Multi-Language Course Distribution Made Easy

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Ready to share your localized training with learners? It’s never been easier than with Reach, our frictionless Learning Management System (LMS). 

Reach lets you share and track e-learning that speaks every language your team does—without leaving Articulate 360.

With Reach, you can:

• Go straight from publish to distribute. No need to export, upload, and test localized courses—Reach is fully integrated with both Rise and Storyline. You can publish and share localized courses with learners in just a few clicks.
• Simplify global delivery. With Reach, you can publish every language version of a Rise course as a single file—instantly. And soon, you’ll be able to do the same with Storyline!
• Track engagement worldwide. Sharing a single, multi-language course with Reach makes it easy to view, manage, and measure learner activity at the course or language level—giving you even deeper insights.
• Empower international learners. Using Reach for multi-language courses improves the experience for learners, too. With 16 learner interface languages and counting, you’ll set everyone up for success with a learning experience that speaks their language—from the interface to the content. And with multi-language courses, there’s no wading through countless versions of the same course to find the language they need. When a course is available in their language, that version appears automatically. So easy! 

Of course, if you want to share your course with another LMS, don’t worry! You can do that, too.

Keep reading to learn about all your options for sharing multi-language courses created with Articulate 360.

Publishing Multi-Language Courses to Reach

Ready to improve the online training experience for learners, authors, and admins across the globe by publishing localized courses to Reach? Let’s take a closer look at how the process works for Rise and Storyline.

Important Note: You must have Reach activated on your subscription to use this feature. 

Not sure if you have Reach access? Open a course, choose Publish, and select Reach. If the publish window pops up, you have access to Reach. Otherwise, you’ll see a button to send an activation request to your Admin.

If you’re the Admin, you can activate Reach yourself by following the steps outlined here: Reach 360: Manage Activation and Upgrade.

Rise

All set up with Reach? Follow these simple steps to publish a multi-language course to Reach:

1. Contact our support team to activate multi-language publishing. 
2. Choose Reach from the Publish drop-down.
3. Select the languages you want to include.
4. Fill out the course settings as you normally would.
5. Hit Publish.

And that’s it! All that’s left to do is enroll learners. If you’re an admin, you can take care of that yourself. If not, your admin will handle that step.

Check out this detailed user guide for more detailed instructions: Publish Multi-Language Rise 360 Courses.

Storyline

Once Reach is activated, you can use it to distribute your localized Storyline courses. Simply follow these steps to publish each language to Reach as a separate course:

1. Choose Reach from the Publish window.
2. Select the language you want to publish.
3. Fill out the course settings as usual.
4. Hit Publish.

First time using Reach? Get more detailed instructions in this guide: Publish Multi-Language Storyline Projects.

Publishing Multi-Language Courses For Your LMS

Rise

Want to publish a localized Rise course for your own LMS? No problem! 

Here’s how it works:

1. Choose LMS from the Publish drop-down.
2. Select the languages you want to include.
3. Fill out the course settings as you normally would.
4. Hit Publish.

Important Note: When publishing for LMS, Rise creates a zip file containing a separate course package (also a zip file) for every language version. 

To upload your localized courses to your LMS, you’ll need to:

• Unzip the main zip file.

• Upload each course package to your LMS individually—without unzipping them.

Need more detailed explanations? See this user guide for more help: Publish Multi-Language Rise 360 Courses.

Storyline

Need to publish a localized Storyline course for your own LMS? It’s super easy.

Just follow these steps:

1. Choose LMS from the Publish window.
2. Select the languages you want to include.
3. Fill out the course settings as you normally would.
4. Hit Publish.
5. Storyline will prompt you to select the package type.
   • Select Separate packages per language if your LMS doesn’t let you upload single, multi-language course packages.
   • Select Single package containing selected languages if your LMS lets you upload single, multi-language course packages.

Not sure which option to choose? Ask your LMS admin or provider if they support multi-language course packages.

For more detailed instructions, check out this guide: Publish Multi-Language Storyline 360 Projects.

Wrap-Up

There’s no easier way to share multi-language courses than with Reach. 

Not using Reach yet? It’s not too late! Ask your admin to activate it today directly from the Reach Publish window. If you’re an admin, you can activate Reach yourself following the steps outlined here: Reach 360: Manage Activation and Upgrade.

If you can’t use Reach, don’t worry! Articulate 360 makes publishing multi-language courses to your LMS easier, too. 

No matter how you share your courses, you’ll save tons of time with multi-language courses. We’d love to hear about your experience in the comment section below!

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