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How to add video and text side by side in Rise
I would like to build the text narrative to either the right or left of the video created in Peek instead of text only showing at the bottom. When the video starts, if the viewer doesn't have a headset or speakers, they will not be able to follow along with the video. Instead of having the text at the bottom, is there a way to display it either to the right or left of the video with the ability to scroll down either automatically or by the user?
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Greetings!
I didn't see anything on the roadmap, so I'm curious to know if there are any future video placement enhancement options coming up for Rise 360.
I have used Tabs and Accordion for placing videos and they both work great. I've found many times; it is more impactful to show a video and content side by side. We have videos that don't have sound but could be showing a key feature in a process or how to navigate to a new process so it would be great if the video just played to the left or right of the text either in a Rise lesson or in a microlearning. Thanks.Hello JenniferTeegard,
Thanks for reaching out! I appreciate you sharing how modifications to video placement will impact your workflow and course design in Rise 360. We do not have any updates to share at this time. I've gone ahead and shared your insight with our product team. We'll be sure to update this thread in the future with any news and updates so that all are in the loop!
Have a wonderful start to your week!
Good news its very possible. It took a couple steps to get the iframes to display correctly, I'll probably make a vid if anyone is curious, and this will probably work with other media shared posts like instagram etc.
Oh wow, Phil! Steps pretty please and thank you!
Hi! I have 3 shorts from tiktok I'd like to place in one page side by side, is this possible in Rise now?
Hi Marion,
There isn't a way to place videos side-by-side in Rise 360, but you can do this in Storyline 360 if you'd like to consider building your course there. You can place videos in a 3-column layout in a Storyline 360 course and then embed the finished product to make it available to your learners.
I think she's trying to embed the actual tiktok posts, not insert videos. Using Storyline here might complicate things, can you confirm Marion?
hey Phil—so nice of you to respond! so if our programmer follows your instructions in the source code—once it is created in that course can it be saved as a block template or do we need to modify code for each instance? Your work is absolutely beautiful by the way!
Thanks Francesca, and yes unfortunately it needs to be done on each individual course after export, as we are using the block id number to get the desired layout. When authoring your course in Rise just make sure the video block comes just before the text block that you want to be side-by-side.
Hey Phil—is there a way to save that as a block template once it is created? We have someone on our team that could probably modify the code but we would want to use it in other courses. Or, do you have a block template I could use?
Thanks—Francesca
Francesca, unfortunately this has to be done to the exported course files, I don't have a way to do this within Rise in edit mode.
I did a short recording showing how this is possible (if you're nuts like me), I included several highly desired media/design requests including:
- side-by-side block columns (video + text)
- smaller video icon
- full custom cover pages with branding
- dark mode support (Sasquatch course)
- animated cover page, animated lesson titles
- boots with the fur (audio)
This is amazing, thank you!
It's really beautiful Phil! Thanks for calling this out Erika - it came up on my mail :)
I do believe it involve editing css/html on the published file, correct? And would have to be done on each course separately?
Great contribution Phil - Your work is inspiring!
Would love to see this happen as well.
This would be great
Please add my voice as another in favor of this feature to be added. Especially as one of the sample microlearnings has this showing to "click video to enlarge" (a gif is used instead of a full video).
Agree video beside text would be great please team!
