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Exporting plain text from RISE 360
I have seen a few old conversations related to exporting text from RISE but none of them address our biggest need which is to be able to export the full text of a course in an easily readable/editable format. I know you can export an .xliff file or export the whole course to .pdf but neither of those actually addresses our needs to be able to provide editable text to reviewers and to either internal staff or local translators working overseas (in Africa and Asia) who do not have access to the software that can read .xliff files. So far I have not had a single project where someone doesn't insist on getting a version of the text that they can make track changes to (despite having the option of using the 'review' function), nor have I had a single case where we are able to get the text 100% final before building the course - which means having to put time and effort into maintaining a separate google doc version of the text for every course. Are there any plans to introduce a feature to export text to Word? (or PPT, or google docs, or even Notepad)
Thanks for your reply Karl!
I actually tried that option using Adobe Acrobat, however, all the text inside the interactive part (flip card, accordion, etc) is hard to edit, without me doing a major redesign of that chunk.
I should probably clarify what I'm trying to achieve: in addition to the Rise course itself, I was trying to provide the PDF version of the course so that staff can easily access it as a job aid/handout (without having to go back to the LMS).
Currently, the exported PDF course is not formatted well---some elements/chunks are cut in between pages in weird places (e.g. in the middle of a flip card image, in the middle of a quote image, etc). Please see the attachment.
It would be nice if in Rise we have an opportunity to preview and edit the PDF version of the course before it gets exported.
Hi Mehkta, thanks for sharing your concerns about the page breaks in your exported PDF courses. I'm sharing this with my team and we'll let you know here if we make changes that will help!
Thank you Lea! Appreciate your help.
I'm chiming in on the request for a .txt or Word compatible export option. I'm currently contracting for Microsoft and we're required to run a compliance check on all course text prior to publishing the course internally. While we usually draft the course text in Word and then copy it into Rise, we almost always do some text editing in Rise. This means we have to copy the text back out of Rise so we can run the compliance check on the version we intend to publish. Being able to export a .txt file would streamline our workflow tremendously.
An update - we've needed to export text from Rise for several projects to build a script for voiceover and for final project files.
We've tried several things including copy/paste, XLIFF to Excel and also using some translation tools (there are some free tools out there)
We've included what we found here, included a step by step on how to use a localisation tool, which might be useful if you are want to do a translation as well.
https://www.realprojects.co.uk/how-to-extract-and-use-text-from-rise-360/
Thank you for sharing your workflow, Scott. This will be extremely useful to the community looking for a workaround concerning the discussion points in this post!
Thanks for your question, Grace! While we don't have plans to introduce a feature to export text to Microsoft Word, some folks have had success converting the PDF export to a Word document. Would that be an option for you?
Hi Alyssa,
Downloading the course as a .pdf then converting it to Word does not solve
the problem. When I have tried that the text only comes through mostly
correct (missing letters, weird alignment and spacing) and would require a
significant amount of editing to get it looking clean enough to provide to
a reviewer.Best,
Grace
Thanks for following up, Grace. I'll let our team know you need a feature that will allow you to export a course directly to a Word document. In the meantime, I'll open the floor to the community in case they have other ideas to share!
I am looking a way to export a course in to MS PPT. Ideas?
Hi there, Beth! I'd love to hear more about your plans for your Rise 360 course. It sounds like you want to convert it to a PowerPoint presentation, is that right?
Can you tell me more about what you had in mind?
Alyssa,
We are offering face to face and online supplemental materials for a Code Enforcement course. We need the online material to be converted to PPT for those instructors who will be teaching the F2F course and utilizing the content to share with students in the F2F. This why the PPT is needed.
Right now I am having to take the course, convert to PDF, convert to Word, format, convert to PPT finish with editing. This process is taking forever.
Hope you can help.
Thanks,
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Hi Beth,
There is no other process than the one you have described.
Thank you for sharing your use case, Beth! We'll keep our eyes out for similar needs from the community as we consider new features for Rise 360!
Piggy-backing on Grace's request to export Rise course to Word document. Any update on that feature @alyssa? Thank you!
Hi Mehkta,
This is your only option:
- Export the course as a PDF.
- Convert the PDF to a Word doc.
