👀 Are you in the right group? Does your last name begin with letters Q-Z? You're in the right place! If not, go back to the Week 2 Discussion Groups page to find your group.This group's peer guides are dsdcruze and ShimellH 🤩 This is your chance to show off your work! Copy the Quick Share link to the AI Course Draft you created in the Week 2 Hands On Challenge and paste it in a reply to this discussion. Unsure how to copy the Quick Share link? Watch this short video tutorial. Below your Quick Share link, answer these three questions: Share 3 changes you made to the Rise AI Course Draft to improve learner engagement. Why did you make those changes to your project? Be specific! Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why? Did anything about it surprise you? What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? After you post, take a few minutes to look at your peers’ courses and reply to at least one other post. You might: Share what you liked about their course structure or content Call out an effective use of AI Assistant Offer one suggestion to make the course even stronger This is your opportunity to showcase your work and learn from how others are using AI Assistant in their own designs! 🎉 Congratulations!You have completed all of the cohort activities! Go back to the cohort main page.

Hi group, Quick Link: Melissa’s Week 2 Hands on Challenge 1. Share 3 changes you made to the Rise AI Course Draft to improve learner engagement. Why did you make those changes? Added headings and subheadings using the theme colors to better organize the content. This helped break up the information, improve readability, and make it easier for learners to navigate the course. Converted a lengthy section of text into a scenario and added an audio option. Since the content was somewhat lengthy, I wanted to provide a more engaging way to present it while also giving auditory learners, or learners who prefer not to read a large amount of text, another option for consuming the content. Added relatable images to the process steps. The images helped make the steps more visually engaging and provided learners with a visual connection to the information instead of presenting the process as text alone. 2. Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why? Did anything about it surprise you? The entire Edit with AI feature was probably the most valuable for me. I love that I can easily take existing paragraphs and turn them into interactive activities or scenarios, shorten lengthy content, or change how the information is presented. It really is a game changer because it saves so much development time while still allowing me to customize the final result. I also found the AI Summary and Quiz features extremely valuable. The summary is a great time-saver and adds a nice finishing touch to the course. The quiz feature was especially helpful because manually developing quiz questions and answer choices can be very time-consuming. I was surprised by how quickly AI could generate these elements and give me a solid starting point that I could then review and refine. 3. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? The biggest challenge was at the beginning when I uploaded the source content and asked AI to generate the course. It created a very lengthy course, so the most challenging part was going through the content section by section and determining what to keep, shorten, reorganize, or convert into a different type of interaction. While AI saved a lot of time in the development process, I still needed to apply instructional design principles and make decisions about how the content should be organized and presented to create the best experience for the learner.

https://share.articulate.com/THD89DBzOl2KmFpWk2uJb Three changes that I made to the course draft to improve learner engagement: I moved the quizzes to the end of the lesson. They seemed to be randomly in the middle of the lesson. I made sure that the interactions did not repeat. There were a couple of places with a lot of accordions. I added images to all the flip cards and used AI generation to create the icons/text. Consistency is key. The most valuable AI feature for me was the ability to create the images and to use the custom setting to make sure they all looked similar--especially for the flip cards. Regarding challenges, it took me a little bit to figure out the best image prompt to create the icons for the flip cards. Once I had it down though, all I had to do was to write the key word in the "Description" box. The custom prompt did the rest. I also used AI to create an image to use for a labeled graphic. Using the custom prompt, I was able to make it look similar to the look of the icons used on the flip cards.

HelloI changed the first section of the course by using many of the AI techniques. https://share.articulate.com/V2mbiiCklMCS_47mp_5mnI am working for a client that uses a monotone brown palette; so I applied it in this experiment. In addition the client hates to see AI generated realistic images. In this instance I used them as I think they add to the experience. I tried using the image generation right from the original design and was very pleased with the way they were placed throughout the course.

Happy FriYay! Here is my course: https://share.articulate.com/ncAN_xZxMQEuMEo97wqRb I used the AI Assistant to: Create and modify images. Revise text by making it shorter, longer, more engaging, or more learner-friendly. Convert engagement blocks into different interactive formats. The AI Assistant made it easy to get started with course development and streamline content creation. I found the content conversion feature and image generation capabilities especially helpful, as they saved time and provided a strong foundation for building engaging learning experiences. Thanks, Paula

https://share.articulate.com/yJjU7rNsJBy1CQ4u96LZU So first I will say that I did some things in here that I would likely never do in real life. In Lesson 2 I changed all the images to be 3D animated characters, and in Lesson 3 I did the custom AI image and had it "gothic movie theme." That is a bit wild. Not sure that it really works with the content but it was fun. I like that Rise is quick, interactive and intuitive for the students. Prior to this cohort I created a course using my departments policy orders. A very long, dry, leagalese document from which we are required to work. Rise was able to create a "new hire" type course that introduces the policy order to newly hired employees and it was honestly an excellent unofficial source to help those onboarding. I guess the only thing that I get concerned about is security. I deal with a lot of proprietary and sensitive material. I know this software is fedramped but I think I will need assurances (for bosses mostly) to ensure that security is tight enough to use.

