Engage 360: Adding Content Library 360 Media
Find the perfect photos, illustrations, and videos for your interactions. Choose from 22+ million Content Library 360 assets that you can access right from Engage 360. All assets are available to use in your interaction for no additional charge. Adding Content Library 360 Media to Your Interaction Setting Media Properties Swapping Out Assets Adding Content Library 360 Media to Your Interaction Select the step in your interaction where you want to add a photo, illustration, or video. Then click the Content Library 360 Media icon in the media panel. When the media browser opens, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to select the type of media you’re looking for: Photos, Illustrations, or Videos. Then type a search term in the field at the top of the window and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you’re browsing through videos, you can preview them before adding them to your interaction. Just click the Preview button that appears when your mouse hovers over a video thumbnail. Select the asset you want to use and click Insert to add it your interaction. Setting Media Properties After adding a Content Library 360 photo, illustration, or video to your interaction, you can customize its properties, such as position, size, and alternate text. These properties appear below your media (except in media tour interactions). Property Applies To Description Position Photos Illustrations Videos Choose where you want the asset to display in your published interaction (top, bottom, left, or right). Size Photos Illustrations Videos Choose either Automatic or Custom. If you choose Automatic (the default option), Engage will adjust the size of the asset so it fits in the allotted space in your published interaction. If you choose Custom, enter the width and height in pixels. Mark the Lock Aspect Ratio box to keep the asset from being distorted when you adjust its size. Zoom Image Photos Illustrations This option adds a magnifying glass icon to the image in your published output. When learners click the image, it'll zoom to a larger version—either in the current window or in a separate window, depending on your selection. Tip: An image will only zoom when its original size is larger than the allotted space in your published interaction. In other words, if an image has to be scaled down to fit in your interaction, it can be zoomed. If an image is small enough to fit in your interaction without scaling, it can’t be zoomed. Include Playbar Videos Mark this box to add player controls to the video so learners can play, pause, rewind, and fast-forward. When you include a playbar, you also have the option to automatically start the video or wait for learners to click the play button. Do not compress video at publish Videos Mark this box if you don’t want the video to be compressed in your published interaction. Video quality may be higher, but the published output will also be larger. Uncheck the box to compress the video in your published interaction. It’ll be optimized for web playback, resulting in smaller file sizes. This is especially helpful for learners with slow internet connections. This property is available for MP4 videos created with baseline, main, or high profiles. If it’s grayed out, it means the video is another file type or profile, in which case the video will be compressed in your published interaction. Alternate Text Photos Illustrations Videos Enter a brief description of the photo, illustration, or video. Screen readers will read the description to your learners. Download our free accessibility e-book for tips on writing good alt text. Swapping Out Assets You can quickly swap out one Content Library 360 asset for another. Some properties, such as position and zoom, will remain the same, while others will reset. Click the blue, hyperlinked text below your media, as shown below. When the media browser opens, choose a media type, enter a search term, and press Enter. Select the asset you want to use and click Insert to add it to your interaction. You can replace a Content Library 360 asset with a file from your computer or a Content Library 360 character. Click the red X in the media panel to remove the original asset, and then choose a different media icon: picture, character, or video. And you can edit a Content Library 360 video by clicking the Edit Video icon in the media panel. Learn more.Engage 360: Replacing Fonts
Engage 360 lets you quickly replace one font with another throughout your interaction. Simply choose the font you want to replace and the font you want to use instead, and Engage will swap out every instance of the font for you. Click Replace Fonts on the Engage ribbon. Use the Replace drop-down list to select the font you want to replace. You’ll only see the fonts currently in use in your interaction. Then use the With drop-down list to choose a new font. Click Replace. If you want to replace another font while the Replace Fonts window is still open, repeat steps 2-4. When you’re done, click Close to exit the window.Engage 360: Previewing and Publishing an Interaction
Preview how your interaction will look and behave on any device and orientation without leaving Engage 360 or interrupting your workflow. Then publish your interaction to HTML5 for a variety of platforms, including web servers and learning management systems. Watch this video introduction to learn how, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Preview Your Interaction Choose a Publish Option Adjust the Publish Settings Publish and Distribute Your Interaction Practice Activity: Preview Your Interaction Engage 360 uses responsive preview to show you how your interaction will look and behave on any device and orientation. And it’s so easy! Just click a button. Open Comstar Real Estate.intr from your practice files. Click Preview on the Engage ribbon. Then click each device icon in the upper right corner of the preview window to see how your interaction looks and behaves on each device and orientation. Click Close Preview when you’re done. To learn more about responsive preview, see this user guide. To learn more about restricting which device orientations learners can use when viewing your interaction, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Choose a Publish Option Engage 360 supports several publish options, described below. For this tutorial, let’s publish to Review 360 where you can collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts. Open Comstar Real Estate.intr from your practice files. Click Publish on the Engage ribbon to launch to publishing wizard. Click the Review 360 tab on the left side of the window. Before we continue, here’s some quick info on each publishing option: Articulate Presenter Articulate Presenter 360 is the fastest, easiest way to create multi-device, presentation-based courses using PowerPoint’s familiar interface. You can create media-rich interactions in Engage 360, then publish them directly into your Presenter 360 courses. To learn more about publishing interactions to Presenter 360, see this user guide. Review 360 Publish interactions to Review 360 to test how they look on various devices and to collect feedback from stakeholders with an easy-to-use web interface. To learn more about publishing interactions for Review 360, see this user guide. Web If you want learners to access interactions over the internet or a private intranet, and if you don’t need to track their progress, then publish for web distribution. To learn more about publishing interactions for web servers, see this user guide. Articulate Online Articulate Online is our hosted tracking and reporting system for e-learning content. Publish interactions to Articulate Online when you need an efficient, cost-effective way to track learners’ progress and results. To learn more about publishing interactions to Articulate Online, see this user guide. LMS Choose the LMS publishing format if you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track learners' progress and results. To learn more about publishing interactions for AICC, SCORM, and Tin Can API LMSs, see this user guide. CD Choose the CD publishing format when you need to distribute interactions via CD, DVD, USB drive, network drive, kiosk, or email. To learn more about publishing interactions for CD or other local media, see this user guide. Word Publish for Microsoft Word when you need a printable version of your interaction. It’s a convenient way to distribute handouts or provide a transcript for accessibility purposes. To learn more about publishing interactions to Microsoft Word, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Adjust the Publish Settings After choosing a publish option, adjust the settings, such as title, description, publish location, quality, tracking options, and LMS specification. For details, see the user guide for each publishing option listed above. Since we’re publishing to Review 360 in this tutorial, configure these settings: Select Create a new item and enter a title for your interaction in the corresponding text field. If you’d like to make any last-minute changes to the player, quality, theme colors, or playback mode before publishing, click these properties and make your adjustments. Practice Activity: Publish and Distribute Your Interaction Now you’re ready to complete the publishing process. Click the Publish button at the bottom of the publishing wizard. When the process is complete, you’ll see a Publish Successful window with one or more follow-up options, depending on the publish option you selected. Since we published to Review 360 in this tutorial, you’ll see an option to view the published interaction in your Articulate 360 account in your default web browser. To learn more about the follow-up options and distribution instructions for each publish option, see these user guides: Articulate Presenter Review 360 Web Articulate Online LMS CD Word Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to use Engage 360’s stunning responsive preview features to see how your mobile-ready interaction looks and behaves on computers, tablets, and smartphones. And you published an interaction to Review 360 where you can collect feedback from stakeholders. For answers to common questions about publishing interactions for mobile devices, see this user guide.
