Storyline 2: Adjusting Slide Properties

You can customize the properties for any slide in your course, including how it advances, what happens when learners revisit it, and which player controls are visible.

Accessing Slide Properties

You can access slide properties in Story View, Slide View, and question banks. Here's how:

• In Story View, select the slide(s) you want to modify, then use the Slide Properties panel in the lower right corner to make your adjustments.
• In Slide View, click the gear icon on the base layer in the Slide Layers panel, or right-click the slide and choose Properties.
• In a question bank, select the slide(s) you want to modify, then use the Slide Properties panel in the lower right corner to make your adjustments.

Tip: If you want to make the same property changes to multiple slides at the same time, use Story View.

Controlling How Slides Advance

Choose whether slides advance Automatically or By user.

Tip: If you import slides from PowerPoint, Storyline will respect the advance behavior from Articulate Presenter.

Determining How Slides Behave When Revisited

Storyline lets you decide how objects behave when learners revisit the same slide later. Choose from the following options:

Resume saved state	Use this option if you want the slide to always remember its previous state. In other words, this lets learners pick up where they left off if they return to the same slide later. For example, if the learner was in the middle of a video when they navigated away from the slide, the video will resume where it left off when they return to the slide.
Reset to initial state	Use this option if you want the slide to always reset to its initial state when learners return to it. It'll restart from the beginning of its timeline, and interactive objects will return to their initial states.
Automatically decide	This is the default option. Storyline will decide whether to resume the slide or reset it based on the objects it contains. Here's the logic: If the slide has only simple objects—text, images, audio, video, etc—but no interactivity, Storyline resets the slide to the beginning of its timeline. If the slide contains interactive elements, such as buttons or other objects that have a visited/selected state, Storyline resumes the slide where it left off previously.

 

Assigning Questions to Result Slides

The Result slide property is only visible for question slides. It lets you choose which result slide will report the score for the selected quiz slide(s). If your course doesn't have any result slides yet, here's how to add one.

Choosing Navigation Controls

Mark the box or boxes for the navigation buttons you want to show on the selected slide(s). By default, content slides have Prev and Next buttons, while question slides have Submit buttons.

Tip: To submit a learner's quiz responses all at once and provide feedback only at the end of the quiz, change question slides to have Prev/Next buttons rather than Submit buttons.

Showing or Hiding Player Features

By default, each slide will show the features you enabled in the course player, but you can customize the player features on a slide by slide basis. Just choose Custom for the selected slides from the Player features drop-down, then mark the boxes for the features you want to show.

If you change your mind, click Reset to revert to the player defaults. (This also resets the navigation buttons to Prev/Next for content slides and Submit for question slides.)

Setting Default Player Features

To change the default player features for your entire project, go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Player. When the Features editor appears, make your selections. (Learn more about choosing player features.)

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