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SKYabes
Community Member
5 days ago
Hi all, here is a link to my course: https://share.articulate.com/gf8UtA4GEDCt4v1HTbdzs

Three Changes I Made

Updated the text and tone: I used prompts to make the content more engaging by adding a stronger hook and adjusting the tone to better connect with learners.

Created AI-generated images: I turned parts of the course content into image prompts and used AI to create custom visuals for the course.

Added AI-generated audio: I used AI audio in several interactive tabs and included a custom reflection activity with audio generated from a script.

Most Valuable AI Feature

The AI-generated audio was probably my favorite feature. I was impressed by how many voice options were available and how natural they sounded. It will save a lot of time when creating audio for courses while also helping make content more accessible for learners.

Challenges

I didn't run into many challenges overall. The biggest one was fine-tuning image prompts to get the look I wanted. What helped most was using the tips from the practice activities to turn the course content into better image prompts, which led to better results.

Thank you, and I am excited to see what everyone came up with!
- ShimellH
  Peer Guide
  5 days ago
  SKYabes
  
  I really like the soft purple color and accents used throughout the course. The consistent color palette gives the course a cohesive and polished look. I also liked how you used the Timeline block to show examples of the different motivators and explain what they mean in the real world.
  
  The reflection activity was a great addition, especially with your use of one of Rise’s beta custom blocks. Nice way to make the content nteractive and reflective!
DavidQTran
Community Member
5 days ago
Howdy!

I kept things pretty simple with my course as a dry run for I could consistently produce:

https://share.articulate.com/d20YVNRiiuyHwmQOIpggI

The first of my changes was largely with images, using a style typically seen in corporate applications (flat vector, moderately modern, no discerning features, etc.). Basically, keep things neutral and professional.

The second tweak comes through the audio, opting to use it with questions and quotes. The hope is that using an energetic voice in these spots will bring better understanding of the question (not everybody is a native speaker) or simply just helping something stand out in a person's memory (through relatively sparse use).

Lastly, I converted some of the text blocks into a table format or a listed format with checkboxes. Some people prefer all the information laid out at once and, sometimes, having to check boxes will get somebody to slow down and think about what they're reading before moving on.

For me, the most valuable aspect of AI lies within its multimedia functions. With our team, we have all the information ready to go, but we need the images, audio, and interaction to go along with it. Everything worked as I expected it to, so I'm optimistic in getting things rolling. The main difficulty was just getting the prompting right for the AI to produce what I wanted.
- ShimellH
  Peer Guide
  5 days ago
  DavidQTran
  
  I really like the vector images you selected to complement the content. They add visual interest while still connecting well to the topic. Nice use of the interactive blocks and the variety of blocks you incorporated as well.
  
  Did you use the Quick Block Conversion feature when making your edits? If so, how did you like using it?
  - DavidQTran
    Community Member
    5 days ago
    The Instant Convert? Yes, that's how I got one of the text/list blocks converted into a table instead. It's useful since our course source documents will have quite a bit of numerical data mixed in that would typically take more time to reformat.
colleenspitzcsh
Community Member
1 day ago
Hello,
Here is the link to my course https://share.articulate.com/zoWouYOfvay3m2j3WO5zW

I wanted to tailor the course to be a bit more "casual" that the original draft, so most of my changes were implemented with that in mind:

Simplified/shorted some of the larger text blocks

Updated images so the background and subjects appeared to work in a more relaxed office environment

Bolded certain key words with the theme color and changed paragraphs into various interaction types

Used process interaction on Lessons 2 and 3 for easier readability and emphasis on content that was strategy based or involved "how to"

Formatted some phrases as statements for additional emphasis and visual interest

Overall, I think some of the text formatting options will be most valuable to me in the future. For the work I do, there isn't much need for generated images so the ultimate time saver for me would with text uploads/formatting.
I am still struggling with AI image generation...admittedly, this is really my first experience with it so I can see it will take time to understand how to craft the image prompt that will get you want you need (especially what shows in the background).

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