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Listed below are the new features and fixes we've added to Storyline 360 since its initial launch. Updates are free for Articulate 360 subscribers. Just open the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here. Check out our feature roadmap to know what's coming next.
July 22, 2025 (Build 3.102.35072.0)
- Enhanced: AI Assistant displays a status notification when the caption generation process completes.
- Enhanced: Articulate Localization users can easily insert localized audio assets—no triggers needed.
- Enhanced: We boosted the accessibility checker's performance to keep even the largest projects running smoothly and added sort order options for easier navigation.
- Enhanced: Windows Narrator and Magnifier are now officially supported in published courses, giving learners more ways to engage with content.
- Fixed: Screen readers ignored the search results in the player menu.
- Fixed: Thai language symbols displayed incorrectly.
- Fixed: Some fonts caused Hebrew and Arabic text to disappear or display incorrectly in both preview and published output.
- Fixed: AI Assistant didn't generate captions when the Storyline language was set to French.
- Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.
July 1, 2025 (Build 3.101.34961.0)
- Fixed: Closed captions in courses translated into Chinese, Japanese, or Korean incorrectly merged into one caption box, leaving other caption boxes blank.
June 24, 2025 (Build 3.101.34925.0)
- Fixed: Timed quizzes didn't end when the time limit was exceeded.
- Fixed: Some PowerPoint files failed to import.
- Fixed: Projects without upgraded text couldn't be imported.
June 17, 2025 (Build 3.101.34880.0)
- Enhanced: AI Assistant displays specific error messages when caption generation fails, making troubleshooting easier.
- Enhanced: Customize the page background color behind your content if you scale the modern player to fill the browser and turn off the menus and controls.
- Enhanced: We improved the screen reader experience by adding a customizable player text label for the sidebar menu landmark.
- Fixed: Some menu tabs on the ribbon disappeared after upgrading to Update 100.
- Fixed: Saving a project created from an earlier version of Storyline that included a rounded rectangle caused backward compatibility issues.
- Fixed: Completed scenes still showed the lock icon if the menu navigation was restricted or locked.
- Fixed: Toggling zoom to fit moved the content to the right if the modern player's menus and controls were off.
- Fixed: Screen readers incorrectly announced some graphic elements despite their being invisible to accessibility tools.
- Fixed: Screen readers skipped some lightboxed content if the browser window was maximized or the system display scaling was set to 100%.
- Fixed: Some content library videos disappeared when the project was previewed or published.
- Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.
May 27, 2025 (Build 3.100.34725.0)
- New: Improve the accessibility of your content. Get actionable feedback based on key WCAG guidelines to instantly identify barriers like missing closed captions and disabled course playback speed.
- New: Instantly generate high-quality captions for your audio and video content to boost accessibility.
- New: Keep your course design consistent by defining precise values for rounded corners.
New: Unleash your creativity—use merge options to combine basic shapes into custom, powerful designs.
- Enhanced: We added a new Korean neural voice, Jihye, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Enhanced: Enchant learners with seven more playful emphasis animation options, including tilt, bounce, rotate, float, and more.
- Enhanced: Create inclusive content from the start with a template that meets accessibility standards.
- Fixed: Marker title text overflowed if the entrance animation applied affected the size.
- Fixed: Changing an object’s state with a JavaScript trigger didn’t work if any of its states had more than one object.
- Fixed: A button deactivated using JavaScript API remained interactive, and the update() function showed the incorrect object property on state change.
- Fixed: Closed captions showed up earlier than expected and could stack up on each other while using the seekbar.
- Fixed: Player prompts, such as the "Invalid Answer" message, couldn't be localized or set to right-to-left orientation.
April 29, 2025 (Build 3.99.34516.0)
- New: Insert AI-generated alt text for slide objects to improve accessibility.
- New: Enjoy more sizing options for the modern player. Lock the player size or let it adjust to learners' browsers.
- Enhanced: Keep your zoom regions consistent by copying and pasting them across slides.
- Enhanced: Guide learners toward focused responses by defining character limits on text-entry fields.
- Enhanced: Easily drag assets from your computer and drop them directly into the media library.
- Enhanced: Use the Esc key to close any window in Storyline 360.
- Enhanced: We renamed the “player background color” option to “custom background color” to clarify its purpose.
- Enhanced: Use the Delete key on a Mac keyboard to remove an object.
- Enhanced: The options in the Closed Captions Editor window are now consistent with other feature windows.
- Enhanced: The icon library for buttons and markers now includes the X social media logo.
- Fixed: NVDA screen readers didn't follow the correct focus order.
- Fixed: Slide note text got cut off when it was published.
- Fixed: Lightbox slide content didn't display.
- Fixed: Prematurely loaded closed captions caused content to lag.
- Fixed: Likert scale label text disappeared when text styles were applied.
- Fixed: Video on the base layer stopped playing after a layer was closed.
- Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.
April 8, 2025 (Build 3.98.34380.0)
- New: Articulate Localization launched! Instantly translate Storyline 360 courses into 70+ languages with fully integrated AI translation.
March 24, 2025 (Build 3.98.34263.0)
- Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when making a theme with an image the default.
March 18, 2025 (Build 3.98.34222.0)
- New: Engage learners with fluid transitions that seamlessly animate objects, shapes, and other content between slides.
- New: Wow learners with powerful interactivity. Precisely edit object properties and create advanced animations like parallax using a JavaScript API.
- New: Optimize accessibility with a set-focus trigger that lets you control when course elements receive focus.
- Enhanced: New icons now display as individual icons to accessibility tools by default. You no longer need to hide each shape component of the icon separately.
- Enhanced: We added a new Singaporean English neural voice, Jasmine, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Enhanced: We clarified the function of the Apply to all button for adding alt text in the media library and Size and Position window.
- Enhanced: The media library now has separate tabs for alt text, captions, and internal notes.
- Enhanced: We ended support for 32-bit Windows. You need a 64-bit machine to update Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Audio didn't play as expected when it was on a slide master layout layer or the next slide.
- Fixed: When a course was accessed using an NVDA screen reader, the punctuation in keyboard shortcuts wasn't announced and arrow-key navigation to the play button didn't work.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when exporting AI text-to-speech audio.
February 25, 2025 (Build 3.97.34031.0)
- New: Build math equations using LaTeX syntax and revise them by adding color and alt text, all within Storyline 360.
- New: Discover the right voice for your content with thousands of ultrarealistic, AI-generated voices that can be filtered by age, gender, and use case.
- Enhanced: Text-to-speech narration, sound effects, audio, and video content with closed captions now display a CC label in their audio icons on the timeline for quick identification.
- Enhanced: Open the closed captions editor right from the context menu to add or edit captions for media content.
- Enhanced: Closed captions are generated by default when converting text to speech.
- Enhanced: Quickly sort images in the media library by their pixel dimensions.
- Enhanced: To ensure a better user experience, we're ending support for 32-bit Windows. As of the next update, you'll need a 64-bit machine to update Storyline 360.
- Fixed: In published video output, mouse movements displayed at incorrect times in screen recordings and pause-media triggers didn't work.
- Fixed: Line spacing and paragraph changes made to slide notes didn't display during preview or in the published output.
- Fixed: The xAPI statement editor didn't generate object names.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't announce text on lightbox slides.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when using a keyboard shortcut to open the Size and Position window.
January 21, 2025 (Build 3.96.33815.0)
- Enhanced: Text-to-speech narration, sound effects, and audio with closed captions now display a CC label in their audio icons on the slide stage for quick identification.
- Enhanced: The description in the Upgrade Project Text window is clearer, indicating that upgrading project text uses text autofit improvements.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 130.0.6723.117 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: When navigating to the next slide in Try Mode, step-by-step slides behaved erratically.
- Fixed: Audio didn't loop when designed to do so.
- Fixed: JAWS 2025 screen readers didn't always activate buttons from the base layer.
- Fixed: Objects with exit animations flickered when they were listed before audio on the timeline.
- Fixed: Slide note text got smaller when it was published.
- Fixed: Media content didn't play as expected when using the seekbar.
- Fixed: Grouped objects with both emphasis animations and states didn't work properly.
December 17, 2024 (Build 3.95.33670.0)
- Enhanced: Select an admin to notify by email when submitting courses to Reach 360.
- Enhanced: You can now drag audio and video files from your computer directly onto a slide.
- Fixed: Slides sometimes flickered when navigating between layers.
- Fixed: The accessibility focus indicator didn't highlight slide objects when using change-state triggers.
- Fixed: Text formatting wasn't always preserved in existing projects.
- Fixed: Line spacing changes made to slide notes didn't display during preview or in the published output.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when a project with an empty starting scene was published to Review 360.
- Fixed: Some triggers executed slowly, and others weren't included in Word documents exported for translation.
December 5, 2024 (Build 3.94.33593.0)
- Fixed: The AI Assistant side panel didn't initially display all the available features when in Slide View.
November 19, 2024 (Build 3.94.33511.0)
- Enhanced: Add text-to-speech narration, sound effects, or audio from the media library to your question feedback.
- Fixed: Markers that were duplicated and had zoom enabled didn't display correctly.
- Fixed: When projects were published to Word, question feedback had incorrect text and layers and answer choices were reversed.
- Fixed: Videos wouldn't save after changing the volume in the video editor.
- Fixed: Restart-course triggers didn't reset question slides to their initial states.
- Fixed: Audio might not play as expected when using jump-to-slide triggers or adding audio to a slide layout.
- Fixed: Keyboard navigation worked inconsistently when interacting with 360° images.
- Fixed: Multiple audio tracks played simultaneously on slides that were set to resume saved states and had videos.
- Fixed: Objects traveling along a motion path didn't move to the right position.
- Fixed: Slides could flicker when navigating between layers.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't always announce layer content.
- Fixed: Question and lightbox slides were blank when a quiz review was resumed.
October 22, 2024 (Build 3.93.33359.0)
- Enhanced: Expand your reach with a new AI text-to-speech model that supports Hungarian, Norwegian, and Vietnamese in addition to the 29 other languages already supported.
- Enhanced: Quickly access your preferred AI-generated voices by marking them as favorites.
- Enhanced: Easily find the AI-generated voices used in your project by filtering the view in the Voices tab.
- Enhanced: Display more AI-generated content by resizing the write and edit inline window.
- Enhanced: You can now add text-to-speech narration and sound effects to markers.
- Enhanced: The ”Try again” option in write and edit inline would return previously generated results. We refined the experience by removing this option.
- Fixed: Dynamic variable placeholder values disappeared after resizing the browser or preview window.
- Fixed: Text typed into the notes panel loaded slowly.
- Fixed: The save icon sometimes became disabled when it should have been active.
- Fixed: Content didn't load as expected when using jump-to-time or cue-point triggers.
- Fixed: Text alignment wasn't preserved in existing projects.
October 8, 2024 (Build 3.92.33293.0)
- Fixed: Opening a project file that was published to Review 360 could cause performance issues in Review 360.
September 17, 2024 (Build 3.92.33225.0)
- New: AI Assistant launched! Accelerate course creation with an insightful AI assistant that's seamlessly integrated into Storyline 360. Compose effective copy and generate high-quality quizzes, summaries, and imagery.
- Enhanced: Fix publishing issues faster with detailed error messages that include actionable guidance.
- Enhanced: We modernized the Publish Successful window and some of the File tab icons to improve clarity.
- Enhanced: We added a new Czech neural voice, Jitka, and a new German (Swiss) neural voice, Sabrina, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Fixed: Video content continued to play when the timeline was paused.
- Fixed: Courses published using cmi5 reported incorrect quiz percentage scores to LMSs.
- Fixed: Line spacing changes weren't preserved in projects created using previous versions of Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Emphasis animations didn't work when using accessible text.
September 3, 2024 (Build 3.91.33139.0)
- Fixed: Multiple audio tracks played simultaneously when dragging the seekbar.
- Fixed: The closed caption button disappeared when revisiting slides configured to use it.
August 28, 2024 (Build 3.91.33104.0)
- Fixed: Only the first line of a closed caption displayed.
August 27, 2024 (Build 3.91.33096.0)
- Fixed: Table text was missing when the project used classic text.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 generated an error when closing the Reporting and Tracking Options window.
- Fixed: Audio behaved erratically when using layers or jump-to-time triggers.
- Fixed: GIFs didn't replay when changing states.
August 20, 2024 (Build 3.91.33016.0)
- Enhanced: Enhance security when publishing courses to Microsoft Word, which now supports the modern DOCX file format.
- Enhanced: We redesigned the File tab, moving the "Translation" option higher and adding a divider above it.
- Fixed: Table text and certain letters in the course title might not display correctly.
- Fixed: Videos didn't loop when designed to do so.
- Fixed: Object states, layers, animations, and audio started over when revisiting slides even if they were set to resume saved states.
- Fixed: Pinch-to-zoom and double-tap gestures didn't work.
July 30, 2024 (Build 3.90.32893.0)
- Fixed: Restart course triggers didn't work as expected. Install the latest update and republish your course to fix the broken triggers.
- Fixed: The heading text on the Publish window didn't display correctly when the interface language was set to French, German, or Spanish.
July 23, 2024 (Build 3.90.32850.0)
- Enhanced: Enhance table accessibility with built-in screen reader support.
- Enhanced: When writing alt text in Storyline 360, you’ll now see a dynamic character count and a tip not to exceed 150 characters.
- Enhanced: Copy the share link to your published course in Review 360 and the link to your submitted course in Reach 360 without opening your browser.
- Enhanced: We restored all 22 previously removed standard voices for text-to-speech conversion.
- Fixed: The pulse animation of a marker didn't display correctly.
- Fixed: Certain emphasis animations fired at the wrong time.
- Fixed: An object with an entrance animation could flicker or disappear when slides were revisited.
- Fixed: Text on feedback layers defaulted to English even though text labels had been switched to a different language.
- Fixed: GIFs didn't replay on revisited slides that were configured to reset to their initial states.
- Fixed: Grouped objects flickered when using jump-to-time triggers.
- Fixed: Triggers to hide or show layers didn't execute and caused slides to lock up.
- Fixed: Layer content could display incorrectly.
- Fixed: Audio continued to play after switching to another browser tab or minimizing the window.
- Fixed: Disabled states didn't work in drag-and-drop interactions.
- Fixed: Line spacing changes weren't preserved in existing projects.
June 18, 2024 (Build 3.89.32618.0)
- Enhanced: Table text and sequence drag-and-drop answers now support accessible text, making them more readable.
- Enhanced: The image placeholder on slide and feedback layouts now lets you insert an image from the media library.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 124.0.6367.207 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: If dropped outside a target, dragged items didn't return to their starting point when set to do so.
- Fixed: Emphasis animations didn't work after interacting with a lightbox and behaved erratically when looped.
- Fixed: Some letters on the course start page didn't display correctly.
