How to get started with Articulate Storyline 360 & Articulate Rise 360?

1. Introduction: The e-learning industry is rapidly growing. So as the number of instructional designers, not to mention how the pandemic accelerated this trend. It's changed our digital culture forever. Yet, knowing how to start with creating e-learning content is a huge challenge for most people. If you're watching this class, probably you are someone who's expected to deliver e-learning content and you don't even know where to start. Most probably you heard of articulate 360, the number one e-learning suit on the market. In this class, you will learn how to get started with Articulate Storyline 360 and articulate rise 360. My name is bad for collage. I'm the voice behind these lessons. I simply love e-learning. So you won't be shocked when I say I'm an e-learning designer. I designed digital learning experiences that users can enjoy during the learning process. I use articulate 360 on a daily basis as one of my many tours for work. And I like to share my knowledge, insights about it. You will learn how to create your first e-learning content with Article eight rise. And there's a short demo. I will also show you how to get started with storyline. Creating effective and engaging pictures is super crucial for any e-learning content. Therefore, I will teach you a very simple, yet powerful tool to create impressive visuals easily and fast. Let's get started. I will see you in the first lesson. 2. What is an eLearning authoring application?: As I mentioned before, I'm not going to cover how to use articulate 360, but I'm going to show you what is it and where can you find it. But firstly, let's have a word about what is an e-learning authoring software. There are multiple applications on the market, in my opinion, and many other 1000 companies think so as well. Articulate is the number one e-learning ordering tool on the market worldwide. You can just go through a website and have a look around what does it do? Basically, an e-learning software is an application that helps you to create your online course. We'd all the features with eight in that helps you to create quizzes, make it interactive. Help the learner to give a learning journey by learning lesson, by lesson. For that, using all the mood media, just like you see it here in this mock-up video where you can see the user interaction, how the user can, once during the next lecture. Then moving on, this is arise what you have seen, we will get there. This is exactly what an e-learning ordering tool does. It lets you to create the online course from a to Z. And it also helps with all the features that can help you to assess your result and assess your learning progress. And this is what articulate 360 does. You can just go to articulate.com and there you can find the different products. You can have 30 days free trial. So basically it is really a lot of time to test it yourself. So I think it's a really good deal from articulate. Download a free trial. You can try it yourself then. 3. What is Articulate 360?: Here's a very quick overview of the articulates 360 package. Articular 360 is just like Microsoft 360 with all the applications within Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and so on. Here you see the different applications for desktop and web applications. Storyline 360 and arise. 360 is the artist to that we will focus on. But as you can see, there are many other applications that you can use. These applications are all built for e-learning creation. As the name already suggests, 360 means that it's an online based system where there are updates almost every single day. So updates are always available and if you are subscribed, you will see old and new updates available on your applications right away. Install the updates yourself. As you can see here, they're already updates available, available for story-line. This is the overview of all the applications that articulate 360 includes. Now here we are inside my account. And the first sample one update. They just the layout because they are always working on making the software better, which is really cool. This is the dashboard of articulate 360. Here you see the rise application that you have already seen before. Here you see exactly the ice cores that I created for this course. Review 360 is another, it's like the Google Drive for articulate 360. Here you can upload your videos or export it formats. And then you can stories, you can share it. There is the name of the reviews that there is a common section for every item that you upload. Stakeholders, your customers, your students can view it and the comment there, if they have questions. There is articulate 360 training, which can be really useful. In my opinion as a start, I don't find it helpful because it really only focusing on the features, which is important. You have to learn how to divide used the divider blocks exporting courses and so on. But the overall e-learning experience is not how it starts. It really starts from the learning experience when you really start from the exact problem, the project, where you have to create the e-learning course, e-learning courses just the output. It's not the problem itself. The problem itself, how you start a project and e-learning software will be the tool, in my opinion, is not good to start with the software because it's just going to get you lost in the details and you're not gonna see the big picture. This is an amazing tool. This is an amazing software, but you have to start with a real project from a to Z or the at the very beginning, it doesn't make sense to start with the features because you still don't see the point of it. But this is what I'm going to help you with in my upcoming classes here. Still, you can already start yourself and you can do already lots by yourself. This is the overview of articulate 360. Once again, if you already installed your free account, this is what you will see in your dashboard and you will have already prebuilt courses. This is shortly articulated 360. Once you've downloaded the free trial account, you will see exactly what you see right down the screen. 