Week 2 - Group 3 Discussion

Hi Everyone!

My course: https://share.articulate.com/_n9bCI6BT1dNqqIkILnIY 

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!

1. Creating a hook - I used a prompt to begin each section of the course with a hook or scenario to engage the learner and ground the learning in reality. Hooks, such as a problem or question, and scenarios create curiosity and encourage active engagement rather than passively reading content.
2. 2. Formatting key words and phrases - I made key words and phrases bold, making them stand out from the main body content. Making key words bold helps learners quickly identify the most important concepts within a course section. This acts as a form of visual signalling, reducing cognitive load and guiding attention to what matters most. It also aids in skim reading content allowing key content and ideas to be located quickly.
3. Generating custom image prompts - I found the AI image generation feature produced images that didn’t quite fit with my idea of diversity (although this is true of many AI models out there), therefore I used a custom prompt to create line art style illustrations rather than photorealistic images. This style was carried throughout the course to ensure visual consistency and avoid reinforcing biased or limited representations of people.

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

I found the ‘Create with AI’ function useful in my workflow due to the fact that I can quickly produce a structured course draft based on source documents. Sometimes the source content I work from is vague and unspecific and this is where the AI assistant comes in to its own to fill in the gaps! As a UK user, I’m often frustrated by the use of US spellings by the AI Assistant, not sure if this can be changed in the prompt but it takes time to pick through and change the US spellings in the course draft.

I love the ‘Instant convert’ feature. This makes it super easy to test content in different block types before finalising an interaction.

The AI audio feature is great and I use this a lot within my courses to give learners a multimodal experience but again its predominately US accents.

The AI Assistant is certainly a great feature and I’m sure it will only keep getting better especially with the beta AI avatar feature.

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

I often find generating AI images to be a challenge. Its not always easy to define a prompt or a consistent style and sometimes very time consuming to get a desired result. This is not solely with Articulate but with other AI image models out there. For this course it’s the first time I’ve got to grips with the AI image feature within Rise and although I produced consistent styled images it was by far the most time-consuming part of the development process. For the most part I use external AI tools to create images such as Google Gemini, Canva or Adobe Express as I feel they are more sophisticated in the functionality but that being said the AI Assistant in Rise was a nice surprise once I understood how to prompt!

Overall it was great to have time to experiment with the AI features in Rise and although sometimes frustrating it was good fun! Hopefully I will be able to try the AI features in Storyline too :)