No design background? No problem. This session covers practical, principle-grounded design shortcuts in Rise that anyone can apply—setting a mood that resonates with your learners, customizing stock images for accessibility, creating an appealing cover page, and using spacers to elevate your layout without ever leaving the tool. You'll leave with simple, replicable techniques that make your courses look intentional, not accidental.

Static quizzes give learners a score—dynamic assessments give them insight. This session walks through how a real leadership self-assessment was rebuilt in Storyline using variables, JavaScript, and AI-assisted design to generate tailored feedback summaries instead of simple scores. You'll leave knowing how to structure your variables, connect your logic, extend Storyline with JavaScript, and use AI to accelerate trigger creation and feedback development—so your assessments feel personal, not generic.

Storyline's accessibility checker analyzes your entire course, flags issues, and guides you toward fixes—making it one of the fastest ways to move the needle on accessibility. This session covers how the checker works and what it evaluates, then goes further with best practices for focus order, color contrast, alt text, captions, and player controls that ensure your courses work for every learner. You'll leave with an end-to-end workflow that starts with the checker and doesn't stop there.

Most Storyline users treat the Media Library like a catalog—but it's actually one of the most underused productivity tools in your project. This session shows you how to use it intentionally: organizing and auditing assets, eliminating duplication, optimizing file size, managing characters, and supporting accessibility workflows—including practical strategies for editing media externally and reintegrating it smoothly. You'll leave knowing how to make the Media Library do real work across every project you build.

Storyline is an industry mainstay for e-learning—but it's also a surprisingly capable tool for projects that have nothing to do with courses. This session explores non-traditional builds including interactive documents, standalone applications, eCards, and yes, a fully functional karaoke machine—and shows how each one sharpens techniques you'll bring back to your training work. You'll leave with take-home Storyline files and a very different idea of what the tool can do.

When Alchemer acquired a new company, Aniyah Reading and Nathaniel Blalock inherited a critical project with an impossible timeline: ready the sales org for massive change with three weeks to Sales Kickoff, an incompatible tech stack, and two companies that needed to become one. See how they built 40 courses in 3 weeks with Articulate 360 AI, delivered and measured them in Reach, and got 92% of reps confident and ready all before kickoff.

Accessibility guidance often comes as checklists—but real training projects aren't that simple. This session walks through the common decisions that come up when building in Articulate 360: when to simplify an interaction, how to handle complex visuals, and what to do when accessibility and design goals feel at odds. You'll leave with a clear, practical framework for thinking through these situations and making accessibility decisions that support real people using your training—no matter your role or experience level.

When training feels evaluative or punitive, learners stop thinking and start guessing—finishing the course instead of learning from it. This session shows how specific design choices in tone, feedback wording, and assessment structure directly affect whether learners engage or disengage, using side-by-side examples to demonstrate how to rewrite corrective feedback, replace trivia questions with judgment-based scenarios, and use consequence-based branching to teach real application. You'll leave with a repeatable conversion method for transforming compliance training, onboarding, and professional development courses into experiences that build accountability without relying on shame or fear.

Many L&D professionals start as LMS administrators and find themselves taking on instructional design, tool governance, and learning strategy, without a clear path for growing into that scope. This session shows how to use the Articulate ecosystem strategically to scale that transition—aligning Storyline, Rise, and Review to team skill levels, building repeatable SME collaboration workflows, and making technology decisions that expand your impact and advance your career. You'll leave with a personal roadmap for growing from tool administrator to learning leader and a practical framework for building a modern, scalable training ecosystem around you.

How do you get Gen Z learners engaged with a legacy DOS-based mainframe system they've never seen before? This session shows how storytelling, quirky characters, and interactive design can transform dry technical content into something learners actually remember—using Storyline to bring it all together with a mix of static images, animations, stock photos, and AI-generated visuals. You'll leave with practical techniques for developing character personalities, building narrative around technical content, and adding interactions that get learners predicting and practicing—not just watching.