Week 2 - Group 2 Discussion

Hi all

It's been a slow work week, so I took advantage of that to work on this course.

Here's the link to my course which is in a Pop Art Comic Book Style (navigation is unlocked):

Building Happy and Fulfilled Teams: A Guide for New Mangers CAM

Share 3 changes you made to the Rise AI Course Draft to improve learner engagement:

ONE: I decided to have some fun & do something in a completely different style than any of our clients would ever ask for. This is meant to be a bright, eye-popping colorful course to draw the learner’s interest. I replaced most of the images in the course using this custom AI image style Pop Art Comic Book Style in AI image generator. Here is the custom style image I used for the AI image generated in the course:

Pop Art Comic Book Style: “A digitally created pop art-style comic illustration. The background is radial burst pattern. The overall style is reminiscent of 1960s comic book art, characterized by bold outlines, bright colors, and exaggerated expressions. The textures are smooth, and the colors are vibrant, creating a lively and dynamic composition.”  (In many instances I tried to prompt it to not include text but sometimes I did want text.) 

Disclaimer: I also did use some Adobe Stock images -mainly the background stuff -and did some editing in Photoshop or using Microsoft CoPilot since it allows me to provide a reference image and dictate changes. I’d love it if Articulate AI image generator allowed us to provide reference images!

TWO: I used the Hook Technique with AI for the opening of each lesson. 

THREE: I added AI audio for the opening section of each lesson as well. (We don’t normally use audio in Rise courses since you can’t animate the text to come in with the audio – just makes for faster course development too.)

FOUR: I also added a course summary so it was separate from the last lesson and would stand out more.

Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why? Did anything about it surprise you?

What I found most valuable this time was the AI custom image style and the AI image prompt generator (which I didn’t know existed before this course). I’d used the AI image generator many times but was unaware of the AI image prompt generator. I like to use color and graphics and having AI image prompt and image generator in the tool saved me a lot of CoPilot and Photoshop time. Having the custom style available was super helpful for this course as well.

What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?

It did not understand that on the flip cards I wanted a white border. I’d have preferred the white borders on that flip card section to be all the same size but that was a pipe dream.  I was happy to finally get a white border.  Also prompting for no text on the image did not always work and sometimes the AI labelled the names of the people or duplicated text - typical AI image stuff. Of course, there were also the typical backwards papers or computer screens or weird text in the text bubbles too.