AI Talking Heads: Uncanny Valley Test
AI talking heads are everywhere, but most still fall straight into the Uncanny Valley. When lip-sync drifts or facial movements glitch, the learner stops focusing on the scenario and starts focusing on the AI mistake. I tested Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Creatify Aurora, Seedance 1.5, and HeyGen using the same image, script, and workplace scenario. One model clearly stood out as production-ready for realistic eLearning conversations. Watch the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zroW6I7CGO0&t=317s Try the Storyline live demo: https://www.redesignedminds.com/AvatarGrid/story.htmlCustom branching gradeing with SCORM 1.2
Greetings, I'm building module for which I will be making custom menu with branching. What are my options regarding gradeing. Each branch should have different questions. Module will be published as SCORM 1.2 to customer LMS. How is grading in this case? Can I have grade for single branch so student can later start second branch and have that grade saved too or?Help, please and thank you.
I am trying to create a slide that has 4 layers that show pictures when the user clicks on an icon on the original layer - once the user has selected all of the icons/viewed the 4 layers I want to have the user see the Final layer with a "Next" button. My hope was to have the 4 icons disabled at the start of the slide and then change to "normal" once the audio was done, so the user had to wait to hear all the audio, before clicking on the icons, but again, I cannot get it to function, when I attempt to adjust the states via Triggers. I have tried so many options, and I cannot get the slide to function as I would like as stated above. Any suggestions, help with correcting the slide, would so APPRECIATED!! https://360.articulate.com/review/content/5427dcb2-a94f-42c3-b1df-aeb00f53cba3/reviewPreventing Learners from Forcing Completion/Score via Browser Developer Tools in Storyline 360
Hello Community, I’m an eLearning developer working with Articulate Storyline 360 and SCORM-based LMS tracking. Recently, we discovered that a learner was able to manipulate browser developer tools to artificially mark a course as completed/passed with a high score—without actually attempting the quiz or interacting with the content. I understand that SCORM communication happens client-side, so absolute prevention may not be possible. However, I’d like to learn from the community: What best-practice approaches do you recommend to harden Storyline courses against this type of manipulation? Are there recommended design patterns for gating completion so that it is only issued after legitimate quiz completion? Have you used centralized or conditional commit logic (for example, allowing LMS communication only after passing the final assessment)? Any experience with LMS-side configurations that significantly reduce this risk? Are there known strategies for detecting suspicious behavior (e.g., unrealistically fast completion)? My goal is to reduce risk, raise the technical barrier, and follow industry best practices—even if 100% prevention isn’t feasible. Thanks in advance for any guidance or examples you’re willing to share.Storyline object states behaving unpredictably
I’m running into an issue with a scene in my course and hoping someone might have ideas. The interaction works like this: the learner selects an object, a layer opens with a video that plays on that layer, the layer automatically closes when the timeline ends, and the selected object then changes to its completed state. The problem is that after the layer auto-closes, some objects do change to the Completed state, but others don’t, and which ones fail seems completely random. There’s no consistent pattern. I’ve tried troubleshooting the triggers, variables, object states, and even replacing the PNGs, but the behavior still occurs unpredictably. I know this may be difficult to diagnose without the Storyline file, but has anyone encountered something similar or have ideas on what could cause this?SL trigger for pressing a key
For our software simulations, we want to allow users to progress forward at a press of a key while not having to actually click anywhere on the slide. Has anyone found a way around this or a different trigger configuration that does not require actual slide interaction? Example: we want the user to click F2 to advance the slide, but the trigger requires a click selection be made that would not be necessary in the actual software.What Notes to include from "discovery" interactives?
In an interactive in which the Learner gets to try out various scenarios to see what happens if they go this way or that, what's the best practice for what to include in the Notes for that slide? If you put in everything verbatim as it appears along the Learner's path to discover, they can just read it and circumvent having the interactive / discovery experience. In one such interactive I'm building, I give the instructions on the slide, so I could repeat them in the Notes; should I just end it there and have no more notes, but allow the Learner to see as they work the interactive? Thank you for your thoughts.
