Create eLearning Courses with Articulate Storyline 360

Explore Articulate Storyline 360 with a quick start, learn to save your project, and navigate the UI and panels to unlock key terms like story, scene, slide, and layer.

Open storyline 360, create a new project, and build an introductory slide with images and bold cooking 101 text. Preview to show learners the slide and the player controls.

Save your Storyline project frequently with the save button or Ctrl+S, create files to follow along and for your own layouts, save as a .story and publish as MP4.

Explore the storyline UI to navigate the story view, scenes, slides, and modules. Apply triggers, layers, and the timeline to add interactivity, animations, and design options.

Explore the Articulate 360 suite, including Rise 360, Review 360, Reach 360, and Storyline 360, and learn how these tools deliver, track, and collect feedback for eLearning.

Set the slide size in Articulate Storyline 360 to 16:9, avoid 4:3, and set a default size to prevent pixelation and rescaling of content.

Dock and undock panels in Articulate Storyline 360, pop out and resize them, move across monitors, and tailor the timeline, states, notes, and triggers for optimal workflow.

Create elearning content in story view by naming scenes and slides, setting a starting scene, and adding triggers to jump between scenes and slides.

Begin with a quick start in storyline and save your project. Navigate the storyline interface, explore tools and panels, and review the story scene and slide view across different screens.

Learn to build basic layout pages in Articulate Storyline 360, using text, bullets, images, shapes, and grouping, then use ai-generated script, layers, triggers, and states for dynamic content.

Use artificial intelligence to generate sample eLearning content and storyboards for Articulate Storyline 360, exploring triggers, events, conditions, and layouts while noting cautious use and upcoming AI updates.

Learn to add and format basic text in Articulate Storyline 360, including text boxes, fonts, headings, alignment, bullets, and style updates that propagate across slides.

Explore how to create and format bullet points and numbering in Storyline 360, including bolding, indentation, sub bullets, custom symbols, color, size, and starting numbers across slides.

Import and edit images from desktop or content library 360, crop to the stage, and resize for polished Storyline 360 slides. Enhance visuals with borders, shadows, recolor, and shape crops.

Design with shapes in Articulate Storyline 360, customizing colors, fills, gradients, textures, and outlines. Place text inside shapes with padding and alignment for polished, layout-ready slides.

Group items together in Articulate Storyline 360 to animate them as a unit, apply triggers to the group, and keep objects neatly named on the timeline.

Learn to use layers in Articulate Storyline 360 to design tab interactions, manage base and separate layers, and control show/hide behavior with triggers and timelines.

Learn to manage object states in Articulate Storyline 360, including hover, click, drag over, and drop events, plus normal, down, visited, and custom states for buttons, images, and text.

Explore remaining default objects in Storyline, including captions, tables, buttons, sliders, dials, hotspots, and markers; learn to insert, format, merge cells, and use slide and menu variables, triggers, and panels.

Explore media types in Articulate Storyline 360, from characters, poses, and facial expressions to content library images, illustrations, icons, and videos, plus external media, cue points, captions, and accessibility features.

Explore the content library to add Storyline characters, including photographic and illustrated options, adjust poses, swap characters, and use hover states and the timeline to craft interactive scenarios.

Learn how Storyline 360’s content library lets you insert, edit, and manage photos, illustrations, icons, and videos, with alt text, media library tracking, and automatic cross-slide updates.

Learn to enhance eLearning content with icons, illustrations, and video from the content library, including SVG/PNG icons, color edits in Illustrator or Photoshop, and inserting background videos in Storyline 360.

Enhance external audio in Articulate Storyline 360 by recording with a microphone, using enhanced speech and text-to-speech, and editing in the built-in audio editor.

Discover how to add and customize videos in Articulate Storyline 360, including borders, resizing, compressing with Handbrake, captions, and selective video controls.

Add cue points to your video timeline to mark moments and trigger actions. Right-click the playhead to create cue points, press C, and align objects for timing.

Learn how to embed external videos from YouTube and Vimeo into Articulate Storyline 360 using embed codes, iframe windows, and responsive web objects, with timeline independence and publish considerations.

Learn to create accessible e-learning by adding captions and using import options for SRT, VTT, SBV, and sub files. Edit timing and export VTT for YouTube or Vimeo.

Explore how to use storyline's content library for characters, images, illustrations, icons, and videos, add external audio and video, set cue points for interactive video, and enable captions and accessibility.

Learn to animate elearning content in Articulate Storyline 360 by creating engaging page transitions, timeline animations, entrance and exit effects, motion paths, and emphasis animations.

