How do you draft your Rise 360 courses?

I am a bit of a process-junky when it comes to instructional design and think all ID work should follow the ADDIE model (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation).  Rise typically comes in during the "develop" stage.

The analysis step focuses on determining the target audience, their training needs, the course goals and assessments. Rise does not offer something to do this work in, so typically it is done in a google doc or word document in meetings with stakeholders (the people who request the need for training).  If ADDIE were a road trip, analysis would be determining what is point A and point B, and how possible stops along the way. The analysis is the start and end point, identifying the appropriate vehicle (this is when Rise might be chosen as a technology etc) .

As a designer moves along in the ADDIE process to the Design step, you start to put the content in an outline format, map out how it fits together in a logical way while applying adult learning principles. You are creating assessments as this point too. In the road trip metaphor, this is when you identify exact stops along the way and tasks that should be accomplished at each stop.

If you jumped into Rise at this point in the ADDIE model, you may not have your content chunked in the appropriate way or order. Rise does not yet offer a way to define a target audience, define the goals/objectives and then move content ideas/chunks under those objectives. This is why I often work with clients in PPTs slides (for storyline development) or word documents (for Rise development).

Once a designer has figured out the goals, objectives, assessments, content and chunks of content, THEN they can draft items in Rise and be in the DEVELOP stage of the ADDIE model.  Rise then becomes a super quick way to develop a lot of content quickly. 

Feel free to reach out with any questions.

This is a great discussion that I appreciate because I'm new to Rise. I've been thinking about taking an agile instructional design approach to parallel the rapid development opportunity that Rise offers. I'm specifically looking through an agile lens of creating a minimal viable product. So many courses don't warrant flashy bells and whistles and can be developed as good enough for the intended purpose. Of course the challenge is to strike the right balance along the way but Rise provides the open road for exploration of agile approaches. I'm looking forward to getting started!

@ Michele: Thanks for the detailed insight into your development process!

For me, a process-based approach on the foundation of a good analysis is also very important, which is why I really appreciate the ADDIE model.

And that's exactly why I also consider agile project management inappropriate when developing learning products.

I've read through these and really appreciate all of the suggestions for improving Rise because I've needed all of these at one time or another. I work alone or on small teams and we all like creating/developing in Rise itself, it's an easy program to try out interactive options "on the fly" and compare them, see what works, and just keep developing. A note that I also really enjoy the Reviewer tool and all of my SMEs find it very easy to navigate and make any comments needed and as long as make the changes and send them the updated version they stay happy (they get confused when they don't see their changes because they are viewing an older version), I wish Rise had a stronger versioning option but so far it's one of my favorite tools as clients and learners both love the navigation and ease of use so I think the learning result is higher than other more complicated tools. My favorite is Storyline and I integrate SL videos into Rise when possible. Great tools and they keep getting better!