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771 TopicsStoryline 360: Getting Started
We’re so excited you’ve chosen Storyline 360 to create your interactive e-learning courses! Watch the following overview video to familiarize yourself with Storyline 360. Then go deeper and grow your skills with Articulate 360 Training—included with your free trial and subscription. Live webinars On-demand videos Feature tutorials Check out the Storyline 360 user guide and knowledge base articles for detailed documentation. And if you have questions, drop us a line in the discussion forums. We’re happy to help!47KViews9likes0CommentsAI Assistant: Essential Tips to Unlock its Full Potential
Generative AI’s rapidly advancing capabilities are transforming the way we work. In e-learning, generative AI can be a valuable partner in course authoring. That’s why we designed AI Assistant—a powerful ally in your course creation journey, seamlessly integrated into the Articulate 360 apps you already use. Whether you’re a newbie eager to kickstart your course creation journey or a seasoned instructional designer looking to leverage AI for more efficient authoring, you’ll be ready to unlock the full potential of AI Assistant with the essential tips contained in the articles linked below. AI Assistant: Setting the Stage for AI Magic AI Assistant: Creating, Refining, and Converting Blocks AI Assistant: Using Magic Text Import to Transform Existing Content AI Assistant: Writing and Editing Inline Content AI Assistant: Creating Images Using Prompts AI Assistant: Building Effective Quizzes and Knowledge Checks AI Assistant: Summarizing Swiftly with Summary Generation AI Assistant: Producing Highly Realistic Audio AI Assistant: Using AI Prompts to Create JavaScript Entrance Animations31KViews12likes0CommentsAccelerate Course Creation with AI Assistant
Create courses in minutes instead of days with AI Assistant, a powerful AI information and automation tool. Seamlessly integrated into Articulate 360 apps, AI Assistant is designed to supercharge your course development process. As your new partner in course creation, AI Assistant unlocks creativity and boosts productivity. You remain in control throughout the process—from outlining and drafting to iterating and refining—while creating high-quality content faster than ever. Explore the articles below to learn how to use AI Assistant, find answers to frequently asked questions, and discover tips and best practices to unlock this tool’s full potential. Rise 360 User Guides Rise 360: Get Started with AI Assistant Rise 360: Create Content with AI Assistant AI Assistant in Rise 360: AI-Generated Text-to-Speech AI Assistant in Rise 360: AI Course Drafts AI Assistant in Rise 360: AI-Generated Captions Storyline 360 User Guides Storyline 360: Get Started with AI Assistant Storyline 360: Create Content with AI Assistant AI Assistant in Storyline 360: Voice Library AI Assistant in Storyline 360: AI-Generated Alt Text Suggestion AI Assistant in Storyline 360: AI-Generated Captions AI Assistant in Storyline 360: AI JavaScript Entrance Animations Tips and Best Practices AI Assistant: Essential Tips to Unlock its Full Potential Content Library 360 and AI Assistant: Boost Visual Interest with Stock or AI-Generated Images Storyline 360: Enrich Audio Narrations with Classic or AI-Generated Text-to-Speech FAQs Articulate 360 FAQs: AI Assistant21KViews7likes0CommentsRise 360 User Guide
New to Rise 360? See Getting Started with Rise 360 Rise 360: Use Your Dashboard to Manage Content Rise 360: How to Organize Content Creating Content with Articulate AI Rise 360: Get Started with AI Assistant Rise 360: Create Content with AI Assistant Creating Content From Scratch Rise 360: Create a New Course Rise 360: Outline a Course with Section Headers and Lesson Titles Rise 360: Create New Microlearning Rise 360: Choose Lesson and Block Types Rise 360: Manage Block Settings Rise 360: Add Text, Tables, and More Rise 360: Manage Course Media Rise 360: Create Custom Blocks Rise 360: Preview Content Rise 360: Restore Content with Snapshots Using Content Templates Rise 360: Create New Training with Content Templates Rise 360: Use Next Big Idea Club Content Templates Rise 360: Use Real Content Templates Rise 360: Use Real Content Lesson Templates Rise 360: Use Placeholder Content Templates Rise 360: Use Microlearning Content Templates Customizing Content Rise 360: Apply Themes Rise 360: Personalize the Theme Rise 360: Control Course Navigation Rise 360: How to Share Themes Rise 360: Manually Translate Your Content Rise 360: Edit Text Labels Working with Question Banks Rise 360: Create and Manage Question Banks Rise 360: Use Question Banks to Create Knowledge Checks and Quizzes Collaborating on Content Rise 360: Work on Content with Other Team Members Rise 360: Share Content with Team Folders Reviewing Content Rise 360: Publish Content to Review 360 Rise 360: Manage Integrated Comments Publishing Content Rise 360: Deploy Content Rapidly with Quick Share Rise 360: Facilitate Training with Reach 360 Rise 360: Export to LMS, PDF, and the Web34KViews0likes0Comments7 Most Popular Storyline 360 Examples & Downloads of 2023