Explore page-level transitions and on-page animations in Articulate Storyline 360, adjusting duration and effect options like fade, push, and uncover to make your courses come to life.

Learn to animate content along the timeline using the animations tab to fade in a cooking 101 title and start button with optional text-to-speech audio, previews, and timeline visualization.

Apply entrance and exit animations in Storyline 360, selecting effects like fade, fly in, or grow, adjust duration, and set direction from the closest stage edge.

Master motion paths in storyline 360 by adding lines, arches, turns, or freeform paths, adjusting start and end points. Use timing, easing, and triggers to control movement.

Explore moving objects with various motion path types: arc, turn, circle, square, triangle, trapezoid, and custom free-form paths, plus scribble and curve, triggered by timeline or user actions.

Explore how to trigger motion paths in Articulate Storyline 360 using triggers like timeline starts, timeline reaches, click, hover, state changes, intersections, dial turns, and variables, with gsap library guidance.

Explore working with multiple motion paths in Articulate Storyline 360, set starting and ending points, connect paths for progression, and trigger paths by clicks or right clicks using path options.

Demonstrates how to add and customize emphasis animations in Storyline, using pulse, teeter, grow, shake, and hover triggers on a timeline to highlight clickable elements and important moments.

Master animations in Storyline 360, including page transitions, timeline reveals, and motion paths (custom and multiple) with emphasis options and timed triggers. Create and stylize basic quizzes to introduce interactivity.

Master building interactive quiz questions in Articulate Storyline 360, including true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, hotspot, and drag-and-drop, with results pages and LMS reporting.

Create engaging true/false quiz questions in storyline by using form and slide views, setting points, feedback, and branching to guide learners through a dedicated quiz scene.

Create and customize multiple choice questions in Articulate Storyline 360 by building a graded quiz, selecting the correct answer, enabling shuffle, and configuring per-question or per-choice feedback.

Learn how to create multiple response questions in Articulate Storyline 360, distinguishing multiple choice from multiple select, setting correct options, and configuring per-choice feedback with layers.

Discover how to create fill in the blank questions in Articulate Storyline 360, define acceptable answers, manage case sensitivity, and connect text entry fields to variables for validation.

Explore how essay questions function in Articulate Storyline 360, distinguishing them from graded surveys, managing long text responses, and handling SCORM limitations before publishing results to an LMS.

Master creating a results slide in Storyline to submit quiz data to an LMS via SCORM, using graded results, tracking, and completion triggers.

Stylize quiz visuals in Storyline by applying solid backgrounds, shapes, shadows, and images, aligning elements, and bolding text to create an engaging, LMS-friendly quiz page.

Create hotspot questions in Articulate Storyline 360 by inserting and cropping an image, adding hotspots (oval, rectangle, or freeform) with instant feedback and configurable scoring.

Create free form questions by turning images into selectable options. Choose from pick one, pick mini, hotspots, or text entry.

Design and implement free form drag-and-drop interactions in Articulate Storyline 360, creating drop zones and draggable items, converting to free form, and configuring drag-and-drop options for LMS tracking.

Conclude the module by outlining quiz interactivity in Articulate Storyline 360, including true/false, multiple choice, multiple responses, fill-in-the-blank, essay, drag-and-drop, hotspots, visuals, and LMS results.

Learn to add, remove, and configure triggers in Articulate Storyline 360, and decide when to trigger actions. Build tab interactions, drag-and-drop setups, and custom or drop-on triggers for engaging interactivity.

Add and manage triggers to drive interactivity in Articulate Storyline 360, using the trigger wizard to jump to slides or scenes, show or hide layers, change states, and more.

Build engaging click-to-reveal interactions in Articulate Storyline 360 by using triggers, show/hide layers, and animations to reveal profiles and text.

Explore actions and triggers in Articulate Storyline 360 to branch, jump to slides or scenes, adjust timeline and variables, and control media for interactive eLearning.

Explore how triggers fire at different events—clicks, swipes, hovers, and drag over items—and use conditions, variables, and object states to control layers, slides, and animations in Storyline 360.

Learn to use drag over and drag on with custom triggers in Storyline 360, changing a character's state to open doors and build a drag-and-drop scenario.

Use dropped triggers to hide Elena when dropped on the door, reset the door state, and create drag-and-drop interactions in Articulate Storyline 360 via free-form questions.

Master adding, removing, and timing triggers across tabs, layers, and drag-and-drop to create dynamic interactions; use variables and conditions to stand out as the go-to person.

