Module Review
Hope you all had a great weekend! I recently completed an eLearning work sample and would love some honest feedback from fellow instructional designers and eLearning professionals. As a personal challenge, I took one of Tim Slade’s design challenges and transformed it into a fully interactive eLearning module. I’m especially interested in feedback on the overall design, user experience, content flow, interactions, and any areas that could be improved. Review link: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b444062d-8853-4a73-a108-ebdb59b78b75/review Thank you in advance for taking the time to review it. I truly appreciate any insights, suggestions, or constructive feedback you can share!Can a Code Block in Rise 360 be used to add Google Analytics JavaScript? If so, how?
Hello! I’m curious if anyone has successfully used a Code Block in Rise 360 to insert Google Analytics JavaScript. If so, would you be willing to share how you approached it in beginner-friendly terms? My team is looking to track page views for a few public-facing trainings hosted on our website using Google Analytics. Since these need to remain publicly accessible on our website, we have to stick with web publishing. I don’t have any coding experience, so I’ve been researching possible approaches and came across a few options. I do plan to learn coding in the near future — I just need a just-in-time, just-enough solution that’s sustainable for now, if possible. Storyline via trigger (then inserted into Rise) This seems to be the most approachable route for a completely inexperienced coder such as myself. Can I insert Google Analytics javascript in a trigger? | E-Learning Heroes How to track your Articulate Storyline projects with Google Analytics dynamically and from anywhere! | E-Learning Heroes Manual file modification (Post-Publish) This feels too advanced and doesn't seem sustainable, especially if I need to watch for Articulate software updates that may impact the JavaScript. Rise & Google Analytics? | E-Learning Heroes Third-Party Mods (such as the Mighty Chrome Extension) Wonderful idea, but my team does not have the funding to purchase any subscriptions at this time. https://maestrolearning.com/blogs/articulate-rise-google-analytics/ If needed, I’ll go the Storyline route — but I was hoping the Code Block might be a simpler option. Based on all of this, is this possible, or is Code Block not the right type of tool for this? If not, are there any newer, beginner-friendly approaches you’d recommend that might work? Thank you so much for your time!Can you plublish select multiple scenes in Storyline 360?
Hi, We have several clients that use 90% of the same content in our multi scene lessons. Is there any way to publish MULTIPLE but not ALL scenes in a project? For example we'd like to publish scene 1,2,3,4 for client 1 but 1,2,4 for client 2 and 1,3,4 for client 3, etc. Thanks, LoriWhat do you use for storyline file Version control tools? Git?
Hey everyone, In our organization, we often have more than one person needing to edit a storyline file. It's becoming a version control nightmare. I thought git might work as a version control system forcing user to check out/in files when they are going to work on them. My boss thinks git would not be right for this purpose. We are currently just using the honor system and trying to force everyone to append the current date in their file names (e.g. myfile_04022026.story), but not everyone does and it's a huge problem. We really need a tool for this instead. How do you all manage this? What tools have you found that work well? What tools have been a disaster for this? All advice welcome! Thanks, LoriBehind the Scenes: Storyline’s Move to Modern .NET
We just wrapped a project that’s been hanging over Storyline for a long time: Moving from .NET Framework 4.8 to modern .NET (now .NET 10). This one goes deeper than it might sound. Back when Storyline was first built, choosing .NET Framework was the obvious call. This was 2010-ish. Windows dominated our space, and the .NET ecosystem gave us a lot of what we needed to move fast and build a really capable tool. That decision worked. For a long time. It also shaped some of the realities of the product today. Questions about platform support come up a lot, and early architectural choices like this are a big part of that story. They helped us move fast early on, but they also made certain paths more complex later. Fast forward to now… Microsoft has effectively stopped evolving .NET Framework and put their energy into modern .NET. Meanwhile, we were still running on a foundation that wasn’t keeping pace with where things were going. So we made the call to move. This wasn’t a simple upgrade. We relied on parts of .NET Framework that don’t exist anymore. AppDomains. Binary serialization. A handful of “seemed like a great idea at the time” features that modern .NET intentionally left behind. We had to rethink and rebuild some pretty fundamental parts of the product. So what did all of this actually get us? We’re now on a modern, actively supported runtime. It’s easier for us to keep improving performance, adopt new capabilities, and evolve the platform without constantly working around legacy constraints. We also retired some very old pieces of the system along the way, which… felt pretty great 😅 And then there's performance. Microsoft has invested heavily at performance improvements in modern .NET, and we're seeing that surface in Storyline. We ran benchmarks across 18 Storyline projects, measuring open, save, and publish times. Every single project got faster with improvements ranging from 0.4% to nearly 30%. The larger the project, the larger the improvement. In the animated gif below, I put .NET Framework (left) head-to-head with modern .NET publishing the same course. Neither project was pre-published to warm the cache, and I even gave .NET Framework a slight head start by clicking Publish there first. The gif is sped up for easier viewing, but the result is real: modern .NET finishes publishing well before .NET Framework. Big credit to the team that pulled this off. This was deep, risky work in some of the most critical parts of the product. Curious to hear from folks here: If you're on the latest Storyline 360, have you noticed any performance improvements when opening, saving, or publishing your projects?Autoplay Youtube videos in Storyline
Hello! I need help with auto playing my YouTube videos. Is it still true that it won't work in Chrome? The embed code is: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Op4hV4Hkcg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Also, once the video is done how do I get the slide to auto advance?New AI Audio is not publishing to SCORM files
Hi, The May 12th update seems to be causing some major issues in Storyline. I'm finalizing a course, and the AI audio is not publishing to the SCORM file. I can see the AI audio in Storyline, but it's not there in the SCORM file, or at least it's not playing in the LMS. My department is reverting to using an 3rd party external AI audio supplier until this is fixed, as the extra time trying to continually republish the SCORM file, hoping it works this time, is not a good solution.Rise 360: How to Customize Labeled Graphics
Below is the feedback that a client would like to see in a Label Graphic. Is this possible? I know you can do this in Storyline and upload it as a block, but would rather keep everyinth in Rise as much as possible. thanks! "Make it so that you have click each circle before you can move on, and that it changes colour when you click it. Remove the left-right arrows inside the box so that you cannot just click through everything"Adult Learning
Hello everyone! I’m looking for suggestions. I’ll be presenting on adult learning to my team, but they already have a strong foundation in the topic. I’d love ideas on how to make the session more engaging and relevant to corporate training. I’ve reviewed several articles (including Google Scholar), but I’m struggling to find fresh angles—such as interesting insights, misconceptions, or lesser-known perspectives. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!🔎Lost In Translation🔎
Have you ever encountered an idiom that makes no sense, a word that has no direct equivalent, or a word that comes with unexpected connotations while translating? You’re not alone! Translating takes tremendous skill, and localizing requires significant understanding of both the initial language and culture, as well as the language and culture you’re localizing for. But wait, you may be asking… 📍What’s the difference between localization and translation? Localization Translation Takes into consideration the cultural, social, and connotative aspects of language Rendering from one language into another Example: Example: Car Park (Australian/UK English) Parking Lot (United States English) Log (Record, piece of wood, mathematical abbreviation) Bûche (piece of wood, de noel cake) Common translation issues are idioms, direct translations, and proper nouns. Localization errors are more commonly about context and consistency. Localization can take place even within the same language! 🗨️What's your favorite example of localization vs translation? 🔬Haven’t had a chance to try? Check out our new localization features now! Log into Articulate to get instant access to Localization. Start an Articulate 360 trial to try Localization—no credit card required.
