Create online learning content using Storyline 360: Explainer 1 of 10

Learn how to create and save a new Storyline project. Get started with Articulate Storyline 360 today!

Posted by By pixel perfect 5 Min Read March 5, 2025

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Create and save a new Storyline project.

Overview

Name of explainer: Create and save a Storyline project

Creative theme: Creating elearning

Software used: Articulate Storyline

User level: BEGINNER

This is explainer 1 of 10 in this series

This series includes the following explainers:

  1. Create and save a new Storyline project
  2. Add text and AI-generated images to slides
  3. Create an interactive navigation button
  4. Generate text using Storyline’s AI assistant
  5. Embed a YouTube video in a slide
  6. Create animated text and add an AI-generated voiceover
  7. Generate an AI summary of slide content
  8. Create AI-generated quiz questions and add a results slide
  9. Publish the project to the web, a video and to an LMS
  10. BONUS EXPLAINER! AI assistant overview – Use the assistant to generate text, images and sound

The Software

This brand new series of explainers uses Articulate Storyline 360, one of the most popular online content creation tools. It’s part of a suite of programs called ‘Articulate 360’ which also includes RISE (an app for rapid content creation) and the online review and commenting platform Review 360.

You can download a free 30 day demo of Articulate Storyline. This gives you a fully-functioning copy of Storyline to use alongside our explainers (though note the demo comes with a limited asset library of characters, photos and icons, and some themes are ‘locked’).

Over the course of 10 explainers we’ll use Storyline to create a short elearning module including video and sound, and add a quiz and results slide at the end before exporting the package to use in a web browser

The finished product

This is how our Storyline project will look at the end of this explainer series. This project includes sound. Welcome to a short overview of Kindle Direct Publishing!

The YouTube video used in this module was tested as working when this page was last updated.

The pre-requisities

This is a BEGINNER workflow explainer series. It is helpful if you’re already familiar with adding and formatting text and moving and resizing images..

If you’re new to computing, you may need help downloading and installing the software. Start with a search for ‘how do i install Storyline’ or speak with someone familiar with this process already.

Why would I do this?

Setting up a new Storyline project includes making decisions such as choosing a filename and the shape and resolution for the slides in your project.

Let’s do it!

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Good to know

As discussed in the explainer, setting an appropriate slide size is important. We use 1280 pixels across and 720 pixels down (often refered to as ‘HD’). This can be a useful compromise for elearning projects. It’s unusual to create ‘full HD’ projects (1920×1080 pixels) unless your topic includes high resolution images to be studied in detail by your audience.

If you’re creating elearning to open alongside another program (E.g. To use as a help reference guide), a lower resolution of 640×360 pixels or 480×480 pixels may be more suitable.

Where to next?

Remember, this is part of a series of explainers – Join us again for the other explainers in this series 🙂

Notes and updates

There are no notes or advisories at this time. This video explainer was last updated in March 2025. This page was last updated in March 2025.

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