June 6, 2024 (Build 3.88.32574.0)
- Fixed: Objects removed from the focus order were revealed to keyboard and screen reader users.
- Fixed: Screen readers incorrectly announced text.
- Fixed: Multiple audio tracks played simultaneously when revisiting slides that were set to resume saved states.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop and drop-down questions might not have loaded when learners revisited them.
- Fixed: Grouped objects and videos didn't work as expected when dragging the seekbar.
May 28, 2024 (Build 3.88.32474.0)
- New: Easily adjust interactive marker sizes to optimize accessibility for any screen.
- New: Expand your global reach with 45 new language options for text labels.
- Enhanced: To boost stability, performance, and memory access, 64-bit Storyline 360 is now the default Storyline version in the desktop app. You can restore access to 32-bit Storyline 360 in your preferences.
- Fixed: Working with certain fonts and non-English characters or switching your keyboard input language to Thai caused Storyline 360 to crash.
- Fixed: Variable values disappeared after resizing the browser or preview window.
- Fixed: The focus indicator incorrectly highlighted line breaks in hyperlinks for keyboard and screen reader users.
- Fixed: Setting the line spacing above 20 points caused text to overlap.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 generated an error when previewing or publishing projects with text boxes that animated by paragraph and had hover states.
- Fixed: Audio didn't play after resuming a course that had auto-locked on an iOS device.
April 30, 2024 (Build 3.87.32265.0)
- Enhanced: Screen reader support during preview is now optional. Turn it on in the Storyline Options window.
- Enhanced: We improved the default player text labels by sorting them into descriptive categories for easier navigation and removing outdated ones.
- Fixed: Erratic movement made cropping a rotated image difficult.
- Fixed: The playhead sometimes jumped to an incorrect point on the audio waveform in the audio editor.
- Fixed: Video content continued to play after switching to another browser tab or minimizing the window.
- Fixed: The button to clear the search-field text was hidden from keyboard navigation and screen readers.
- Fixed: Animated GIFs sometimes flickered or even disappeared when changing states.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 generated an error when working with custom templates that have a result slide.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 sometimes froze when inserting an illustrated character.
- Fixed: Slider thumbs didn't always move when selected.
- Fixed: Hyperlinks didn't work on touchscreen devices.
March 22, 2024 (Build 3.86.32080.0)
- Fixed: You couldn't sign in to the Articulate 360 desktop app via your default browser, preventing you from accessing Storyline 360.
March 19, 2024 (Build 3.86.32028.0)
- New: Position captions at the top or bottom of the slide to ensure closed caption visibility and prevent the obstruction of critical course content.
- New: Customize the foreground and background colors of closed captions to complement your course design and maintain contrast accessibility.
- Enhanced: We reorganized the Colors & Effects window of the modern player properties into two intuitive sections—player and closed captions.
- Enhanced: There’s a new way to edit Engage interactions from 64-bit Storyline 360. Export the interaction for editing, then replace it with the updated one.
- Fixed: Markers on a layer didn't open when learners revisited them.
- Fixed: Hover states for answer choices remained visible during quiz review.
- Fixed: Multiple hyperlinks didn't work when they were contained in a text box with a scroll bar.
- Fixed: Courses published with static quality incorrectly included an hls.min.js file, which is only needed for streaming video.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when editing triggers referencing variables or publishing projects with only blank spaces in their titles.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't use the ESC key to close player tabs or the accessibility settings menu.
- Fixed: The accessibility focus indicator didn't accommodate all slide notes, skipped scroll bars during keyboard navigation, and was misaligned for navigation buttons on lightboxes.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't always access the close button for Storyline blocks in Rise 360 courses when using a mobile device.
- Fixed: Videos didn't loop when designed to do so.
March 11, 2024 (Build 3.85.31840.0)
February 20, 2024 (Build 3.85.31840.0)
- New: Save time by instantly updating the formatting of all slide notes in your project.
- New: Use the built-in console to find JavaScript code errors in Storyline 360 without publishing your course.
- Enhanced: Screen recording is now supported in 64-bit Storyline 360.
- Enhanced: If changes made to audio don’t save, Storyline 360 lets you know and asks if you’d like to try saving them again.
- Enhanced: We set the default font size for slide notes in new projects to 12 pt to improve legibility.
- Enhanced: New projects default to accessible feedback layers that automatically meet color, contrast, and focus guidelines. Modern and classic feedback styles are still available as options.
- Enhanced: Following best practices for accessibility, Storyline 360 now uses the term “alternative text” instead of “alternate text” in the interface.
- Enhanced: We added a new Turkish neural voice, Burcu, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Fixed: Hotspots were revealed to keyboard and screen reader users even when they had been removed from the focus order.
- Fixed: Closing a lightbox from a 360° image could reset the focus order.
- Fixed: Pressing the Enter key to change the course playback speed didn't work when using keyboard-only navigation.
- Fixed: Screen readers announced menu items even when the sidebar was collapsed to hide them.
- Fixed: Closed captions disappeared when viewing videos in full-screen mode on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Emphasis-animation triggers could become incomplete after reopening a project file.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop interactions didn't work correctly.
- Fixed: Changes to the spacing setting didn't save when opening project files with the previous update.
- Fixed: Callout shapes didn't scale properly after resizing the browser window.
February 6, 2024 (Build 3.84.31722.0)
- Fixed: Player tab content didn't display after visiting a slide with a text-entry field that wrapped to multiple lines.
January 23, 2024 (Build 3.84.31647.0)
- New: Choose from a library of emphasis animations that grab learners’ attention with effects like pulsing, shaking, and teetering.
- Enhanced: If project assets become corrupt, Storyline 360 lets you know and makes it easy to recover them. Learn more.
- Enhanced: You can now preview JavaScript triggers in the modern player.
- Enhanced: All the modern player controls meet the latest guidance for minimum target size in WCAG 2.2.
- Enhanced: The font scaling improvements released on January 24, 2023 are enabled by default for new and existing projects. Now when you change your slide dimensions, Storyline 360 automatically scales font sizes throughout your project to preserve the slide designs and prevent scrollbars from appearing in text boxes.
- Fixed: We fixed several issues that occurred if a course was revisited after selecting the “always resume” option, including an LMS error message, erratic behavior in freeform drag-and-drop questions, failure to display slide number variables, locked menu navigation, and non-functioning hyperlinks.
- Fixed: Text-to-speech narration with SSML tags didn't work correctly when a blank space or line break appeared at the beginning or end of the script.
- Fixed: Numbered lists that animated by paragraph didn't display correctly.
- Fixed: Hyperlink states didn't work as expected when navigating only with a keyboard or after duplicating a slide.
- Fixed: XLIFF 2.0 files with duplicate tags might not import.
- Fixed: Rapid mouse movements over an object caused its hover state to remain visible.
- Fixed: The focus rectangle could be misaligned for text-entry fields.
December 13, 2023 (Build 3.83.31444.0)
- Enhanced: Unlock new possibilities for text-to-speech audio. Use speech synthesis markup language (SSML) to adjust the speaking rate, modify pronunciation, emphasize words, add pauses, and more.
- Fixed: Learners might see the course start page even though the first slide didn't have media.
- Fixed: Text in shapes that animated by paragraph could have spacing issues.
- Fixed: On mobile devices in landscape mode, VoiceOver screen readers didn't initially advise learners to rotate their device.
- Fixed: Player tab content didn't display after visiting a slide with a text-entry field taller than 60 pixels.
November 28, 2023 (Build 3.82.31354.0)
- New: Harness the processing power in modern computers with 64-bit Storyline 360. Large, media-rich courses benefit from increased stability and faster performance.
- Enhanced: Customize the background audio experience even further. Fine-tune the volume with a percentage-based variable.
- Enhanced: Player controls and navigation buttons now display tooltips that are accessible to mouse, keyboard, and screen reader users.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 117.0.5938.132 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: You no longer need to add quotes to variable values in custom xAPI statements.
- Fixed: Closed captions in Google Chrome might not load initially or when resuming a course.
- Fixed: Keyboard navigation focused on the wrong object when opening a layer and failed when interacting with 360° image markers.
- Fixed: The focus order was incorrect when viewing courses in full-screen mode in an LMS.
November 7, 2023 (Build 3.81.31200.0)
- Enhanced: Control the background audio for each slide using triggers to play, pause, or stop the playlist.
- Enhanced: The “Back to top” and “Skip navigation” buttons and the volume slider now meet color contrast guidelines.
- Enhanced: We made wrapping text in text-entry fields easier by replacing the outdated autofit options in the Format Shape window with a simple check box.
- Enhanced: For new projects that use the modern player, navigation buttons now display both icons and text by default. You can switch to just icons or text instead.
- Enhanced: We added two new English (US) neural voices, Danielle and Gregory, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't always follow the correct focus order around the player menu or hidden slide objects.
- Fixed: NVDA skipped elements on layers and lightboxes and announced invalid-answer messages twice.
- Fixed: The focus rectangle was misaligned for hyperlinks that animated by paragraph.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't announce alt text for link icons in player resources.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 didn't always preserve text formatting when using custom slide layouts or importing PowerPoint slide masters.
- Fixed: Edited audio became corrupt when adding closed captions.
- Fixed: On feedback masters, hide-layer triggers didn't work, and cropped illustrated characters became blurry during preview.
- Fixed: Hebrew text displayed incorrectly when previewed or published.
October 3, 2023 (Build 3.80.31058.0)
- New: Access your Storyline 360 project files from anywhere and share them with team members by uploading your source files to Review 360. Rest easy knowing your projects are backed up, making previous versions easy to recover.
September 19, 2023 (Build 3.80.30988.0)
- Enhanced: Generate realistic, natural-sounding text-to-speech narration with neural voices.
- Fixed: When retrying incorrect questions, the first question briefly displayed even when you got it right.
- Fixed: In the player menu, question bank slides weren't highlighted when selected or visited.
- Fixed: Audio from the base layer wouldn't play in published video output when slide layers paused the timeline of the base layer or hid objects on the base layer.
- Fixed: Font sizes shrunk for sequence drop-down answers when previewed or published.
- Fixed: Cropping an illustrated character made it blurry.
- Fixed: Text in shapes with a zoom animation could have spacing issues.
- Fixed: Some player text labels erroneously appeared in the translation Word document or XLIFF file.
- Fixed: Arabic hyperlinks, hyperlinks in states, and triggers that referenced hyperlinks might not work.
- Fixed: The starting frames of screen recordings were blurry.
- Fixed: An error occurred when switching to a custom player with a logo.
September 5, 2023 (Build 3.79.30921.0)
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when fine-tuning screen recordings.
- Fixed: Images with transparency appeared darker in the Storyline 360 editor.
August 22, 2023 (Build 3.79.30834.0)
- Enhanced: Control how learners navigate submitted quiz questions by turning player navigation elements on or off.
- Enhanced: Background audio is now supported in published video output.
- Fixed: Hindi text could display incorrectly in published output, and some Arabic characters wouldn't display on iOS devices.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 performance lagged when applying picture effects to cropped images.
- Fixed: Mincho fonts caused Storyline 360 to crash.
- Fixed: The seekbar started over when playing a video in Safari on a Mac. And resume-timeline triggers didn't execute after viewing a video completely.
- Fixed: Courses could report a passed status to an LMS when learners resumed the course even though they failed a quiz.
- Fixed: When printing quiz results, the prompt to enter the learner's name was "undefined."
July 27, 2023 (Build 3.78.30747.0)
- Fixed: The full-screen button stopped working for videos embedded as web objects.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash after cancelling the publishing process for Review 360.
July 18, 2023 (Build 3.78.30680.0)
- New: Speed the review process and never miss crucial feedback with in-app comments. Review 360 comments appear in context as you're working in Storyline 360, so you can act on stakeholder feedback immediately. Reply to comments and resolve them in real-time as you create content. Add images from comments to training with a single click.
- Enhanced: Display crisp text and images in embedded web objects by unchecking the scaling option.
- Enhanced: Storyline blocks in Rise 360 courses now display full-screen on mobile devices when player controls are turned off.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 112.0.5615.165 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Triggers that referenced the normal state stopped working.
- Fixed: Spelling suggestions for misspelled words didn't replace the text as expected in slide notes.
- Fixed: Audio didn't play when revisiting courses on iOS devices with silent mode enabled.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 didn't always generate an error when projects failed to publish to Word.
- Fixed: Background audio unexpectedly played when watching video content on a layer.
June 22, 2023 (Build 3.77.30587.0)
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash unexpectedly.
June 20, 2023 (Build 3.77.30568.0)
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 now supports screen recordings on primary and secondary monitors with DPI settings over 100%.
- Enhanced: Set your cover photo to fill the player frame. Enable it in the player properties.
- Enhanced: The trigger wizard performs faster on M-series Macs.
- Fixed: Sliders and dials didn't work on touchscreen devices.
- Fixed: Shadows on captions would display even though the shadow setting was turned off in the default format.
- Fixed: Jump-to-next-scene triggers on slide masters stopped working.
- Fixed: Pausing the timeline could cause closed captions to disappear and videos to get out of sync.
- Fixed: Custom submit buttons in hotspot questions didn't work.
- Fixed: Radio buttons and check boxes didn't inherit color changes.
- Fixed: Lightboxes could flicker.
- Fixed: The final score for quizzes with branching could display incorrectly when refreshing the browser.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when projects had special characters in their titles. Output folder names may be different from project titles.
- Fixed: Hover states could remain visible when revisiting slides.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't continue after submitting essay questions.
May 30, 2023 (Build 3.76.30446.0)
- Enhanced: The lost connectivity alert is now optional. Turn it on in the player properties.
- Enhanced: Data-entry fields wrap text to multiple lines based on the “wrap text” option rather than the height of the field. You no longer need to make the height more than 60 pixels.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 now supports high-resolution animated GIFs.
- Enhanced: You can now insert web videos using relative paths.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 112.0.5615.49 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop interactions behaved erratically after multiple attempts.
- Fixed: Text-entry fields with a dashed line outline displayed differently in the published output.
- Fixed: Images with zoom enabled were blurry.
- Fixed: Timeline preview buttons weren't always clickable.
- Fixed: Triggers on hotspots could fire unexpectedly, and change-state triggers didn't always work in question banks.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 didn't preserve formatting for tables imported from PowerPoint, and an error could occur during import.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't switch to full-screen mode on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could freeze when minimized. It could crash when inserting SVG images or fine tuning screen recordings.
- Fixed: Hyperlinks in text boxes that animated by paragraph didn't work correctly.
- Fixed: Zoom regions didn't work at the beginning of the timeline on slides with transitions.
- Fixed: The “Lower background audio volume when slide audio plays” option didn’t always work.
- Fixed: On mobile devices, some interactive objects became unresponsive, and navigation could lock on slides with multiple videos.
April 18, 2023 (Build 3.75.30269.0)
- Fixed: The video compression setting was disabled when it should have been active.
