Find the features and fixes we’ve added to Storyline 360 since its initial launch below, starting with the most recent. All updates are included with your Articulate 360 subscription.

To access the newest enhancements for Storyline 360, install the latest version by opening the Articulate 360 desktop app and clicking Update.

To see what’s coming next, visit our feature roadmap.

Release notes are also available for AI Assistant and Articulate Localization.

March 17, 2026 (Build 3.113.36519.0)

• Enhanced: Get AI-generated alt text suggestions automatically when you import assets, making your courses more accessible with less effort.
• Enhanced: Link and file icons in the resources player tab now meet color contrast guidelines for accessibility.
• Fixed: Screen readers didn’t read alt text for object states if the original object was deleted or the normal state didn’t have alt text.
• Fixed: In pick-one and pick-many interactions, screen readers announced SVG checkboxes as checked before learners selected their answer.
• Fixed: JAWS screen readers announced numbered lists incorrectly.
• Fixed: Hyperlink formatting didn’t update as expected.

March 10, 2026 (Build 3.112.36406.0)

• New (Beta): Adjust and fine-tune individual object timings and durations for each language version with Articulate Localization. 

March 3, 2026 (Build 3.112.36406.0)

• Enhanced: Create more expressive, emotionally-rich voiceovers with v3, now the default AI text-to-speech model and officially out of beta.
• Enhanced: Simplify reporting with a built-in option that rounds quiz scores to whole numbers.
• Enhanced: Bring PowerPoint slides into Storyline 360 more reliably—even when PowerPoint isn’t installed on your system.
• Enhanced: The built-in language option labels are now consistent with other Articulate 360 apps.
• Fixed: Scrolling didn’t work properly when zoom to fit was enabled.
• Fixed: The focus indicator was misaligned for bulleted lists.

February 19, 2026 (Build 3.111.36326.0)

• Fixed: Built-in variables didn’t display correctly.

February 17, 2026 (Build 3.111.36309.0)

• New: Skip tedious timeline adjustments by having AI Assistant precisely sync slide objects and animations with your audio.
• New: Turn your ideas into JavaScript interactions with AI Chat, no coding required.
• Enhanced: Deliver accessible surveys with a built-in Likert scale question that supports screen readers and keyboard navigation.
• Fixed: The closed captions editor showed captions for text-to-speech narration even though caption generation was turned off.
• Fixed: The accessibility checker skipped markers when checking interactive objects for the minimum target size.
• Fixed: Keyboard navigation didn’t work for hyperlinked text inside shapes or text boxes with triggers.
• Fixed: Transition animations didn’t match the slide size and position when the screen size was set to 1920x1080.
• Fixed: Some ribbon tabs and controls couldn’t be selected when the timeline was undocked.
• Fixed: Grouped objects became ungrouped when a layer was duplicated.
• Fixed: Web objects didn’t scale properly.
• Fixed: The video playback settings interface on mobile devices didn’t use consistent wording.

February 3, 2026 (Build 3.110.36211.0)

• Enhanced: Confidently deploy audio content with generated narrations that better match the voice preview and a new setting for granular speed control.
• Enhanced: Speed up your accessibility workflow by generating captions directly from AI Chat.
• Enhanced: Chat with AI Assistant to create motion paths and animate text boxes by paragraph for smoother, more expressive animations.
• Enhanced: Reset your conversation with AI Assistant in one click so you can focus on what’s next.
• Enhanced: Discover the latest AI Chat functions with clear NEW! labels and built-in prompts that show what’s new and offer ways to get started.
• Enhanced: Reduce distractions during video playback with a video setting that prevents learners from accidentally pausing videos with clicks or taps.
• Fixed: NVDA screen reader users could access hidden scrollbars in player tab content.
• Fixed: Certain Avenir and Sans Serif fonts looked different from the preview when they were published.
• Fixed: Captions weren’t generated for text-to-speech narration created with AI Assistant.

January 29, 2026 (Build 3.109.36182.0)

• Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash during preview in projects with JavaScript triggers.

