Ashley Chiasson, M.Ed

Here’s another helpful tip when working with text boxes. This tip comes into play when you’ve defined a fixed-sized text box (e.g., you’ve drawn the text box in the size you want it to remain). Now it used to be that you could ‘shrink text on overflow’, which is no longer an option and one that I wouldn’t recommend from an accessibility perspective. Why? Because the text could shrink to less than 12pt font size which would no longer be WCAG compliant.

Now, when you’re working with a fixed-sized text box, you can choose between two options: 1) allow a scrollbar, or 2) allow the text to overflow the bounds of the text box…in the latter, you would likely then have to go ahead and add a scrolling panel and it would be a whole, unnecessary to-do. Here’s what I would recommend doing.

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This tip goes out to anyone who has been struggling to figure out why their data entry field text isn’t wrapping…it’s just continuing along horizontally. In the November 2023 update of Storyline, Articulate adjusted the verbiage from (I believe) autofit to Multi-line, which may have confused some who were searching for word wrap or text wrap or autofit in hopes of making this adjustment to their data entry field. The good news is that multi-line is selected by default, so this tip is something to consider if you notice the behaviour and want to remedy it.

Check out the screencast below!

In this video, I’m sharing some of the random bits that didn’t make it into the previous videos:

• Deleting a playlist
• Using triggers to play/pause/stop playlist media
• Allowing users to toggle background audio on or off.

In this video, I’m showing you how you can leverage triggers and the Player.BackgroundAudioVolume variable in Articulate Storyline 360 to control background playlist audio volume. 

Previously, I showed you how to easily create a background audio playlist for your projects within Articulate Storyline 360. In this video, I’m discussing some of the background audio playlist settings. Check out the screencast below.

Adding background audio to your e-learning projects can enhance the learning experience by creating engagement, emotional connection, and may increase retention. Articulate has made it super easy to create background audio playlists in Storyline 360. In the video below, I’m showing how you can quickly create a playlist, add audio tracks to the playlist, delete tracks, and reorder tracks.

Check out the screencast below!