👀 Are you in the right group? Does your last name begin with letters A-C? 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 guide is MelAngiulo. 🤩 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 everyone! Here is the course I built. I enjoyed working in Rise because I primarily develop in Storyline. https://share.articulate.com/msNYFLSXiPHXMFlLYY32V 1. Three changes made to improve learner engagement (and why) I added hook-style introductions to the very beginning .This was to immediately capture attention and make the content feel more relevant to real-world situations. I broke up long text blocks into shorter, scannable chunks with clearer headings, because learners engage more when content feels less dense and easier to process. I included a few more knowledge checks throughout the course, not just at the end, to keep learners actively thinking instead of passively reading. 2. Most valuable AI feature and why The most valuable feature was “Edit with AI” using instruction-based prompts (especially structured guidance like tone, hooks, and formatting rules). It was powerful because it could quickly transform flat instructional text into more engaging, learner-friendly content. What surprised me most was how effectively it could shift tone and structure without changing the core meaning when the instructions were specific enough. It saved so much time also! 3. Challenges using AI The main challenge was that AI often produces content that is too general or not tightly aligned to the learning objective unless the prompt is very specific. It also sometimes adds extra information that isn’t needed for the course level or audience. Getting consistent output required a lot of refinement in prompts, especially around tone, length, and instructional focus. This is a work in progress as we all know!

I agree with TaraB, I like your use of color. It feels very cohesive and clean. Great idea of using the vector blues prompt and modifying it to suit your needs! One of my personal favorite features is "generate AI image prompt" and it works extremely well in my experience, just like you found.Exclusionary terms in the AI prompts is definitely a challenge, although it's getting better with each update. For now, try to think of a positive way to say it, instead of using the word "no". So for example, instead of "no words on the whiteboard", try "blank whiteboard". This might help you get what you want out of the images. 🙂

Hello! I also use primarily Storyline, so spending time with Rise was a lot of fun. Just for kicks, I used image prompts that include "in the style of Pixar" and "Use characters from The Office." https://share.articulate.com/GeU68JL9h79z8vguShl-N I focused the requirements for this activity primarily in Lesson 1. Changes made to improve learner engagement. I used the hook style introduction. I used prompts to shorten paragraphs and to change paragraphs to bulleted text. I added a couple of knowledge checks in the lessons. I rewrote quiz questions to remove "NOT" statements. I used instant convert to change text to an interaction. Most valuable AI feature. Instant Convert is a new favorite. This is an area where I can get stuck creatively, so it is really nice to have. Quiz Generation! So much time saved! I'm also looking forward to the Custom Block. I tried to use it (image attached) but could not get it into the lesson. Challenges using the AI Assistant. Again, focusing mostly on Lesson 1, I found quite a bit of repetitive content, which I caught and edited.

Hello! Like Bridget, I do not use Rise very much -- we are a Storyline team. I really enjoyed learning about Rise, though, and a lot of the tips will translate well into Storyline.In my course, I tried two things that I think will be useful in my future work: Quickly re-grouping and re-formatting long sections of text Changing the level of feedback, depending on each quiz question I'm also looking forward to trying out some of the features I played around with in Storyline, specifically layering audio to create more engaging narration. Here is my course: https://share.articulate.com/tNcG8sEfMKdiRym-wd5VO