4. What is Rise 360?: Let's learn quickly about articulate rise. Here I am again in my dashboard and here, as I already mentioned before, arise 360 course templates. And he received many, many templates that you can start with. Actually, it can be really helpful at the very beginning when you really didn't even touch articulate rise before. These are mostly compliance training because compliance trainings are the most typical trainings that companies need at their workplace. Training at just the very basic well for fire prevention, safety and so on. But there are also other topics like health wellness. It is the topic, but now what we are talking about is that the format, how you can start to use this here, you can just select, for example, this template. And then it's going to open right away D editing surface of the template. Here you can already have your name on it or you can hide it as you like. And I'm just going to review preview. Here is already ready-made template. You can start a course, as you can see, it is very the same structure and it works in a very similar way that I already showed you before. There are different blocks, different interactions. The different lessons, the navigation bar is the same. You can close or open the height, the menu bar if you like. And you can jump to different places or you can also set up how to have the navigation should function and so on. So this is one example and you can already edit yourself, and this is what I'm not going to do here. In the same way you can choose any editor template. And here I am going to rise tab right away. Here you see now it's already created because I just work with it. So it's already being, it has been saved in my rise dashboard, but I'm not going to use it. You can already continue and they didn't get I'm just going to delete this. What I'm gonna do is just shortly open what I have made for this course. And here you see the basics. So you can have a basic understanding how I use those beautiful duotone pictures. This is already within the slide. I mean, this is still a preview version, but that's exactly if I want to go to Edit. Go to Edit now. And you see here are the pictures and built in and how easy it was. You can start your own arise course by yourself, the way I just showed you. And you can start to use one of the templates from the dashboard. And then you are already had everything to start with wise, but you still need a lot to create quality scores. And I will show you in my upcoming classes how to do that. 5. How to create your first eLearning Content with Rise?: So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create something in rice from scratch. Once you have your attention for just click on the new course. And here you see that the rise already offers you many templates as options to start with. Here we will start with a blank course. Here, I'm just going to add the title for my course. Working remotely. That's an easy one. And for the sake of simplicity, I will just have three lessons. Let's say the first one, obviously now I'm just improvising. It's not how you create a complete course, but it's better about the software, how to use it. In the first one, benefits of working removed. Let's say this is chapter one. Chapter two challenges him. I'm going to add to the work remotely. The third on how to overcome those challenges. Let's say just how to help to work effectively. Okay, So surfaces really simple and straightforward with the zooming in a little bit closer. There are settings. Here, everything is template-based, everything is default. You can customize a couple of things, but not many things. Here is a design, for example, and I'm going to pick a specific color. I will show you how. And here is just a heading font and the body for now these you can specify, I will go with, I already have some self uploaded fonts. I will go with this bold for the headphones, for the header. Then you can see already here and what does it, how does it look like? I'm going to pick some thin font for the body texts. I think this will do it. Again. This is not how a complete design conceptualization works, is just showing you briefly how to start from scratch in rise. All right, so these are going to be my font, but I still need a theme color. You can change the colors. It already shows you how how is it going to be implemented within the course with the theme colors. Here's a PowerPoint that I collected and also with pictures. Now even though we don't go into so many details about methodology, this is one trick and inside it, I suggest you to use whenever you have anything topic. Now I collected obviously about working remotely some specific pictures. When you have these pictures in advance, it already helps you to better focus in the content creation process. Here I can, for example, decide now what could be a good coworker picture for this course. Obviously, I selected pictures, so actually all of them could be really good picture. But I like this one, so I'm going to go with this one. Now, colors. I'm going to upload this PowerPoint so you can use it yourself too. Then you will have the color codes. I have some pre customized color combinations here. I picked this one. The reason for that is simple because it can make such a huge difference if you upload the picture unedited or edited, but edited in the right way. For editing, I'm only going to use monochrome colors. This is super simple in PowerPoint. You just click on the picture and you go to, first of all, right-click form a picture and then go to Color. And click on Recolor. And here you have the accent colors. So when you have a PowerPoint, you always have a setup, design setup. For this, you have to go to Design tab. Click on, and here's the UC, the colors. Normally it's always the Microsoft default colors, but I already have so many custom-made color combinations. I already