- Fixed: Sliders skipped a step when their starting or ending value was a negative number.
- Fixed: The print results
report.html
file didn't include every quiz and survey response when learners resumed the course.
- Fixed: Layers with multiple text boxes and text-entry fields would load slowly.
- Fixed: A numeric-entry field displayed "NaN" when a trigger adjusted its default value.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop interactions could stop working when learners revisited them.
- Fixed: The focus order was incorrect for shuffled pick-one and pick-many interactions.
- Fixed: Hyperlink states didn't always work.
- Fixed: The resources player tab displayed even though it was disabled in slide properties.
- Fixed: A course with the menu disabled could freeze when it included a video with controls and captions.
April 4, 2023 (Build 3.74.30180.0)
- New: Create immersive experiences with continuous background audio that sets the tone and keeps learners engaged. Learners can turn off background audio if they prefer.
- New: Generate synchronized video transcripts from closed captions so visual content is accessible to all learners, including those who rely on screen readers, use braille displays, or prefer to read.
- New: Publish Storyline 360 courses directly to Reach 360—a lightweight distribution tool to deploy your e-learning content to more learners, including deskless workers, contractors, and customers.
- New: Empower learners with accessible question feedback layers that meet color, contrast, and focus guidelines by default.
- Enhanced: Quickly apply a feedback master to multiple question slides simultaneously.
- Enhanced: Easily create time-based triggers in minutes and seconds. You no longer need to convert values to seconds only.
- Enhanced: We added streaming video support for videos in 360° images.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when adding conditions to triggers or publishing to Word.
- Fixed: Screen readers skipped some objects on layers and unexpectedly changed the state of some hyperlinks.
- Fixed: Audio could cause buffering of slides. And courses with videos might not load in Safari.
- Fixed: Shapes didn't always inherit the new theme color choice.
- Fixed: The correct feedback layer didn’t inherit font and color changes from the feedback master.
- Fixed: Text-to-speech narration included the word "dot" when it exceeded 1,000 characters.
- Fixed: Sliders continued to work when they were disabled.
- Fixed: Changes made to Engage 360 interactions didn't display in the published output.
March 21, 2023 (Build 3.73.30119.0)
We temporarily removed the project recovery enhancements released on February 21, 2023 to stabilize performance. We'll reintroduce this feature with improvements in a future update. Let us know if you have any questions. We're happy to help!
February 28, 2023 (Build 3.73.29904.0)
- Fixed: Duplicating or importing question slides didn't work.
February 21, 2023 (Build 3.73.29831.0)
- New: Deliver video content to all learners, regardless of their internet speed.
- New: Boost video accessibility by including closed captions when publishing projects as MP4 video files.
Enhanced: We strengthened the recovery capabilities of Storyline 360 for project files that won't open.
- Fixed: Hyperlinks in marker titles didn't work.
- Fixed: The color selector could be slow to respond or close unexpectedly.
January 26, 2023 (Build 3.72.29699.0)
We removed the font scaling improvements released on January 24, 2023 to give everyone more time to consider project compatibility implications. This update restores compatibility with Storyline 3 and earlier builds of Storyline 360. Let us know if you have any questions. We're happy to help!
January 24, 2023 (Build 3.72.29654.0)
- New: Let learners explore at their own pace by choosing a course playback speed between 0.25x and 2x.
Enhanced: When you change your slide dimensions, Storyline 360 automatically scales font sizes throughout your project to preserve the slide designs and prevent scrollbars from appearing in text boxes.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 output supports Live Caption in Google Chrome.
- Enhanced: The modern player controls have fixed positions across the bottom of the player, so they're consistent and easy for learners to remember. When you turn off the seekbar, the other controls no longer move to the opposite side of the player.
- Enhanced: On the player properties window, we left-aligned all the modern player controls (play/pause, volume, etc.) so they're easier to find. We also moved the check boxes for the player tabs (menu, glossary, etc.) to the left for consistency.
- Enhanced: We updated several fonts that get installed with Storyline 360 to the latest versions.
- Fixed: Slide notes were missing from the published output for question bank slides.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't resume courses using the classic player unless they maximized the window before clicking the resume option.
- Fixed: Projects failed to publish when their titles ended with spaces or ellipses.
- Fixed: When changing the state of a button from disabled to normal, the normal state could display incorrect attributes, such as color.
December 13, 2022 (Build 3.71.29339.0)
- Enhanced: Apply new info (i) and exit (x) icons to your buttons and markers.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 courses now report the points assigned to each quiz question (i.e., the weighting value) to LMSs for cmi5, SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC content.
- Fixed: The continue button on quiz feedback layers didn't inherit state changes, such as color adjustments, from the feedback master. To restore inheritance in an existing project, install the latest software update and reapply feedback layouts to the quiz feedback layers.
- Fixed: The enhanced color selector didn't always apply gradient colors or HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) values correctly.
November 29, 2022 (Build 3.70.29211.0)
- New: Define two actions for a single trigger instead of needing multiple triggers. Set up conditions to determine which action gets executed.
- New: Streamline your design workflow to create uniquely customized courses, now with a persistent color selector that lets you organize custom colors into different palettes.
- Enhanced: We simplified the published output by removing
Storyline output
from the folder name.
- Enhanced: Hyperlinked properties on the Publish window are now blue to indicate that they’re clickable.
- Enhanced: Scroll bars on slides, layers, and slide masters now meet color contrast guidelines.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 106.0.5249.119 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Text boxes that animate by paragraph might not load consistently.
November 7, 2022 (Build 3.69.28997.0)
- New: Create quizzes faster. Set default slide layer properties, such as accessibility attributes, for feedback masters and layouts.
- Enhanced: Notify learners when they lose their internet connection so they don't lose their progress.
- Fixed: NVDA screen readers incorrectly announced text boxes and scrolling panels.
- Fixed: Learners could get stuck on the correct feedback layer when they answered a quiz question correctly, then exited and resumed the course.
- Fixed: Copying and pasting step-by-step slides could reset the starting and ending frames to zero seconds.
- Fixed: Timeline scrubbing didn't work on lists animated by paragraph.
October 6, 2022 (Build 3.68.28887.0)
- Fixed: Segoe UI fonts could cause Storyline 360 to crash when previewing or publishing.
September 22, 2022 (Build 3.68.28817.0)
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when creating new theme colors.
- Fixed: M4A audio files wouldn't import.
September 20, 2022 (Build 3.68.28773.0)
- New: Keep track of third-party software components in Articulate 360 to comply with your organization's security practices. Visit the Help tab on the Storyline 360 ribbon and click 3rd Party Software.
- Enhanced: Easily adjust object timing in minutes and seconds. You no longer need to convert values to seconds only.
- Fixed: Project files might not save due to low system memory on computers with Intel Iris Xe Graphics hardware.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't always announce interactive object states, expanded markers, or slide numbers in the player menu.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't announce the title of the resume prompt as heading level 1, and they incorrectly announced the invalid-answer message as heading level 3.
- Fixed: The visible focus indicator sometimes disappeared from player controls when using a screen reader.
- Fixed: Screen reader users couldn't activate hyperlinks that had custom alt text.
- Fixed: Closed captions sometimes displayed in the middle of the slide on mobile devices in landscape mode.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't click resources in the classic player on mobile devices.
- Fixed: The first SVG image in a project could replace all other SVG images when previewing or publishing a course.
- Fixed: The full-screen toggle disappeared on slides with custom player settings.
August 23, 2022 (Build 3.67.28569.0)
- New: Go big. Add a player toggle to let learners view courses in full-screen mode.
- New: Let learners print individual slides, such as certificates, with a single trigger.
- New: Easily renumber scenes in story view so they appear in the order you want.
- New: Easily combine multiple must-pass quizzes into a final result slide using a prebuilt template that's accessible by default.
- Enhanced: Assign unique names to your quiz result slides, making it easy to identify the corresponding built-in variables for each quiz.
- Enhanced: Create slides faster. Swap out variable references right from the context menu.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't use keyboard navigation to access the previous and next buttons after interacting with a lightbox, and the focus indicator could disappear after closing a layer.
- Fixed: Screen reader users couldn't use arrow keys to navigate through scrolling panels, and screen readers might announce check boxes twice.
- Fixed: The numbers were missing from sequence and ranking drag-and-drop questions.
July 28, 2022 (Build 3.66.28355.0)
- Fixed: Firefox 103 wouldn't load courses with media on the first slide.
July 19, 2022 (Build 3.66.28270.0)
- New: Scrub the timeline to quickly see when timed elements appear and disappear on the stage without previewing the entire slide.
- New: View and adjust the duration of object animations right on the timeline.
- New: Quickly toggle between an object's current state and its hidden or disabled state. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Choose from four new chevron icons for your buttons and markers.
- Enhanced: Following Microsoft's lead, we ended support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and removed the publish-to-CD option from Storyline 360. Learn more.
- Fixed: Publishing a project with the previous update caused larger file sizes in the published output.
- Fixed: We fixed a couple of issues with player navigation buttons on mobile devices. Buttons were visible when they should've been disabled or hidden, and the Next button was disabled when revisiting a slide.
- Fixed: Aligning objects to the playhead or cue point extended the timeline, even when you selected the "Show Until End" option.
June 21, 2022 (Build 3.65.28121.0)
- New: Enable all learners to interact with videos via accessible controls that match the modern player style, exceed color contrast guidelines, and communicate perfectly with screen readers. Learners can even change the playback speed, switch to full-screen mode, and use picture-in-picture mode to move videos to a floating window.
- New: Take advantage of new quiz result slides with fresh designs that have color and contrast accessibility baked right in.
- New: Define theme colors for correct and incorrect quiz elements, such as icons and review banners, to keep your designs consistent.
- Enhanced: We updated the embedded version of Chromium to 101.0.4951.67 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Some Czech player text labels weren't translated correctly.
May 24, 2022 (Build 3.64.27845.0)
- New: Identify a slide layer as a modal dialog when you don't want learners to interact with anything else in the course while the layer is open. Dialog layers overlay the browser window and dim other content, creating a familiar navigation experience for everyone, including screen reader users.
- New: Use the question result variable to trigger different quiz review feedback based on how learners answer a question. The variable is set to true when they get it right and false when they get it wrong.
- Enhanced: Rename and reorder object states so they're easier to find.
- Enhanced: The Content Library 360 media browser remembers your previous search results and the last asset you selected. Quickly pick up where you left off to find related images, videos, or icons on your next search.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could jump to the top of the timeline panel after pasting objects to the bottom of the stack.
- Fixed: When revisiting slides, scrolling panels didn't return to their initial state as expected.
- Fixed: The accessibility focus order didn't follow the correct path for feedback layers when using a screen reader.
May 3, 2022 (Build 3.63.27674.0)
- Fixed: Images were blurry when scaled down.
April 20, 2022 (Build 3.63.27628.0)
- New: Create slides faster with time-saving upgrades to the timeline. Multi-select objects and move them all at once. Choose where pasted objects appear in the stacking order or even paste them into an existing group. Align objects to the playhead or vice versa. And when the timeline is too long, you can instantly reset it to five seconds or shorten it to the object with the longest duration.
- New: Control what happens when copying and pasting objects. Keep or discard their source duration, start time, animations, and triggers. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Customize the accessibility focus order faster. Select multiple objects, then move or remove them all at once.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 helps you publish faster by setting your default course title to the title placeholder on the first slide.
- Fixed: We improved how Storyline 360 handles images during import and in the published output, resulting in crisper images.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 would generate an error after inserting a large video.
- Fixed: Dragging the seekbar displayed objects on the slide even when they should've been hidden.
March 30, 2022 (Build 3.62.27443.0)
- Fixed: Slides with objects that animated by paragraph didn’t load when the project used classic text.
March 22, 2022 (Build 3.62.27371.0)
- Fixed: Storyline blocks in Rise 360 courses could be off-center.
- Fixed: Screen readers incorrectly announced some bullet symbols and bulleted lists.
- Fixed: We fixed some unexpected issues with markers. Marker labels could display after opening a layer or appear in front of other objects after learners clicked or hovered over them.
- Fixed: Pasting hyperlinks into Storyline 360 could result in duplicate hyperlinks or cause Storyline 360 to crash.
February 15, 2022 (Build 3.61.27106.0)
- New: Designing slides with variable references just got easier. Variable placeholders display their default values on the slide stage so you know how they'll look in your published output. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Easily supply the LRS actor with built-in JavaScript templates.
- Enhanced: We removed Tin Can API references from Storyline 360 in favor of the official name of the LMS standard—xAPI.
- Fixed: We fixed a few issues with variables. The
Project.SlideTitle
variable with bold formatting didn't display correctly. Renaming variables and then importing slides with those variables into another project resulted in duplicate variables.
- Fixed: The accessibility focus indicator didn't change to accommodate slide objects after resizing the browser window, and the focus indicator could disappear when revisiting slides and layers.
- Fixed: When using a screen reader, keyboard shortcuts didn't adjust the volume slider or move focus between glossary terms.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't announce alt text for data-entry fields and incorrectly announced expanded and collapsed states for the sidebar.
- Fixed: The
goodbye.html
page wouldn't display in an LMS.
- Fixed: Some touchscreen gestures could cause playback issues on mobile devices.
January 18, 2022 (Build 3.60.26947.0)
- New: Add buttons to marker and hotspot labels in 360° images so learners can trigger specific actions, such as launching a website or downloading a document.
- New: Exclude specific markers and hotspots from progress tracking in 360° images to capture more accurate results. Learn more.
- Enhanced: In the 360° image editor, the Media tab is now called Label to better reflect the context of the controls on the ribbon.
- Enhanced: Quickly swap the current SVG for a different one. The SVG Tools tab now includes a "replace picture" option on the ribbon.
- Fixed: Text with center or right alignment didn't display correctly.
- Fixed: Quiz timers reset to zero seconds when refreshing the browser tab or exiting and resuming the course.
- Fixed: We fixed several localization issues. Copying Hindi text from a Word doc and pasting it into Storyline 360 resulted in duplicate text. Arabic text overlapped with bullet points in the notes panel.
- Fixed: Changing the line spacing to 1.5 would offset hyperlinks in the accessibility focus indicator in the published output.
- Fixed: The object name didn't update on the timeline when replacing one image with another.
- Fixed: When commenting on a slide with a video in Review 360, a screenshot of the project wouldn't display in the feedback tab.
- Fixed: In the modern player, the focus order was always right to left when using tab-key navigation for topbar player features.
- Fixed: We fixed a few tracking issues in xAPI courses. Values of custom variables weren't sent to an LMS/LRS. Course completion triggers stopped working, so completion statuses could be wrong in an LMS/LRS.
- Fixed: If learners spent over a minute on a slide, audio on the next slide wouldn't play when viewed in Safari.