E-Learning Heroes Community is the perfect place to get inspired by examples from both our amazing community members and our Articulate staff members. Below are the top seven Storyline 360 examples from 2023. 1. Storyline Comics Style Communication: Branched Scenario See how you can use interactive storytelling elements and branching techniques to teach learners the skills they need in this cool example. 2. Power of Self-Motivation Scrolling Experience Check out this completely unique interactive example that engages learners right from the start. 3. Office Safety Training Template Want to teach workplace safety in a memorable and interactive way? Check out this downloadable template to help kickstart your project. 4. Interactive Storytelling Template Learn how to leverage storytelling in Storyline 360 to help your learners apply their skills in a real-life scenario with this inspiring example. 5. Room Exploration Interaction Template Make searching an office, home, warehouse, store, or any other 2D environment feel more cinematic with this downloadable interaction. With the help of hotspots, triggers, and layers, learners can use the on-screen flashlight to help them discover clues. 6. Reset Drag-and-Drop Incorrect Choices Template Ever wanted to reset only the incorrect drag choices in Storyline 360? Use this starter template and supporting video tutorial to learn how to reset your own drag-and-drop interactions. 7. Employee Health and Wellness Check out this stunning example to see some of the immersive and custom learning experiences you can create with Storyline 360. Wrap-Up We hope these examples inspire you as you work on your next e-learning projects! Did we miss any of your favorites? Be sure to let us know in the comments below. You can view more article recaps from 2023 by checking out our latest compilation of articles here: All the Best E-Learning Heroes Content from 2023 in One Place. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest e-learning inspiration and insights directly in your inbox. You can also find us on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter). And if you have questions, please share them in the comments.28KViews1like5CommentsRise 360: Manage Integrated Comments
Once you've published your content to Review 360, you can reply to and resolve comments right in Rise 360. You can even add suggested images directly from comments! Here's how it works. View Comments Add Images from Comments Post Comments Resolve and Reopen Comments View Comments Review 360 comments only appear in content you've published to Review 360. Click the comment icon in the upper right corner to expand the Comments panel. All comments for the currently selected item appear in the panel. For courses, click the lesson title above the comment to jump to that lesson. Each comment includes a screenshot of how the content looked when the stakeholder added feedback, providing context for your edits. Click the screenshot to maximize the image. Linked Review 360 Items If you post multiple Review 360 items for a course, you can see comments and address stakeholder feedback for each from the same interface. Once you upload a new version to Review 360, the Comments panel displays a drop-down menu where you can easily switch between items. Add Images From Comments You can quickly add images attached to comments to your lessons. Navigate to the lesson that contains the comment with an image, hover over the image, click the magnifying glass icon that displays, and click the arrow icon that displays next to the enlarged version of the image. This adds an image block to the bottom of the that lesson. You can also download or delete the image from the comment. Post Comments Continue collaborating with stakeholders without leaving Rise 360 by adding a new comment or replying to an existing one, then clicking Post. If you change your mind, click Cancel. Your comments automatically sync with the discussion in Review 360. Hover over your posted comments for edit and delete options. Keep in mind that comments are organized by lesson and sorted by when they were originally posted, with the newest comments for each lesson at the top of the list. Note: Unlike with Review 360, screenshots aren't automatically created when you start a comment thread in Rise 360. Resolve and Reopen Comments As comments are addressed, resolve them to keep the comments panel from getting cluttered. Hover over an individual comment or the first comment in a discussion thread, then click the checkmark icon that appears. You can also reopen a comment or discussion that was previously resolved. Select the Show resolved option, then hover over the comment and click the green Reopen checkmark icon.1.1KViews0likes0CommentsRise 360: Export to LMS, PDF, and the Web
