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How do you draft your Rise 360 courses?
Hey everyone! We've been pondering a Rise 360 course creation question and were hoping to get your thoughts on it.
When you begin working on a brand new course, which are you more likely to do:
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I've worked with clients who wanted to approve the text in Word before it was put into Rise. But then they still had editing remarks after seeing it in Rise, so I don't think this method saved any time...
I don't have just one approach. It depends on the topic and the source materials. If it's long and/or complicated, I might prep an outline or storyboard for myself before I start developing in Rise.
Otherwise, I prefer to draft it in Rise, and let the SME see it in Review 360. That gives them the opportunity to experience the "look and feel" and try the interactions, instead of reading instructions about how an interaction will work.
(The same goes for Storyline courses.)
Thanks a bunch for those insights!
I definitely get how the topic, source materials, and length could influence what approach you use. I feel very similarly. Sometimes I just dive straight into Rise 360 right at the start and outline in the tool. Sometimes I use a shared Google Doc—especially if I'm working on the content with a bunch of people and we're going to do a lot of back and forth on the copy or ID approach. And sometimes I go really old school and just write out my outline on a Post-it because that's just what's working for my brain that day.
Related question: is there any functionality that would make drafting directly in Rise 360 even easier for you?I think drafting in Rise is already pretty easy!
One thing I would like is the ability to set the default font size for text blocks. I typically want it a bit bigger than the size in the standard blocks. So I end up creating Block Templates and going through the extra steps to insert those. (Or I just duplicate a block if it's close by.)
BTW, using Block Templates would be a lot easier if the program wouldn't always show me all the blocks shared by team members. Ideally, it should stay on whatever my last setting was (i.e., show all team blocks or show just my blocks).
