Week 1 Discussion

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   1. I really enjoy the AI image generator. The images AI can generate have come a long way since I first started using it. I also like the ability in Rise to convert text to an interactive activity. That helps save time.
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   1. I don't currently use sounds in my content, so the ability to generate voice overs and sound effects are interesting.
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   1. I like "shorten". We like our content to be a short as possible, but still cover the necessary information. This tool helps ensure we don't get too wordy with our courses.
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?
   1. In the Storyline sample, I used AI to add animations to the slide. I then asked AI to set the animation to trigger when the user clicked NEXT. The AI could not get that request to work correctly.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? I liked the AI prompts and trying different ways to improve it.
2. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? While using the editorial option, the AI struggled with the spelling in the text bubbles in the images it created.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   1. Editing text felt the most intuitive. I frequently use this function in other tools, so it was natural. 
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   1. I can see a real benefit of being able to convert text blocks so they include images. Even if the generated image isn't perfect, I feel like it's helpful for ideation.
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   1. I didn't realize we could use the edit AI text to make things bold. I haven't had a chance to try the analogy one yet, but I am going to actively look through existing content for a place to try this. I tried to use the editing to center a piece of text. It worked in the preview, but it didn't carry through once saved. In reality, this is a change I'd do on my own because it's easier, I was just testing it out.
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?
   1. Character consistency. I tried to produce multiple images with the same character, but I was unable to achieve the result. 

I'm chiming in again :). I asked the AI assistant to create a slow zoom on an image to give the appearance of movement. I was amazed that it was able to do it. The executed product was too choppy. I realize I need to either improve the prompt or learn more on how to edit the java script it created. I'm impressed.

Hi AI Cohort Friends - 

The kick off to week one has been great!  I played around in Rise (i typically only have used Storyline) and found it was amazing.  Here are my answers to a couple of the prompts:

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? For me, I enjoyed the ease of all of it. I have used AI text to speech most often, but I feel so empowered now with the depth of what AI can accomplish and the images I can create.
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation? I think what surprised me the most was the images and how you can manipulate the boxes with just prompts and you don't have to do manual transparency or manual 'bold first words' - that is so quick and easy.
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?  Again, I love them all - but I love the change tone and shorten most of all currently because those help me most of all since I tend to be 'wordy' and I always prefer a friendlier tone so its not so borining.
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?  So far, the only challenge I had was when we were doing the images on the front of the question cards.  I screwed up on one of them and the image went on the back of the card instead of the front and i couldn't figure out how to 'undo' it or swap out the 'duplicate' card I had created prior to starting the exercise.  So I just worked on my duplicate group to complete the assignment.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   1. I really enjoy the AI image generator. 
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   1. It did a lot better with creating the images than I expected. 
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   1. I like the change tone so you don't have to change the entire voice, keeps it all flowing together. 
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?
   1. Just trying to get AI to include the correct technical data when we use it for summaries and other things.  Its hard to tell exactly what subjects it will pick out to highlight. 

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?

A: AI Image generator and instant convert were awesome. Having the opportunity of auto generating images and quickly converting types of blocks saves a lot of time in content creation.

     2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?

A: Is was great! The way it produces images and the flexibility of styles, makes it a powerful tool. I also have to say it is great you can save a bank of media for future use or going back and changing what you had.

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

A: Using the correct words, and making sure the AI doesn't misinterpret words, like for example when using the word cookie in the exercise. I figured out that if I use quotation marks on the words and clearly provided context on the word, it immediately gave me better results. 

“I’m brand new to Articulate, and I’m absolutely loving it so far. 😃 ”

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?

Answer:  I love how it can organize my original material in a logical flow for training (moving smoothly from one topic to the next) and help me create knowledge checks and summaries.

2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?

Answer: The best part for me is being able to upload my files and have AI read them and prepare the training content in a matter of minutes.

3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?

Answer: I often use the Rewrite and Shorten tools, especially since English isn’t my first language, this tool saves me a tremendous amount of time.

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

Answer: Our organization uses a lot of acronyms, and AI voice-overs often try to pronounce them as full words, which limits my ability to use the voiceover function.

I’m hopeful AI can find a way to handle acronyms better (for example, spelling them out).

It would also be helpful to have a clear, quick Undo option, I made a few mistakes, I couldn’t easily go back.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? All the information provided was highly valuable. I have utilized many of these features over an extended period. My projects primarily incorporate videos rather than still images, so I typically rely on the audio from the video itself and seldom employ text-to-speech functionality.
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation? Upon developing an AI-generated course based on current operating procedures, I was impressed by its comprehensive approach. The course not only clarifies the procedures but also provides training regarding their importance and potential consequences of non-compliance.
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?  All of them are valuable. I have used all of them depending on the type of content and audience I was working with.
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?  It would be great if there was an “Undo last action” option. Also, it would be great to have a “Exit block” to put at the end of a course summary that would close the window.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   • The AI image generator, text to voice, and instant convert (converting blocks into different styles)
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   • Being able to upload source files and set a "single source of truth" file
3. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   • All of them--really helps when developing content, generating the summary content, key takeaway, and knowledge checks!
4. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?
   • Learning how to write the prompts in a way that will generate the desired results