Hello everyone! I exclusively use Rise in my organization. I found this activity to be a lot of fun! Here is the course that I made: https://share.articulate.com/l5goEEyd4ODRv6ww1zVsD 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! To enhance learning engagement I added images throughout the course. Using images with texts helps break up content so the learner isn’t overloaded by text heavy lessons. I asked Articulate AI to create image prompts from the content section to help me pick images. Images were used in the following ways: To create a “space” between blocks. For example, between the section introduction and an accordion or other interactive block. Changed regular text statements to images with text. For example, the original course draft included introductory statements that I first used the AI to change to a “hook-style” statement and then instant converted the statement into an image with text. In conjunction with when I added content via the AI audio. I would have the AI take a statement and change it into a hook-style statement or an analogy and then include the AI audio with an image that matches the situation (that was generated via an image prompt based on the statement/analogy). I added instructions for interactive elements of the course, for example on accordions, flashcards, tabs, etc. add instructions on what the learner is supposed to do to interact with the content. (Expand the sections, click the tabs, flip the cards). I do this in my courses for two reasons: it helps guide the learner through the content but also to provide technical instructions in case the learner gets stuck and doesn’t know what to do. Used AI Instant Convert to change content blocks. I changed flipcards to accordion in one section because I felt like the card was too small for the amount of text. I changed an accordion to a bullet list in another section because sometimes I feel like I use too many interactive elements and I feel like the learner will be overwhelmed. I added a sorting activity when I felt like the content should be broken up by some kind of knowledge check (that wasn’t a quiz). Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why? Did anything about it surprise you? AI convert is a total game changer. Before Articulate AI I would spend so much time copying and pasting content into new blocks (because I decided I didn’t like the way the content was presented). Being able to instant convert is so amazing. It’s probably one of my favorite features that Articulate AI provides. Additionally, I really enjoyed learning about and creating hook-style introductions and creating image prompts from content. It seems kind of silly but I hadn’t thought about utilizing the Articulate AI to help generate image prompts from content. I am excited to utilize both of these in future courses. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? What I found the most challenging was selecting the generated images. While creating image prompts from content is something I found valuable, I still found it challenging to find the right image for the overall look and feel of the course, and that didn’t have weird text gibberish in the background. It could also be that I am extremely picky or my image prompts are not good. Refining those image prompts is definitely something I want to work on more.

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LizBrown1
Community Member
26 days ago
Hi everyone! Here's teh link to the Rise course I built. Like several others, I also primarliy develop in Storyline, so it was nice working in Rise.

https://share.articulate.com/06K-KA2BNZp2gGY4xoJxY

1. Changes:

Custom Image Prompts: I used the custom image prompt when creating all the images in the course. In the past, I haven't been that sucessful when generating AI images, and I feel like the main reason for that was my prompting, so I liked being able to generate the prompt from the course text. It also helped me understand what information I might need to add in future image prompts.

Convert a Block:

I loved this feature. Seeing all the features in Rise made me excited to what might available in Storyline in the future. In the course, I changed several of the blocks, some to tabs, others to accordian, and some to text. There were often times where I felt that there was block after block and needed to add more text for a more visual and better flow.

AI Audio:

This is something I use a lot in Storyline. I also love how it generates cc. I played around with it a little bit in this course as well and added audio in the first section.

2. AI feature:

Feedback Type: I really liked learning about the change feedbacy type feature. I can see myslef utilizing this one a lot. I think this one will save me a lot of time in the future.

3. Challenges

I'm not sure if this is a challenge, but there were a lot of great prompts in the learning videos, and I found it diffiuclt to remember them. I was going back and forth in the course and then decided to make a OneNote with all the prompts. 😄
- jakinwumiju
  Community Member
  26 days ago
  Hey Liz,
  
  I enjoyed going through your course. I think it was laid out very well. I also enjoyed your use of AI Audio. It's definitely nice in courses like this. Although, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the AI Audio is only in lesson one. I think it could be a great feature to be seen throughout.
  
  I think one thing that could make this better is to break up the content with some colored background blocks. Right now, it's blurring together a bit. That and maybe bolding the terms in your bulleted lists. Overall great job!
NickBooth
Community Member
26 days ago
Amazing experience!

Below your Quick Share link, answer these three questions:

1I added an experiential scenario knowledge check before the final one

Which AI feature or capability was most valuable building a course from scratch. I had never tried this and with the AI assistant it was highly efficient to build and iterate.