January 21, 2026 (Build 3.109.36125.0)

• New: Create theme colors from an image or prompt by chatting with AI Assistant to maintain a cohesive, easy-to-update design. 
• Enhanced: AI JavaScript entrance animations now work on objects in slide layers, expanding your options for displaying additional content.
• Fixed: Rotated images with zoom enabled didn’t display correctly.
• Fixed: Review 360 displayed screenshot annotations at inconsistent zoom levels when used to comment on a Storyline 360 slide. 
• Fixed: Slide content shifted when navigating to objects at the bottom of a slide with a JAWS screen reader.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

January 12, 2026 (Build 3.108.36078.0)

• Fixed: Storyline 360 incorrectly marked some projects with zoom regions as corrupt, preventing them from opening.

January 8, 2026 (Build 3.108.36059.0)

• Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when an object with an emphasize trigger was copied.

January 6, 2026 (Build 3.108.36037.0)

• Enhanced: Manage AI-generated alt text suggestions as you work directly from the Size and Position window or the media library.
• Enhanced: AI alt text suggestions generated from the accessibility checker stay saved during your workflow, keeping bulk-generated suggestions available until you review them.
• Enhanced: The accessibility checker now displays a distinctive icon when AI-generated alt text suggestions are awaiting review.
• Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 141.0.
• Fixed: The lowercase letter i could disappear from Turkish closed captions.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

December 17, 2025 (Build 3.107.35974.0)

• Fixed: Storyline 360 could crash when a project had feedback layers or text styles.

December 16, 2025 (Build 3.107.35958.0)

• Enhanced: Easily add built-in entrance, emphasis, and exit animations by chatting with AI Assistant.
• Enhanced: Automatically generate alt text for your assets all at once, then edit or finalize each description right from the accessibility checker.
• Enhanced: You can now chat with AI Assistant to generate text-to-speech narration from your slide notes in addition to your slide content or script.
• Fixed: A scrollbar didn’t appear as expected when text overflowed.
• Fixed: Shapes shifted when previewed or published.
• Fixed: The text for the keyboard shortcuts toggle didn’t meet color contrast guidelines.
• Fixed: The focus indicator didn’t highlight the volume control when videos were viewed in full-screen mode.

December 8, 2025 (Build 3.106.35891.0)

• Enhanced: Thanks to your feedback, Storyline 360 no longer transcodes MP4s into both MP4 and WebM formats. You can still add WebM videos.

December 2, 2025 (Build 3.106.35838.0)

• New: Chat with AI Assistant to easily create content like audio, images, JavaScript entrance animations, and more.
• New: Create engaging entrance animations without coding. Describe your idea and let AI Assistant build the JavaScript trigger for you.
• New (Beta): Easily translate text-to-speech audio and AI-generated narrations with Articulate Localization to make your content more inclusive.
• Enhanced: Experience v3—the latest voice model for AI text-to-speech, delivering rich emotional expression and contextual awareness in over 70 languages.
• Enhanced: Legacy voices are now clearly labeled to indicate that they won’t be updated when AI models improve.
• Enhanced: Maximize efficiency while ensuring accessibility by generating captions after recording audio in Storyline 360.
• Enhanced: Save time and boost accessibility by automatically generating AI captions for uncaptioned audio and video files when you import a Storyline 360 project.
• Enhanced: Quickly improve accessibility by generating captions for course audio and video content in one step.
• Enhanced: Improve browser security for your videos. Storyline 360 now lets you add WebM videos and transcodes imported MP4s into both MP4 and WebM formats.
• Enhanced: You can now add alt text to your cover photos to improve accessibility.
• Fixed: Shadows were missing from speech bubble pointers.
• Fixed: Slide thumbnails disappeared in Story View when the zoom level was set below 30%.
• Fixed: The accessibility checker incorrectly reported missing text styles on slide master layouts even when they were already applied.
• Fixed: Textboxes displayed scrollbars that weren’t keyboard accessible when a text spacing browser extension was enabled in Google Chrome. 
• Fixed: Keyboard navigation didn’t work for web objects on layers, and screen readers didn’t announce their alt text.
• Fixed: NVDA screen reader users could access disabled buttons through arrow-key navigation.
• Fixed: Screen readers announced the slide title and state inconsistently.
• Fixed: Windows Narrator added an unwanted description before the slide title.
• Fixed: The focus indicator didn’t work properly for hyperlinks and images with zoom enabled.

