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KimberleeBoyd-6
Community Member
5 years ago

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!!

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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!!!

    • elizabeth's avatar
      elizabeth
      Partner

      Hi Kimberlee! This is a great question!  I covered this very topic in a Quick Tips webinar a couple of weeks ago!  Here's the link to the recording.

  • 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?

    • elizabeth's avatar
      elizabeth
      Partner

      Hi Kimberlee!  All of the QuickTips are archived here - and you are correct they'd just use the left menu navigation to go back to their lesson, which is why it's a great idea to let them know how to use your glossary setup up front!

      • GerryMcAteer-86's avatar
        GerryMcAteer-86
        Community Member

        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.

        See project

  • I created a glossary in InDesign and added it as an attachment (PDF) to be opened at the start of a lesson and can be kept open in a separate window.  I'd prefer something even easier than that, but this seems to work.

  • KatjaKlein's avatar
    KatjaKlein
    Community Member

    Hello, is there meanwhile the possibility to create a glossary in rise 360?

     

    • Chris-Santos's avatar
      Chris-Santos
      Staff

      Hi Katja,

      This is a feature that we have already requested from our Rise engineers.  It's not in our roadmap yet, but I will update this thread if we hear more from our team about this feature.

      In the meantime, have you checked the workarounds proposed by our community members in this thread?  Here are a couple from William and Gerry

  • I understand this is an old thread. I came here hoping that there were other answers, but it seems not yet. However,  here's what I am doing right now.

    Create a lesson called "Glossary" and place it at the end of the lesson menu, usually in a "Resources" section.

    Create the glossary content with any Rise element or combination of elements you want. (List, Accordion, etc.)

    Instead of adding the glossary itself to every lesson, add a link to it using the Button interactive element. I usually place the button at the top of each lesson, but some clients prefer the bottom, and you can also just place it at whatever points seem appropriate.

    If you have more then one glossary or want to break the glossary up into sections, create more than one glossary "lesson" and instead of using a button, use a button stack.

    The only issue this creates is getting back to the original location from where you clicked the Glossary button. Since there very limited conditional processing in Rise, there no great solution that I can see.  The only possibility I can think of is to make more than one copy of the glossary for each Glossary button and add a "Return" button to the original lesson. Not perfect, I know, but it's something anyway.

    Another author mentioned a concern with course completion if completion is based on %  viewed. I've solved that 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 to make it seem more natural that a visit is required.

    And of course, 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 using the conditional continue element.

    Of course many more options are available if you create the glossary as a Storyline or Engage element. 

    Hope this helps.


  • First off, this is a HUGE miss in still not existing as a feature. EVERYONE would start using it immediately, and many happy people would raise a toast to Rise if it was simply ADDED TO THE TOOL (the manner in which you prioritize your roadmap and feature requests is still a mystery on the level of quantum entanglement, as far as I'm concerned).

    Secondly, what I'm planning on doing for an upcoming course is to make the glossary as the FIRST lesson, and not make it required to view each individual term (I have 96 of them) in order to move on. And then each subsequent lesson I'll build as requiring completion before they can continue. This way, if a user jumps to the glossary (either via a link or a button) they are jumping BACKWARDS in the course, and then they can always return to their spot by simply moving ahead as far as the course allows, So, for example, if a learner is on lesson 5 of 9, and needs to see the definition of Quantum Entanglement, they can jump back to the first lesson, read the definition, and then use the left hand navigation to return to lesson 5, which is as far as the course will let them, as they haven't completed lessons 6-9. 

    Hope that helps someone!

    • KellyAuner's avatar
      KellyAuner
      Staff

      Hi George,

      Thanks for reaching out about this feature. I've shared your comments with our developers so we'll update this thread with any changes!