December 14, 2021 (Build 3.59.26702.0)
- Enhanced: We’re shutting down Articulate Online on December 31, 2021. To prepare, we removed the option to publish to Articulate Online from Storyline 360.
- Enhanced: On mobile devices in landscape mode, the seekbar in the modern player no longer overlaps the slide content. Now the seekbar displays below the slide content.
- Fixed: Key-press triggers stopped working if they were set to fire when the learner pressed the number 4 or 5 on their keyboard.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when tracking a result slide for an imported Quizmaker 360 quiz.
December 14, 2021 (Build 3.59.26702.0)
- Enhanced: We’re shutting down Articulate Online on December 31, 2021. To prepare, we removed the option to publish to Articulate Online from Storyline 360.
- Enhanced: On mobile devices in landscape mode, the seekbar in the modern player no longer overlaps the slide content. Now the seekbar displays below the slide content.
- Fixed: Key-press triggers stopped working if they were set to fire when the learner pressed the number 4 or 5 on their keyboard.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when tracking a result slide for an imported Quizmaker 360 quiz.
November 30, 2021 (Build 3.58.26627.0)
- New: Track learners’ progress in a learning record store (LRS)—even if you don't have a learning management system (LMS). You can send results to an LRS, an LMS, or both. Learn more.
- New: Create advanced reporting options. Use triggers to define custom xAPI statements, such as "Maria interacted with Office Tour 360° Image."
- New: Troubleshoot xAPI statements with an easy-to-use debugger. Find out which statements fail and why. Export your results and share them with your team for analysis.
- New: Create timed interactions and conditional triggers using built-in variables that track the total time a learner spends on a slide, a scene, or an entire course.
- New: Display tooltips when learners hover over markers and hotspots in 360° interactions so learners know what to expect before they click.
- Enhanced: Working with JavaScript is easier in Storyline 360. The JavaScript editor now includes syntax highlighting and line numbers.
- Enhanced: We updated the embedded version of Chromium to 94.0.4606.81 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Layers could flicker when hovering over an object.
- Fixed: 360° images wouldn't load in Safari 15.
- Fixed: The passing score for a quiz would reset when closing and reopening the Quiz Settings window.
November 2, 2021 (Build 3.57.26476.0)
- Fixed: Selected states for grouped objects wouldn't display.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when working with trigger conditions.
- Fixed: The quiz timer could speed up when taking quizzes.
October 26, 2021 (Build 3.57.26407.0)
- New: Import scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to Storyline 360 so images stay sharp when learners zoom in and out.
- New: Empower all learners to have the same engaging experience with built-in accessibility features for 360° images.
- New: Localize 360° interactions alongside the rest of your course when you export text to XLIFF or Word for translation. Learn more about translating courses.
- Enhanced: 360° images officially launched and no longer display the beta label. We're not done yet. There’s more work underway to make 360° images even more powerful.
- Enhanced: Easily control how combined result slides get scored when learners must pass each quiz to pass the course.
- Fixed: Quiz timers paused when switching to another browser tab, giving learners more time to complete quizzes.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't retry question bank quizzes that included locked questions.
- Fixed: The format painter behaved erratically when copying formatting from one object to another.
- Fixed: JAWS screen readers announced answer choices twice in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome.
September 28, 2021 (Build 3.56.26219.0)
- Fixed: Motion path directions were missing from path options.
- Fixed: Glossary CSV files wouldn't import.
September 21, 2021 (Build 3.56.26145.0)
- New: Create courses faster by changing the default slide dimensions for new projects.
- New: In 360° interactions, add alt text to images and videos to make them accessible to screen reader users. Stay tuned for more accessibility enhancements.
- Enhanced: Manage scoring for question bank quizzes with branching. Storyline 360 no longer scores only viewed questions by default, giving you the choice. Learn more.
- Enhanced: We upgraded the Microsoft .NET Framework dependency for Storyline 360 to version 4.8.
- Fixed: Course completion triggers stopped working in the classic player.
- Fixed: Text could change color in states after duplicating an object.
August 31, 2021 (Build 3.55.25975.0)
- Fixed: The previous update removed scroll bars from all fixed-size objects in projects where text autofit improvements were already enabled. This update preserves scroll bars in existing projects. Authors can choose to keep the scroll bars or allow text to overflow individual containers.
August 24, 2021 (Build 3.55.25954.0)
- New: Help learners navigate 360° images by providing instructions on where to find hotspots in guided-tour interactions. Learn more about hotspot hints.
- Enhanced: When you enable text autofit improvements, you can choose how Storyline 360 handles text that doesn't fit in fixed-size objects—let it overflow or add a scroll bar.
- Fixed: Sometimes a hover state wouldn't appear when there were disabled objects on the same slide. And sometimes text shifted when hovering over an object in a course using the classic player.
- Fixed: Audio on the final question slide in a quiz continued to play during quiz review.
- Fixed: Changes to the seekbar settings didn't always save when editing the classic player.
- Fixed: Some disabled objects could be accessed and activated via keyboard navigation.
- Fixed: Rapidly clicking the Next button in a published course could make slides blank when revisiting them.
- Fixed: Some letters changed fonts in glossary entries in the classic player.
- Fixed: Triggers with conditions based on object states stopped working on slides with multiple layers. And triggers that should've fired when a data-entry field lost focus actually fired at the start of the timeline instead.
- Fixed: Triggers on markers and hotspots in 360° interactions could cause a course to lock up on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Recent projects could be listed in the wrong order in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: The timing options for a zoom region could unexpectedly go blank and become grayed-out.
July 27, 2021 (Build 3.54.25674.0)
- New: Create immersive learning experiences with 360° images. Add interactive elements, such as hotspots and markers, to engage learners as they explore.
- New: Brand your courses by choosing a custom background color for the modern player.
- New: Make an impactful first impression. Add an image to your course start page to brand it or give learners an idea of the subject matter. Learn more about cover photos.
- New: Choose two colors—one light and one dark—for the accessibility focus indicator so it's visible against any background in your course (modern player only).
- New: Make closed captions easier to read. Increase the captions font size up to 200% in the modern player.
- New: Add alternative text to your course logo so it's accessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies.
- Enhanced: Thanks to your feedback, text autofit improvements are no longer enabled by default. Simply upgrade project text when you're ready to use the new autofit settings to make text more accessible to all learners.
- Fixed: Pressing the spacebar in slide view or using the timeline preview could prompt you to save your project file or cause Storyline 360 to close unexpectedly.
- Fixed: Certain fonts, such as Noto Sans SC and Quicksand, could cause Storyline 360 to crash or generate an error when previewing or publishing.
- Fixed: When duplicating question slides or importing them from a template, a hidden trigger could get added to the slides, causing them to be skipped in the published output.
- Fixed: Hover states were missing or incorrect for radio buttons and check boxes. This update won't fix existing slides, but it ensures new slides have the correct hover states.
- Fixed: Modern player buttons and controls could be misaligned.
- Fixed: Exported closed captions had the wrong file extension (e.g., MP3 or MP4). The correct extension is VTT.
June 29, 2021 (Build 3.53.25436.0)
- Enhanced: Thanks to your feedback, Word translation no longer splits text strings with basic font formatting, such as bold and italics, into multiple rows in the exported doc. And Storyline 360 preserves basic font formatting that you add to translated text in the Word doc when you import it back into your project file. Learn more.
- Enhanced: The built-in widescreen (16:9) slide size is bigger—960x540—giving you more room to work and resulting in fewer unexpected scroll bars in text objects.
- Enhanced: The seekbar is more accessible. Learners using screen readers on mobile devices can seek back and forth, and the seekbar is visible in high contrast mode.
- Enhanced: We updated the embedded version of Chromium to 90.0.4430.93 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Combining text and variables references in the same object could cause spacing or alignment issues in the published output.
- Fixed: Essay questions stopped enforcing the maximum number of characters specified by the author.
- Fixed: A learner's selected answer choices might be missing when they reviewed a quiz set to submit answers all at once.
- Fixed: Duplicating a slide with a zoom region caused other objects to disappear from the timeline panel for the new slide.
- Fixed: Lightboxes were blank when using modern player zoom (i.e., zoom to fit).
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could generate an error after opening the media library in some multi-monitor configurations.
June 1, 2021 (Build 3.52.25247.0)
- Fixed: Restart-course triggers caused the slide content to disappear.
- Fixed: Jump-to-slide triggers stopped working if they were set to execute when the timeline reached 0 seconds.
May 18, 2021 (Build 3.52.25156.0)
- New: Make text easier to read by controlling how it displays when it overflows its bounding box. Allow the object's width or height to expand to accommodate your text or lock the object at a fixed size to preserve your slide design. When locked, a scroll bar displays for text that doesn't fit. Learn more about text autofit improvements.
- Enhanced: Make accessible text the default text for a course with the click of a button. Learn more.
- Fixed: Text-wrapping could be enabled unexpectedly when dragging a text object. The text autofit improvements mentioned above fixed this issue. Upgrade text for existing projects to take advantage of the autofit enhancements.
- Fixed: We fixed some quizzing issues. Answer choices could overlap during quiz review. Results were calculated incorrectly after rapidly clicking the Next button through a quiz. Refreshing the browser tab or exiting and resuming the course after submitting a question and displaying its feedback allowed learners to retake the question.
- Fixed: A trigger that changed the state of an object after visiting other objects didn't work when the trigger was on a layer.
- Fixed: Projects with screen recordings took an exceedingly long time to publish as a video file.
- Fixed: Screen readers sometimes announced slide titles more than once.
- Fixed: The closed captioning button disappeared when slide layers paused the timeline of the base layer.
- Fixed: When viewing a course on an iPad, learners might need to tap buttons more than once to activate them, and rapidly tapping the Next button allowed learners to skip slides with restricted navigation.
- Fixed: Cropping a JPG image converted it to a PNG image, which could result in a larger file size in the published output.
April 27, 2021 (Build 3.51.24979.0)
- Enhanced: A "previous" button on the first slide of a course or a lightbox gets disabled and skipped during keyboard navigation, improving the experience for screen reader users and keyboard-only users.
- Enhanced: The closed captioning button's active state is more noticeable on the modern player, displaying an underline that matches the accent color.
- Enhanced: Easily identify the language of a Tin Can API (xAPI) course by entering a value in the Language Code field in your reporting and tracking options.
- Fixed: Learners could swipe on mobile devices to move between slides even when navigation was restricted and swipe gestures were turned off.
- Fixed: Sometimes, lightboxes were blank in published output.
- Fixed: Question details didn't always get sent to an LMS when a final result slide combined other result slides.
- Fixed: Screen readers constantly announced timestamps when the seekbar had focus. Now, screen readers announce the elapsed percentage one time when the seekbar gains focus—e.g., 10%. When learners activate the seekbar by pressing Enter or spacebar, screen readers announce the elapsed percentage as it changes—e.g., 10%, 11%, 12%, and so on.
- Fixed: NVDA screen readers didn't always follow the correct focus order of slide content, and the focus order sometimes started over from the beginning after opening a layer.
April 6, 2021 (Build 3.50.24832.0)
- New: Manually upload Storyline 360 courses to Review 360 when publishing directly from Storyline 360 is blocked by a firewall or when you need to edit the published output before sharing it with stakeholders.
- Fixed: Slide titles that wrapped to multiple lines in the menu could overlap one another.
- Fixed: Slide notes changed to a small, gray font that was hard to read when previewed or published.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could close unexpectedly after clicking the Edit in Engage button.
March 23, 2021 (Build 3.50.24668.0)
- New: The modern player meets WCAG accessibility guidelines for visual contrast and color so all learners can read the text, decipher the icons, perceive the controls, and navigate easily. Learn more about modern player accessible contrast.
- Enhanced: Since Adobe discontinued Flash at the end of 2020, we removed Flash features, including the options to import Flash movies and publish Flash output, from Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Tab-key navigation didn't follow the designated focus order on slide layers set to prevent learners from clicking on the base layer.
- Fixed: When a data-entry field was in a scrolling panel, the keyboard focus always started on the data-entry field rather than following the designated focus order.
- Fixed: The print results feature didn't work in CD-published output.
- Fixed: Triggers set to occur when media completes didn't always work when previewing a project.
February 23, 2021 (Build 3.49.24347.0)
- New: Word translation is faster, provides more context for translators, and preserves all text formatting, including lists and paragraph spacing. Plus, it uses the modern DOCX format, so you can open files in any DOCX editor, such as Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice.
- Enhanced: The accessibility controls for learners are now disabled by default in existing projects and saved custom players so authors don't have to opt out of the new controls for projects that are already going through the design process.
- Fixed: When the slide background was semi-transparent, the player frame color showed through the slide as expected in the published output. However, transparency didn't work on the slide stage or during preview.
- Fixed: When the seekbar was set to allow dragging only after completion, learners could drag the seekbar before completion on smartphones in portrait orientation.
- Fixed: An error occurred when changing the placeholder picture for a web object.
- Fixed: When publishing a project with slide transitions to a video file with very high quality, brief flashes or glitches could occur in the published output.
- Fixed: Gradient stops behaved erratically when edited.
- Fixed: Published courses could freeze when viewed in Safari on a Mac.
January 21, 2021 (Build 3.48.24159.0)
- Fixed: Project files wouldn't open after adding a result slide due to an error with text scrollbars.
January 19, 2021 (Build 3.48.24116.0)
- Enhanced: We added more keyboard shortcuts for learners, including play/pause, previous, next, and submit. Plus, learners can now use the ESC key to close the shortcuts screen.
- Enhanced: The new trigger workflow is now the only trigger workflow. We retired the classic workflow.
- Fixed: Shadow and glow effects stopped working in Google Chrome and chromium-based Microsoft Edge.
- Fixed: When publishing a course with the classic player style and HTML5-only features, such as jump-to-time triggers or multiple completion criteria, the output erroneously included Flash files.
- Fixed: Accented letters and special characters displayed as HTML-encoded strings on the start/resume screen in the modern player.
- Fixed: Quiz result slides didn't load when the player was set to never resume.
- Fixed: When setting a result slide to score only viewed questions and retry only incorrect questions, the final score could be over 100% or the result slide might not load.
- Fixed: Hyperlinks didn't always work when viewing courses in Internet Explorer.
- Fixed: When using the modern player style, the volume slider could move erratically, or the menu scroll bar could extend below the menu panel.
- Fixed: Audio might stop working when pausing and resuming a slide on Apple iOS devices.
December 15, 2020 (Build 3.47.23871.0)
- New: Let learners with accessibility needs change the visual appearance of text in a published course to make it more readable. Learn more about accessible text.
- New: Text publishes with the proper semantic formatting for headings, links, lists, and other elements so screen reader users can explore content easily.
- New: Use text styles to make content easy to navigate with a screen reader. Accessible text styles allow learners with visual disabilities to identify headings, hyperlinks, blockquotes, and paragraphs on each slide so they understand its layout and context. Learners can also use screen reader shortcuts to jump directly to headings and links.