October 21, 2025 (Build 3.105.35604.0)

• Enhanced: Get the image results you want with our latest image generation model that offers better prompt adherence and accurate text rendering. (This enhancement was enabled on October 23, 2025.)
• Enhanced: Streamline your captioning process with AI Assistant. Generate captions automatically when you import media with flexible settings to fit your workflow.
• Enhanced: Improve caption readability on any background by turning text shadow on or off.
• Fixed: Marker title text disappeared when turning accessible text off.

September 23, 2025 (Build 3.104.35448.0)

• Enhanced: Localization added support for 9 new languages—Khmer, Lao, Luxembourgish, Maori, Nepali, Nyanja, Samoan, Tetum, and Tigrinya. These languages are now available to everyone as text label options.
• Enhanced: The accessibility checker now displays scene thumbnails, making it quicker to identify and fix scene-title issues.
• Enhanced: To keep your text-to-speech narrations reliable and current, we removed AI-generated voices that our subprocessor stopped supporting. Thanks to your feedback, we restored the legacy voices in this update. To access them, close and reopen the Generate AI Audio window.
• Fixed: Checkmarks on correct responses now provide text alternatives to conform with WCAG 1.1.1.
• Fixed: Closed captions from multiple audio files stacked on top of each other when using the seekbar.
• Fixed: Lightboxes didn’t open when navigation controls were enabled.
• Fixed: Screen readers didn’t announce the default alt text for text-entry fields.
• Fixed: Scrollbars in marker labels didn’t work as expected.

August 26, 2025 (Build 3.103.35301.0)

• Fixed: Completing a Storyline 360 block added to a Rise 360 course didn’t enable the continue block.
• Fixed: Cropping tool didn’t behave as expected with images and illustrations.

August 20, 2025 (Build 3.103.35263.0)

• Fixed: Blank question fields caused preview and publish errors.

August 19, 2025 (Build 3.103.35242.0)

• New: Articulate Localization users can tailor translations for different regions or business areas using multiple glossaries within a subscription to fine-tune terms and organizational language.
• Enhanced: Screen readers provide richer context for multiple choice and drop-down questions, math equations, and the player seekbar, ensuring learners can navigate and track progress more intuitively.
• Enhanced: Player controls, resources, and glossary terms remain fully accessible when resizing the browser or zooming up to 400%, giving all learners a smoother experience.
• Fixed: Screen readers didn’t always announce alt text in the visited state of buttons or shapes.
• Fixed: Essay question types published in SCORM sometimes cut off long text answers.
• Fixed: Custom alt text added to buttons, radio buttons, text boxes, and checkboxes couldn’t be changed or reset to default.
• Fixed: Adding post-quiz review feedback after inserting a graded question could create multiple captions in the Review layer.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

July 22, 2025 (Build 3.102.35072.0)

• Enhanced: AI Assistant displays a status notification when the caption generation process completes.
• Enhanced: Articulate Localization users can easily insert localized audio assets—no triggers needed.
• Enhanced: We boosted the accessibility checker’s performance to keep even the largest projects running smoothly and added sort order options for easier navigation.
• Enhanced: Windows Narrator and Magnifier are now officially supported in published courses, giving learners more ways to engage with content.
• Fixed: Screen readers ignored the search results in the player menu.
• Fixed: Thai language symbols displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed: Some fonts caused Hebrew and Arabic text to disappear or display incorrectly in both preview and published output.
• Fixed: AI Assistant didn’t generate captions when the Storyline language was set to French.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

July 1, 2025 (Build 3.101.34961.0)

• Fixed: Closed captions in courses translated into Chinese, Japanese, or Korean incorrectly merged into one caption box, leaving other caption boxes blank.

June 24, 2025 (Build 3.101.34925.0)

• Fixed: Timed quizzes didn’t end when the time limit was exceeded.
• Fixed: Some PowerPoint files failed to import.
• Fixed: Projects without upgraded text couldn’t be imported.

