Create online learning content using Storyline 360: Explainer 9 of 10

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Posted by By pixel perfect 6 Min Read March 26, 2025

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Publish the project to the web, a video and to an LMS

Overview

Name of explainer: Publish the project to the web, a video and to an LMS

Creative theme: Creating elearning

Software used: Articulate Storyline

User level: BEGINNER

This is explainer 9 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?

It’s best practice to review your project in full and check for any glitches or issues, which could include poorly-named slides, non-working buttons or other issues with interactions.

Storyline provides plenty of export options, including to the ‘Web’ and to an LMS (Learning Management System)

Let’s do it!

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Good to know

When publishing for ‘Web’, always review the options available in the ‘Quality’ section. Here, you can set compression levels for images and videos in your project to obtain a balance between file size and visual quality:

Screenshot of a software interface for publishing to the web, with options for video quality, audio quality, and JPG quality settings. There are sliders and checkboxes for customization.
Screenshot of a software interface for publishing to the web, with options for video quality, audio quality, and JPG quality settings. There are sliders and checkboxes for customization.

When publishing to ‘LMS’, if you plan to track your users’ progress (including whether they have passed or failed a quiz) you’ll need to use the correct ”Reporting and tracking’ settings. Always test a small exported project inside your LMS to ensure the settings are compatible before attempting complex tracking. Almost all professional LMS systems support SCORM, while recent systems should also support the additional tracking features of xAPI:

Dropdown menu showing reporting options: xAPI, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, and cmi5. Checkbox options for "Report to an LMS" and "Report to an external LRS" are above.
Dropdown menu showing reporting options: xAPI, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, and cmi5. Checkbox options for “Report to an LMS” and “Report to an external LRS” are above.

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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This is number 9 of 10 explainer videos in this series. Make sure you check out the others!