Forum Discussion
Week 2 Discussion
Welcome to the final discussion of the cohort! You’ve created your AI Course Draft in Rise and applied what you learned about AI Assistant. Now it is time to showcase your work and reflect on your experience.
🤩 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 two questions:
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What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
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Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
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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!
➡️ Next Up:
If you have more questions about AI prompting or the hands-on challenge for this week, attend the Week 2 Office Hours session on March 12.
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- What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
- I plan on using the AI summary at the end of my courses moving forward. The AI feature makes it easier to edit the summary and change the tone of the course before the next lesson.
- Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
- The most value was in the development and flow of the lessons. I found that I needed to step in to create more interactive blocks and generate additional images.
I really like the use of AI for the images in several areas. They were very inclusive, bright, and visually appealing drawing my attention and helped tell the story.
- What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
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- What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects? I plan to use the Open with a hook strategy while incorporating the formatting of key words.
- Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise? I found value in getting the framework in place and flow semi together while helping fill in some of the "brain work" for coming up with more creative ways of saying things. My expertise was more on simplifying, using AI to help with engagement options I may not have considered, trying to adjust visuals/rework text.
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I definitely plan to use the Hook Strategy concept as I found this to be a super easy and impactful way to make my content stand out right from the beginning. I also enjoyed employing the fact that I could change the tone of that hook as well as make it shorter. I even played around with adding jokes in the hook and I was impressed how well that turned out.
Where this course added the most benefit to my flow was a general understanding of how much I can now do in Rise, that I was previously manually creating. I appreciated the ease of being able to create a consistent feel, flow, voice and tone/mood of the course when using the AI generation tools. The AI-image generation and the ability to keep my content consistent with the tools was a fabulous gain for me. I did not really find that I needed to step in with my own experience for this cohort as I was engaged and plugged into what was being presented. I can see myself employing a lot of these concepts and then digging into what else I can achieve by using my own creation skills and ingenuity combined with what the AI-generation tools will offer me as a content creator. Thanks!!!!!
Great job, Tim! I agree with you that the hook strategy is simple and effective. I like the use of it in your course. I also like your country western theme pictures (I am from Montana). Are these created using a custom image prompt? Would you mind sharing the prompt if it was custom? Thank you!
Thanks so much! Yeah, I'm a songwriter as well and out of place living in CT, haha, but I wanted to have some fun with the exercises. Absolutely, here is the prompt I used. For the first lesson, I believe I used the "Description" that was recommended for the lesson which was: "
"As a new manager, your ability to foster happiness and fulfillment within your team is a powerful driver of success. In this lesson, we’ll explore what truly makes teams feel valued, engaged, and motivated at work. You’ll discover why happiness and fulfillment matter—not just for individuals, but for the entire organization—and how you can lay the groundwork for a thriving, resilient team environment."
Then I used a Custom style with the following prompt: "western, country, mountain, old west, sunny, tumbleweeds, warm and dusty"
Then in lesson two, I changed the description up a bit and used "In this lesson, you will gain valuable skills and insights to help your team flourish by linking their work to a deeper sense of purpose. Diverse team gaining valuable skills on the farm or on a ranch" - while using the same prompt from above without changing it. I liked how the AI assistant kept the same look and feel as the learning content suggested it would do.
I did the same for lessons 3 and 4 where I changed the description up a bit but always used the same Custom Style and the same prompt.
Yes! I love the "hook strategy" feature. It helps out tremendously with creating a scenario and other ways of making the course more engaging.
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I plan to use the formatting key words or phrases AI technique right away. Currently, I am meeting with a group of content experts weekly to review their courses and they are wanting to bold key words throughout. I can now work a head of the meetings using this feature and be able to ask their feedback. This will more than likely decrease the amount of meetings we need as well.
The AI course draft generation added the most value in the production/development stage. Content experts provide the content in their file formats and then being able to upload and AI produce the course is a huge time saver. I don't have to manually create the blocks, copy and paste content or retype, etc. I can then go in an have it rewrite and generate AI images. I can change content to be interactive.
My knowledge has expanded immensely and I am excite to work with these features moving forward. Thank you!
I liked that you added continue buttons to break up some of the content. I would suggest not using the red/orange text though because of color blindness/accessibility. I also liked the images that you added.
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What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
The AI block generation tool was really helpful and saved so much time. I will definitely be using it in the future.Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
I found that the draft generation really helped with creating a basic flow to the course, and then I was able to step in and adjust what was needed, without spending all the time having to create the format. Will definitely use the draft generator in the future.
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What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
I find that generating custom image prompts is very helpful because it provides a great way for me to create a draft of the image and then make any necessary adjustments.
Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
The AI course draft generator significantly improves efficiency when creating drafts from Word, PDF, or PowerPoint source materials. However, IDs do need to collaborate closely with SMEs to review and validate the learning objectives and lesson outlines, ensuring the content follows a clear and logical flow. Also, IDs must refine images, language, interactive elements, and quiz questions to meet organizational standards and incorporate SME feedback.
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What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
Draft/course generation! What a big timesaver. Being able to upload source documents into Rise and "watch" it generate a fleshed out course is a powerful tool. Use the AI image generator more often (another big time-saver).
Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
The biggest value added was the time-saving aspect! Being able to take multiple source documents and combine them into creating a singe course is fantastic. I did have to review the first draft and made some very slight tweaks (mostly, basic punctuation).https://share.articulate.com/2oaQBsJil3R7836NlBY7u
- What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
- Block conversion! A really nice and fast way to see how the content might appear in multiple ways.
- Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
- Nice to get that outline, have things laid out in order. Design-wise, I would want to step in and improve upon the layout of the individual lessons,
I agree! Block conversion is a really useful feature. It helps quickly view the same content in different interactive formats and choose the best option for learner engagement and it saves development time.
- What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
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What’s one AI technique you learned in the Week 2 Guided Practice Activity that you plan to apply right away in your current projects?
One AI technique I plan to apply right away is the “Open with Hook” strategy to start lessons in a more engaging way. I used Scanario based on Character. II also found the formatting options like adding headings, bolding keywords, and converting text into bullet points very useful for improving content structure quickly.Where did the AI course draft generation add the most value to the course-building workflow, and where did you need to step in with your own expertise?
The AI draft generation was helpful in creating the initial course structure and summarizing the source content into lesson blocks. However, I needed to step in to refine the content, adjust the tone, change block types, add image, generate Image in AI, and add scenarios, summaries, and knowledge checks to make the course more engaging and aligned with learning objectives.Hi! Very nice visual design of your course! You used a wide variety of blocks and images. I especially liked the use of the photo and text blocks. I forget those are an option.
Consider adding a few more pictures to break up some of the heavier text pages. There is a toggle at the beginning of the course design to have it automatically add AI generated images that go with the content. I find it easier to do that and delete the ones I don't like. They can be a bit repetitive in format, so I generated a few new ones.
I think the Sorting Grown Plan activity was one you added which was a nice touch to give learners practice identifying those elements based on the content you just presented. Great job and hope you enjoy using it in the future!
Is anyone having any challenges with the AI Images? I am trying to complete the practice items and nothing is coming up when I select AI Images. I have cleared my cache / browsing history. Tried Incognito mode in Chrome. Plus restarted my computer and nothing. It worked for me earlier this week and now it is giving me a blank page when I try to generate images with AI. Any guidance anyone can provide is greatly appreciated. TIA.
ShauntaTaylor-1 So sorry you ran into that issue! We were experiencing an AI image generation outage earlier today, but that is now resolved. You should be able to generate AI images again!