June 17, 2025 (Build 3.101.34880.0)

• Enhanced: AI Assistant displays specific error messages when caption generation fails, making troubleshooting easier.
• Enhanced: Customize the page background color behind your content if you scale the modern player to fill the browser and turn off the menus and controls.
• Enhanced: We improved the screen reader experience by adding a customizable player text label for the sidebar menu landmark.
• Enhanced: Corner radius controls automatically hide on smaller objects to prevent accidental selection when trying to move shapes.
• Fixed: Some menu tabs on the ribbon disappeared after upgrading to Update 100.
• Fixed: Saving a project created from an earlier version of Storyline that included a rounded rectangle caused backward compatibility issues.
• Fixed: Completed scenes still showed the lock icon if the menu navigation was restricted or locked.
• Fixed: Toggling zoom to fit moved the content to the right if the modern player’s menus and controls were off.
• Fixed: Screen readers incorrectly announced some graphic elements despite their being invisible to accessibility tools.
• Fixed: Screen readers skipped some lightboxed content if the browser window was maximized or the system display scaling was set to 100%.
• Fixed: Some content library videos disappeared when the project was previewed or published.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

May 27, 2025 (Build 3.100.34725.0)

• New: Improve the accessibility of your content. Get actionable feedback based on key WCAG guidelines to instantly identify barriers like missing closed captions and disabled course playback speed.
• New: Instantly generate high-quality captions for your audio and video content to boost accessibility.
• New: Keep your course design consistent by defining precise values for rounded corners.
• New: Unleash your creativity—use merge options to combine basic shapes into custom, powerful designs.
• Enhanced: We added a new Korean neural voice, Jihye, for text-to-speech conversion.
• Enhanced: Enchant learners with seven more playful emphasis animation options, including tilt, bounce, rotate, float, and more.
• Enhanced: Create inclusive content from the start with a template that meets accessibility standards.
• Fixed: Marker title text overflowed if the entrance animation applied affected the size.
• Fixed: Changing an object’s state with a JavaScript trigger didn’t work if any of its states had more than one object.
• Fixed: A button deactivated using JavaScript API remained interactive, and the update() function showed the incorrect object property on state change.
• Fixed: Closed captions showed up earlier than expected and could stack up on each other while using the seekbar.
• Fixed: Player prompts, such as the "Invalid Answer" message, couldn’t be localized or set to right-to-left orientation.

April 29, 2025 (Build 3.99.34516.0)

• New: Insert AI-generated alt text for slide objects to improve accessibility.
• New: Enjoy more sizing options for the modern player. Lock the player size or let it adjust to learners’ browsers.
• Enhanced: Keep your zoom regions consistent by copying and pasting them across slides.
• Enhanced: Guide learners toward focused responses by defining character limits on text-entry fields.
• Enhanced: Easily drag assets from your computer and drop them directly into the media library.
• Enhanced: Use the Esc key to close any window in Storyline 360.
• Enhanced: We renamed the “player background color” option to “custom background color” to clarify its purpose.
• Enhanced: Use the Delete key on a Mac keyboard to remove an object.
• Enhanced: The options in the Closed Captions Editor window are now consistent with other feature windows.
• Enhanced: The icon library for buttons and markers now includes the X social media logo.
• Fixed: NVDA screen readers didn’t follow the correct focus order.
• Fixed: Slide note text got cut off when it was published.
• Fixed: Lightbox slide content didn’t display.
• Fixed: Prematurely loaded closed captions caused content to lag.
• Fixed: Likert scale label text disappeared when text styles were applied.
• Fixed: Video on the base layer stopped playing after a layer was closed.
• Learn about the latest update we shipped for Articulate Localization.

April 8, 2025 (Build 3.98.34380.0)

• New: Articulate Localization launched! Instantly translate Storyline 360 courses into 70+ languages with fully integrated AI translation.

March 24, 2025 (Build 3.98.34263.0)

• Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when making a theme with an image the default.

March 18, 2025 (Build 3.98.34222.0)

• New: Engage learners with fluid transitions that seamlessly animate objects, shapes, and other content between slides.
• New: Wow learners with powerful interactivity. Precisely edit object properties and create advanced animations like parallax using a JavaScript API.
• New: Optimize accessibility with a set-focus trigger that lets you control when course elements receive focus.
• Enhanced: New icons now display as individual icons to accessibility tools by default. You no longer need to hide each shape component of the icon separately.
• Enhanced: We added a new Singaporean English neural voice, Jasmine, for text-to-speech conversion.
• Enhanced: We clarified the function of the Apply to all button for adding alt text in the media library and Size and Position window.
• Enhanced: The media library now has separate tabs for alt text, captions, and internal notes.
• Enhanced: We ended support for 32-bit Windows. You need a 64-bit machine to update Storyline 360.
• Fixed: Audio didn’t play as expected when it was on a slide master layout layer or the next slide.
• Fixed: When a course was accessed using an NVDA screen reader, the punctuation in keyboard shortcuts wasn’t announced and arrow-key navigation to the play button didn’t work.
• Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when exporting AI text-to-speech audio.

