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AI course creation alters source text too much
I suspect our course production process must be fairly standard: we write the course in text form first and then build it into RISE as an interactive course. This feels like a pretty standard approach.
It means that by the time we're working in RISE, our course material is already close to final-draft quality. It has been written with our learners in mind, it follows our style guide, it has input from SME's and has been reviewed by multiple stakeholders.
At that point, we move into RISE to start building the learning experience. The hope was that using the AI course creation tool would streamline this part of the process. I expected it to take the text, break it into modules, add in some activities, generate interactive blocks like accordions, tabs, etc.
But instead, it takes all our hand-crafted material and completely re-writes it.
This makes the feature completely unusable. And this must be the case for, I would imagine, a significant portion if not the majority of users... Many of us are course developers, learning designers, writers, educators... "Make me a course on this topic" is not what most people use RISE for, I don't think.
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Have you switched on the AI beta and tried 'Magic lesson import'?
Thanks for the suggestion. I had not tried that but had had only poor success with the Magic Quiz importer.
I have just now tried the Magic Lesson Importer. All it did was create some numbered bullets at the top of the lesson and then dump the text into the body of the lesson. It perhaps saved me 90 seconds of copy-paste time, but it did nothing in the way of generating interactive blocks or activities, just plain text.
I think it's fair to say there's quite a lot of work still to be done on the AI features. Sort of disappointing since they've already released a subscription package for them, whereas I'd suggest the whole bank of features is still very much in Beta...On the plus side, it's certainly not threatening my job any time soon!
Hi ICEFAcademy,
Great to see that Chris has been helping you. Sorry to hear that you're having trouble generating Rise course content with AI Assistant.
It looks like my teammate Cleober emailed you through your support case, but you may have missed it. No worries! I've just resent his latest email again for your reference.
We can continue the conversation through your case!
We have a similar problem. We have our IDs create a finalized storyboard, then use developers to create the course in Rise. This works well in not changing the finalized text, but one MAJOR downside is the Magic Lesson Importer only does one lesson at a time. We have automated tools to "split" a storyboard into smaller files to use the Magic Lesson Importer, but it compounds our work time if the lesson is short. Can someone please let me know if it's on the roadmap to import an entire storyboard that creates multiple lessons in Rise that the developers can then go in and massage?
Hi ChrisWilliams-f,
Thanks for sharing more about how your team builds courses.
I can see why preserving finalized storyboard content while speeding up course assembly is important to your workflow. It also sounds like having to split approved storyboards into multiple files adds unnecessary work for your developers.
I'd be interested to hear a little more about your storyboards. Approximately how many lessons does a typical storyboard contain before you split it into separate files? Also, if Magic Lesson Importer could process an entire storyboard, how would you expect it to determine where one lesson ends and the next begins?
Understanding more about your process and how your storyboards are organized helps us better understand how a capability like this could support teams like yours.
EricSantos A typical storyboard could contain anywhere between 2-55 lessons, depending on the size of the course. We have successfully built agents to parse a storyboard and create separate files when it sees H1 style. If the Magic Importer could leverage that same logic to know when to create a new Lesson, that would be helpful.
