Week 1 Discussion

I selected these 2 questions:

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   1. I think I agree with most of the people here in that the rewrite and shorten are the ones I use the most. It's nice to help me rewrite things in different ways. 
2. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   1. The one feature that I really liked and didn't know about was the 'Create AI Image Prompt'. I have always had a hard time creating AI images correctly and with this I can just point it towards a sentence/paragraph and it helps create a really good picture. 

Here are my two questions:

1. What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?
   • It's pretty seamless. Having this combination of AI tools built into Rise is fantastic, and removes added work not only working alone with your own brain, but also going to external AI resources like Gemini
   • I find the image generation tool highly effective. I could get lost here, prompting this thing all day
2. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   • Editing tools are super valuable, whether in Articulate 360, or in something simple like our Outlook email accounts
   • For someone like me, who gets a little wordy, rewrite and shorten options are very valuable for me
   • Curious if there are organization-wide settings our software admins can apply to help hone the AI product produced and unify across groups at our company. We've been wondering about this on my team from a consistent branding and tone standpoint cross-functionally 

I am responding to the following questions:

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

I thought the AI block tools were very intuitive and I enjoyed being able to toggle back and forth between different ways to convey information to make a training more interesting and interactive.

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

The image generation is fascinating! I was surprised at how effectively it took instruction and at how well it generated content in the different styles. This is so much more interesting and less sterile than standard stock photos.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? I felt that all of the AI tools were intuitive and easy to use, I'm particularly excited about building a course outline from outside source materials and getting a headstart on course generation this way.
2. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why? I'm eager to use the editing tools to shorten or make my writing clearer

1. The biggest challenge I had was that cookies exercise. It took me a while to figure out the right prompt. I settled with prompting to only refer to cookies in text rather than visually. That did the trick. Although I did find it very strange the amount of weird spelling in the images generated. They almost all had some kind of typo if the text was part of the illustration.

2. As for what surprised me, well, I think I discovered something by accident. Inspired by the animation prompt in the Storyline exercise I decided to make an animation prompt for the summary slide. I asked for a dynamic animation for this slide. It then preceded to make a java script trigger for the slide instead. Not what I asked for, but, maybe better??? I guess 'dynamic' is the magic word. I'd love to know if anyone else did this.

Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful?  Definitely the text to speech.  I like the fact that there are so many voices to choose from.  Being a former Captivate user, these options are so much better. 

What surprised you about how AI handled text or media generation?  I really like taking the text and making AI images.  Sometimes the results aren't exactly what you were imagining, but it at least gives us an option of creating something inside the course  without having to purchase stock images. 

1. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why? Key takeaways and the summarizing lesson capability is an efficient way to put a bow on a longer training and capture the key objectives for the learner. It is also valuable for me as an instructional designer to see if my training is actually hitting on those key points.
2. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? I found the simpler you keep the image prompt itself the better. If you are using a custom style, the more detail about the style the better. I was able to get the exact aesthetic I wanted by adding tons of description in that field. However, for the actual image prompt, I found the more information you put in there, the more crowded and messy the image became.

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

I thought the AI block tools were very easy to use and found creating summaries, key takeaways and quiz questions the most helpful in my development.

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

The image generation was highly effective and swift. I can see the importance of saving prompts and styles to hold consistency throughout the course development.

1. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?
   • It's tricky to create an image prompt that ends with a clean, minimalistic image. I especially struggled with creating the image of Saanvi in Practice 6 and NOT creating images of actual cookies in Practice 5.
2. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   • I liked using the "Create a scenario" option. I could see using this as the start of much more robust scenarios, possibly moving them into Storyline.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? I'm still learning how to use Storyline triggers and states functions, and love the AI Assistant feature. It basically does it for you without all the stress.
2. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? I'm not a big fan of the the AI generated images, many times spelling is wrong, characters have an extra limb. But I think in time, AI will improve on the images.