picked mine, which is already here. If you go to the customers, you see here the x and 123, It's pretty, it's focusing on soft green with a nice combination of some dark colors. This is this theme color, and that's why when I go to re-coloring my picture in PowerPoint, you see here this is the light green accent color one dark, light green x and color light and so on. Simply face. See this one. This is actually quite okay one. But I want to go with the light green. You see here. Again, right-click and Form a picture and you have many other options. But now we're going to go into those details in this class. I like this one, but I might go with this one is quite cool. Alright? So what I have just done is to use the Format Painter. It's going to speed up your work. Amazingly. Click on the picture and go to Home tab. And here you find the Format Painter. Double-click, not single clip. Very important. Double-click. Go to the next slide, click on the picture. Next one. Click on Always the pictures, and then click Escape. Now we have a set of pictures which is quite a good start for the course before we even use arise. I liked this one because it's really good for core pictures. Just giving you the right impression right away. Activating emotions is super important. But for some reason I liked this because it resonates really well. We topic that I'm trying to teach through rise how to work remotely. I'm going to stick with this one. Right-click. And I'm simply going to do is just to export the pictures from my PowerPoint. And that's it. Nothing more. Glucose. And I will be really simple. I will just say course 1234 and that's it. Alright, so I will just select, I will save everything on my desktop for simplicity. Now I go back to my arise ON by the weight. Now I need the color courts. So I go back to my PowerPoint. Very simple way to grab out immediately the theme color that you are looking for, you just add a shape that rectangle is going to be fine. And click on the shape. And here you can select the theme color that you prefer to do. Gonna go with. You see you can already hear. Compare it with the picture which shade would suit well to that picture? I think a little bit lighter version would suit better. I'm gonna go with this one. All right. Right-click on the shape and go to Format, Picture and color and more colors. And here down there you see the hex code. And this is going to speed up your process a lot as well. Copy paste that, and go back to your eyes. Now, you can click on the Custom Index and colors right here, just based on the color code and see it we're getting there. Here. You see as well if you do any kind of interactions here, it's going to create the same excellent colors for the template based items within rice, which is really cool. For example, this icons the plus icon and here the plus sign and so on. Alright, save it. And now we are getting one step closer navigation. Here. I would just leave everything as it is. You can customize it later. You can just have a look What kind of you can restrict the user if you want, or you can have it free. I would suggest to liberate free as a star. You can start the sidebar on the left, open or closed or no sidebar, no, this is actually a new feature, so it's really cool. It was not available last year. Yeah. And you can customize it in different ways. I'm going to be fine with this translations. It's also cool if you aim to create a course in different languages, labels, labels, for example, at the end you add the beginning, you see Start Course, and you can rename it. Let's start, for example. And then you will see how, what difference it makes. And then collaboration is not so important right now, close it. You can still not have a review because you still didn't add the content. Let's have here three options. Now, I will only use basically what matters is the lesson and the quiz. The business content is against some template that we don't need templates because now we do from scratch the quiz. We will do at the end. But for now, we've started with the lesson. Now you are within the chapter, and here you can start to add blocks. If you click on all the blogs that you see here, taxes paragraph and subheading. Let's say I'm going to just add the text box. Now you added one block here and you can add blocks as much as you want. So this is one block and as you can see, it is quite a good combination with this header and body font. I'm going to hide the older to create some enough whitespace. And just again here, you can always change the type of paragraph statement. I'm going to go just read the paragraph and pictures. Yes. So either you add the block from the plus sign or down here, all blocks, but when you are already have more blocks is just makes sense. Click on the plus icon and then you can hear add very easily New Media, video, picture and also gallery. So let's click on gallery and then click on. I want to show you the flashcards, which is the image. This is still not yet. You have a specific one category for interactive items. And here you see all of them. Let's start with the flashcards. This is the most simple one. You can click on the card and you can decide if on the front card should be a picture or text or the other way around and so on. And this is also really nice. So I'm going to delete this. I'm going to leave it here. I will just go back to lesson. Once again. Now you can go back and let's have a preview. See now we're getting somewhere, but it's still not really there. Once again, I want to hide the older. So you see now it's more clean. You get again. You see going back. Here is the label I just changed. Let's start, sort of start from course. Let's start. Very nice. Okay, I want to add the core picture. Remember that we wanted to add the core picture again. Here, up, down, up, up here you have a review share. We are just focusing on settings right now. Theme, logo, we don't need it to cover, we'll need that font and color customizations. We just set it up. So here we will add the