Explore variables and conditions to move beyond simple clicks, enabling dynamic interactions. Learn how text, numbers, and boolean values drive logic, dials, sliders, and image updates.

Explore how variables act as storage locations in storyline to track names, scores, and user actions across pages using text, number, and true/false types and CamelCase naming.

Learn how to create and use text, number, and true/false variables in Articulate Storyline 360, including managing project variables, displaying values on slides, and updating across pages.

Explore adjusting variable values in Articulate Storyline 360 by using text entry to update names, and plus/minus triggers to adjust scores, with naming, defaults, and basic triggers.

Master using conditions and variables to control triggers in Storyline 360, exploring pseudocode, true/false outcomes, and/or logic to create interactive, rule-based eLearning scenarios.

master adding multiple conditions in articulate storyline 360 by using variables to show or hide characters and icons, trigger state changes, and debug with practical examples across slides.

Create an interactive dial that updates an image from a number using multi-condition triggers in Articulate Storyline 360. Show an alert when score equals six and name is not blank.

Explore building a dial in Articulate Storyline 360, using a temperature variable, conditions and states to drive flame visuals, with a hands-on playground and preview workflow.

Create and customize a slider in Articulate Storyline 360, adjust knob visuals, set a timer variable from zero to thirty, display it, and apply conditions with temperature and an alert.

Review this module conclusion to master variables and conditions in Articulate Storyline 360. Create more realistic interactions and dynamic image updates from dial and slider inputs.

Fine-tune the Articulate Storyline 360 course player by adjusting color, seek bar, labels, and settings, and configuring the menu, resources, glossary, and translations.

Adjust the Articulate Storyline 360 player settings to control visibility of title, menu, resources, glossary, and notes, collapse navigation, and tailor captions and custom buttons.

Create a custom player button in Articulate Storyline 360 to jump to slides or menus, open a lightbox, and run actions like exit, complete, print, or JavaScript.

Explore adding and controlling a seek bar in Articulate Storyline 360, including play/pause, playback speed, captions, and fullscreen, with per-page and global player settings.

Learn how to customize the e-learning menu in Articulate Storyline 360 by hiding pages, resetting order, managing visibility, and configuring restrictions, collapsible sections, and tooltips for a streamlined learner experience.

Adjust the Storyline 360 player color and effects, switch to white or custom colors, tweak accent and accessibility focus colors, and customize fonts, buttons, and closed caption colors and position.

Customize text labels across the Storyline 360 player, updating next page and submit. Adjust window behavior, offline progression, and resume prompts, and share saved configurations for lms publishing.

Learn to manage resources and glossary sections in Articulate Storyline 360, including adding URL links, slides and descriptions, and exporting or importing glossary terms for multilingual courses.

Export translation data as an xliff file or word document with a source language, then import into a separate language copy of Storyline, preserving the original and avoiding ID changes.

Customize the Articulate Storyline 360 player by adding buttons, adjusting visibility and colors, managing the seek bar, page settings, and translations for LMS publishing.

Explore how to gather stakeholder feedback with Articulate Review and view it inside Storyline, back up with automatic version control, and publish to Scorm to ensure proper completion reporting.

Learn how to publish Articulate Storyline 360 courses to Review 360, collect stakeholder feedback with page-level comments, manage versions, and streamline quality assurance before LMS deployment.

Learn how to back up and version control Articulate Storyline projects by creating safe versions, uploading project files to Review 360, and using version histories to revert when needed.

Publish Articulate Storyline courses to SCORM to enable LMS tracking of completion, quiz results, and pages viewed, with 1.2 or 2004 editions.

Zip your SCORM package correctly and upload it to an LMS or SCORM cloud. Launch the course, complete it, and verify completion, score, and time with the debug logs.

Keep your story files and the scorm package organized in a dedicated folder on a shared drive. Learn to update via versioning, overwriting, and using xapi or cmi5 for tracking.

Publish to xapi and cmi5 with Articulate Storyline 360; compare scorm, add custom xapi statements and triggers to track detailed learner activity across devices.

Apply core Articulate Storyline skills in action sections, building games with drag-and-drop, tab interactions, variables and conditions, graphics, and states—then publish for a certificate.

Explore additional resources for storyline 360, including a blog on customizing storyline, JavaScript integration, emphasis animations, and text styles, plus community challenges and upcoming Articulate conferences.

Review key Articulate Storyline features, back up with version control, publish to SCORM and xAPI/CMI-5, and explore optional in-action sections and extra resources to maximize learning.