What challenges I would like to be able to chat and collaborate with the AI assistant on the overall course, share instructional design theories, and collaborate on iteration ideas actii\on on them across the course.

Link
jakinwumiju
Community Member
26 days ago
Hi everyone,

Here is my Quick Share Link for my project.

Share 3 changes you made to the Rise AI Course Draft to improve learner engagement. Why did you make those changes to your project?

One thing I wanted to do way make it as easy to navigate for the user, so I chose to add and keep the navigation bar open as you're working through the content.

I also broke up the sections using color so it's easier on the eyes. And with that I bolded the key words within each section.

Finally, for the overall content I actually kept the same structure, so the learner knew what to expect in each lesson. And then I made sure to add audio files where appropriate to eliminate reading fatigue. I was originally going to add it to everything, but I don't know if that's too much. Would love to hear other's opinions on that.

Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why?

I really enjoyed the AI Block Converter. I think it was a great tool to see the same content in multiple ways really quickly. I think it helped structured the overall content quickly. I was able to switch and move blocks around with ease.

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

The biggest challenge I faced was with the images. I felt that they kept producing the same images over and over again. I also didn't like that the default for the people was 'white males'. You had to be very specific to get to give you anything else.
ZoraidaAllen-1a
Community Member
25 days ago
Hello,

I don’t typically use Rise since I primarily build courses in Storyline, so I really appreciated the opportunity to spend some time practicing with it and exploring its features.

Here is the link to the AI Course Draft I created in Rise: https://share.articulate.com/zxnZe6h0M39ZZIFj_PHUl

Updates to Boost Learner Engagement

I added audio in a few spots to give learners another option other than reading all the content, refreshed the flashcards with stronger visuals using AI-edited images, and adjusted the content into smaller, more digestible chunks to make it easier to follow. These updates helped balance the experience and kept learners more actively engaged throughout the course.

Most Helpful AI Feature

The AI Image prompt and Edit Text features were the most helpful because they sped up both content creation and revisions. I didn’t expect how much small prompt changes would improve the output. It really takes some trial and error to get it right.

Challenges with AI Outputs

One challenge came up with a flashcard section where I wanted to use the same AI-generated characters across all 5 cards, just in different scenes and outfits with consistent text at the bottom. Maintaining that level of consistency in Rise wasn’t really manageable, so I had to move the images into Storyline to edit them. It added extra steps, but I was much happier with how consistent everything looked in the end.
JamilaBreese
Community Member
20 days ago
Hello all! I did a lightweight pass through trying the features suggested in the assignment, but that was enough to explore the possibilities and I'll be able to apply this to real work.

I liked the easy "Edit content" approach to learning how to use the various features in Week 1.
The AI Assistant convert block feature is a nice, easy way to explore different activity types with the same content, and I enjoyed the ease of use in being able to generate audio and AI images, and change those to be more specific where needed.
I'd love to see a "featured examples" area for the course, perhaps with Articulate's selection of a few showcase courses that feature best practices, innovative uses of the AI output, and allow for comments from the cohort.
Sample course
AmyBurton-a4c7a
Community Member
19 days ago
https://share.articulate.com/BrT3Wt2wOHLHdsylJxJp8

This is my course!

I had a heck of a time getting the images to look exactly the way I wanted. :) However, I was kind of being a perfectionist. Even with the same prompt it was sometimes misinterpreting my ask - but that's OK because I learned a lot!

I used the assistant to bold key phrases, open with hook strategies, changed up interactivity, added narration... all kinds of stuff. I wanted to make sure that the course had more of a call to action for the learners and tried to alter the language to reflect that.

I also updated the knowledge check on the first lesson to be more relevant to the course content. When I created the final knowledge check I prompted it to make sure questions were focused on the key takeaways from each section. I also generated a course summary.

The ability to upload source content and have the tool organize it feels like a game changer. I look forward to playing around with this to see what's required for the best outcomes.

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