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

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Posted by By pixel perfect 6 Min Read March 28, 2025

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BONUS EXPLAINER! Use the AI assistant to generate text, images and sound

Overview

Name of explainer: Use the AI assistant to generate text, images and audio

Creative theme: Creating elearning

Software used: Articulate Storyline

User level: BEGINNER

This is explainer 10 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 looks at the end of the main 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.

What is the AI assistant?

The AI assistant was added to Storyline in September 2024. It can help to speed up various common workflows:

AI Assistant interface with a greeting and six options including generate image, quiz, question, summary, text-to-speech, and sound effect.
AI Assistant interface with a greeting and six options including generate image, quiz, question, summary, text-to-speech, and sound effect.

In addition, it can be used to generate text information from scratch by clicking the ‘Insert Text’ button then prompting it for the information you need:

In this explainer we walk through the main features of the AI assistant and offer plenty of hints and tips to get the most out of it!

The AI assistant is in development, so individual features may change or be removed at any time. For information about the latest changes to Storyline please see

https://community.articulate.com/kb/user-guides/storyline-360-create-content-with-ai-assistant/1196580

Let’s do it!

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Good to know

Don’t forget that the AI assistant isn’t only capable of generating text and images! As seen in the explainer, it’s also good at generating realistic speech and sound effects which can be layered on the timeline to create complex ‘soundscapes’ for your projects:

Generating speech in the accent of an ‘old’ male with an Irish accent:

Audio editing software interface with speech text area, playback controls, and sound effects options visible.

Generating background ‘pub ambience’:

Text-to-speech software interface with settings for voice options and speech effects.

Layering audio in the timeline to create an immersive soundscape:

A screenshot of a presentation slide on Kindle Direct Publishing with timeline and audio tracks below.

That’s the end of this brand new series introducing Storyline 360 to new users. We hope you’ve found it helpful and informative, and look forward to seeing what you go on to create!

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