photo I just edited from my desktop. And here you can decide about the contrast. What you will see here, if it's 50%, 30 is not. So I think 40 person, that would be nice. Yeah, let's go with that. Then close it and now previews. Nice. I like it pretty much. Let's go back and yeah, that's it. Okay. Another thing is that also good to have a cover for different chapters. Now. For that I will just go to I'm not going to do it now step-by-step. I saved all of these pictures on my, on my desktop and I can upload to my rice course from my desktop. Here I want to add another covert picture for this chapter benefits of working remotely. Now I will open the plus icon and I want to add image. I'm going to use the text on image. I might even add the text, but I will use it without text. I will just delete the text editor here. You can delete it shifted or you can change the format of the picture. I will leave it like this. And here you can edit. You see there is a layer. You can change the layer. It's dark now, I will just start getting a little bit, but you can change it later. I'm not going to on the top, it's really important. I'm going to make it no padding on the down. It shows the distance between the blocks. On the top. I don't want to have distance between this line and the picture here. Of course I want to have some whitespace. So this is what means if you go to the Edit and it's really intuitive if you would figure it out yourself. Now, I want to change this picture, edit, replace. Here are all the pictures that I use and this is what I'm going to upload all the pictures, benefits of working remotely. I'm gonna go with this one. The cool thing is that it's responsive. But obviously if you change the size of the web. The page, it changes with the picture so you cannot see, you cannot know in advance the user what window size the user and the user has, or is he or she watching the course from the phone or an iPad? So the best thing, the best thing that you can do is crop the picture right here and make it much, much smaller. So if you go like this distance, you can make sure that the face will be in. Then you will sacrifice the rest of the picture. But here, the face is what creates the attention. And obviously, you can guess the cheese working from their phone. And that's going to sum up the benefits of working remotely. All right, so you can add here now some, let's add some interactions. Going to go with this one. Here, I can ask questions. Let's say I'm going to add here the header. So what are the benefits? Here? I can always change the background. I'm going to do with the f, so that's the white. All white, right? Now, here you can add different, right? Wrong. Item. 1123 are the right choices. 456 are the wrong choices. Close. I would just have to remember for what was wrong. Was wrong too. What happened? All right, so I made some mistake. Here. You already have some feedbacks and you can add some continue buttons super easily. This is one chapter now you are unable on Chapter challenges. The cool thing about it is that you can save templates. You can click on the Plus blocked templates, new and just click on this picture, save it. Challenges. And I'm gonna go ads, block templates, and here it is. I just have to change the picture. I have d's and I think I'm gonna go with this one. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna show you one more trick, which is also really useful when you don't want to sacrifice too big part of the picture. Either you can add some text. So outside, the outer maybe to believe it too short, but you get the picture. You can change the size. And this is also how you can control. If you have a look at the preview, looks also quite cool. Then you get the picture. I'm not going to have too long for this lesson because now it's already showing you the basics. Here. I'm going to also add still among them were header for this one. The other challenges. Now without text, I will just like mental burnout, whatever, too much isolation and so on. Again, it will list the question again. I would just ask them some stupid question. I have to avoid too much isolation. I will make it bold. Bigger choice now. Choice to choice, three, choice for, and this is multiple choice, but you can change it. So not multiple choice, but multiple response, meaning you can have more good dancers. Choice 24 are the good one. You can also set up different responses. Now I'm not going to well, let's say a correct this is the correct answer. Yes. That's right. You, you can hear, add some motivational items, some more personalized, customized reaction for a good or right answer. And no. Unfortunately that's not correct. So some gentle rejection though, that's not the right answer. Let's see. You can already desk did from here submit, though that's not the right answer. So we know that the choice 24 is the right one. And yes, that's right, cool. Again, lets them continue. And then the final quiz. And remember, I told you that I will show you shortly the quiz. Now this is a completely built in a Quiz Template, which is super fast and it's easy to create exams, for example. Here is okay, So this is your final exam. Here you can add again question here. I will just leave it as it is. I will remember that in the first one, choice, one, choice 14. And let's preview it. Start a quiz. Choice, one. Correct answer. And choice. Correct answers. So I made it perfect score. 