Storyline 360 training comes in three main forms: Articulate’s own videos and webinars for Articulate 360 users, structured courses that take a team from a first module to confident building, and advanced or specialist sessions on triggers, variables and Arabic courses. Most teams in the UAE and the GCC get the best result by combining Articulate’s free material with a short, structured course built around their own content.
This guide explains what each option covers, who it suits, and how to plan training so your licence turns into finished courses rather than unused seats.
Why does Storyline 360 need training at all?
Storyline 360 is the Articulate 360 app for detailed, interactive e-learning. It is used for branching scenarios, software simulations, games and scored assessments, and it gives the developer control over every screen and every rule.
That control is the reason it takes longer to learn than Rise 360. Rise 360 builds responsive courses from ready-made blocks, so most people are productive within a day. Storyline 360 works more like a design tool with logic built in. A new developer can build a simple slide based course quickly, but scenarios, simulations and custom interactions depend on triggers, states, layers and variables, and those are the areas where self-taught developers tend to get stuck.
Teams that skip training usually show the same signs:
- courses that are PowerPoint slides with a Next button
- interactions copied from a template that nobody on the team can change
- triggers that work in preview and break in the LMS
- Arabic versions that need to be rebuilt by hand
A few days of structured training early on costs far less than rebuilding the first year of courses.
What training does Articulate include with the subscription?
Articulate publishes training videos and runs webinars for Articulate 360 subscribers, including question and answer sessions with its own experts. You can see the current programme on the Articulate 360 Training page. Articulate also runs the E-Learning Heroes community, which has a training and tutorials section and discussion from other developers.
This material is a good starting point and every new developer should use it. It has limits for teams in the Gulf:
- it is general, so it does not use your content, your brand or your LMS
- sessions are scheduled for a global audience, so times do not always suit the working week in the UAE or Saudi Arabia
- it covers right to left languages only briefly, if at all
- there is no one checking that your team can build what your organisation needs
Treat it as reference material and a way to stay current with new features, alongside structured training for your own team.
What are the Storyline 360 training options for a team?
| Option | Best for | What it covers | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Articulate’s videos and webinars | Every new developer | The basics of each app and new features | Online, self-paced and scheduled sessions |
| Fundamentals training | New teams and new hires | Building, publishing and tracking a first course in Storyline 360 and Rise 360 | Live online cohort or on-site workshop |
| Advanced masterclass | Developers who already build courses | Variables, advanced triggers, game logic and screen design | Live online cohort or on-site workshop |
| Arabic localisation workshop | Teams producing Arabic or bilingual courses | Right to left text, alignment, mirrored layouts and translation review | Live online or on-site workshop |
| Coaching on a live project | Teams with a real course to build now | Your own course, built with an expert reviewing each stage | Scheduled sessions around the project |
As an official Articulate partner in the Middle East, we run the fundamentals, advanced and Arabic sessions for organisations across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, as live virtual cohorts on Zoom or Teams or as workshops at your offices.
What should a Storyline 360 fundamentals course cover?
A good fundamentals course ends with each person publishing a working course, not with a certificate for watching slides. Look for these topics:
- Planning a course before opening the software: objectives, a storyboard and the screens you need.
- Building slides, layers and states, and using the timeline.
- Triggers for navigation and simple interactions.
- Built-in quizzes, result slides and feedback.
- Using the player, the menu and the Content Library.
- Collecting feedback in Review 360.
- Publishing to your LMS in SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI or cmi5, and checking completion and scores are recorded.
Because the Articulate 360 subscription includes Rise 360 too, we cover both apps in fundamentals training. Most teams use Rise 360 for fast, mobile friendly courses and Storyline 360 when learners need to practise something, so knowing when to use each one saves a lot of time.
What does advanced Storyline 360 training cover?
Advanced training is for developers who can already build and publish a course and now want to build things they cannot find in a template. Typical topics are:
- variables to track choices, scores and progress across a course
- conditions on triggers, so the course reacts to what each learner does
- branching scenarios with consequences that build up over several decisions
- software simulations in watch, try and test modes
- game logic, such as timers, points and levels
- screen design and accessibility, including keyboard navigation and captions
- testing and fixing courses that behave differently in the LMS
The best way to run this is on your own material. Bring a course your team wants to improve, and use the session to rebuild part of it properly.
Do you need separate training for Arabic courses?
If your team builds Arabic or bilingual courses, yes. Storyline 360 supports right to left text, but an Arabic course needs more than a translation. Developers need to know how to handle:
- fonts that display Arabic clearly at every size and on every device
- text alignment and reading order on each slide
- mirrored layouts, so menus, progress indicators and arrows make sense to an Arabic reader
- mixed Arabic and English terms, numbers and dates
- player settings and quiz feedback in Arabic
- voiceover and captions
Articulate Localization can create translated versions of a course inside Articulate 360, and Articulate says it can handle right to left content. Machine translation is still a first draft. Someone who reads Arabic has to check every version in preview before it goes live. Our page on Articulate AI Assistant and Localization explains how we run that review, and our older guide on localising e-learning courses covers the planning steps.
Online or in person: which works better?
Both work. The choice depends on your team.
Live online cohorts suit teams spread across several offices or countries, such as a group with staff in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. Short sessions spread over several days also give people time to practise between them.
On-site workshops suit teams that sit together and want to focus without interruptions. They work well for a team kick-off, or for a group building the same course together.
Whichever format you choose, ask for sessions that use your own content and end with something your team has built and published.
How do you plan Storyline 360 training for a new team?
A plan that works for most organisations we support:
- Before the licences arrive, each developer watches Articulate’s introductory videos.
- In the first month, the team takes fundamentals training and publishes one real course, such as an induction or a policy update.
- After two or three months of building, developers who need it take an advanced masterclass.
- If you produce Arabic courses, run the Arabic workshop before the first translation project, not after it.
- Book coaching on the first complex project, so an expert reviews the design before the build is too far along to change.
When a deadline is too close for the team to learn and build at the same time, our developers can build the course in Storyline 360 and hand over the source files, so your team maintains it afterwards. See custom e-learning development.
How is Storyline 360 training priced?
Training is priced by the format, the number of people and the number of sessions, and whether it is delivered online or on site. We do not publish prices because these vary from team to team. Tell us how many developers you have and what they need to build, and we will propose a programme with a written quote. If you are buying licences at the same time, see our guide to buying Articulate 360 in the UAE.
Frequently asked questions
Most people can build and publish a simple course after a few days of guided practice. Confident use of triggers, variables and custom design takes longer, usually a few months of building real courses with some advanced training along the way.
Articulate publishes training videos and webinars for Articulate 360 users, and its E-Learning Heroes community has a tutorials section. Structured training for your team, built around your own content, is a paid service from a training provider or Articulate partner.
Yes. As an official Articulate partner in the Middle East, Capytech runs advanced Storyline 360 masterclasses on variables, advanced triggers, game logic and design, as live online cohorts or on-site workshops.
Yes. Our Arabic localisation workshops cover right to left text, fonts, mirrored layouts, mixed Arabic and English terms and reviewing translated versions in Storyline 360 and Rise 360.
Learn both, because they come in the same subscription. Rise 360 is quicker to learn and suits most information based courses. Storyline 360 is for practice based learning such as scenarios and simulations, so most teams start with Rise 360 and add Storyline 360 in the same fundamentals course.