- New: Create custom styles for every text element in a project, including blockquotes, button labels, image captions, speech bubbles, and more.
- New: Rename your custom text styles so they’re easy to identify. For example, you might rename Custom 1 as Button Labels.
- New: Let learners personalize their learning experience. When you enable the new accessibility settings menu, learners can change the zoom mode, turn accessible text on or off, and toggle keyboard shortcuts.
- Enhanced: Learners can now use keyboard shortcuts to mute/unmute audio, replay the slide, turn closed captions on/off, and more. Player controls also follow a more intuitive navigation order that's similar to popular video-streaming sites. Learn more about accessible player controls.
- Enhanced: We updated the embedded version of Chromium to 85.3.121.0 in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: With the introduction of accessible semantic formatting (see above), learners can now tab to hyperlinks in text boxes and activate them by pressing the Enter key. We also fixed links that didn't work when they were in a text box with a variable reference. And JAWS screen readers no longer announce links as buttons.
- Fixed: When using a screen reader, the focus order didn't always follow the correct path for slides with layers.
- Fixed: When using keyboard navigation, the focus rectangle was sometimes misaligned or offset from the selected object.
- Fixed: The playhead jumped back to the beginning of the timeline when previewing a layer.
- Fixed: Wipe and wheel animations stopped working for arrows and dashed lines.
- Fixed: The font size changed unexpectedly when pasting text from one theme to another, and text formatting was incorrect when pasting a text box and another object at the same time.
November 17, 2020 (Build 3.46.23620.0)
- New: Define styles for hyperlink states (normal, hover, active, and visited) to give your course a consistent design and provide clear visual distinction for learners with low vision.
- Enhanced: Text styles now support live previews. Hover over your styles in the ribbon drop-down list to see how the selected text looks with each one.
- Enhanced: Get details about each text style by glancing at its sub-menu in the ribbon drop-down list. The sub-menu header displays the style name, its HTML tag (for improved screen reader navigation—coming soon), plus its font, size, and decoration.
- Enhanced: When you publish courses to Articulate Online, Storyline 360 reminds you that Articulate Online will shut down on December 31, 2021.
- Fixed: Buttons were cut off or hidden on player notifications, such as the resume prompt and the invalid answer message, when the classic player was set to fill the browser window.
- Fixed: Arrows and dashed lines were blurry when previewed or published.
- Fixed: A shape with a picture fill set to "tile picture as texture" didn't always look right on the slide stage, and it displayed differently in preview mode.
- Fixed: Some Czech player text labels were actually Polish, and the optional launch page displayed question marks when using Hebrew text labels.
- Fixed: You couldn't add more than one "reset results" trigger on a slide.
- Fixed: When a layer was set to hide other slide layers, learners could still tab to data-entry fields on the other layers.
- Fixed: The timeline preview feature didn't always work. In some cases, playback would freeze at the beginning of the timeline.
October 27, 2020 (Build 3.45.23393.0)
- Enhanced: The new trigger workflow is now the default workflow for everyone. We'll retire the classic workflow in January 2021.
- Fixed: Scroll bars and red spell-check lines on one layer were visible on other layers when they should've been hidden.
- Fixed: A published course could flicker when moving from one layer to another.
- Fixed: Some Content Library 360 icons were blank when inserted into a project, and they could cause Storyline 360 to crash.
- Fixed: We fixed a couple of tracking issues. Completion triggers sent an unnecessary score of 0% to an LMS. And when a result slide tracked other result slides, the child result slides could become unchecked or deselected in the quiz settings for the final result slide.
- Fixed: The search and filter features in the media library stopped working.
September 29, 2020 (Build 3.44.23192.0)
- New: Let Storyline 360 keep track of every quiz in your course, then send results to your LMS for first quiz each learner completes. Learn more about expanded quiz tracking.
- New: Give learners more than one way to complete a course. Let your LMS mark the course complete as soon as learners view a certain number of slides, finish a quiz, or reach a completion trigger. Learn more about tracking multiple completion criteria.
- New: Allow learners to skip quiz questions without negatively affecting their score by grading only the questions they view. Details here.
- Enhanced: The Edit Result Slide button is now called Quiz Settings and has moved from the sidebar to the ribbon, giving you more space to work with triggers. We also redesigned the Quiz Settings window, adding an option to select and deselect all the questions in a scene at the same time.
- Enhanced: The Tab Order window is now called Focus Order to better reflect its purpose. It manages the tab order of interactive objects, such as buttons and markers, for keyboard-only users. It also manages the reading order of non-interactive objects, such as text and images, for screen reader users.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 no longer duplicates the slide master when you import more slides from a template or project you've already imported. New slides from the same source now use the same slide master so you only have to design it once with text styles and other thematic elements. The only time a new slide master gets generated is when the number of layouts differs between the existing slide master and the one being imported.
- Enhanced: Text style tooltips let you know when the style for the selected text has been modified by the placeholder on the slide master.
- Fixed: Images with animations might flicker when publishing a project as a video file.
- Fixed: Some "submit results" triggers were disabled when opening project files with the previous update. That was unexpected at the time. However, with the introduction of expanded quiz tracking in this update, untracked quizzes and combined result slides in existing project files have disabled "submit results" triggers by design. And new project files won't have any "submit results" triggers for untracked quizzes or combined result slides. Learn more.
- Fixed: A result slide that tracked other result slides didn't always send a score to an LMS.
- Fixed: Resetting a text-entry variable so it had no value didn't actually clear the text-entry field, and a course could freeze when setting a numeric-entry variable equal to the value of another variable.
- Fixed: Keyboard focus stayed on the submit button after submitting a quiz question, so screen readers didn't automatically announce content on the feedback layer.
- Fixed: Line spacing shrank on slide masters and feedback masters when using a custom story size.
- Fixed: Scroll bars in the sidebar didn't always start at the top of the panel, and sometimes links or files at the bottom of the Resources panel wouldn't open.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when previewing or publishing a project with states containing hyperlinks.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't scroll through the answer choices in the last list of sequence drop-down questions.
August 18, 2020 (Build 3.43.22859.0)
- Fixed: A timer could continue to display after moving past a quiz, and sometimes the "time limit exceeded" message would appear on a result slide.
- Fixed: After resuming an LMS course, learners couldn't drag the conditional seekbar on slides they already viewed.
- Fixed: On mobile devices, learners could drag the seekbar when it was supposed to be locked—either read-only or set to allow dragging after completion.
- Fixed: Learners could bypass restricted or locked navigation by rapidly, repeatedly clicking the Next button.
August 4, 2020 (Build 3.42.22792.0)
- Fixed: We fixed formatting issues with text styles on slide masters and content placeholders.
July 24, 2020 (Build 3.42.22734.0)
- Fixed: Course completion triggers stopped working in the latest updates.
July 23, 2020 (Build 3.42.22724.0)
- Fixed: Font sizes changed unexpectedly in some projects with custom slide sizes.
July 21, 2020 (Build 3.42.22691.0)
- New: Use text styles to control the visual appearance of text elements, such as paragraphs and headings. You can even define two custom styles for repetitive elements, such as button labels, blockquotes, image captions, or speech bubbles.
- Fixed: Course completions and quiz scores weren't recorded in an LMS when the player was set to launch in a new window.
- Fixed: Sometimes, effect options were missing for fly-in animations. When that happened, the preview feature didn't work, and Storyline could crash.
- Fixed: The menu option to "show tooltip on hover" stopped working.
July 7, 2020 (Build 3.41.22509.0)
- Fixed: Slides could be blank when previewed or published if they had variable references that used OpenType (OTF) fonts.
- Fixed: Courses didn't load in custom iOS apps for these LMSs: Cornerstone and TalentLMS.
- Fixed: The
FORCED_COMMIT_TIME
variable in the scormdriver.js
file defaulted to a value of 0
in the previous update, preventing courses from sending "keep alive" messages to an LMS to keep learners' sessions from timing out. This update restores the default value of 60000
, which sends a "keep alive" message to the LMS every 60 seconds.
June 23, 2020 (Build 3.41.22450.0)
- Enhanced: Interactive markers are now fully keyboard-accessible. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Take advantage of all the latest accessibility enhancements added in Storyline 360 when you publish courses to Review 360. Learn more.
- Enhanced: We listened to your feedback and improved keyboard navigation for the slide controls. Now you can use the Tab key to access the play/pause button, the seekbar, and the replay button individually.
- Enhanced: View Tin Can API (xAPI) courses on your local computer before you upload them to your LMS. Details here.
- Enhanced: We added support for hardware graphics acceleration to pave the way for 360° image interactions, which are in development.
- Fixed: Scrolling panels weren't keyboard-accessible, and screen readers didn't announce disabled states for player navigation buttons.
- Fixed: Screen recordings kept capturing data when the recorder was paused.
- Fixed: We fixed some LMS reporting issues, including multiple-choice responses that appeared in SCORM 2004 reports with a prefix of
urn:scormdriver
and essay responses that weren't submitted with Tin Can API results.
- Fixed: In some cases, the search feature worked inconsistently. In others, learners could use the search feature to jump to unvisited slides when menu navigation was restricted or locked.
- Fixed: When courses with all player controls turned off were viewed on mobile devices, content shifted to the right side of the screen, and videos didn't fill the screen.
- Fixed: Sometimes a line appeared across videos in the Storyline 360 editor.
- Fixed: When pasting text from an external source, the original formatting remained intact when "Keep Text Only" was selected, and if you were using the classic trigger workflow, Storyline 360 could crash.
May 19, 2020 (Build 3.40.22208.0)
- New: When you use the modern player style, learners can use the zoom settings in desktop browsers to make slides bigger and easier to see. Learn more.
- Fixed: Screen readers stopped announcing text in interactive markers, incorrectly announced the close button for lightboxes, and sometimes repeated the course title on each slide.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't drag the seekbar when revisiting a slide even though the seekbar was set to "allow drag after completion."
- Fixed: Objects near the top of the slide weren't interactive when using the classic player with the title or topbar tabs turned off.
- Fixed: Scrolling panels immediately scrolled to the bottom when they contained data-entry fields.
- Fixed: Interactive objects, such as data-entry fields and videos with player controls, stopped working or disappeared when they were hidden from accessibility tools.
- Fixed: Slide content didn't fill the screen on mobile devices in portrait mode when menus and controls were turned off in the modern player, and interactive objects weren't always clickable on mobile devices in landscape mode.
- Fixed: When a slide had multiple slider interactions, the following slide wouldn't load.
May 5, 2020 (Build 3.39.22088.0)
- Fixed: A 404 error occurred in some LMSs when learners exited a course.
- Fixed: Storyline 360 could behave erratically or crash when using a non-English interface.
April 21, 2020 (Build 3.39.21985.0)
- New: Publish Storyline 360 courses to cmi5—the newest LMS standard.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 now publishes Tin Can API (xAPI) courses using version 1.0.2 of the LMS standard.
- Fixed: Closed captions from multiple layers could display simultaneously, and audio/video content that was duplicated on multiple slides with different captions resulted in the wrong captions being shown.
- Fixed: We fixed several player issues, including timers that didn't stop on result slides, searches and replay buttons that didn't always work, resume dialog buttons that were hidden, and slide objects that weren't clickable when the player controls were turned off.
- Fixed: An error occurred when uploading team slides if a quiz question had more than 255 characters.
- Fixed: Slides wouldn't load when revisiting them if they had data-entry fields.
- Fixed: Grouped objects with random bars, shape, wheel, or wipe animations flickered or shifted when previewed or published.
April 7, 2020 (Build 3.38.21861.0)
- Enhanced: We updated the embedded version of Chromium to 79.0.3945.130 in Storyline 360.
March 24, 2020 (Build 3.38.21779.0)
- New: Create unique interactions and give learners new ways to navigate by using triggers that jump to different times or cue points on the timeline. Learn more.
- New: Save time by previewing multiple scenes or slides when you don’t need to preview the entire course. Details here.
- Enhanced: When you publish, Storyline 360 lets you know if your project has any HTML5-only features.
- Fixed: Player features stopped working in Internet Explorer when they were disabled on one slide and enabled on the next. And in some cases, logos appeared stretched in Internet Explorer.
- Fixed: Audio and video content continued to play after switching to another browser tab.
- Fixed: A white border appeared around a Storyline block in Rise 360 when the block had a custom background color.
- Fixed: After importing a result slide into a question bank, a project wouldn't load when previewed or published. Question banks can't contain result slides, so that import loophole has been fixed.
- Fixed: When the base layer had a data-entry field, interactive objects on other layers weren't clickable and learners could still edit the field on the base layer.
- Fixed: After publishing each scene in a Storyline project as a separate Review 360 item, publishing a new version of one of the scenes sometimes updated the wrong Review 360 item.
- Fixed: Player tab names were truncated or cut off when the sidebar was initially collapsed.
- Fixed: Closed captions carried over from one slide to the next when the slide advanced automatically. Revisiting the slide also duplicated the closed captions.
- Fixed: Storyline crashed when copying and pasting radio buttons and check boxes.
March 3, 2020 (Build 3.37.21614.0)
- Fixed: A project could freeze or hang while publishing to a video file.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't click or drag the seekbar on the built-in video controls.
- Fixed: Data-entry fields stopped responding to on-click triggers.
February 18, 2020 (Build 3.37.21453.0)
- Enhanced: We redesigned the optional launch page for published courses so it’s accessible to screen readers.
- Enhanced: We listened to your feedback and empowered screen reader users to control their e-learning experience. Screen readers no longer auto-read slide content. Now, a screen reader announces the title of each slide and then waits for the learner to explore the content.
- Fixed: We fixed a few issues with data-entry fields. Learners had to click a data-entry field before they could type a response. In some cases, they couldn't select the default text before typing a response. Text didn't always scroll when it was longer than the data-entry field.
- Fixed: Closed captions didn't change size after adjusting the modern player font size, nor did they display consistently when the
Player.DisplayCaptions
variable was set to true.
- Fixed: Screen readers didn't always read alt text in object states. In some cases, screen readers repeated quiz questions or read animated paragraphs out of sequence.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't scroll through web objects on iPhones or iPads.
- Fixed: Korean text was distorted or garbled when previewed or published.
- Fixed: Hotspots didn't work consistently when the sidebar and topbar player features were turned off.
- Fixed: A result slide displayed a score of
Infinity%
after exiting and resuming the quiz when the slides were configured to reset to their initial states.
- Fixed: Objects on top of videos or screen recordings disappeared in zoom regions.
January 28, 2020 (Build 3.36.21289.0)
- Fixed: Rise 360 lessons jumped immediately to Storyline blocks where the first slide had a layer. To fix the problem, install the latest Storyline 360 update, republish your course to Review 360, and reinsert your Storyline block in Rise 360.
