8 Business Use Cases for Microlearning
Are you excited to try out microlearning, but unsure when to use it? Below, we outline eight common workplace situations that benefit from a short-form course. Each situation includes a sample microlearning. At the end, learn how you can customize these templates for your own company and training needs. 1. Create Organizational Alignment To hit a business target, everyone needs to be moving in the same direction. Creating that alignment starts with clear, frequent communication of the shared mission, vision, and values. Microlearning can help. The following editable template shows how you can align employees through regular executive “micro” updates: Executive Update 2. Highlight HR Information, Notices, or Reminders Educating employees about annual events like open enrollment, tax season, and compliance training is a critical function of HR teams. The problem? Important announcements often get missed when they’re embedded in long paragraphs or endless emails. Grab the following templates to see how microlearning makes HR communications more digestible and engaging: A Quick Guide To Open Enrollment Internal Company Newsletter 3. Strengthen Company Culture and DEI Initiatives Fostering an inclusive company culture is a continuous process—not a one-time effort. A series of microlearnings can support your larger culture-building and DEI efforts. Check out the following examples for ideas on how to get started: Are You an Ally? Try Taking on These 5 Roles How To Identify and Stop Using Ableist Language Gossip-Proof Your Workplace 4. Streamline Business Processes You can also use microlearning to document and streamline business processes or workflows—such as employee onboarding or performance management. Notice how the following examples make it easy for employees to work through the steps of a process independently: New Hire Pre-Hire Checklist Performance Review and Feedback 5. Increase Security Awareness Most successful data breaches, phishing attacks, and other cybersecurity incidents are caused by human error. Adding refresher microlearnings throughout the year can fortify your defenses. See an example for safeguarding against phishing attacks below: Spot the Phish 6. Enhance Employee Wellness A successful business needs thriving employees. But employee wellness training often ends up buried under competing priorities. Microlearning makes it easy for employees to fit in short breaks for self-care throughout the workday. Check out these two wellness-related microlearning examples: 3 Desk Stretches to Instantly Improve Your Day 5 Tips for Better Naps 7. Provide Quick-Reference Guides Microlearning is the perfect resource for one-off training questions: Employees can quickly find the answers they need—when they need them. Below, we’ve created templates for product and software training. But you could easily create quick-reference guides for sales, customer service, and other teams. Get To Know [Name of Product] Software Training 8. Reinforce and Assess Key Takeaways Finally, who says you have to choose between a more sizable course and microlearning? Repetition aids retention. Consider following up longer training sessions with a microlearning quiz, scenario, or summary. The examples listed below demonstrate how you might do this: Can You Recover From a Workplace Mistake? Training Refresher Wrap-Up There’s no shortage of creative ways you can use microlearning to achieve your business training objectives. The examples above are just a starter list. You might also check out submissions to one of our weekly community challenges, 40+ Microlearning Examples Created in Rise 360 #407. Interested in customizing one of these examples for your team? If you’re an Articulate 360 subscriber or trialer, you can edit all of the examples linked throughout this post by choosing the course from our Rise 360 microlearning content templates. Here’s a short video showing how to do that: What’s the latest microlearning course you’ve created? Tell us about it in the comments—and feel free to ask any questions you might have! Like this article? 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 Twitter.How to Add Audio or Video to Rise 360 Introduction?
I would like to add audio or video to a Rise 360 Introduction that narrates the text. I know I can add audio or video to Lessons within the course, but I can't find a function to add audio or video to the Introduction. Does anyone know how add audio or video to the Introduction, or is it even possible in Rise 360? Screenshots provided of Dev and Preview. Thank you.Every Template set needs a Blank Slide
I primarily use Storyline to create interactive trainings of our electronic health record. This involves full-screen screen recordings of the EHR. When inserting a screen recording, the captions come in a bland default color, and the standard color palette options are fine, but use of the Content Library 360 template color palettes are so much better. To expand the color palette options, I insert an opening title slide before my screen recorded slides start. Then, I select all of my screen recorded slides at once, Apply Layout, and select "Blank Slide" from the template set I selected from Content Library 360. This changes all the captions on my screen recorded slides to match the color palette on the template set, and gives me the same palette for any other object/shape I choose to insert on those slides. LOVE THIS! However, not all template sets in Content Library 360 have Blank Slide options. Example: "Opportunity" from Content Library 360 doesn't have a Blank Slide, so I have to select one of the most minimal options like "Top Title" or "Center Title" in order to get the palette options throughout. This creates a lot of extra work because all the title text fields have to be deleted from each individual slide, which wouldn't have to be done if the template set had a "Blank Slide" option to select from".Using multiple AI images from Articulate to generate a composition
Greetings, as much as I don't want to reignite a debate over AI usage and such, I would like to suggest the following idea: Generating AI images... using Storyline's own AI-generated images I don't know if files, generated with Storyline's own system have a specific code attached to it, but it would be nice to, say, merge two images together. For example... First, I generate the image of the interior of a restaurant. Then, I generate the image of a waitress. Finally, I generate another image, with the waitress inserted in the restaurant, using the previous two images I've generated, likely keeping any artistic features I've prompted. It would be like "first creating the puzzle pieces" and then "assembling them". Now, I wish to be limited to "only imnages generated by Articulate", because licenses and copyrights can be a HUGE problem if anyone can take random pictures from the internet, merge them together and call them their own. That's why I asked if AI-generated images have specific coding behind it to mark them as "Articulate assets". Thanks in advance :)Prompt for "full body character shots" for the AI Image generator
Greetings, Simple question, hopefully, how can I tell the AI image generator to "give me a full body shot" of a character I'm listing traits for? I'm running into this issue and it drives me crazy: everytime I want Storyline to generate a character, of any kind, with various prompts, using the AI image generator, it cannot or heavily struggles to get me 4 "full body shots". I'm always asking for the portrait format, not square or landscape. In photography, a full body shot is "from head to toe, completely framing the subject". Right now, unless I'm adding "walking" to my prompts, I'm getting Italian shots (head to pelvis), portraits and close-ups. If I write "standing", "full body shot" and whatnot, it doesn't generate complete characters. Please note for traits, be eyes, hair, eyes, skin color, outfits and such, Articulate's AI is... pretty spot on. It's not perfect and there are mishaps, but design-wise, it gets the job done. However, if I ask for a character, I do expect a full body shot unless I'm asking specific framing prompts. I currently have the Dec. 17th 2025 version of Storyline (3.107.35974.0), if that can tell you how the AI was fine-tuned by now. I know there's a new update today, but... right now I'm using the December version, since I needed to update Storyline right away a few days ago and I can wait for later versions. Thanks in advance and have a nice day :)Feature/Verbesserung: Benennung von KI-Audiodateien
Hallo Zusammen, es wurde im Workflow ein Verbesserungswunsch geäußert: Die KI Audio-Funktion, generiert eine Audio mit der Bezeichnung der ersten Satzes, wie z.B.: "Dies ist der erste Satz der gesprochen wurde.mp3". Für die Übersichtlichkeit benennen wir die Audios in der Medienbibliothek um und dann heißt es, nachdem die Audios generiert wurden, als Beispiel: Audio_1.mp3, Audio_2.mp3, usw. ... Wenn aber Korrekturen gemacht werden müssen und der Satz neu-eingesprochen wird ändert sich die Benennung und aktualisiert es auf die Audio-Bezeichnung den es generiert hat. Kann man diesen Schritt beibehalten und die Audio-Bezeichnung gleichbleiben lassen, nach dem man es einmal umbenannt hat? Oder noch besser: Lässt sich die Benennung von Vornhinein ändern und beibehalten? Vielen Dank im Voraus!
