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Image link in Rise
Why is it not possible to add a link to an image in Rise? This seems like a basic feature.
Hi Julia,
That's precisely what we were doing. Our roadmap was to invest in many new licenses but now we've decided to keep to one and invest elsewhere. Shame as this really has potential if the basic functions had been comprehensively designed out. There are at least a dozen missing unfortunately, including image links. What about knowledge checks that allow users to generate guesses without being told they're wrong or right after and just use as a discovery based primer for the feedback content that follows.. We feel basic pedagogical approaches are not being acknowledged by this authoring platform.
The hard pill to swallow is that this really could be great, but just isn't adapting to multiple customer needs simultaneously - and we're talking about the basic stuff here.
Hi Jonny,
I completely agree. The list is long, and some of it is just plain silly. Being able to add a thumbnail over a Rise video. Being able to adjust the compression amount on imported videos. Basic Knowledge Check controls that allow us to match the response options to the nature of what we're trying to teach. Let's not even get started on the request for the Morph transition....
In the end, it comes down to time. If I'm spending more time compensating for Articulate's shortcomings than I am designing product, I'm losing productivity. I spent over an hour yesterday compensating for blurry videos imported from crystal clear original files. Pulling individual, renamed videos out of the Storyline output file, matching them to the original video file, renaming that original file to the new rename, and then overwriting the video inside the Storyline output file...just to undo the consequences of video compression that I can't control.
A few weeks ago, I had to pull twelve individual videos into Vyond, drop a screenshot still pic in as a single first frame of the video, re-render that video and then replace the original video in Rise...all to get a thumbnail shot...a feature that already exists in Storyline.
Storyline blocks are not the blanket answer to missing basic features, either. They can be cumbersome, don't always quite play nicely with the LMS, and again...I'm wrangling two software packages to produce one result when I shouldn't be.
I just can't swallow the "not on our roadmap" response anymore.