January 21, 2020 (Build 3.36.21213.0)
- New: Navigation just got a whole lot easier for screen reader users. Learners can use a broader range of screen readers on more web browsers and devices. Learners can also take advantage of more screen reader features and improved player controls. Learn more about the accessible player.
- Enhanced: Slide content is more accessible. Text is treated as normal document text by screen readers. Objects are correctly identified to assistive technologies. Hotspots and drop-down lists are now keyboard-accessible. And more!
- Enhanced: Select multiple triggers and edit them all at once. Easily copy, paste, move, disable, and delete triggers in bulk. Details here.
- Enhanced: Save time by copying conditions from one trigger and pasting them on another. Learn how.
- Enhanced: Select multiple variables and then copy, paste, or delete them at the same time. Use Ctrl+click, Shift+click, and Ctrl+A to multi-select variables.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 no longer uses jQuery, so we removed it from the app. You can still use jQuery to write custom JavaScript triggers. Here's how.
- Fixed: Radio buttons shifted or shook when clicked in published output.
- Fixed: Numeric-entry questions could be evaluated incorrectly even when learners entered the right answer.
- Fixed: Adjusted number variables with decimal values reset to their default values when resuming a course.
- Fixed: Layers appeared blank when the base layer had certain icons from Content Library 360 or SVG images from PowerPoint.
- Fixed: The player properties window would disappear unexpectedly.
- Fixed: A project file could corrupt after importing step-by-step screen recordings from another project.
December 19, 2019 (Build 3.35.21017.0)
- Fixed: Project files wouldn't always open in Storyline 360 build 3.35.20995.0.
December 17, 2019 (Build 3.35.20995.0)
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 has been upgraded to run on Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable, which automatically installs with this update.
- Enhanced: We added support for Google Chrome 80, which no longer allows synchronous XHR when a web page is closed. This update ensures your AICC courses always communicate a final status to an LMS.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 now lists the specific features that prevent a file from opening. You must have this update or later installed to see the new incompatibility details.
- Fixed: The same media file used on multiple slides was duplicated in the published output.
- Fixed: Step-by-step screen recordings could become blurry after clicking a slide or during mouse animations.
November 19, 2019 (Build 3.34.20804.0)
- Enhanced: Change the order of conditions in the new trigger wizard without deleting and recreating them. Simply drag them up and down the list.
- Enhanced: Customize your player settings faster. The player properties window opens quickly, and the player preview instantly refreshes as you make selections.
- Enhanced: We added a new Brazilian Portuguese voice, Camila, and a new Latin American Spanish voice, Lupe, for text-to-speech conversion.
- Fixed: Audio wouldn't play and sliders didn't always work on iPadOS 13 devices.
- Fixed: Web objects were misaligned, the wrong size, or didn't scale properly in published output.
- Fixed: After editing the alt text for an object, JAWS screen readers would read the original alt text instead.
- Fixed: Zoom regions with a transition speed of "very slow" didn't zoom in completely.
- Fixed: The copying and pasting features in the Storyline editor sometimes stopped working.
- Fixed: Videos would start over when clicking the seekbar.
- Fixed: In some cases, a course wouldn't preview or publish when it had videos with closed captions.
November 5, 2019 (Build 3.33.20697.0)
- Fixed: Content Library 360 search results wouldn't always load for authors behind a proxy server.
- Fixed: Variable references in right-to-left text displayed in the reverse order.
- Fixed: The option to trigger hyperlinks "when the mouse hovers over" was missing in the new trigger workflow.
October 29, 2019 (Build 3.33.20625.0)
- New: Easily manage triggers and work faster with the new, more intuitive triggers panel and workflow. Edit everything in the triggers panel with convenient drop-down lists and group triggers by event so they’re easier to find. You can even disable individual triggers to troubleshoot interactions and try out different options. The trigger wizard prefills fields with common choices, supports keyboard navigation, and adds conditions without opening extra windows. Details here.
- Enhanced: Preserve the original quality of your MP3 audio files by turning off compression in Storyline 360. Uncompressed MP3 files retain their stereo format in your published output.
- Enhanced: Audio now publishes at a higher sample rate of 44,100 Hz so your e-learning courses sound better than ever.
- Fixed: Step-by-step screen recordings could flicker when transitioning between slides.
- Fixed: When you previewed the slide stage using the timeline controls and then paused the playback, a video on the slide would briefly show its first frame before switching back to the current frame on the timeline.
- Fixed: Images were blurry when their shapes were changed or they were used as shape fills.
- Fixed: Feedback layers wouldn't display on sequence drag-and-drop and matching drop-down questions when the "Hide objects on base layer" property was enabled.
September 24, 2019 (Build 3.32.20313.0)
- Enhanced: You'll now see an HTML5 preview in the player properties windows. It no longer relies on Flash. And that means Storyline 360 is officially Flash-free. You can still publish Flash output, but the Flash Player isn’t required to use Storyline 360. Learn more.
- Fixed: Animations couldn't be removed from multiple objects all at once.
- Fixed: In Rise 360 courses, a white line appeared around Storyline blocks that had custom background colors.
- Fixed: Text disappeared from lists with justified alignment.
- Fixed: Variable references with Arabic text didn't always display in a right-to-left orientation.
August 20, 2019 (Build 3.31.19951.0)
- Enhanced: Quickly create a series of states for an image by importing multiple pictures all at once. Learn more.
- Enhanced: On the Slides tab, we changed the name of the Basic Layouts button to New Slide and added the ability to insert slides with a single click. Click the top half of the button to quickly add a new slide with the same layout as the current slide. Or, click the bottom half of the button to choose from a list of basic layouts.
- Fixed: White lines or borders could appear around slides in published content.
- Fixed: Clicking a custom section header in the menu didn't jump to the first slide in that section.
- Fixed: Previewing a course could be slow or choppy.
- Fixed: Hyperlinks were unreadable when hovering over them in text boxes that animated by paragraph.
July 23, 2019 (Build 3.30.19518.0)
- Enhanced: Create glossaries easily. Import terms and definitions from a CSV file. Export them to a CSV file so you can reuse them in other projects. And quickly edit them in your player properties without opening a separate window—just click a term or definition and start typing. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Add slides to your course with a single click. Use the New Slide button or the Ctrl+M shortcut to quickly add a new slide with the same layout as the current slide.
- Fixed: Text overlapped in the triggers panel, making it difficult to read.
- Fixed: The eyedropper tool wouldn't always select your chosen color when using multiple monitors with different DPI settings.
- Fixed: In SCORM 2004 output, the
imsmanifest.xml
file had an HTML-encoded line feed character—

—that caused an error in some LMSs.
- Fixed: A result slide that merged other quiz result slides calculated the final score incorrectly and displayed
Infinity%
.
- Fixed: Feedback layers wouldn't display on sequence drop-down and matching drag-and-drop questions when the "Hide objects on base layer" property was enabled.
- Fixed: Audio played inconsistently or skipped in some versions of Safari 12 on macOS Mojave.
- Fixed: HTML5-only courses with logos sometimes had unnecessary SWF (Flash) files in the published output.
- Fixed: Paragraph spacing on slide masters was incorrect after changing the project's slide size.
June 18, 2019 (Build 3.29.19305.0)
- Enhanced: Build courses faster. Feedback masters now have theme previews so you can quickly see how your feedback layouts look when applied to different design themes in your course. Learn more.
- Enhanced: If a project becomes corrupt, Storyline lets you know if there's a working version in your temp files and makes it easy for you to recover. Details here.
- Fixed: Storyline no longer publishes a tincan.xml file for HTML5-only output.
- Fixed: Animated objects could be blurry in Google Chrome.
- Fixed: When you formatted text on a feedback master, those changes didn't always carry over to slide layers in your course.
- Fixed: Right-to-left text could be out of sequence after importing a translation file.
- Fixed: The spacebar keyboard shortcut started playing the timeline preview but wouldn't pause it.
May 28, 2019 (Build 3.28.18944.0)
- Enhanced: Now you'll see an HTML5 preview of your slide when you click the play button in the timeline panel. Timeline previews no longer rely on Flash.
- Fixed: Screen recordings could be blurry when inserted as view mode step-by-step slides.
- Fixed: Text appeared to be hyperlinked after importing a translation file.
- Fixed: Numeric-entry fields displayed default values of zero after renaming their underlying variables. They should remain blank until learners enter values.
- Fixed: Some accented characters in closed caption files became question marks in Storyline courses.
- Fixed: Keyboard navigation didn't always work properly when retaking or reviewing a quiz.
May 6, 2019 (Build 3.27.18822.0)
- Fixed: Some project files wouldn't save after installing the previous update. We're sorry about that! Thank you for reporting the issue and helping us fix it quickly.
May 6, 2019 (Build 3.27.18751.0)
- New: Easily add slide numbers to your course so learners can track their progress. Exclude slides that you don’t need to count. Details here.
- Enhanced: Use the media library to add alternate text to assets in your project and manage closed captions for videos and audio clips.
- Enhanced: Add private notes to media library assets so they're easier to find. Use notes to add keywords, attribution details, design instructions, and more.
- Enhanced: Rename characters and poses in the media library so they're organized and easily searchable.
- Enhanced: Now you can import multiple Content Library 360 assets into the media library at the same time.
- Enhanced: Variables are easier to find and manage. We redesigned the variables window with separate tabs for variables you create and those that are built-in. And there's a search field that filters the list as you type.
- Enhanced: Text variables now support these HTML formatting tags:
<b>
, <i>
, <br>
, and <font color="#xxxxxx">
. Learn more.
- Enhanced: SVG images on PowerPoint slides import into Storyline 360 as native shapes. You can customize their fill colors, line styles, and shape effects. Details here.
- Enhanced: Storyline's text-to-speech feature now has an Arabic voice, Zeina.
- Fixed: The current frame of a video on the slide stage didn't always update when moving the playhead on the timeline.
- Fixed: Videos started over when revisiting slides even if they were set to resume saved states.
- Fixed: When using the modern player, zoom regions could be off center, and the bottom of slides could be cut off on iPhones in landscape mode.
- Fixed: The search feature on the player didn't find text on layers, markers, or question bank slides.
- Fixed: In some cases, Storyline 360 displayed this error when saving a project: "The project file could not be saved. GDI+ could not load image from file."
- Fixed: Courses reported Passed or Failed to Articulate Online when authors selected a reporting status of Complete/Incomplete.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't close the correct/incorrect banner on question slides during quiz review, and courses sometimes locked up when reviewing or retrying question bank quizzes.
- Fixed: Layers might display in the wrong order after triggering a lightbox to appear.
- Fixed: GIFs in object states didn't always animate, and some GIFs had purple dots in published output.
April 11, 2019 (Build 3.26.18601.0)
- Fixed: Question draw settings, such as slide locking and shuffling, could reset to defaults after closing and reopening a project file.
March 21, 2019 (Build 3.26.18364.0)
- Fixed: Text and images could be blurry when viewing a course in Google Chrome or Safari.
- Fixed: Data-entry fields didn't always accept values from virtual keyboards on mobile devices.
- Fixed: When using the modern player, a blank space could appear below the published course, creating an unnecessary scroll bar, and keyboard navigation didn't always work after resuming the course.
- Fixed: Publishing a project as a video failed when there was an exit course trigger on a slide less than five seconds long.
- Fixed: Some animated GIFs had purple outlines in published output.
- Fixed: The first drag item in a drag-and-drop interaction could disappear when answer choices were shuffled.
February 26, 2019 (Build 3.25.18088.0)
- Fixed: Audio tracks from multiple layers could play simultaneously, even when the layers weren't open.
February 19, 2019 (Build 3.25.18009.0)
- Enhanced: Rename images, audio clips, and videos in the media library so they're organized and easily searchable. When you rename an asset, it updates throughout your project.
- Enhanced: We added support for Google Chrome 72 and Safari 12.0.3. If objects disappear when viewing a course in these browsers, install the latest Storyline 360 update and republish your course.
- Fixed: A course could freeze or lock up when retrying a quiz from a question bank.
- Fixed: A course could shrink when resumed on an Android phone because the browser chrome was showing.
- Fixed: Authors couldn't change the click sounds for mouse cursors in simulations.
January 22, 2019 (Build 3.24.17733.0)
- New: Build courses faster. Manage all the assets for your project in one place with the media library. Easily add, remove, replace, reuse, and export images, characters, audio clips, and videos. See every slide and layer where an asset is used and jump to each location instantly. You can even edit assets with third-party apps and save your changes directly to Storyline.
- Enhanced: The option to publish to Articulate 360 is now called Review 360, so it's clear that you're publishing courses to collect feedback from stakeholders in the Review 360 web app. The publishing process is the same; only the name has changed.
- Enhanced: It's easier to add variable references to table cells. You no longer have to manually type them in your table. You can add references from the Insert tab on the Storyline ribbon.
- Enhanced: The default value for new true/false variables is false. Since it's the most common starting value, you can create interactions faster.
- Enhanced: We added support for the latest autoplay changes in Google Chrome 71+, so learners see a play button when they launch or resume a course that has audio or video on the first slide.
- Fixed: Storyline could crash when adding a reset results trigger to a quiz result slide.
- Fixed: Videos started over when learners clicked or dragged the video playbar in web, LMS, and Review 360 output.
- Fixed: Triggering a state change when the learner's mouse hovered over an object wouldn't always "restore on mouse leave."
- Fixed: Slides could shift up or down in a published course when player navigation features were enabled on some slides and disabled on others.
- Fixed: In a course with restricted navigation, the next button was disabled when revisiting slides that advanced automatically. It should be enabled in this scenario.
December 27, 2018 (Build 3.23.17522.0)
- Fixed: Some text labels in the Storyline editor weren't localized when using an interface language other than English.
December 18, 2018 (Build 3.23.17480.0)
- New: Help learners improve their knowledge by letting them review and retry only the questions they get wrong, so they don’t have to repeat the questions they get right. Details here.
- Enhanced: Storyline's text-to-speech feature introduces Mia, our first Mexican Spanish voice.
- Fixed: We fixed some modern player issues, including blank space below slides that resulted in unnecessary scroll bars, transitions that caused slides to appear outside the slide stage, and bars that cut off the tops of slides on Android devices.
- Fixed: Storyline could generate an error report when previewing or publishing a project that had radio buttons grouped with other objects.
- Fixed: In drag-and-drop interactions, drag items didn't always move with your mouse or stay where you dropped them.
- Fixed: Incorrect feedback could appear in try-mode and test-mode screen recordings when your browser was zoomed in or didn't fill the screen.
- Fixed: Key-press triggers wouldn't hide layers on quiz slides, and next buttons didn't always work during quiz review.
- Fixed: In some cases, closed captions were missing when audio or video was on a layer.
November 27, 2018 (Build 3.22.17236.0)
- New: Easily install a previous version of Storyline 360 when there's a design change or new feature that you're not ready to use. Learn more.
