Course branching in Rise 360
Hi, I need to create a non linear course with interactive blocks and different quizzes for each branch. Is such an option available in Rise 360? I am aware that this topic was already discussed some months ago so I´m curious to see if there´s been some development in this area since (?). Thanks!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.AI Won’t Replace Skill - This Will!
We’re in an era where anyone can make studio-level visuals in minutes. But real creators know the secret isn’t AI alone, it’s how you fuse it with your own craft. In my latest YouTube video, I walk through how I designed Kai inside a 3D scene, a 3D low-poly character for an eLearning scene, combining Blender modeling with AI tools like Seedream and Gemini. The result? A branded, professional-grade animation that stays original and on-style. If you’re a learning experience designer, 3D artist, or just exploring how to use AI effectively, this one’s for you. Watch the full video on YouTube and see how to stay creative in the AI era.Slide Background Fill issue(Preview and Publish unaffected)
I’m experiencing significant stuttering and lag in the Storyline editor when working on slides that contain multiple shapes converted to “Slide Background Fill.” This lag only occurs in the authoring environment — both Preview and Published outputs run perfectly smooth, so it doesn’t appear to be a GPU or browser-side issue. From what I can tell, the performance drop seems to be related to how Storyline’s editor renders multiple baked fills simultaneously, possibly due to redraw load in the WPF interface. (Assuming that Storyline’s authoring environment is WPF-based — which is likely, given it’s a Windows-only desktop application built on the .NET framework — please correct me if I’m wrong.) I prefer creating the parallax effect this way because it allows me to apply shadows on transparent shapes. Using standard shapes, zeroing transparency or “no fill” doesn’t display shadows correctly — the shadow disappears when the fill is transparent. Converting shapes to slide background fills preserves both the transparency and the shadow rendering, which is essential for achieving realistic parallax depth and lighting. Steps to reproduce: Create a new Storyline project. Add slide background (Format background > Fill > Picture > Insert image). Add several large shapes covering parts of the slide. Convert each to “Slide Background Fill.” Navigate slides and notice stuttering in editor navigation. Expected: Smooth authoring performance similar to slides using regular shapes. Actual Result: Significant stuttering when navigating slides or interacting with the timeline containing multiple background-fill shapes. Additional Notes: Performance is completely normal in both Preview and Published versions. This behavior is isolated to the authoring workspace. It seems related to the way Storyline handles redraws of slide background fills inside the WPF-based editor. If this is a recognized limitation of the authoring environment, I’d appreciate any suggested workarounds or optimization practices to maintain smooth navigation while keeping the same visual results. File attached to help reproduce faster.Storyline competency matrix
Hi everyone, I've been tasked with upskilling my team in Storyline. I'm starting by putting together a tech competency matrix and wanted to know if anyone had any examples they've used (or if Articulate has one -- I couldn't find anything by searching). The matrix will have X number of core skills and 5 levels of expertise in each skill. I then need to specify which tasks fall into each core skill. For example, maybe one core skill is triggers and states. What specific tasks would go in that category in each expertise level? What core skills have other people used, and what tasks have you put in those skills? Thanks in advance!How do I see the 'print results' as creator and admin?
My organisation has unfortunately chosen an LMS that does not support seeing individual responses to questions via an LRS function. We are very small and I am able to gain insights through manually reviewing people's answers and creating a small spreadsheet from that output. The 'print results' function in Storyline 360 gives the exact output I am looking for, but I cannot figure out how to make a course send that report to me. Is there a way to get the course to email that result to me as part of the submission of the results?Help with making compliance/legislative obligation heavy training interesting.
I am currently working on a number of courses that are compliance and legislative obligation text heavy content, with a lot of 'we must say this' information. Any tips on how to make this attractive and interesting without changing the content as the SME is very strict that the text must be said. I have thought that maybe the text heavy sections could have an audio feature? I also only have access to Rise at the moment and can make other video/motion/gif things in PowerPoint and Canva.Hello, I'm Emily!
Hi, I’m Emily Blanke from San Diego, CA. I’m a graduate student studying Instructional Design and am new to e-learning. I’m good at troubleshooting beginner challenges, and I’m here to learn more about creating interactive content in Storyline and improving accessibility in my designs.How are you approaching learning creation in your organization beyond “traditional” L&D use cases?
Hey ELH community 👋, We know that learning creation doesn’t live solely within L&D or instructional design teams. In large organizations especially, managers, training, enablement teams, and other departments are increasingly creating their own learning to meet team and business needs. We’re curious how that’s playing out in your organization. If you’re in L&D, what’s holding you back from bringing on more teams create courses in Articulate? Are there particular challenges—technical, process-related, or cultural—that make it harder to open things up? And if you have scaled and democratized course creation with Articulate beyond L&D, what’s helped it work well? We’d love to learn from your experiences; what’s working, what’s not, and what would make it easier. ~ The Articulate Research Team
