Articulate rise 360 as a presentation tool and accessibility

Why do you want to switch from PowerPoint to Articulate Rise 360?

To have a more interactive presentation. I know you can make PP more interactive; however, it is much easier in Rise 360. Plus by using PP my government has strict guidelines on using their header and colors. I'm trying to move away from their dry routine death by PP. 

Hey jamesdufour — such a good best practices question & use case, and so glad you brought it to the community. 

Articulate has put a good amount of investment into accessible feature sets and training around them. Accessibility is a pretty broad topic and I think there are lots of potential best practices depending on the specific challenges you're trying to solve.

I think a good first stop to get some wide exposure to how Articulate tools specifically support accessibility would be our Accessible E-Learning training hub here in the community. Within that there are some more general purpose trainings (like this one on creating accessible courses) and some more specific ones (like this one on accessibility testing for screen readers, and this one on writing alt text for images). I think that area will be helpful for you to get an overview but also dive deeper into any areas that feel particularly relevant. 

The second thing I might recommend is that we actually have an Accessibility Sub-Group here in E-Learning Heroes that's full of other Articulate users who also care about making their courses accessible. If you reach a point where you're really looking for others to share some examples of best practices approaching a similar use case, that might be a great place to bring this query. 

Let me know if this is helpful or if there are any other directions I can point you in! 

jamesdufour Good question. I use Rise as a presentation tool at many of my events now. I usually separate content with the continue divider and then it's a great giveaway for those who want the presentation.

In fact, we did a webinar on how to do this a while back. I'll see if I can find it as it had lots of good tips in it.

Here is the presentation from our Quick Tips Webinar #79 (starting at 18:00)

Here's a free template you can send to your Rise account.