Creating Interactive Video in Articulate Storyline 360

[@iamaliihamza]

Great teacher I've ever seen. Keep going, keep shining!

[@LearningDojo]

Thank you! 😃

[@steffishere]

Jeff you are great! Your tutorials are easy to follow, perfectly explained and "easy" to implement. It's such a great gift. Thank you for your valuable work🤗

[@LearningDojo]

Awesome, thank you! Glad to hear that.

[@dnhacademic4535]

Jeff, you are one of my favorite trainers! I’ve taken many of your courses and they’re all excellent!

[@LearningDojo]

Great to hear! It makes me happy hearing you find value in my content.

[@madhavnatekar4674]

Very good style of explaining. Thanks

[@LearningDojo]

Thank you!

[@donufro]

Very helpful and clear. Thank you!

[@LearningDojo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@janewhite5]

I have just discover your chanell, very useful information. Thank you for sharing!! New follower :)

[@LearningDojo]

Awesome, thank you!

[@culturecompressed]

Great video Jeff, thank you!

[@LearningDojo]

Glad you liked it!

[@256thedad]

Just quick extra side-thought on the Lorem feature (maybe someone posted this already...) --you can pass parameters to it as well. Type =lorem(p,s) where p is the number of paragraphs you want, and s is the number of sentences in each paragraph. Eg. =lorem(2,3) will give you 2 paragraphs that are each 3 sentences long.

[@LearningDojo]

Umm, did not know that. That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@samholder196]

Excellent tutorial -- thanks!

[@LearningDojo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robertsinka9555]

Thank you! Great job (as always), excellent summary, helps a lot in the work.

[@LearningDojo]

Glad to hear it!

[@awareful_dan]

Hi Jeff, you offer some awesome vids on storyline. I was just wondering, can you use the button to jump other cues so go from cue 1 to cue 4 without it triggering any cues on the way?

[@LearningDojo]

If you add the triggers just based on buttons then I think that could work. If you trigger things based on cue points then you may run into overlap but just using the buttons should be fine.

[@awareful_dan]

@@LearningDojo ok thank you.

[@AdamF1972]

Great video Jeff! One issue I am finding is that when previewing, if you skip any part of the video, the cue points no longer work!! Am I missing something here? SL drives me crazy!

[@LearningDojo]

So in the player settings you can lock the player so the learner cannot adjust it till it has already played once. Do you know where those settings are?

[@AdamF1972]

@@LearningDojo ahh that won’t work for me as I need to have the learners be able to skip back and forth in the video. I didn’t realise that would affect the cue points working. I wish I’d have known that before 😩🤪😀.

[@LearningDojo]

@@AdamF1972 I have some custom templates that do that kind of thing learningdojo.ninja/templates.html but it is just for video and mostly xAPI stuff. Or you could try using Camtasia for things like that. I have videos on my templates and how to do this in Camtasia on my channel.

[@AdamF1972]

@@LearningDojo I originally did this in camtasia but for some reason the quiz I added was lost even though I’d saved it all in a zipped project. The visuals in camtasia for the quiz questions weren’t great. Thanks for your help on this Jeff.,love your work 😁

[@asrowley1]

Have you progressed at all with this @markbrum? This is a major issue that I have struggled with too. For me it pretty much renders video interactivity close to unusable which is a great shame. The problem is that there is a 'timeline time' and there is a 'media time' and they very easily go out of sync. It would be lovely to have a trigger which did something like 'make timeline time equal to media time' whenever something happened so that they could be forced to stay in sync.

[@miketrainer7738]

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the video! For some reason, my question 2 when answered incorrectly jumps straight to question 1 layer vs. going to the cue point selected. Any ideas why this could be happening?

[@LearningDojo]

Sorry for the delay. Not sure. You can send me the file and I can take a look. [e-mail]

[@FayeC_]

Hi did you resolve this as I'm having the same issue.

[@almamoreno22]

Hi! Did you find an answer to this? I'm running into the same issue. Thanks!

[@Jules_in_Rville]

You mentioned the creation of a chapter menu for videos inserted (embedded) in a Story file. Would you provide a link to the instructions, if you've already created a Learning Dojo video? If you haven't created a LD video, please do!! Thanks.😁

[@Jules_in_Rville]

My request is specific to Articulate Storyline 360.

[@LearningDojo]

I have not created one but more talking about what could be possible. I could add this to the backlog of video ideas.

[@relaxation-connection]

When doing any kind of branching activity I like to start with a flowchart

[@LearningDojo]

Nice!

[@williameverett54]

Great video! Can this be accomplished with a video inserted from website?

[@LearningDojo]

It's harder when the video is embedded because the page and timeline may load before the video. Things like Vimeo and KZbin do have APIs but they have to be coded so it is tougher to do that within Storyline. I do have xAPI templates though that use the Vimeo/KZbin API on my website. Not sure if that would help.

[@lambertfooks7358]

This is great! Thanks! How to break up a screenshot from a single slide?

[@LearningDojo]

This would be handled but page branching. So maybe split up the video into different pages and have the question pop up and then depending on the answer, jump them to different pages if I’m understanding what you’re wanting correctly.

[@Paul-qk5sf]

Thanks for the great video! I'm wondering: if I'm only wanting to do interactive videos in my courses, but I want to have as many features as possible (including branching), so you still recommend Articulate 360? It seems a bit expensive, and I'm wondering if I could get by with something cheaper?

