Articulate are constantly releasing new features to their Storyline and Rise applications as part of the Articulate 360 subscription service. These continuous updates cater to developers looking to create sleeker, more engaging course material, as well as maintaining a consistent learner experience across devices and platforms. Let’s look at some of the new features Articulate have recently announced for Storyline 360 and Rise.
Articulate Storyline 360
Articulate Storyline 360 is an eLearning authoring tool for the development of highly interactive courses, available across multiple devices once published.
New features of Articulate Storyline 360:
- A new modern player in Storyline 360 provides the same experience to learners on both desktop and mobile devices. Controls now dissolve into the background to maximise screen real estate, and player theme, accent colour, and fonts are all adjustable to create a custom feel.
- Articulate have developed a publish to video. You can now publish your project as a single MP4 file and added to another project, or uploaded to a video hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo.
- Course completion triggers can now send a course completion status to a learning management system (LMS) when a learner reaches a particular point on a course timeline or completes a specific action.
- A Text-to-speech function in now available in Articulate Storyline and voice and language options are available when developing audio for the course.
- Text-to-speech closed captions can be generated and automatically synced with text-to-speech narration.
- You can now fine-tune motion paths in Storyline, with paths and start and end points now editable individually or simultaneously using exact pixel positions and dimensions with increased accuracy.
- A new text-rendering engine for Storyline 360 allows text to flow with consistent spacing and readability across devices.
- Use the random numbers variable,to present learners with randomly selected content. You can also add gaming elements to courses with the random numbers variable.
Articulate Rise
Articulate Rise is an eLearning authoring tool that helps developers build responsive courses that are compatible across all devices available. Rise uses interactive Blocks to build a course that learners can swipe, tap and fully engage with.
New features of Articulate Rise:
- Learners can go straight to relevant course content by using the specific keywords in the search bar of Rise.
- You can now export courses to PDF for easy printing and meeting regulatory requirements.
- Localise a course by exporting text to an XLIFF file, translating the text, and importing it back into Rise.
- You can now make sure learners complete the course in full by disabling forward seeking, ensuring learners cannot skip ahead in content.
- Hide lesson numbers allows for the creation of branched scenarios. Button blocks for branched scenarios and decision-making interactions removes the need for previous and next buttons to control navigation.
- Labelled graphic block now allows learners to explore key components of an image within block lessons.
- Use Storyline blocks to track completion of a Rise course in an LMS based on a trigger, quiz result, or number of slides viewed.
- Save blocks as templates, allowing for reuse in the future and optimising time when building a new course.
- Articulate Rise has improved its accessibility features. Learners can now navigate resources entirely using a keyboard built into the published output. Higher contrast is available for courses, distinguishing foreground and background colours for built-in features like buttons and icons.
- Multiple response questions can be used in course quizzes, with assessments also having more than one answer, if required. This can help to further test the learner’s understanding of the content.
- Fill-in-the-blank questions allow for new ways of testing the learners on the course they have taken.
- Quiz feedback can now give learners a single feedback statement for all responses, feedback for each possible response, or feedback based on the right or wrong responses.
- A required quiz pass score can be set before moving to the next lesson. This helps to ensure learners have understood course content.
- Custom fonts can help personalise Rise courses, available for headings and body text. You can upload fonts in the theme settings.
- Matching questions are now possible using drag-and-drop quiz type questions.
Updated content library
Articulate have also updated their content library to include more diverse characters from varying industries. Developers now have more options to choose from when creating a course.
Learning and Development training
The Learning Rooms offer training in learning and development courses, including Instructional Design, Articulate Storyline 360 and Articulate Rise. If you are interested in any of these training courses please contact us.
