Language Selection Screen Template
Hello everyone, can you please help? I have created videos in Synthesia that have multiple languages and I need an Articulate Rise or Storyline template that I can use that allows a learner to select the language they need to watch the video in at the start of the video. Does anyone have a template I could use or know where I could get one please? Thank you for any help in advance. ScottMentors 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?Prompt suggestions for AI to write intro/instruction for interactive elements
Hi All, I have recently watched the tutorial on AI Assistant: Custom Copy Editing Prompts and found it very helpful. It got me thinking about what I struggle most with when creating learning content and what would make my life easier. I've realised I really DON'T enjoy writing short intro, explainer or instruction text for interactive elements within my elearns so I end up putting in placeholder text (as shown below 😂) and was wondering if anyone has come up with any prompts for the AI Assistant that actually work? I have tried numerous prompts but get stuck because there is no way to reference 'the block below' or instruct the AI to refer to the content in the block below. I did think that it might be possible to get Storyline AI to summarise any interactive elements I create, then ask AI to turn it into an instruction or something but haven't tried this out yet. Look forward to seeing if anyone has a hack to make my life easier!What’s your “Figure It Out” moment in learning design?
Thanks to everyone who joined today’s Learning Luminaries with Tim Slade! Whether you attended the session or not, this thread is your space to share takeaways, exchange examples, and ask follow-up questions. 💡 Key takeaways 1️⃣ “FIFO” — Figure It ___ Out. Growth happens when you’re pushed outside your comfort zone. The best work often comes from rolling up your sleeves and figuring it out as you go. 2️⃣ Great learning = great experience. Instructional design is either elevated or detracted from the experience surrounding it — great visuals, an intuitive UI, and accessibility elevate the learning; poor design undermines it. 3️⃣ Stay practical about trends. AI, VR, gamification… tools will change, but the fundamentals stay steady. Wait for a real use case before jumping on the next shiny thing. 4️⃣ Readiness isn’t a feeling — it’s action. You don’t need permission to start. Competence builds confidence, and both come from doing the work. 5️⃣ Be an expert in your experience, not just your craft. Tim’s advice for unlocking potential: your lived experiences are your superpower — share them freely. 💬 Let’s talk Drop a note in the comments about your own “figure it out” moment. What did you try, and what did you learn? Feel free to link or screenshot an example if you have one!The invisible work behind a great Storyline or Rise course
Hi everyone, Something I’ve noticed over the years is that most people only see the final course: the polished screen, the clean interaction, the tidy flow from start to finish. But designers see everything underneath it. We see the messy first drafts, the unclear SME notes, the rewrites, the “wait… does this actually make sense?” moments. We see the small decisions that quietly hold the whole experience together. And honestly, that invisible work is where so much of the quality lives. For me, great learning design isn’t just about content or visuals. It’s the structure behind them: the clarity of the flow, the way ideas build, how we reduce friction for learners, and how we make sure nothing feels confusing or overwhelming. Every time I work with a team, one pattern stands out: when clarity improves, everything else follows. Learners feel more confident. Modules feel smoother. And the review process becomes so much easier for everyone involved. I’d love to hear from the group: What small practices help you strengthen clarity or flow in your Storyline or Rise courses? Always curious to learn from others’ approaches.AI Voices in eLearning
Hi all! I'd like to hear your thoughts about AI voices in training and educational material. As a neurodivergent, I personally find them distracting and less supportive of learning, despite increasing popularity. I've read that human voices improve learner outcomes/retention etc, yet many folks in our industry seem to love AI narration features. As someone who has both recorded voiceovers and generated them, I don't see an obvious reason to rely so heavily on the latter other than time constraints. Sure, it may save a couple hours of production time, but if learner outcomes aren't improving, shouldn't we reconsider this approach and put the audience experience first? Please share your thoughts! I'm really curious to hear more about this. Maybe I'm missing a key point here! Maybe I'm in a minority of disliking AI voices? And just to be clear, I’m not referring to screen readers or assistive text-to-speech. Those serve a completely different purpose and are essential for accessibility! I’m talking specifically about replacing full-course narration with synthetic voices.Group Manager Permissions
I'm trying to understand what a group manager can do in Articulate Storyline, Rise, and the 360 accounts. My IT department is reluctant to give me 360 admin permissions so I have group manager now, but it doesn't seem to be useful for collaborating, organizing, and providing oversight, unless I'm missing something. I've read through the articles but haven't found much...Can someone help?Rise 360 Default Line Heights and Font Sizes