- New: Not ready to install a new software update? Snooze notifications for a day, a week, or until the next update is available. Details here.
- New: Admins who have been assigned to a user seat can now delete and restore all of their team's Storyline 360 team slides.
- Enhanced: Storyline's text-to-speech feature has a new Castilian Spanish voice (Lucia) and a new Italian voice (Bianca).
- Fixed: The "drag up for fullscreen" hint wouldn't disappear on iPhones when all the player features were turned off in Storyline.
- Fixed: On mobile devices, the on-screen keyboard wouldn't always appear when tapping a text-entry field. In some cases, the keyboard would appear briefly, then disappear.
- Fixed: Closed captions disappeared when a slide was paused, and sometimes they disappeared or overlapped when replaying a slide.
- Fixed: After clicking the "Show/Hide All" icon to hide all the objects on a slide, a grouped object wouldn't reappear when clicking the "Show/Hide" icon for the grouped object.
- Fixed: Sometimes multiple states for a character would display at the same time when revisiting a slide.
- Fixed: When you renamed variables and then imported slides with those variables into another Storyline project, the variables reverted to their old names.
- Fixed: A SCORM 2004 course using either Passed/Incomplete or Passed/Failed reporting options wouldn't resume after meeting the completion requirement.
October 30, 2018 (Build 3.21.17083.0)
- New: Use the conditional seekbar in the modern player to prevent learners from skipping ahead until they've completed a slide. The seekbar is locked the first time learners view the slide. After that, they can drag the seekbar back and forth.
- Enhanced: Storyline's text-to-speech feature now has a Mandarin Chinese voice, Zhiyu.
- Enhanced: Content Library 360 videos can now be edited with Storyline's built-in video editor.
- Fixed: Closed captions sometimes disappeared when using the classic player.
- Fixed: Text with variable references could have the wrong formatting, such as size, color, or line spacing. In some cases, a variable reference was missing from the published course.
- Fixed: Learners had to press the Enter key twice to submit data-entry field responses and advance to the next slide in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Topbar tabs were missing when the sidebar was collapsed in the modern player.
September 18, 2018 (Build 3.20.16814.0)
- Fixed: Storyline crashed or closed unexpectedly for some users. We're so sorry for the frustration this caused. Thank you for helping us fix it!
- Fixed: When publishing projects as videos, audio could get out of sync or have reduced quality.
- Fixed: Videos wouldn't loop when designed to do so, and the volume slider stopped working for videos.
- Fixed: Learners might not see correct and incorrect responses during quiz review, and completion and success statuses might be wrong in an LMS when a final result slide tracked multiple quizzes.
- Fixed: A slide might be missing when previewed or published if it had a text box with a shape effect, such as soft edges.
- Fixed: Slides notes could be the wrong color when a course had more than one slide master.
- Fixed: In some LMSs, courses using the modern player could get cut off or pushed off the right edge of iPads.
August 21, 2018 (Build 3.19.16600.0)
- Enhanced: Help improve Articulate 360 desktop products by sending usage data to Articulate or opt out by changing your privacy preference.
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 now supports Hindi text-to-speech conversion. Choose Aditi from the Indian English voice selector. Aditi is bilingual, speaking Hindi and English fluently.
- Fixed: Modern text would sometimes become invisible in the Storyline editor, but would still show when previewed or published. Invisibility might be a cool superpower, but it's not cool when you're building an e-learning course. We're sorry about that!
- Fixed: Sometimes, right-to-left text was backward or reversed, and bullet points moved to the left of text.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop questions weren't always evaluated correctly, and drag items weren't precisely centered in drop targets.
- Fixed: If a layer appeared while learners were tabbing through objects on a slide, the yellow focus indicator jumped back to the first object on the slide.
- Fixed: Sometimes, recent edits were missing after saving, closing, and reopening a project file.
- Fixed: Publishing projects as videos could take longer than expected or even crash. While video publishing can be a lengthy process, especially when there are multiple audio tracks or videos to encode, we fixed a few bugs and improved publishing performance.
August 2, 2018 (Build 3.18.16449.0)
- Fixed: Sometimes, you could hear audio from a video that wasn't actually playing, such as when a video was in an interactive marker but the marker wasn't open.
- Fixed: A video on the base layer could continue playing when another layer paused the timeline of the base layer or when a trigger should've paused the video.
July 24, 2018 (Build 3.18.16333.0)
- Fixed: In drag-and-drop interactions, drag items might return to their original positions during quiz review or be hidden by other objects.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't print slides when viewing HTML5 courses in Internet Explorer 11 or Microsoft Edge.
- Fixed: Responsive playback restrictions (landscape only or portrait only) wouldn't work in some LMSs.
- Fixed: Classic players with transparent backgrounds could have gray borders when the HTML5 output was viewed in Google Chrome.
- Fixed: Illustrated characters could flicker or blink when changing states or expressions.
- Fixed: Audio could skip when revisiting a slide or layer in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: HTML5 courses could hang or freeze when layers had any of these animations: bounce, spin, spin and grow, or swivel.
June 27, 2018 (Build 3.17.16188.0)
- Fixed: Some users couldn't preview or publish after installing a recent update. We're sorry about that!
June 22, 2018 (Build 3.17.16168.0)
- Fixed: Horizontal and vertical lines and arrows were missing when previewing a course or viewing the published output.
- Fixed: Slides could be cut off along the bottom or right side in published output.
- Fixed: Videos would sometimes play on the wrong slides in HTML5 output.
June 19, 2018 (Build 3.17.16117.0)
- Enhanced: The text-to-speech feature has a new French female voice, Léa.
- Fixed: Courses are no longer blurry when you preview them in Storyline or view the HTML5 output in Google Chrome.
- Fixed: Audio on the first slide of an HTML5 course wouldn't autoplay when viewing the published output on your local computer in Google Chrome.
- Fixed: The play button that allows courses with media on the first slide to play in Google Chrome and Safari wasn't keyboard accessible. Now learners can tab to the play button and press the spacebar or Enter key to activate it.
- Fixed: HTML5 courses with audio or video on the first slide wouldn't autoplay in Firefox.
- Fixed: When a course had lots of videos, the first 10 or so would play as expected, but additional videos wouldn't work on some Apple iOS devices.
- Fixed: In some cases, audio quality was lower than expected when publishing a project as a video file.
- Fixed: Lightboxes were off-center in Internet Explorer 11 when using the modern player.
- Fixed: There were some keyboard navigation issues, such as an incorrect tab order for objects on slide layers.
- Fixed: Another performance improvement! Storyline won't slow down when cropping and recoloring photos.
May 22, 2018 (Build 3.16.15842.0)
- New: Give desktop and mobile learners a fresh, unified experience with a modern player style that's consistent across all devices. Learn more.
- Enhanced: The variables window is now resizable so it's easier to manage lots of variables in a bigger window.
- Fixed: We improved the performance of the Storyline editor so it no longer slows down when multiple slide layers are visible at the same time.
- Fixed: Peek 360 and Replay videos became static images in Storyline projects that were published as videos.
- Fixed: The last drag item in a drag-and-drop interaction might disappear after completing the interaction in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Engage interactions with the resume feature turned off wouldn't load in Storyline HTML5 courses.
- Fixed: Text with variable references would shrink in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Audio would sometimes mute when dragging the seekbar in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Zoom regions in lightbox slides could overflow the slide boundaries in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: HTML5 output would send a message to an LMS every 60 seconds to keep idle courses from timing out, regardless of the actual frequency defined in the
FORCED_COMMIT_TIME
variable in the Configuration.js
file for the published output.
April 26, 2018 (Build 3.15.15581.0)
- Enhanced: We added support for Google Chrome 66. If audio stopped working in your Storyline course, install the latest update and republish. Learn more.
- Fixed: A slide layer wouldn't show in HTML5 output when base layer objects were hidden.
- Fixed: Drag items with states didn't work properly in HTML5 drag-and-drop interactions.
April 17, 2018 (Build 3.15.15453.0)
- Fixed: When publishing an LMS course, changes made to the reporting options (identifier, reporting status, etc.) weren’t always saved.
- Fixed: Storyline could become sluggish after filling shapes with pictures or the slide background.
- Fixed: We fixed some accessibility issues, including JAWS screen readers not announcing the active player tab and keyboard navigation not working with web videos.
April 2, 2018 (Build 3.14.15225.0)
- Fixed: Storyline could become sluggish or display a low memory error, especially after several hours of use. We found a memory leak and fixed the problem. We're so sorry for the frustration it caused. And thank you to everyone who reported it!
- Fixed: In some cases, HTML5 courses could get stuck or stop advancing.
- Fixed: Hover states wouldn't always work in HTML5 ouput. They might work only one time, or they might cause an object to disappear.
- Fixed: Hebrew characters could be out of sequence or spaced incorrectly in HTML5 output in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
- Fixed: File names wouldn't appear when hovering over audio tracks in the timeline panel.
- Fixed: Player text labels had incorrect Czech translations.
- Fixed: Sometimes closed captions would overlap for back-to-back audio clips on a slide, and hidden characters in closed captions could cause the publishing process to fail.
March 1, 2018 (Build 3.13.15006.0)
- Fixed: Lightbox slides covered the entire course when the player was set to fill the browser in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Audio tracks that should've played at the beginning of slides didn't always work in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: The closed captioning button was missing when a video didn't start at the beginning of the slide in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Variable references with text formatting, such as bold or italics, could cause unexpected line breaks in HTML5 output.
February 20, 2018 (Build 3.13.14869.0)
- New: Control precisely when a course is marked complete. Use the new course completion trigger to send a status update to your LMS when learners perform a specific action or reach a certain point on the timeline.
- New: Now you can choose a tracking option for Storyline courses when you publish to Review 360. This lets you control navigation in Rise 360 lessons by requiring learners to complete Storyline blocks before moving on. Details here.
- Fixed: Projects might fail to publish to video when they had step-by-step screen recordings.
- Fixed: A course could lock up when revisiting a slide in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: States with outlines stopped working for pictures in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: An object on a layer might not display if it had an exit animation the same length as the object's duration.
- Fixed: In HTML5 output, right-click triggers displayed a context menu in some browsers, and triggers set to occur when media completed stopped working.
- Fixed: Some images would load slowly from top to bottom in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Closed captions for audio tracks wouldn't always display when previewing or in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Text with variable references sometimes wrapped incorrectly or displayed a "sans-serif" message in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: JAWS screen readers wouldn't always announce navigation buttons or the exit button for lightboxes.
- Fixed: We fixed some issues with lightboxes in HTML5 output, including matching questions that wouldn't work and exit buttons that were offscreen.
- Fixed: Drag items wouldn't snap to drop targets correctly in HTML5 output when answers were shuffled.
- Fixed: We fixed some quizzing issues in HTML5 output, such as scores that were sometimes miscalculated when retrying question bank quizzes and text-entry questions that were marked incorrect when answers had apostrophes.
February 1, 2018 (Build 3.12.14647.0)
- Fixed: There was an issue with states that could cause some features to fail in HTML5 output. For example, slides might not load, hover states might not work, or drag-and-drop submit buttons might be unresponsive.
January 31, 2018 (Build 3.12.14612.0)
- Fixed: After installing a recent update, questions were always marked as incorrect when answers were submitted all at once in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop interactions wouldn't work in HTML5 output when shuffling was enabled and drag items had states with text boxes.
- Fixed: Variable references were sometimes missing from HTML5 output.
January 29, 2018 (Build 3.12.14594.0)
- Fixed: Published content stored on your local computer wouldn't play in Google Chrome 64 and later.
January 23, 2018 (Build 3.12.14533.0)
- New: The new text-rendering engine for Storyline 360 allows text to flow beautifully with consistent spacing and readability on every device. And learners will always see the correct fonts for variable references and data-entry fields in HTML5 output. Learn more about modern text.
- New: Publish a Storyline 360 project as a single MP4 video file when you want to insert it into another project or upload it to a video hosting site, such as YouTube. Details here.
- Enhanced: Random number variables now accept wider ranges from 0 to 2,147,483,647.
- Fixed: HTML5 output would sometimes flicker or flash when navigating between slides.
- Fixed: Lightbox slides wouldn't always close in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Some animations set to occur by paragraph didn't work in HTML5 output, including random bars, shape, split, wheel, and wipe.
- Fixed: Hover states didn't always work properly in HTML5 output when they had spin animations or when learners moused over several objects quickly.
- Fixed: We fixed several issues with triggers in HTML5 output, including on-click triggers that would automatically execute when using keyboard navigation to tab between objects, key-press triggers that wouldn't jump to the next slide when they were assigned to data-entry fields, and inconsistent hover triggers.
- Fixed: In HTML5 output, data-entry fields that should've had focus when slides loaded didn't immediately accept learners' input, and text-entry fields didn't always have scroll bars when learners entered more text than the fields could hold.
- Fixed: We fixed some issues with HTML5 output in Microsoft Edge, including drag-and-drop interactions that wouldn't always work properly and courses that would crash if they had text with shadow effects.
- Fixed: Drag items with states wouldn't always drop onto targets in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop questions with scrolling panels prevented learners from moving on in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Question banks would display the same set of questions for a quiz after three attempts in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: A quiz could be scored incorrectly in HTML5 output when questions were spread across multiple scenes.
- Fixed: Accented characters in titles were replaced by question marks in SCORM output.
- Fixed: Quiz timers were the wrong color in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Default player features that were disabled for question slides would appear during quiz review.
- Fixed: Notes wouldn't always scroll in HTML5 output on mobile devices, and the right edge of notes text could be cut off in Flash output.
- Fixed: We fixed some issues that could occur after changing the player font size, such as misaligned topbar tabs in HTML5 output and incorrectly sized closed captions in Flash output.
- Fixed: Some player features, such as the sidebar and seekbar, were missing from the player properties window when using the French, German, or Chinese interface for Storyline.
December 15, 2017 (Build 3.11.14249.0)
- Fixed: Storyline 360 stopped working on some machines. We're so sorry about that. And thank you to everyone who reported it and helped us fix it so quickly!
December 14, 2017 (Build 3.11.14192.0)
- Fixed: HTML5 output might not track properly in Articulate Online after installing the previous update. Learners could see an incomplete status after completing a course.
- Fixed: Video files couldn't be added to interactive markers.
December 12, 2017 (Build 3.11.14180.0)
- Enhanced: The text-to-speech feature now has a Korean voice (Seoyeon) and a new Indian English voice (Aditi).
- Enhanced: Since Apple no longer allows videos to autoplay by default, Safari 11 users now see a play button when they launch or resume a course with a video on the first slide. Clicking the play button allows the video to play as expected.
- Fixed: Some issues could occur when upgrading Storyline 1 and Storyline 2 projects to Storyline 360, such as blank slides or incorrect text wrapping.
