Forum Discussion
Week 1 Welcome & Introductions
🎉 Let's Get to Know Each Other
As a reply to this thread, post an intro and tell us:
- Your name and where you're located, where you work, and what you do for work (we love to hear your title, but we're even more interested in your day-to-day)
- Why you joined this AI Assistant Certification Cohort and what you're hoping to get out of it
- Bonus: if you have a pet at home, we'd love to meet them, too! Share a picture of your furry (or, scaly?) friends along with your intro 🐕😺🦎
➡️ Next up:
When you're ready, move on to the Week 1 Activities!
Or, go back to the cohort main page.
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Hi! My name is Christina. I'm located in Cary, NC, as an Instructional Designer/Developer Consultant. I joined to bridge the gap between basic AI usage and expert-level implementation. I’m looking to master advanced prompting and workflow automation to stay ahead in an AI-driven market. :)
Hi everyone! I’m Nancy. I work in learning and development for Gant Travel Management, a corporate travel organization, where I design and deliver training focused on customer service, leadership, and agent development.
I’m based in Pennsylvania and primarily support remote call center teams. A big part of my role is creating engaging learning experiences using tools like Storyline, Rise, 7Taps, and simulations to help agents and leaders become more consultative and build stronger connections.
I joined this cohort to sharpen how I’m using AI in my workflow, especially for content creation, scenario design, and speeding up development without losing quality.
Looking forward to learning with you all and swapping ideas!
Hi everyone! My name is Shayna, and I am the Manager of eLearning Design & Development at HealthStream, where I lead a fantastic team of Instructional Designers/Developers and Technical Writers who create customer-facing learning resources (self-paced eLearning courses, how-to videos, and online help documentation). I'm based in Nashville, TN, and collaborate with colleagues from all over the country.
I joined this cohort to increase my exposure to and hands-on experience with the Articulate AI Assistant in Rise.
Looking forward to learning alongside everyone here!
Hello,
My name is Samantha Laframboise and I live in Vermont, USA. I work for Worldwide Clinical Trial as an Organizational Learning Advisor, Enterprise Systems. I work with system SME is creating adult learning material. I am joining this Cohort to obtain a better understand on how AI can assist me with creating effective and fun trainings.
I have 2 Senior doggies and would love to share their photos but due to corporate security limitations I am unable to at this time.
Looking forward to chatting with you all and learning more about you. ~Sam
Hi, everyone! I'm Jeremy and joining this cohort from Lincoln, Nebraska - Go Big Red!!! I'm a Learning & Deployment Consultant Lead for Businessolver. We're a technology company and our core product is a benefits management platform.
Like most of us, I wear a lot of hats - discovery, development, delivery/deploy live and eLearning courses. I train/develop training for our employees and our clients. I focus a lot of my efforts on helping our team build content development processes to deliver high quality courses as efficiently as possible.
We've been using the AI Assistant almost since it's inception. I joined the cohort to sharpen my skills, see how others use it, and make sure we're getting the most out of it that we can. I'm excited to learn from you all.
Our dog, Mabel, is usually under/near my feet. In this picture, she decided to build a pillow fort while we were making the bed. She's a border collie/lab/heeler mix. She's a rescue and when we adopted her we were told she would need a job. So far, she's been a full time sleeper.
Cheers, everyone!
Glad you're here, Jeremy! What do you currently use the most often with the AI assistant? Is there any feature you don't use much now that you're looking to try out with this cohort?
Hi everyone. I am Jodi, an Instructional Designer with a Crown Corporation in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I design curriculum, training, and evaluation activities for thousands of people in a variety of roles. I also design programming for contractors and stakeholders, including high school students across the province.
I joined because we just got access to AI Assistant and I am looking for some tips on how I can best use it and pass it on to my team.
I have two furry friends but can't upload to my work computer. :)
Looking forward to meeting everyone.
Hello from Orlando! My name is Tamara. I am an Instructional Designer at Blue Origin where I develop online and in-person training for technicians building rockets and more! Check us out: https://www.blueorigin.com/
Understanding AI tools is a must to continue working in today's AI-crazy world. I want to learn more about which AI Assistant features keep course content inside the Storyline/Rise desktop applications, versus features that send data outside the desktop applications (ex: third-party AI sub-processors).
We have a bird, but the firewall blocked my photo. He is a Conure with a talent for spitting tomato seeds on the window...even though he doesn't have lips!
Looking forward to working with everyone next week!
Tamara
Hello from Wichita Kansas!
I'm Rob Gibson and I'm the Dean of Academic Services at WSU Tech. I've been using the Articulate products for about 4 years or so. Anxious to learn alongside all of you!
I'll share a picture of my three Standard poodles tomorrow. One just got a haircut today.
Hi Rob, glad you're here for the cohort! Do you use Rise or Storyline more in your day-to-day. Have you tried out the AI Assistant before?
Hi all — I’m Rachel Darner, based in Newport, Oregon, and I’m the Senior Director of Compliance at Vituity.
Vituity is a physician-owned, physician-led healthcare partnership that staffs and manages care in emergency departments, hospitals, and outpatient settings across the U.S. I’ve been with Vituity for 22 years and have had the chance to grow through several roles ~ from RCM operations manager, to leading our Learning & Development team, and now into compliance. My work today sits right at the intersection of patient care, operations, and regulatory responsibility.
Most of our compliance eLearning courses are built in-house by my phenomenally talented team, but I still love getting my hands into course design. I spend time developing learning experiences for our clinicians around Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), the federal law that governs patient care in emergency departments, translating dense regulation into practical, scenario-based learning.
I joined this cohort to get better at using AI inside Articulate Storyline. I rarely use Articulate Rise, but I’ve experimented with AI text-to-speech and AI image support in Storyline and have been really impressed. I’m excited to learn how others are using AI to make eLearning design faster, smarter, and more creative.
These are my two dachshund girls (covid babies). They turned 6 this year :) Our house motto is "everything we do, we do it for dogs." 🐶🧡🖤
Daphne Moon PiePenelope ButtercupKia ora from New Zealand. I am Izette and I work in the L&D space within the logistics sector. One of my absolute favourite things is looking at photos of my own pet, Freya, and my second favourite is seeing everyone else’s pet pics – I absolutely loved everyone’s introductions.🐾
I currently work in a large team of L&D practitioners spanning a wide range of disciplines across learning and development. The area I sit in focuses on the digital side, including learning systems and eLearning development. After more than 15 years working with Articulate, I am still a big fan!
