Storyline 360: Accessible Feedback Layers

The April 2023 update for Storyline 360 offers an accessible feedback master that meets color, contrast, and focus guidelines by default. It gives your feedback layers a consistent design and improves the quiz experience for all learners.

And there's more! We also debuted a feedback master selector. Use it to quickly apply a feedback master to multiple question slides simultaneously.

• Use Accessible Feedback Layers
  • Start New Projects With Accessible Feedback Layers
  • Update Existing Quiz Slides With the Feedback Master Selector
  • Apply Accessible Feedback Layers to Multiple Question Slides
• Compatibility

Use Accessible Feedback Layers

The correct, incorrect, try again, and thank you feedback layers now have inclusive designs that meet WCAG guidelines for visual contrast, color, and focus. Plus, feedback layers present as modal dialogs by default. (Learn more about feedback masters.)

Check out these screenshots. (Click the images to enlarge them.)

Correct Feedback Layer	Incorrect Feedback Layer
Try Again Layer	Thank You Layer

Ready to make your quizzes more accessible? Insert the accessible feedback master for new projects, and use the feedback master selector for existing projects, as described below.

Start New Projects With Accessible Feedback Layers

Using the accessible feedback master for new projects is easy. Go to the View tab on the Storyline ribbon, click Feedback Master, then select Insert Accessible Master. When you add quiz slides now, they'll automatically use accessible feedback layers.

Update Existing Quiz Slides With the Feedback Master Selector

Use the feedback master selector to apply a feedback master to existing question slides. The feedback master selector lets you apply a feedback master to individual question slides, updating all the corresponding feedback layers at the same time, as shown below. You can also use it to apply a feedback master to multiple question slides, as described in the next section.

To update existing feedback layers with the feedback master selector, select the question slide you want to update and do any of the following:

• In Story View, go to the Question Tools—Design tab on the ribbon and use the Feedback Master drop-down arrow to select a feedback master.
• In Slide View, go to the Question Tools—Design tab on the ribbon and use the Feedback Master drop-down arrow to select a feedback master.
• In Form View, go to the Question tab on the ribbon and use the Feedback Master drop-down arrow to select a feedback master.
• In a question bank, go to the Question Tools—Design tab on the ribbon and use the Feedback Master drop-down arrow to select a feedback master.

Apply Accessible Feedback Layers to Multiple Question Slides

Speed up your workflow even more by applying the accessible feedback master to multiple feedback layers. In Story or Slide View, hold down the Shift or Ctrl key as you select the question slides you want to update. Then, go to the Question Tools—Design tab on the ribbon and use the Feedback Master drop-down arrow to select the Accessible feedback master.

Compatibility

Accessible feedback layers are exclusive to the modern player style in Storyline 360 as of April 2023. Project files that use these layouts won't open in Storyline 360 before the November 2022 update. To restore compatibility, use the modern or classic feedback master instead and delete the accessible feedback master and its layouts.

Install the Storyline 3 April 2023 update to restore compatibility with Storyline 360. You can open Storyline 360 projects with accessible feedback layers and edit them in Storyline 3. However, you can't add an accessible feedback master to new Storyline 3 projects.