100%, Hundred percent. Awesome. Let's see how is it been incorrect? Let's have a 50% score. That's correct. Here you can set up also someone already reached the 50% that can be passed. Or you can customize that here. 80% is the minimum. I reached 50%, so I did not pass the exam. Alright, let's go back and I think we have a complete mini-course already. Let's start. Here is the first one. Challenges. They didn't add here, a car Continue button, but I can do that as well. There it is. This is how you make a course really fast. And I really recommend you to use monochrome pictures because you can see how many, how much difference you can make with it. It's really the look and feel is much more sophisticated. There's whitespace, it's clean, it's simple. And believe me, people love simple is just attracts the human eyes so easily. Here we go. You already have a content topic. You already educate the user with a simple knowledge. Checkers knowledge check examples. You engage with nice pictures. You organize the knowledge, you control the focus also with a nice pictures that suits, that supports the message is the content. And at the end you have a nice final quiz. This is how you can teach very easily online with rise shortly, this was how you can create a rice courses with rice. 6. What is Storyline 360?: Unless lady says a storyline application, now, I just opened the storyline desktop application. This is the user interface. As you can see, this is not a Cloud-based, not under, not even a browser. This we are going to discuss again in detailed details in the upcoming classes. Here I will just go through step-by-step how I built in the pictures and then I just played with the interactions. So you can see that everything that you have seen from the previous lesson, this is a source file for that one. And you can see here there are many other things going home on the screen, which I'm not going to include now, this is how you can build yourself a storyline. If you can open up your storyline file and within the file you can just enter the pictures, the duodenum pictures that you have quoted. And that's it. And this is how you end up with a story that I'm going to show you steal the preview mode here too. You can see, you can also see in different formats. In terms of responsibility. Sometimes it loads a little bit longer. Here you have the whole feature, as I said on the menu bar. You can hide it or unhide and you can click on the exercise. It's pretty similar to the end result or when you publish it, when you export it into different formats, it's going to eat can cover the whole picture and then it looks also really nice, Lee and without the editing features, of course. But this is also really cool that you can already hear. To see everything you build and you see the functions, how the navigation works, and the interactions like I just clicked on a button. Now what happens then? And now here is the quiz, instant feedback. And that's it. It's super easily done. You see the whole purpose. Now using these pictures was how to make a difference. How to elevate your e-learning course with these kind of pictures. This is how you can do it in a storyline. Once again, you just have to use your free account. Then you can download for the storyline application for free as well, of course, and you will have the possibility to practice 30 days. Go ahead, download the free trial version of articulate 360 and then you can start right away also with storyline 360. 7. Share your eLearning Content easily: In this lesson, we are going to do the last step that you need for every e-learning content is publishing and sharing. Here's arise scores that I just created. And either you can click on the rice course or you can start from here too. Export the course sharing. You have to click on it. And you have seen here two options. You can also export it from here, but here now you can also get the share link, and this is done. Now. This is still not the very less move when you export the course into a squirm format or other formats. We will get to that in a second. This is one very simple example, how you can, I'm just going to open up an incognito page. So here's the link. Enter. There you go. Here is a complete course with a simple link and this link, you can send it to anybody. Now this is still not in an LMS, is just simply from the rise server. And here you can send this link to anybody and then you can already sent the course that you just created. And that's just super, super simple. You see this is the same what we've just done, but now this is from an external browser window tab. And this, again, you just have to copy paste the link and you can send it to anybody. And that person or organization or stakeholders can have a look at it and have rights and impression right away. Now the other thing is to export, which obviously you're going to need as well. Now here we are again in the editing surface, so export. And here you go. You can choose the trekking options. Now, here you can also set the different rules for completion. I'm not going to talk about now trekking. We can get into it in another day, in another course, in another class. Here just to have the basic functionalities that you can't set up before exporting your course. Here are the most important form. It's two elements. So you can also export it to an LRS, which is not the LMS form of LMS. For elements, you will need a scoring format, the classical scone format here you can choose the older version of the newer version. If you want to have more specific tracking options, then obviously you're going to need x API. But that's a complete different story. Most users use simply the score. But if you use x API, then you have much more trekking possibilities to read and track what the users do, right from the enrolling to clicking the Start button and so on. From that perspective, is more limited option. But I can personally recommend you simply use the score that you have already. A lot of, lot of information about users while they do. So these are the two, most of you, you can just pick, pick the last one, so scorn. And here you can also have different options. Even PDF web format if you just want to export as a link. But most people needed with the elements and then export after them. It will download a zip file based on the pictures or media items that you've used, it can range between 30 megabyte or even one gigabyte if it's so big. And then you have an external file, the zip file and the zip file you can upload to your own elements. So that's how you can share and publish your e-learning course. We'd rise.