February 25, 2025 (Build 3.97.34031.0)

• New: Build math equations using LaTeX syntax and revise them by adding color and alt text, all within Storyline 360.
• New: Discover the right voice for your content with thousands of ultrarealistic, AI-generated voices that can be filtered by age, gender, and use case.
• Enhanced: Text-to-speech narration, sound effects, audio, and video content with closed captions now display a CC label in their audio icons on the timeline for quick identification.
• Enhanced: Open the closed captions editor right from the context menu to add or edit captions for media content.
• Enhanced: Closed captions are generated by default when converting text to speech.
• Enhanced: Quickly sort images in the media library by their pixel dimensions.
• Enhanced: To ensure a better user experience, we’re ending support for 32-bit Windows. As of the next update, you’ll need a 64-bit machine to update Storyline 360.
• Fixed: In published video output, mouse movements displayed at incorrect times in screen recordings and pause-media triggers didn’t work.
• Fixed: Line spacing and paragraph changes made to slide notes didn’t display during preview or in the published output.
• Fixed: The xAPI statement editor didn’t generate object names.
• Fixed: Screen readers didn’t announce text on lightbox slides.
• Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when using a keyboard shortcut to open the Size and Position window.

January 21, 2025 (Build 3.96.33815.0)

• Enhanced: Text-to-speech narration, sound effects, and audio with closed captions now display a CC label in their audio icons on the slide stage for quick identification.
• Enhanced: The description in the Upgrade Project Text window is clearer, indicating that upgrading project text uses text autofit improvements.
• Enhanced: We upgraded the embedded version of Chromium to 130.0.6723.117 in Storyline 360.
• Fixed: When navigating to the next slide in Try Mode, step-by-step slides behaved erratically.
• Fixed: Audio didn’t loop when designed to do so.
• Fixed: JAWS 2025 screen readers didn’t always activate buttons from the base layer.
• Fixed: Objects with exit animations flickered when they were listed before audio on the timeline.
• Fixed: Slide note text got smaller when it was published.
• Fixed: Media content didn’t play as expected when using the seekbar.
• Fixed: Grouped objects with both emphasis animations and states didn’t work properly.

December 17, 2024 (Build 3.95.33670.0)

• Enhanced: Select an admin to notify by email when submitting courses to Reach 360.
• Enhanced: You can now drag audio and video files from your computer directly onto a slide.
• Fixed: Slides sometimes flickered when navigating between layers.
• Fixed: The accessibility focus indicator didn’t highlight slide objects when using change-state triggers.
• Fixed: Text formatting wasn’t always preserved in existing projects.
• Fixed: Line spacing changes made to slide notes didn’t display during preview or in the published output.
• Fixed: Storyline 360 crashed when a project with an empty starting scene was published to Review 360.
• Fixed: Some triggers executed slowly, and others weren’t included in Word documents exported for translation.

December 5, 2024 (Build 3.94.33593.0)

• Fixed: The AI Assistant side panel didn’t initially display all the available features when in Slide View.

November 19, 2024 (Build 3.94.33511.0)

• Enhanced: Add text-to-speech narration, sound effects, or audio from the media library to your question feedback.
• Fixed: Markers that were duplicated and had zoom enabled didn’t display correctly. 
• Fixed: When projects were published to Word, question feedback had incorrect text and layers and answer choices were reversed.
• Fixed: Videos wouldn’t save after changing the volume in the video editor.
• Fixed: Restart-course triggers didn’t reset question slides to their initial states.
• Fixed: Audio might not play as expected when using jump-to-slide triggers or adding audio to a slide layout.
• Fixed: Keyboard navigation worked inconsistently when interacting with 360° images.
• Fixed: Multiple audio tracks played simultaneously on slides that were set to resume saved states and had videos.
• Fixed: Objects traveling along a motion path didn’t move to the right position.
• Fixed: Slides could flicker when navigating between layers.
• Fixed: Screen readers didn’t always announce layer content.
• Fixed: Question and lightbox slides were blank when a quiz review was resumed.

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