Ready to distribute your Rise 360 content to learners? You’ve got options! In addition to using Quick Share and Reach 360, you can export your content for LMS distribution, host it on your own web server, or download it as a PDF file. Here’s how. Publish an LMS Package Publish a PDF File Publish Web-Only Output Publish an LMS Package If you use a third-party LMS, you can export your Rise 360 content in a variety of compatible formats. Rise 360 supports xAPI-, SCORM-, AICC, and cmi5-compliant LMSs. Note: When using xAPI in a custom LMS, you may need to make modifications to the output file. Open the content you want to publish from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select LMS. Choose an LMS standard: xAPI (Tin Can API), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, AICC, or cmi5. Note: For xAPI and cmi5, if you alter the pre-generated identifier, don't use special characters. Select a Tracking option. All content can be tracked by completion percentage or Storyline block. Courses can also be tracked by quiz result. If you're tracking by course completion or quiz result, you can choose a reporting option. Note: Not all complete/incomplete options are available for reporting on microlearning content. Tracking completion through multiple options is available only when publishing to Reach 360. Choose whether to display an Exit Course Link for learners and/or toggle the Hide Cover Page option. Selecting these options may help resolve third-party LMS issues. Note that you can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates. Toggle off Allow Usage Data Collection to disable sending non-identifiable usage data to Articulate servers for product improvement. Less-frequent LMS issues may be solved by options in the More settings menu: If you delete a lesson in your course, then update the course in your LMS, some learners might see a blank page. If this happens, toggle Reset Learner Progress and click Continue to confirm. When learners launch the newly updated course in your LMS, their progress will be reset. Their quiz data will be retained. This option isn't available for xAPI exports. If your LMS supports hiding the Suspend, Continue, and Close buttons at the top of your training, you might see duplicate buttons in training exported using SCORM 2004. Toggle Hide LMS Interface to hide these extra buttons. To allow for additional windows to be opened outside of your training environment, toggle Only Load in LMS. Note that quiz and completion tracking won't be supported in additional windows. Click Publish in the upper right corner again to generate the package. (If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask if you want to edit the content or continue.) Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. Upload the zip package to your LMS. If your LMS requires you to identify the launch file, point to indexapi.html. Publish a PDF File Need to print content or download it for compliance documentation? Good news! You can export your Rise 360 content as a PDF file. Open the content you want to export from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select PDF. The PDF file auto-generates. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 first asks if you want to edit the content or continue with the export. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to keep working while Rise 360 generates your PDF file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the PDF before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. That’s it! You can read the PDF file offline, print it, distribute it to others, or even attach it to your Rise 360 content as an optional download using an attachment block. Interactive elements of your Rise 360 training may display differently in your PDF file. Here's how interactive blocks are displayed in PDFs. Hyperlinks work as expected and launch in your default web browser. Audio clips, videos, web objects, and custom blocks become static placeholder images. Interactions such as labeled graphics and tabs become a series of screenshots, one for each item in the interaction. (Each flashcard becomes two screenshots, one for the front and another for the back.) A Storyline block becomes a screenshot of the first slide in the project. Quiz lessons and knowledge check blocks display questions and answer choices. They don’t show correct/incorrect responses or feedback statements. Code blocks display a compatibility error message. Publish Web-Only Output You can also export Rise 360 content as web-only output and host it on your own web server. Here’s how. Open the content you want to export from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper-right corner of the screen, and select Web. Toggle the Hide Cover Page option as needed and click Publish. The zip file auto-generates. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 first asks if you want to edit the content or continue with the export. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. Extract the zip package and upload the contents to your web server. If you don't have access to a web server, here are some free options: Amazon S3 offers free hosting with generous usage limits. If you go over your limit, you'll be charged a small fee. See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Amazon S3. Google Cloud also has a free hosting service. You'll be charged a small fee if you go over the free limit. See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Google Cloud. Once the files are uploaded, provide learners with a link to the index.html file.53KViews0likes0CommentsStoryline 360: Adding Videos