[@LearningDojo]

It is pretty expensive if you are just looking at it for one project. If you are not building courses I would check out my interactive video template and video on it. I walk you through how to use the template learningdojo.ninja/templates.html

[@staceyrega6633]

Can the black background be changed at all?

[@AdamF1972]

yes it can, I have just done it, just format background and choose your colour of choice :)

[@LearningDojo]

I do not see the setting to change the color in the dialog box but you can also not use that and use a shape and make it transparent and adjust the color on that.

[@JenniferBellYoung]

When you are working with cue points, do you use a hot spot or some other way to NOT allow the user to control the video? If the user pauses the video, does this throw off the cue points at all?

[@LearningDojo]

It could depend on how you are bringing in the video. if it is a KZbin or Vimeo video than yes it may throw it off because it is not using the same timeline as the Storyline timeline. If you bring in the video into the timeline and use the timeline player controls then it should work just fine and if the learner pauses the timeline it will prevent the cue point from firing until they hit play again. Hope that helps.

[@MaryamK75]

The trouble with this video, along with many others I have seen on KZbin, is that they do not show what the end result looks like. The main reason I am watching these videos is to see what the final product looks like once all these features have been used. Any chance you can edit the video to add that? Really difficult to get the whole picture otherwise.

[@LearningDojo]

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry it did not meet your expectation. I do preview how the video plays and how the timeline triggers different things but are you talking about letting it play through the whole video? Or publishing it out and uploading it and showing what the learner is going to see? KZbin does not let you edit the video once published or upload a new version so wondering if I could do a new video to address you concerns.

[@MaryamK75]

​@@LearningDojoHi there, thanks for responding. Yes, it would be great to get an idea of what the learner would experience as a whole once these features have been applied. It would be useful for people like me who are shopping for a product not just from an instructional design point of view but also from the end user's experience. Thanks!

[@LearningDojo]

@@MaryamK75 cool, yeah I will noodle on that. If you want a free alternative though you could check out my free template kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6W1aZpugNqFhKc

[@SoulsymbolTattoos]

Is it possible to have a trigger that plays the video in reverse? To simulate a fly-in and then fly-out again situation?

[@LearningDojo]

Hmm, not that I have seen. But maybe you show a layer that has a video in reverse? But you would have to save the separate video in reverse and only show it on the layer. Just a thought.

[@grantsmall_Ngenious]

Hi Jeff, a quick question. I am publishing all my content for the LMS as videos. So the output for the entire content is a video. Will this still work if we produce the training as a video?

[@LearningDojo]

Hmm, if you are doing the video publish from Storyline then probably not. It gets rid of the interactivity, at least it did last time I tried. Most LMSs can handle SCORM output though and the video still plays as a video. Curious if you can publish that way then it should work.

[@fisunaykr2756]

Hi, How can you use Articulate with Apple Mac computer? I have Mac and there isn’t any version for Mac. Can you help me please?

[@LearningDojo]

So I am on a Mac as well. I have to use Parallels or VMWare to run Windows. I wish Articulate made a Mac version but sadly Storyline is the only reason I even run windows but that is the way I do it. It does cost but it is cheaper than having to but a PC.

[@wormholeinteractive]

You can also use a marker, because icons have an issue in which if the user clicks on the "transparent" areas of an icon, the action will not be triggered.

[@LearningDojo]

Yeah good call out.

[@alexissears9564]

What happens if they pause the video or forward/ rewind? I lose my interactions if they alter the video in any way. How to stop that?

[@LearningDojo]

You can lock down the seekbar so they can't do that or you could create variables for things to trigger only once if you want that to be the case as well. That is in the player settings of Storyline.

[@kimberlyahmann4723]

Can this be done if publishing in html and not in SCORM?

[@LearningDojo]

Yep! Just publish to Web and not SCORM.

[@ariia_org_au]

Hi Jeff - Articulate isn't available on Mac...is that right? What do you use to use it on your Mac?

[@phattyj811]

He's using Parallels. It's a program that allows you to basically run Windows inside your Mac.

[@ariia_org_au]

@@phattyj811 Thanks!

[@LearningDojo]

@@phattyj811 Thanks for answering this! Yes I use Parallels. Some use VMWare but I don't like it as much as Parallels personally.

[@harshchauhan8041]

hi can you please help me by giving some interview question regarding articulate storyline 360.

[@LearningDojo]

Are you talking about questions that may come up when you are interviewing for a learning developer job? I have not compiled a list or anything for that but may be something to think about.

[@tuboto9]

Where is the feedback from the quiz a lot of blah blah but don't see the real thing

[@LearningDojo]

Sorry not sure what you mean here. You want to see feedback from the question answer?

[@lpkseogi6839]

How to get multiple choice results sent via email

[@LearningDojo]

Email would have to have a trigger at the end of the course. Not as reliable as an LMS though. I would actually suggest doing it via xAPI for more security.

[@ElmerFudd-f1z]

Toooooooooooo much intro. ADD VALUE FIRST, then pitch yourself IMO. Everything else great.

[@LearningDojo]

Lesson learned, all my new videos dive right into content. This video is just older so hadn’t learned that lesson yet.