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245 Topics300 Page PDF Guide
Hello - I am stuck and hoping people in the community would have some suggestions. We currently offer our membership a 300-page guide as a resource. We currently house it on a free flipbook resource. It is clunky and not the most accessible option. Is there any way to use Storyline or Rise to present this guide to our members? I know I can embed the PDF in a rise course, but then it is downloadable, and I don't want members to be able to download or print due to copyright issues. I would also like the members to be able to search the document as needed. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!4Views0likes0CommentsEdit Caption Workflow
Hi folks. Has anyone else run into the problem of clicking into an imported caption in Storyline, beginning to type an edit, and then having your cursor jump to the end of the caption as you're typing so half your word is where you want it to be and the other half is at the end? This has become a very frustrating interruption to my workflow. I'm editing hours of captions and having to click into each place I want to edit at least twice to fix errors is adding an excessive amount of unnecessary work to my day. If anyone has any tips, tricks, or workarounds to avoid this I would be grateful to hear them.23Views0likes1CommentTransferring Articulate content across new accounts
Hi all, The EMEA part of the company I work for is bound to fully incorporate into the American side of the company from next year onwards. We, as the EMEA team own 7 separate Articulate licenses that should be renewed by the 1st of February. The American side of the company now wants to put all learning activities under one roof, so they want to incorporate our Articulate accounts into theirs. Their plan is to end our existing EMEA contract with Courseware, and to transition all 7 of our licenses to their contract. The big concern now is if this will or will not go down fluently, and most important, if the existing content is preserved as this transition occurs. If anyone has more experience with transitions such as these, please let me know!Solved37Views0likes3CommentsMaking animated text more accessible
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I have a storyline project with a ton (a ton!) of animated text that I'm trying to make more screen-reader friendly. Here is what I've thought through so far: The training is narrated and includes a draggable seek bar and play/pause button. This works for a lot of folks but not those with very low or no vision. We do provide a full transcript but it's a very different experience. The text moves in and out throughout the slide so it won't work to have the learner simply skip animation and jump to the end of the timeline, as they would miss content. A lot of the text overlaps so changing all slide layers to show until end and covering them with shapes is a possibility but a messy, complex one. If I split up the slides so there is only one chunk of information on each, it feels like you're clicking the next button way too much. If I auto-advance the slides to reduce button clicks, it's no longer accessible. Would it be possible to set up an offscreen button that advances the learner to a specific timepoint, allows them to interact with the content, moves them to the next timepoint etc. and finally brings them to the next button when they've finished the slide? Can one button do it all or would I need a separate button for each marker? Is there any way to make buttons visible only to screen readers but not keyboard only users? (I think not, right?) Is there anything else that might work? Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks so much!31Views0likes2CommentsVideo slides not loading/progressing in 2 different LMS
Hello! We have been dealing with a video loading problem for close to 6 months after never experiencing it previously with Storyline 360 projects. Some context: Our agency creates modules for both internal and external learners, using different LMS for both. The LMS we use internally (symplr Learning) does not exhibit this problem. The issue: We have two externally-facing courses that, between them, contain 3 videos (two videos in one, one video in another; all are different). They range in length from approx. 90 seconds to 4 minutes. Some--but not all--external learners can't progress to these video slides within the courses. The course seems to buffer indefinitely after they click "Next" on the text slide right before the video. My team must then go into the respective learner's LMS account to push them past that video slide. When we log in as them, the video slides function without issue. Here's what we know/have tried after scouring the E-Learning Heroes forum for possible resolutions: This problem seems to mostly come up for learners attending the same university. These learners are all using university-issued MacBook Pros but some experience this issue while others do not. Said university's IT dept. assured us there are no firewall or other device security settings that could be causing this error. This error has occurred for the same university with the same courses across two LMS systems now (Adobe Connect and TalentLMS). This error occurs on multiple browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Brave. The video files in these courses are imported, not embedded. The video files are .mp4 and not compressed. The Quality is set to Static on both published SCORM 1.2 projects. Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to figure this out. Could it potentially be accessibility-related? Grasping at straws, I opened up my Chrome console and saw two accessibility errors on one of the video slides. I had no problem accessing the slide or viewing the video. Greatly appreciate any input!38Views0likes2CommentsRise closed captions
Dear all I have exported an SRT file from Premier Pro and converted to VTT file, uploaded and my captions are showing as white on white when normally they show up as white on a back shade. I now done this in PP and resaved but same thing, I don't understand why. How do I reformat captions within Rise. I have asked co pilot, Google etc and no idea. My understanding is that you can't format captions within Rise, or can you? Anyone have any ideas?57Views0likes4CommentsIncreasing the size of the Storyline 360 Editing interface
Hello, I recently had a concussion and I am trying to work on projects in Storyline 360. I can increase the Slide size but I cannot seem to increase the size of the menu ribbon (i.e. Insert, Slides, Transitions) trigger buttons or timeline text. I have increased the screen scaling on my computer - websites have larger text and icons, but Storyline does not. This is making it very hard to work and is not accessible, which Storyline theoretically cares about! Please guide me in how to make the program access for myself in order to create e-learning.22Views0likes2CommentsBehind the Scenes: Alternative text tip and counter
Hi there! When we released Storyline 360 Update 90 back in July, we introduced the following enhancement: When writing alt text in Storyline 360, you’ll now see a dynamic character count and a tip not to exceed 150 characters. You may be wondering why, well, check out this behind-the-scenes video! If you'd like to learn more about adding alternative text, check out Storyline360: Adding Alternative Text for Screen Readers Thanks, Ronnie Pilman, CPACC Sr. QA Engineer16Views3likes0Comments