Enhance your Storyline 360 courses with videos from files and websites, and learn how to make your media accessible to all learners. To learn how to add videos from Content Library 360, read this resource. Add a Video from a File Add a Video from a Website Make Videos Accessible Add a Video from a File Note: Videos are automatically synchronized with the slide and controlled by the timeline. Here’s how to add a video from a file: First, do either of the following: In Slide View, go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, click the Video drop-down arrow, and choose Video from File. Or, drag a video file from your computer and drop it on your course slide. In Form View, go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click the Media drop-down arrow, and choose Video from File. Browse to the video you want to use and click Open. Storyline 360 supports both MP4 and WebM videos. The following video formats are automatically converted to MP4 when added to your project: 3G2 3GP ASF AVI DV M1V M2V M4V MOV MPE MPEG MPG QT WMV Tips: If your video placeholder is difficult to see because it appears as a white, black, or transparent rectangle in Storyline 360, right-click it and choose Set Poster Frame. Then, browse for an image file to use as the video placeholder. If you add a video without captions, AI Assistant prompts you to generate them automatically. Click Generate Captions to create captions for your video. To generate captions automatically next time, check the box to Remember my choice for future imports. You can adjust this preference anytime from the Features tab on the Storyline Options window. Add a Video from a Website Note: Website videos play independently of the slide and aren’t controlled by the timeline. Here's how to embed videos hosted on websites such as YouTube and Vimeo. In Slide View, go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, click the Video drop-down arrow, and select Video from Website. Copy the video embed code from the hosting website and paste it into the Insert Video from Website box. Click Insert. Make Videos Accessible Video accessibility fosters inclusivity and boosts comprehension for all learners. Here are a few tips to make videos accessible: Turn off autoplay. Video content that autoplays can disrupt learning and interfere with assistive technologies. Adjust video properties to prevent autoplay and enable playback speed control. (1.4.2 Audio Control). Enable accessible video controls. Turn on the accessible video controls in Storyline 360's modern player for a more inclusive and flexible learning environment. (2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide). Use closed captions. Closed captions help all learners fully engage with and comprehend your content. You can import captions, create your own, or let AI Assistant generate them for you automatically—all right in Storyline 360. Position captions at the top or bottom of your slides and customize the foreground and background colors to maximize readability. (1.2.2 Captions [Prerecorded]). Provide synchronized video transcripts. Synchronized video transcripts can be automatically generated from closed captions. Transcripts should include descriptions of narration, sound effects, and other audiovisual elements. (1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative [Prerecorded]). Use audio descriptions where necessary. Include audio descriptions that narrate important visual details not conveyed through dialogue. This practice gives learners with visual disabilities access to all the necessary information and allows them to understand the content thoroughly. (1.2.5 Audio Description [Prerecorded]). Keep your language simple. Use plain language in your video content and descriptions. Straightforward and clear language helps your audience easily read and understand the information. Avoid distracting videos. Stick with non-flashing videos. Content that flashes, blinks, or flickers more than three times per second is distracting and can trigger seizures in learners with photosensitive epilepsy. (2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold). You Might Also Want to Explore: Adding Content Library 360 Videos Editing Videos Adjusting Video Properties6.6KViews1like0CommentsArticulate Receives Security Certification From US Federal Government—FedRAMP®
Security is a priority for us, which is why we’re excited to share that Articulate is officially FedRAMP® authorized! If you’re not familiar with FedRAMP, basically this means that the US federal government has done a thorough security and risk assessment of Articulate apps and determined they meet their strict cloud security requirements and are safe to use. If you work for an agency of the US government, this also means you can use Articulate 360 without worry, knowing that they’re FedRAMP authorized. Head over to the FedRAMP marketplace for more details on our authorization. And for those of you in the private sector, it means you can rest easy knowing you’re in good hands with Articulate. Of course, if you want more information on our approach to security and data protection, check out our Trust Center. Want to try out our apps but don’t have an Articulate 360 subscription? Start a free 30-day trial today. And if you have any questions, please share them in the comments.1.3KViews0likes11Comments