane.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  8 months ago
  Hi DanaRemian-4742!
  
  Thank you for sharing the insight!
  
  I've relayed your request to our product team. We'll notify you of any future enhancements we make to this process!
JosephFerraroKW
Community Member
8 months ago
Not being able to disable the defunct and annoying AI toolbars in-app is ridiculous. Please let users turn it off.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  8 months ago
  Hi JosephFerraroKW!
  
  We appreciate the feedback!
  
  I've included your voice in the feature request to allow AI Assistant language to be disabled, by a user.
  
  We'll update you as soon as we have news to share!
KarenneSylve662
Community Member
8 months ago
+1 - I don't know how many times I click on the insert text button and have to then click off the resulting advertisement - come on, we paid for our license, have no intention of using the AI features, why am I even seeing this and why are all these AI features taking up so much of my menu bar!!! Surely one AI button would be enough, leading to all the AI options - as is, it's just clutter.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  8 months ago
  Hi KarenneSylve662!
  
  Thank you for sharing the feedback!
  
  I noticed that you've also connected with my colleague Darwin, through a support case. I see that he has submitted your insight to our product team.
  
  We'll update you if we release future enhancements to how AI Assistant language is managed, within Storyline and Rise!
Dave_Brown
Community Member
8 months ago
+1 to this for both Storyline and Rise too. Not being able to hide prompts for a tool you are not using is not logical.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  8 months ago
  Hi Dave_Brown!
  
  Thanks for the feedback!
  
  I've shared your request with our product team. We'll be sure to notify you if we release a future enhancement, for managing AI Assistant language within the authoring tools!
KevinCriscione
Community Member
9 months ago
Adding another voice to the thread. Having an unusable set of AI Assistant tools is confusing and clutters up the toolbar. It's basically advertising on Software we are paying for.
AnaWood-2187
Community Member
12 months ago
It would be great to have the option to hide the AI Assistant section of the Storyline toolbar, especially once the trial period is over. The ability to disable this feature would help reduce visual clutter and make the toolbar more streamlined for users who no longer need it. Hopefully, this functionality can be added in future updates!