Forum Discussion
Glossary in Rise 360
Has anyone found a way to create a glossary in Rise 360 that is easily and readily available for learners, as needed? This can be done in Storyline 360 by including it as a resource but I haven't figured out a workaround for Rise.
Any assistance is appreciated!!
This is something that is really lacking in Rise, as there is no way to separately attach resources like a Glossary. A Glossary needs to be available to a learner at any time, and they should be able to access it from anywhere.
We use Accordion blocks in a Lesson for our Glossary. A Glossary is something that may or may not be used, so using a Lesson to create one is problematic because it potentially affects your course completion if the completion setting is based on the percentage of the course viewed.
If the Glossary is in a Lesson, it also means learners need to leave the Lesson they are currently in in order to view the Glossary, and then navigate back to where they were before.
I've solved the completion issue in the past by adding a requirement that the learner at least visit the Glossary once. You can do this as a course walkthrough that demonstrates the interface and resources. A button interaction is an interaction after all, so you can add one in the walkthrough and not let the learner proceed until they have taken a quick look at it.
Thanks Karl. I was thinking that if I do use the Accordion block, that I would need to include it in every lesson - :-(
Do you include your glossary in the accordion tab at the top or bottom?
We only have one Glossary for the entire course in its own Lesson, as it would clutter up the other lessons by repeating it in each one. Having multiples of the Glossary also becomes a maintenance issue.
We use the setting where only one Accordion item can be open at a time.
All true. I do like the option of creating a lesson (the first one) for this course for learners to access. Thanks so much for sharing your experience about this with me!!!
Just watched - very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Elizabeth!!!!! I just had an opportunity to listen to the recording. Even though what I was interested in was discussed first in the recording, I truly appreciate that there were markers on where the content begins. 😊
I like the 'Terms Glossary' button that you used to link learners to another lesson with all the terms in there. Am I correct that they would just need to navigate back to the lesson they were in (using the left navigation pane) to continue?
Elizabeth, on a separate note, I didn't know these quick tips existed. Will you share with me how I can navigate to them on the site without bookmarking them separately?
Here is another example of a Glossary which you can create within Rise. In this example I have used the Quote Carousel block where each quote represents a letter. The cool thing is that once completed you can save the block as a template block and reuse it in other Rise projects. I have also added another simple version of a glossary using just the labelled graphic block.
There are several issues related to this approach for our organization.
Using a button to get to the Glossary means that learners are navigated to a completely different lesson. Learners must remember which lesson they were busy with, and then manually find their way back to where they were before jumping to the Glossary. This may sound like a trivial thing to do, but we have some very large courses with more than 100 Lessons.
As the Glossary is a Lesson, it becomes a problem for us as our course completions are based on the percentage of the course viewed. The Glossary Lesson becomes a part of that percentage and learners that do not need to view the Glossary, may have problems achieving course completion status.
At best this is a workaround. For a Glossary to be effective, it needs to be a Globally available resource that can be opened, viewed and closed without the learner being required to physically navigate away from their current Lesson.
Guys, I have created a glossary that exists as its own URL, external to RISE. I drop the link at the bottom of each section and have it open in an external window if the user click on it. That is a decent workaround for us.
Hi William,
Any chance you can share how you did this? Step by step - I'm super new to Articulate 360, so haven't gotten my head around intricacies. I would be much obliged! Thankyou kindly.
Add a block from the Interactive set - I like the single button stack. Get creative and have fun.
I'm currently working on a old moodle course to bring it back to 2020 ;) I'm using Rise 360, I can get a lot done, but on their end what I liked was that the "glossary" was on the words itself. So as you do your course, a word is highlighted in a different colour, when you hover over it, a question mark appears and if you click a small popup window attached to the word pops out with the glossary for that word.. pretty neat feature that would be great to have in Rise!
Marc.
An integrated glossary would be a great feature to add to Rise. - Watching this feed.
