Multi-language RISE courses?

Hi all, we have the same challenge. We're a global company with 30k employees, operating in 120+ different countries. We're currently working on a global Brand training, which needs to be translated into different languages. We'd like to have only ONE eLearning module with a language selector, rather than having like 20+ modules with different language versions. 

What's the status on this language topic for Rise? Can anyone please share any update with me?

Thanks a lot and best regards,

Michael

Thanks a lot for your prompte feedback, Crystal. All right, understood. Is there any (technical) reason why the multi-language feature for Rise isn't on your near-term roadmap? According to this blog as well as other e-learning heroes communities, users were requesting that feature already 3-5 years ago. In my opinion, this would be a huge benefit for international companies. In terms of managing and maintaining eLearning modules on Articulate Rise, having only one module with different language versions would be less complex and much easier to handle (from an admin point of view). 

Really need this to be a feature.

Our team has found a way to make multi-lingual Rise courses, although they are a bit clunkier than a multi-lingual Storyline course.  It involves making copies of a course, sending those copies off for translation in the target language, and then copying the translated lessons back into the English course. We have only tried this with a maximum of three languages. 

For this to work, you start with Lesson 1 as a button stack.  Each button leads to a different Introductory lesson in the selected language, and the learner's navigation is restricted as they progress through the lessons in their selected language.

For each language, the final lesson has a button that takes the user to a quiz.  The quiz contains instructions in each language that essentially says "Type YES to acknowledge that you have completed this course and understood its contents.  Select START QUIZ to begin the quiz."

The quiz contains multiple correct responses (the word "yes" in all three languages included in the course).  

There are some specific navigation settings that you have to choose for this to work. First, navigation mode must be set to Free.  Then you select No Sidebar, and lesson count labels must be Off, previous and next buttons must be On.

Hi Articulate Team, is there an update to this thread? I think multi-language feature in Rise should be a priority enhancement. It will be great if you can also look at these suggestions below:

1. Ability to change language of block labels: This will be handy in creating lessons that are displayed in a target language
2. Ability to compress video files - If a single Rise module with videos contains all required language versions, the SCORM file size will easily exceed most LMS's file upload limit because all videos will need to be re-uploaded in each language version. This is especially true for videos that need to be in a specific language and for locations like China where video streaming services like YouTube are not accessible.
3. Ability to choose multiple quiz blocks for completion criteria - Suppose each language section has its own quiz/test as completion criteria, it will be great if we can select multiple test blocks with OR relationship. This way regardless the language the user selects to take, he/she would get a completion mark if the test is passed.

Hope this all makes sense. Thanks for your consideration. Happy to clarify anything if needed.

All the best!

Hi there, DFS University! Thanks so much for sharing that detailed feedback. In case you're interested, here are all of the new features we are working on right now. If we add any of your requests to the roadmap in the future, we'll let you know! 

Also in the Netherlands a lot of our (end) clients are asking for this developement. Would be a great feature....

Language courses offer a very good rationale for the need to be able to define multiple languages within one course/document  either as inline or as block elements. 

The related need to be able to use different fonts/script blocks within a course or as inline or block elements for sections of the text that appear in different languages to the default would also be awesome.

The tools to do this in online content (generically speaking) are already in web-standards; but the ability to add these tags/features in Articulate RISE is not yet available. 

Would love to see the ability to manage multilingual courses/texts as sometimes there are legitimate reasons for using more than one language in the same course/content.

Looking at the road map for features, it looks like some great stuff is coming but these features for multilingual support within a source (language definition and specifying different fonts/scripts) do not appear on the list.

In Rise, is it possible to have a completion triggered in an LMS without having to visit every module?

I'm not following this option. Can you explain in greater detail?