- Fixed: HTML5 output was blank when previewing or publishing a course that had a text string with
\u
in it.
- Fixed: Videos on different layers would sometimes play simultaneously when revisiting a slide in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Hint captions could display at the wrong time in view-mode screen recordings in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Freeform drag-and-drop questions could be marked correct on the second attempt in HTML5 output even when learners answered incorrectly.
- Fixed: When navigation was restricted, the next button wouldn't work for embedded Engage interactions in HTML5 output. And in some cases, an interaction wouldn't load.
- Fixed: Zoom regions wouldn't work in HTML5 output if they were less than a second in duration, and they wouldn't always return to their initial states when revisiting slides.
- Fixed: JavaScript triggers that set Storyline variables to data pulled from an LMS API, such as the learner's name, weren't working in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Browser chrome wouldn't disappear as expected when viewing courses on an iPhone.
- Fixed: Animated GIFs wouldn't always play at the correct speed in Storyline, and they could be distorted or discolored.
- Fixed: White lines could appear around slides and the logo might be blurry when a course scaled to fill the browser window.
- Fixed: Font sizes could change when modifying the slide size for a project and choosing not to scale the content to fit.
- Fixed: Yellow hyperlinks were unreadable when hovering over them.
November 14, 2017 (Build 3.10.13923.0)
- New: Speed up course development by converting text to speech right in Storyline 360. For example, use the text-to-speech feature to quickly narrate a course for stakeholder review or to localize narration in different languages. You can even choose the voice and language to make sure every word sounds right.
- New: Storyline 360 can generate closed captions that are automatically synchronized with text-to-speech narration. Just select the closed captioning option and Storyline will do the work for you. Learn more.
- New: It's easier than ever to size and position objects with pixel-perfect precision. As you move your mouse, you’ll get visual cues that dynamically update with the exact dimensions, coordinates, and rotation values of your objects. And with more snap points, quick-access alignment buttons, and x/y coordinates on the ribbon, you’ll format your objects faster. Details here.
- New: Create perfect motion paths, easily. Edit paths and start and end points individually or simultaneously using exact pixel positions and dimensions. And more accurately snap start and end points to one another or to other objects on the slide. Details here.
- New: Make interactions more gamelike and unpredictable with random number variables. They let you easily build math problems, present learners with randomly selected content, and add gaming elements to your courses.
- Fixed: The hover color for drag items and drop-down questions was always blue in HTML5 output, even if you customized it in your theme colors.
- Fixed: Drag-and-drop interactions wouldn't work in HTML5 output when markers were used as drag items or when drag items snapped to drop targets in a tile layout.
- Fixed: Audio might stop playing in HTML5 output when a grouped object had a hover trigger.
- Fixed: We fixed some issues with HTML5 output in Firefox, including layers that wouldn't appear and videos that wouldn't replay when revisiting slides.
- Fixed: Zoom regions wouldn't work in HTML5 output when they were set to start at the beginning of slides, and they caused test-mode screen recordings with hotspots to fail.
- Fixed: JAWS screen readers would read selected answer choices as "not checked" in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: The passing score and learner's score could be calculated incorrectly when retrying an HTML5 quiz generated from question banks.
- Fixed: Non-English characters and symbols would cause quiz data to be undefined in LMS logs and reports.
- Fixed: Text typed in data-entry fields was always top-aligned, even when it should've been middle- or bottom-aligned.
- Fixed: Web objects with transparent backgrounds had white backgrounds in Storyline.
October 12, 2017 (Build 3.9.13567.0)
- Fixed: Some shape effects stopped working in HTML5 output, including glow, reflection, and shadow.
- Fixed: A video on the first slide of a course wouldn't always play in HTML5 output.
October 6, 2017 (Build 3.9.13510.0)
- Fixed: The seekbar wasn't interactive in HTML5 output.
October 5, 2017 (Build 3.9.13488.0)
- Fixed: We fixed some quiz review issues in HTML5 output, including overlapping answers in matching drop-down questions and the Review Quiz button not working when a course was set to never resume.
- Fixed: We fixed some triggers that didn't always work correctly in HTML5 output, including triggers that execute when clicking outside an object, key-press triggers, and conditions that compare two numbers.
- Fixed: Audio continued to play in HTML5 output when switching to another browser tab, causing animations to become unsynchronized.
- Fixed: Wipe animations sequenced by paragraph didn't work as expected in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Lots of videos in a course could cause slides to lag or lock up in HTML5 output, and they could be sized or positioned incorrectly during preview.
- Fixed: HTML5 courses tracked by the number of slides viewed with a Completed reporting status would incorrectly send a Passed status to the LMS.
- Fixed: A drag item wouldn't always drop on a target in HTML5 output unless you clicked your mouse to release it.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't swipe between slides in HTML5 output when navigation was restricted.
- Fixed: A long list of glossary items would unexpectedly scroll to the top when selecting entries in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Special characters, such as accented letters and apostrophes, weren't displaying correctly in closed captions in Flash output.
September 14, 2017 (Build 3.8.13281.0)
- Fixed: Publishing to Word wasn't working.
September 5, 2017 (Build 3.8.13184.0)
- Fixed: Text was sometimes missing after importing a translated Word document.
August 29, 2017 (Build 3.8.13087.0)
- New: Members of your Articulate 360 Teams account can share and download slides right from Storyline 360, making it easy to collaborate on projects and maintain consistent design themes.
- New: Create and edit closed captions right in Storyline 360. Fine-tune imported captions or quickly add new ones with the help of caption placeholders that are already synced with your audio and video content.
- New: Localization just got easier. Storyline 360 now supports XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0, which work with more translation tools and give translators more information.
- Fixed: JAWS screen readers wouldn't always read text in the notes panel.
- Fixed: Flash output wouldn't play in Internet Explorer with Compatibility View enabled.
- Fixed: Sometimes Storyline would detect missing fonts when opening a project file even though the fonts were installed on the computer.
- Fixed: Quizzes weren't scored correctly when the same Content Library 360 result slide was added to a course more than once. Now Storyline asks to create a new set of variables each time you insert the same result slide, resolving the conflict.
July 19, 2017 (Build 3.7.12674.0)
- Fixed: Narration wasn't always synchronized with the audio waveform in the audio editor.
July 11, 2017 (Build 3.7.12582.0)
- Enhanced: When you restrict or lock navigation, you can now choose whether it impacts just the course menu or also disables the Previous and Next buttons. And you can use triggers to override restricted navigation for individual slides. Learn more.
- Enhanced: Courses published for CD are now HTML5-only, so learners no longer need Flash plugins.
- Fixed: The Enter key wouldn't work in courses published for CD.
- Fixed: Each slide that was imported from another Storyline project had its own separate slide master. Now all slides from the same imported project belong to a single slide master.
- Fixed: Sometimes, variables would be missing when importing one Storyline project into another.
- Fixed: Screen readers wouldn't read alternate text in object states.
- Fixed: An HTML5 course wouldn't always resume as expected in an LMS.
- Fixed: A result slide that combines the scores of other result slides wouldn't report a score to an LMS in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: The Print Results button wouldn't work in HTML5 output when the quiz included an essay question.
- Fixed: HTML5 output would blink or flicker between slides in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
- Fixed: Storyline would crash when previewing or publishing projects with Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts.
June 1, 2017 (Build 3.6.11979.0)
- Fixed: Some courses wouldn't preview or publish after installing the previous update. We're sorry about that. Thank you to everyone who reported it and helped us fix it so quickly!
- Fixed: Storyline would crash when publishing on some computers with non-English system locales.
May 31, 2017 (Build 3.6.11965.0)
- New: Structure text with tables. Tables are a valuable accessibility feature, communicating to screen readers how data is organized and providing context for learners.
- Fixed: Each slide that was imported from Content Library 360 would have its own separate slide master in Storyline. Now all slides from the same Content Library 360 template belong to a single slide master in Storyline.
- Fixed: Storyline would crash when publishing on a computer with a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean system locale.
- Fixed: The Escape (ESC) key wouldn't exit preview mode.
- Fixed: Learners couldn't revisit slides they already viewed after resuming an HTML5 course with restricted navigation.
- Fixed: The Notes tab on the course player would always be visible in HTML5 output, even when it was disabled for individual slides.
- Fixed: The player color for Tab >> Selected Text wouldn't work in HTML5 output.
April 18, 2017 (Build 3.5.11153.0)
- Enhanced: We added metadata to Content Library 360 media search results, including image dimensions, video resolution, and video duration.
- Fixed: Some Content Library 360 icons were blank or invisible after inserting them into Storyline.
- Fixed: We fixed several fonts that displayed incorrectly in HTML5 output, including Poppin, Kalam, and Adobe Typekit fonts. And we improved character spacing for Century Gothic font so it's more consistent in published output.
- Fixed: The right edge of notes text could be cut off in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Text colors could change when upgrading a Storyline 2 project to Storyline 360.
- Fixed: Publishing an existing course to Articulate 360 would create a new content item in Review 360 rather than adding a newer version to the same course.
March 8, 2017 (Build 3.4.10364.0)
- Fixed: Some projects would display an Available Memory Is Low error and fail to publish.
- Fixed: Graded drag-and-drop questions wouldn't always work in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: Drag items wouldn't snap to the center of drop targets in HTML5 drag-and-drop interactions.
- Fixed: Change-state triggers for previous, next, and submit buttons wouldn't work in Flash output.
March 7, 2017 (Build 3.4.10330.0)
- New: Make your courses more accessible by importing closed captions for narration and videos. Choose a custom font for your captions so they complement your course design, and use triggers to turn them on and off when you create your own player controls.
- New: We’ve added 7+ million photographs, illustrations, icons, and videos to Content Library 360, which you can access right from Storyline 360. All assets are royalty-free with no attribution required.
- Enhanced: We improved the published quality of Word documents.
- Fixed: An error would occur when using drop-down lists in Storyline 360 on a Windows 7 computer with a Windows Classic theme.
- Fixed: Notes formatting wouldn't display in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: The published font size in HTML5 output might be wrong when using the French, German, or Spanish interface in Storyline 360.
- Fixed: HTML5 output wouldn't display a custom report.html file for printed quiz results.
- Fixed: Newline characters wouldn't display in HTML5 output when variables were updated via JavaScript.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues when importing PowerPoint and Presenter content into Storyline 360, including incorrect slide backgrounds and character crops.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues when editing videos in Storyline 360 and viewing videos in published output.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues where triggers wouldn't execute, fired at the wrong time, or prevented published output from playing.
January 26, 2017 (Build 3.3.9986.0)
- New: Apple iOS 10 allows videos to play inline on iPhones, so we added this functionality to Storyline 360. Just publish your course and it’ll automatically work. (Older versions of iOS force videos to fill the screen on iPhones.)
- New: The Content Library 360 template browser now includes quiz slides (and a quizzing filter) so you can find all slide types in a single window.
- New: The Prata font gets installed with this update.
- Enhanced: The video editor now uses HTML5 preview rather than Flash. We’re one step closer to eliminating the Flash Player requirement for Storyline 360.
- Fixed: The fullscreen button was missing from Vimeo videos in Flash output in some LMSs.
- Fixed: Flash output would display in a small window in some AICC and SCORM LMSs.
- Fixed: HTML5 output wouldn’t launch when published for Tin Can API and hosted with a Wax LRS endpoint.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues that could occur when closing and resuming HTML5 courses in LMSs, such as sending the wrong status or quiz data.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues with accented characters (è, ö, etc.) in variable names and attached resources.
- Fixed: We fixed various font issues, including theme fonts that wouldn't apply to slides correctly and alternate glyphs being substituted for characters in some fonts.
- Fixed: Some text would be replaced by emojis in HTML5 output when the hosting server wasn’t configured for WOFF files.
- Fixed: Check boxes couldn’t be selected in HTML5 output on Android devices.
- Fixed: The Enter key wouldn’t submit freeform text-entry questions in HTML5 output on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Using the format painter on Content Library 360 characters could add the wrong characters to states.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues when importing Engage interactions.
December 16, 2016 (Build 3.2.9664.0)
- Fixed: AICC output wouldn't always track properly in an LMS.
- Fixed: In some HTML5 quizzes, answer choices weren't reported to the LMS.
December 12, 2016 (Build 3.2.9598.0)
- New: Slide Layer Enhancements. Now you can have the properties window open as you switch between slide layers, saving time and clicks. You can also set properties for and duplicate multiple layers at the same time.
- New: Replace Fonts. Quickly replace one font with another throughout your project. Choose the font you want to replace and the font you want to use instead, and Storyline 360 will swap out every instance of the font for you.
- New: Detect Missing Fonts. When you open an existing project, Storyline 360 will let you know if any fonts used in the project are missing from your computer.
- New: New Dial Style. We’ve added another built-in dial style to give you even more options for creating beautiful dial interactions easily.
- Fixed: We fixed various errors that could occur in Storyline 360 when clicking Replay in the preview window, undocking the Scenes panel, switching views while editing a layer name, clicking the play button in the timeline, and adding states to markers.
- Fixed: The Edit in Engage button wouldn't work.
- Fixed: In HTML5 output, some fonts would appear extra bold and player font sizes over 100% would cause text to be misaligned.
- Fixed: Audio wouldn't resume after closing a lightbox slide in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: In some cases, a course would stop working or become unresponsive in HTML5 output.
- Fixed: The message to rotate your device would display in portrait mode in HTML5 output when it shouldn't.
- Fixed: These question types weren't reporting to LMSs properly in HTML5 output: Essay, Fill in the Blank, Likert Scale, Numeric.
- Fixed: Numbers weren't rounding to two decimal places in HTML5 output like they should've been.
- Fixed: Variable references were misplaced in HTML5 output in Firefox.
November 30, 2016 (Build 3.1.9448.0)
- Enhanced: Storyline 360 no longer requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable or Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable. See the updated tech specs.
- Fixed: Content Library 360 dialogs would use too much system memory.
- Fixed: Storyline would sometimes crash if multiple instances were opened at the same time.
- Fixed: Storyline couldn't import an Engage interaction if Engage ‘13 was installed.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues with slide masters, including paragraph spacing that wasn't retained and missing right-click context menus.
- Fixed: We fixed various issues with design, color, and font themes.
- Fixed: Bullets and numbered lists wouldn't display correctly in HTML5 output when they included a variable reference.
- Fixed: Video seekbar wouldn't progress in HTML5 output in Internet Explorer 10.
- Fixed: The touchscreen keyboard would remain visible on iPads and iPhones after typing text and advancing to another slide.
- Fixed: Duplicating a slide with a zoom region would change the background on the original slide
- Fixed: Radio buttons would be formatted incorrectly when adding answer choices to question slides.
November 9, 2016 (Build 3.0.9239.0)
- New: Storyline 360 launched! Build any course you can imagine for any device imaginable.