Peer Pod Coming Soon: “New to Instructional Design” — Who’s Joining Us?
We’re kicking off a brand-new Peer Pod for anyone who’s new to instructional design and you’re invited! 🎉 Peer Pods are 4-week learning groups where community members explore a topic together through weekly prompts, curated resources, and shared discussion. Whether you’re a few days or several months into your role, this is your chance to connect with peers, reflect on key topics, and build confidence together. Here’s what we’ll explore: ✨ What to focus on as you get started 📦 Intro to Articulate 360 + course design best practices 🤝 Tips for working with SMEs 💻 Best practices for incorporating AI By the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger foundation and a group of peers cheering you on. 🗓 Start Date: Monday, January 12, 2026 Participants will be added to the private Peer Pod group about a week before we begin. 👉 Want to join? Fill out the registration form. 💬 Your turn: What Peer Pod topics do you want to see next? If you could join a focused 4-week learning group, what topic would you choose? Drop your ideas below so we can build pods around what you want most. 🙌Introducing AI Chat + JavaScript Entrance Animations
Now you can chat with AI to generate simple JavaScript animations for your slide, making it easier to bring your ideas to life. Update to the latest version to give it a try and let us know what you think! To help you get started, we have a video walkthrough, a tutorial course, and documentation to learn more about how it works, see sample prompts, and animation examples that can all be found here. Why JavaScript? This update is our first step in helping authors experiment and push creative boundaries. Based on your feedback, we’re already working on support for built-in animations—and we’ll be sharing a preview soon! We’re also exploring more ways AI can handle tedious tasks for you, so let us know what you’d like AI Assistant to be able to do for you! Try It Out! Use AI Chat to make an object fly in from the right side of the screen after one second. Feel free to get creative—frisbee flying across a park? Plane flying across a cloudy sky? Sky's the limit (see what we did there?)! Share your example in the comments below!Rise Competency-based Quiz - Early Access Group - Closed
Update 11.13.2025 Thank you to all who participated during our limited beta! Your feedback was incredibly informative. We'll be incorporating updates based upon your feedback over the coming months. -------------- Our team is testing a potential new feature in Rise that lets authors choose a lesson learners will automatically skip to when they complete a quiz correctly. We’re especially interested in hearing from those who want to use Rise for competency-based or similar course structures. Volunteer to participate here .Complex formulas using variables?
I am working on some interactive scenarios for which a score would be calculated at the end based on many variables, including built-in ones like how many interactions were had. For example, I want to calculate something like ((A+B)/C+(D-E)*2)/100 (where each letter here obviously represents a variable or built-in value) and display the resulting value in a text box as a "final score." How would I accomplish that?Question about external links used in Road Safety modules
Hi everyone 👋 I’m currently working on a Road Safety e-learning module in Storyline, and I noticed that some official French resources use external modules such as: https://modules.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/module_distracteur.html https://modules.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/module_alcool.html I have 5 similar links that I would like to integrate, but these resources exist only in French, and I’d like to understand how these modules were originally built (structure, hosting, embed logic, etc.) to see if an equivalent EN version exists — or if there’s a way to rebuild something similar. More specifically, I’m trying to understand: How the interactive visuals were created (images, animations, UI elements). How videos were integrated (hosting, player type, compression, streaming method). How the module itself was packaged (Storyline? custom HTML/JS? another authoring tool?). What embedding method is used to allow these modules to open cleanly within another course. Has anyone here already worked with these Road Safety modules or knows how these external links were generated and deployed? Any insight or technical explanation would be super helpful 🙏 Thanks in advance!Design for Change – Because You Know It’s Happening Anyway
In this session, Megan Torrance, Anthony Reisinger, and Lauren Milstid will share strategies to help L&D teams effectively adapt to anticipated changes by leveraging Agile methods & mindsets and the LLAMA® approach (Lot Like Agile Management Approach).How being neurodivergent shapes my work in learning design
Hi everyone, Something I do not talk about often is how being neurodivergent, specifically ADHD, has shaped the way I approach learning design. For a long time, I thought of it as something I needed to manage quietly. Over time, I realized it has actually helped me see learning experiences in a very unique way. It makes me pay close attention to clarity. It makes me sensitive to moments where a learner might lose their place. It helps me notice when information is doing too much or arriving without enough context. And it reminds me that people process ideas in many different ways. When I build or review a Storyline or Rise course, I often think about: What helps someone stay oriented • What reduces unnecessary cognitive effort • What keeps the experience predictable enough to feel safe • What gives the learner room to pause and understand These are things I learned because I needed them myself. I have come to see neurodivergence as something that sharpens my awareness rather than something separate from my work. It helps me design with more empathy, more structure and more intention. Did you know that ADHD is over-represented in creative and human-centered fields? It often shows up as strengths in structure awareness, flow and learner perspective. If you feel comfortable sharing, I would love to hear how who you are influences the way you design. Which parts of your own lived experience shape your approach to learning?Mentors PLEASE!
What advice can you give to a lonesome Instructional Designer at a mid-size company that is a unicorn at her company, meaning, I don't really have anyone to bounce ideas off of, check usability or practice new skills with. Other than online communities (which are amazing) what are some other tis and tricks you could share to help me boost my skills and try new things that will help me progress as an ID but also give my company what they need/want?Creating interactive training for drafting workflows
Hi everyone, I’m kinda stuck here and could really use some guidance. I manage a small drafting team and want to create interactive training modules for our CAD workflows, but I’m seriously struggling to figure out how to make super detailed, technical steps actually easy to follow. I’ve been looking at Storyline and Rise, but it’s really overwhelming trying to structure everything. Has anyone used Articulate for technical workflow training like this? Any tips on: Breaking down complex CAD processes so they don’t feel like a brain dump Making step-by-step instructions interactive and not boring Using visuals or vids effectively for technical steps I’m feeling a little lost here. For context on what I mean by "drafting workflows," you can check out our site https://usadraftsman.com. Hoping to turn these processes into interactive lessons that actually click with the team. Thanks in advance!
