Is Articulate moving away from Storyline?
With all of the latest updates they seem to be geared towards Rise, is Articulate moving away from Storyline? Doesn't make much sense to me considering Storyline is more geared towards developing for mobile, who wants to scroll on their cell phone forever? I have always like to develop more in Storyline because it seemed to make more sense to me but should I be focusing my attention more towards Rise or should I start looking for another solution?Help requested on a Storyline limitation
hi, as per my (long) title i have a 6-hours, all-videos course that needs closed captions in 4 languages, but storyline only lets me add just one language for closed captions. And of course i cannot add layers or forms with text inside as it will be veeeery long to achieve. I cannot use Rise either. So looks like i have to replicate 4 times my 6-hours course to have a huge 24-hours storyline file just for this. Any idea of how to get out of this problem? thanks a lotDecision Trees: Exploring the Road Not Taken
We ask learners to make decisions all the time. But how often do we give them the opportunity to see what would have happened if they'd made a different choice? That's one of the things I like most about decision trees. Instead of presenting a question, collecting an answer, and moving on, a decision tree allows learners to explore how one choice influences the next. They can follow a path to its conclusion, return to an earlier decision, and discover how a different choice changes the outcome. Sometimes the most valuable learning happens when they explore the path they didn't take. When would I use a decision tree? Decision trees work particularly well when decisions have consequences that aren't immediately obvious. A few examples: Troubleshooting: Explore how different diagnostic decisions lead to different solutions. Customer service: Follow the consequences of different responses to a customer situation. Leadership development: Examine how communication and management decisions influence team outcomes. Compliance and policy: Apply policies to realistic situations where context influences the appropriate response. Process training: Understand how an early decision affects subsequent steps, responsibilities, or outcomes. Why does this work for learning? What I particularly like about decision trees is that they encourage learners to examine the relationships between decisions and consequences. They're practicing more than recall. They're applying information, analyzing cause-and-effect relationships, comparing alternatives, and evaluating outcomes. These are the kinds of thinking we want learners to develop, particularly when the goal is sound judgment rather than memorizing information. There's also value in being able to backtrack. When learners revisit an earlier decision and explore another branch, they can compare outcomes and reconsider their original reasoning. And unlike real life, a poor decision doesn't require an incident report. About this interaction The example in the GIF explores decisions surrounding a compliance training problem. Learners follow different paths, examine the consequences, and return to explore alternatives. I built the interaction as standalone HTML, so it can be embedded into Articulate Rise 360 using an Embed block or incorporated into Storyline 360 as a web object. The content and visual design can be customized for different learning scenarios. I'm curious how others are using branching activities. Do you typically guide learners toward one correct outcome, or give them the freedom to explore multiple paths and compare what happens?AI generated/modified content in the Content Library 360
My company is currently introducing a policy regarding the use of dedicated watermarks displayed on multimedia contents that were created or modified using AI to comply with changing legislation. I would like to learn more about whether the content provided in the Content Library 360 could possibly be marked in a way that would offer transparency in regards to the use of AI during the creation process of these multimedia assets. Thanks in advance for any information!Seeking Feedback on My First Storyline 360 Module
Greetings, everyone! After twenty years as a classroom educator, I'm transitioning into instructional design and learning experience design. I've spent the last four months teaching myself Articulate Storyline 360 while developing my first complete eLearning module, Productive Feedback. The module is designed for charge nurses and introduces a simple, three-element model for providing specific, focused feedback to their staff. I've recently completed the first version and am beginning Alpha testing. I'd greatly appreciate feedback from fellow designers, particularly regarding the clarity of the content, learner experience, navigation, and overall instructional design. I'm especially interested in constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement as I continue refining the module for my portfolio. Review 360 link: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/9a37fa9c-6c32-4352-b0ba-884450b7ff5d/review Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my work. I truly appreciate any insights you're willing to share. Take good care! -KyleFormat Painter - Storyline 360
I have been a Storyline user since the software first came out. It has many great capabilities and I do appreciate the ongoing updates and enhancements but it would be awesome if some of the little glitches developers experience on a regular basis were addressed. A prime example is Format Painter and directly how it handles buttons. It would be great if it acted as expected for all buttons including custom, quiz and built-in. It is very tedious and time consuming to have to manually edit every state of a button in a project. Not to mention if a response changes in a MC/TF question that the updated response isn't carried through to the other states therefore making rollovers, etc. look like a drunken monkey programmed it. Let me create one and then leverage that one for every other button in a file. Seems like a simple ask to me although I am sure there are plenty of issues that I am unaware of that make that ask a challenge.Are We Designing for Learning or Just Adding More Clicks? 🤔
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we approach interactivity in e-learning, especially with all the amazing tools and features available to us in Rise and Storyline. As instructional designers, we have so many creative ways to engage learners, but I sometimes wonder if we're making things interactive because they genuinely support learning or simply because we can. For me, the goal has always been to move beyond presenting information and create experiences that help learners actually apply what they've learned. Sometimes that means a scenario, a decision-making activity, or an opportunity to practice (I would love to hear ideas about how you do this one). I'd love to hear how others approach this. What's your personal rule of thumb for deciding whether an interaction truly adds value to a learning experience? And even better, have you ever removed or simplified an interaction and found that the learning experience actually improved? I'd love to hear your experiences, examples, and lessons learned. One of my favorite things about this community is how much we can learn from each other's approaches!Rise courses across US & EU: Why are we still unable to transfer courses between data centers?
Articulate users working with clients in different regions (US + EU), did you know that you may hit a serious limitation in Rise? You can’t transfer Rise courses between data centers. Here’s the situation Articulate introduced the EU data center. Good move. But in practice, this split European users into two groups: Long-time users → most likely still on the US data center (unless they explicitly switched) Newer users → most likely on the EU data center (the new default for Europe) The problem? Rise courses cannot be shared across data centers. And Articulate’s solution? There isn’t one. Yes, you can switch from the US to the EU data center, but then you’re stuck: No migration path No export-import for Rise courses Switching data centers = rebuilding everything from scratch (!!!) What this means in real life For anyone working across multiple clients, this creates a real headache: Established European clients often stay on the US data center. Not by choice, but because rebuilding everything isn’t realistic. Newer European clients are most likely on the EU data center. Freelancers and agencies working across both end up stuck in between. Articulate’s “solution”? Ask your client to pay for an extra seat so you can work in their environment. Pay for two licenses yourself (US + EU). I think both are unacceptable. For a tool so widely used across Europe, the inability to move content between data centers is a significant gap. And I genuinely don’t understand why Articulate doesn’t prioritise finding a solution (a real solution!) to this issue. What I’d like to hear from European users Are you staying on the US data center because switching isn’t realistic? Has anyone actually switched to the EU data center? How are you dealing with this in client projects where you are on different data centers? And how do you feel about how Articulate is handling this?
