Leveraging Storyline 360 Master Slides

[@JulesPasley]

I felt fairly confident about my knowledge of master slides before today. Now, I feel like a superstar! Thank you for explaining these amazing capabilities. What I learned here is a game changer and is going to improve my productivity in countless projects.

[@LearningDojo]

That is awesome to hear! Thank you for the feedback.

[@madalinabrait2792]

Such a good video, thanks for sharing! definitely the most comprehensive one I've found, will give your courses a go next!

[@LearningDojo]

Thanks Madeline! Yes hope you enjoy the course as well.

[@brandiefraser8822]

This is great! I'm a new ISD (about 5 months) and this is great for my PD. New subbie and I cant wait to explore your channel more!

[@LearningDojo]

Awesome! Glad you found my videos then to help with your journey.

[@carltonajohnson]

I thought this was a great, really clear tutorial Jeff. thanks.

[@LearningDojo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@adproproductions2038]

Great video, thanks!

[@LearningDojo]

Glad you liked it!

[@clarenancy77]

For accessibility, do you know how screen readers interpret the stuff on the master slides?

[@LearningDojo]

From what I can tell yes it is. If it has the accessibility in the master slide it should still work. When the page builds out it build content on the master slide first then the page but the accessibility should stay the same from my understanding.

[@lanma2658]

Hello. Thank you for the video. Is there a way to keep a text box on the master slide always on top? I built a countdown timer on the master slide but when I insert an image in my slide the image will cover up the timer. I tried to do that to one of the layourts but it still got covered up.TIA

[@LearningDojo]

Yeah I run into the same thing. I would love this ability. I wonder if some custom JavaScript could help with that but have not tested that yet.

[@lanma2658]

@@LearningDojo I have also tried to put the image as a background for one of the sub-master slides. So whenever I need a slide with that image I will just use the one particular master. It seems to solve this problem and have the timer on top of the image. However, though it looked great when I was creating the slides, the image background turned dark when I previewed or published it. I have opened a ticket with Articulate regarding this image issue.

[@LearningDojo]

@@lanma2658 Yeah curious what they say. You may also check if your layer is being presented as a modal in your slide settings. That may be a reason it darkens out.

[@adamcarr1632]

You can do this by putting the textbox on a layer and controlling showing that layer by a variable. So, create a Layer called Timer on the master slide and paste your textbox on that layer. Create a number variable, for example 'gblShowTimer'. On the master slide, create a trigger to Show the Timer Layer when the gblShowTimer variable changes. Then on the slides you want the timer to show, simply add a trigger to Adjust Variable gblShowTimer and set it to Add + 1.