Festive Wrap: Creating elearning content using Storyline and Rise 360

This post is part of our Festive Wrap series, where we review all the creative themes we’ve covered this year and bring you up to date with the latest software developments. Call it a free gift 🙂

Let’s start with an AI generated image created to represent creating elearning content in a festive way – The full prompt used is below:

Futuristic digital art showing people wearing headsets around a large tech-themed gift box with robotic elements and smaller gifts, set against a vibrant, festive background.

The full prompt used with DALL-E3 to generate this image

Create an illustration for festive gift wrap that encapsulates the futuristic theme of creating computer eLearning experiences for students in the virtual metaverse. Incorporate imaginative elements such as digital avatars, virtual reality headsets, and holographic interfaces, all arranged in a vibrant, interconnected pattern. Use a forward-looking color scheme with neon purples, electric blues, and iridescent silvers to convey the cutting-edge nature of virtual learning environments. Blend traditional festive motifs, such as wreaths or ornaments, with digital twists—like pixelated textures or circuit-like patterns—to bridge the physical and virtual worlds. The design should feel immersive and visionary, ideal for wrapping gifts that celebrate the future of education and technology.

April and May 2024 were eLearning months with our Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline 360 explainers!

Robot with a graduation cap sits at a desk with a laptop, open book, and pencils, promoting "Articulate Storyline 360" in a classroom setting. Text above welcomes to creating e-learning. — Robot with a graduation cap sits at a desk with a laptop, open book, and pencils, promoting “Articulate Storyline 360” in a classroom setting. Text above welcomes to creating e-learning.

Back in April and May we presented not one but TWO series of video explainers to help you get started with the rapid development tool RISE 360 and the slide-based elearning tool Storyline 360. Head back there now if you missed out!

Here’s what we covered in the Storyline 360 series:

Create and save a new project
Use text and images to create slide content
Add buttons, videos and 3d environments for users to interact with
Add music
Add animation
Add quiz questions and a results slide
Export the elearning for use online in a browse

Here’s the completed, short elearning module for Storyline 360 :

Here’s what we covered in the Rise 360 explainer series:

Create an Articulate account and create a new microlearning project
Explore available content blocks and add text and images to the microlearning
Add interactive content including a timeline and embedded video
Add a step-by-step interaction for viewers to follow
Add knowledge-check questions including multiple choice and ‘fill in the blanks’
Export the microlearning to a PDF, to the web and to an LMS

Here’s a video walkthrough of the short module we created using Rise 360:

Storyline and Rise 360 updates

Firstly, Storyline 360 is finally 64 bit! We always found Storyline’s interface a bit ‘sticky’, even on modern laptop hardware, so it was great to see an upgrade bringing a fully 64 bit version earlier this year. If you’ve been put off in the past by Storyline’s sluggish performance, it may be time to give it another try!

Next , will it surprise you to find the Articulate 360 suite now incorporates an AI Assistant?

Among other benefits, the assistant helps to automate some of the ‘longer’ content development processes we covered earlier this year, including adding the ‘process’ block to Rise microlearning content. Rather than needing to manually create each step of the process, the AI assistant can generate a sequence of steps, complete with example images, using the content of an uploaded file. Nice!

Where to next for elearning content development?

We asked Leonardo.ai to conjure up ‘A visual representation of the future of online learning content in 2049, 25 years from now’ Using their ”Leonardo Lightning’ engine and the ‘3d render’ preset…

A digital interface displaying AI-generated visuals of futuristic online learning environments. Options for editing and rendering are on the left, and various images are shown on the right.

Here are the results returned. (Note the captions shown were AI-generated when the images were added to this page – They are NOT the original prompts used to create the images).