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In Public Beta: Brands
Hello, everyone! We’re excited to introduce Brands, now available in Rise 360.
Watch the video below for a quick walkthrough, or explore the full documentation to learn how to create, apply, and manage brands.
(Update) By default, everyone can create and edit brands, but this permission can be restricted to admins only. All creators on the account can apply brands.
After trying it out, please complete our short feedback survey. We’d especially love to hear what additional settings, permission options, and bulk actions your team needs.
Good news! We've got another update.
You can now bulk apply Brands to multiple courses. This is available in your Private folder and in any team folder where you have Owner or Manager permissions.
- Hover over and select the items you'd like to modify.
- Click the Apply Brands icon in the upper-right of the dashboard.
- Select a brand from the list and click Apply.
Once you apply a brand to a training, the name is listed on its dashboard content card.
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Good news! We've got another update.
You can now bulk apply Brands to multiple courses. This is available in your Private folder and in any team folder where you have Owner or Manager permissions.
- Hover over and select the items you'd like to modify.
- Click the Apply Brands icon in the upper-right of the dashboard.
- Select a brand from the list and click Apply.
Once you apply a brand to a training, the name is listed on its dashboard content card.
I need to apply more than one logo. For example, I could have a project logo and a funding logo, or partner logos (I work for a charity, so we often work together with other charities or have sponsors). It would be good to have the option for placing multiple logos in a course.
Kyle_Clements Admin still had to grant permission on mine this morning, so I'm not sure brand permissions does default to everyone. I accessed via EU instead of US in case that affects things.
Thank you for this comment! I passed it along to one of our engineers who is getting this resolved. We really appreciate your help during this beta!
Thanks for sharing this update! Brands in Rise 360 looks like a really useful addition, especially for teams that need to maintain consistent branding across multiple courses. The flexible permissions and ability for all creators to apply brands are great features. Looking forward to trying it out and sharing feedback on additional settings and bulk actions.
This looks like a useful update for teams managing multiple projects. Having flexible brand permissions and the ability for creators to apply brands should make the workflow much easier.
One thing that I would love to see somewhere in Rise options - maybe in the Brand would be enough - is the ability to select a default font size. We tend to make our font larger since we have quite a few older people in our workforce. Having to select the body font and change it in every block is so tedious. It might be nice to have it outside the Brand, though.
See
New in Labs: Block Defaults | E-Learning Heroes
If this function is turned on in Labs, Choose the Theme and Select Block Defaults
Then set your default font sizes:
Am I doing something wrong? I created 3 brands but I'm not seeing the colors in my palette. This one has the 1st brand applied.
Hello, great question! From your screenshot it looks you may have a 3rd party plugin replacing the Rise color picker.
Thank you all for your feedback so far. The goal of a beta like this is to learn from your feedback and adapt the experience as we go.
Based on what we’ve heard, we’ve updated Brands permissions to default to Everyone. Teams that prefer tighter controls can still restrict access to admins only.
Please keep the feedback coming, especially around permissions, through the survey. Your input is helping us shape the right experience.
I did complete the survey—which I wish had included a field at the end for extra notes (without jumping to the next thing if I hit Return instead of Shift+Return...).
Here's my list (some were entered in the survey; some not):
- Add an obvious way to save a brand for personal use or for Team access (like when saving Block Templates).
- Add a "No brand" option to the selection list. This would allow for disconnecting a course from any brand, in case one wants to start fresh with the existing settings.
- Provide creator and/or admin controls to lock a brand. That's so everyone on a Team can apply a brand, but only specified users can edit it.
- Make it easier to access Manage Brands. That should be available from my Rise dashboard. (Here's the current process: open a course, click to go to Themes, click to Edit the brand, click Manage Brands. Manage Brands should remain available at this point, but I shouldn't have to do all that to edit a brand.)
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Put the SAVE button at the top of the Manage Brands page, in addition to having it at the bottom. When it's just at the bottom, it's too easy to overlook.
I wholeheartedly agree with the second bullet that JudyNollet mentioned above. I wanted to remove the Brand from a course and found that I couldn't do it.
This is a big help as-is, Kyle! Just as a 'nice-to-have' possibly we could set both the Primary color as our Theme and a secondary color as our Theme Tint. In the attached example of my brand and my theme colors, I never established E9E9E9 anywhere that I know of and was just curious how E9E9E9 is determined.