Hi E-Learning Heroes, I’m working to ensure our Rise 360 courses meet WCAG accessibility standards, particularly around line height (minimum 1.5) and font size for readability. Here’s what I’ve noticed: The default line spacing for the text blocks seems to be around 1.9, which is great. When I manually set line spacing to 1.5 in the editor, it looks much tighter, almost like single spacing. (not that you need to, but I was curious) Knowledge check blocks and some interactive elements appear to use much smaller line heights and font sizes than body text. Has anyone documented the actual default line heights and font sizes for each block type in Rise 360? If you have this information in a table format, that would be incredibly helpful for accessibility checks. Thanks in advance!Seeking technical Expert Help/Consultation: Intermittent SCORM 1.2 Completion Failures in TalentLMS
Hello Articulate Community, We are a medical e-learning company facing a persistent and business-critical issue with our SCORM 1.2 courses created in Storyline 360. For over a year, we've had intermittent failures where users complete a course, but their progress is not registered in our LMS, TalentLMS. After a months-long, exhaustive investigation with TalentLMS support, we're still without a definitive root cause or a stable solution. We are hoping to leverage the deep expertise in this community to get a fresh perspective on the problem. Our Setup Authoring Tool: Articulate Storyline 360 (kept up-to-date) Publishing Format: SCORM 1.2 LMS: TalentLMS Completion Trigger: Typically triggered by reaching the final slide of the course. Primary Environment: The issue is most prevalent on the TalentLMS iOS mobile app, but it has also been reported by users on web browsers (Android tablet). The Core Problem Users successfully navigate through an entire course, including passing all quizzes, and reach the final "Course Complete" slide. However, in TalentLMS, the course remains marked as "incomplete" or at "0% progress". For the user to get a completion, they often have to relaunch and retake the entire course, at which point it usually works. This is causing significant user frustration and a heavy support load for our team. Summary of the Long Investigation with TalentLMS Our troubleshooting history is extensive and can be broken down into two main phases. Phase 1: The "SCORM Caching Bug" Initial Diagnosis: For months, the issue was investigated. TalentLMS initially suspected our SCORM file's authoring. The Breakthrough: The support agent discovered that the mobile app was caching old versions of SCORM courses. When a course was updated on the server and reassigned to a user, the app would load the old, cached version from the device. This old version would fail to send completion logs correctly because it was no longer the active version in the course unit. The Resolution: TalentLMS acknowledged this as a bug on their end. They released updated versions of their iOS (v4.4.19) and Android (v4.4.18) apps, which were designed to automatically detect when a SCORM file has been updated and download the new version, preventing the caching issue. Outcome: The issue seemed resolved, and the ticket was closed. Phase 2: The "Regression" & New Evidence The Return: A few months later, the exact same user-facing issue reappeared. Critical New Finding: Unlike the first time, the affected users were all newly registered users. This is a crucial detail because these users had no previous course history, expired certificates, or older course versions cached on their devices. This new evidence invalidates the original "caching" theory as the sole cause of the problem. TalentLMS's Final Conclusion: After further extensive testing, the TalentLMS team managed to replicate the failure once on an iOS device. Their final conclusion is that the root cause lies within our SCORM package itself. They claim that, intermittently, the package fails to send the necessary completion commands (e.g., LMSCommit) to the LMS. TalentLMS's Recommendation: Their primary recommendation is to modify our courses to add a user-initiated "Exit" or "Finish" button on the final slide. They theorize that an explicit onClick event is more reliable for triggering the completion command than the onLoad event of the final slide. Where We Stand Now We are skeptical that this is purely an authoring issue, given that the problem is intermittent and platform-specific (primarily iOS). If it were a fundamental flaw in the SCORM package, we would expect it to fail consistently across all platforms. We have created a new test course that sends a completion command on both the click of the "next" button on the penultimate slide and on the load of the final slide, and have asked TalentLMS to test its reliability. Our Questions for the Articulate Community Completion Trigger Reliability: Is there a known difference in reliability between triggering completion via Storyline's built-in "when timeline reaches end" or "when slide is visited" versus a user-initiated button click? Why might a click be more robust, especially on mobile devices? iOS/Mobile App Quirks: Are there known best practices or common pitfalls when publishing SCORM 1.2 content from Storyline specifically for use within an LMS's native iOS wrapper app? Could there be issues with how the app's webview handles JavaScript events like onLoad vs. onClick? Debugging SCORM Communication: What are the best methods for debugging the SCORM API communication between a Storyline course and an LMS, particularly on a locked-down mobile device? Is it possible to add custom JavaScript logging to the Storyline output to see precisely if and when commands like LMSCommit and SetStatus('completed') are being fired? TalentLMS Experience: Has anyone else in the community experienced similar intermittent completion issues with TalentLMS? If so, how did you resolve them? We Are Open to Hiring an Expert Given the significant business impact, we are also looking to hire an independent SCORM/Storyline consultant to perform an audit of our publishing profile, a sample course, and its SCORM output. If you have this level of deep technical expertise and are available for consulting work, please let us know. Thank you for taking the time to read this detailed post. Any insights you can provide would be immensely appreciated. Best regards,
