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New in Rise 360: 1,000+ Templates With Real and Placeholder Content
Creating courses in Rise 360 has always been fast and easy, and it just keeps getting better. I’m excited to share that we’ve added over 1,000 fully customizable templates with real and placeholder content. With these professionally designed templates, you can get your learners the training they need in record time—and bulk up your course catalog in minutes. Let’s take a closer look at what’s included:
- Templates with placeholder content so you can skip outlining your course and sourcing images and focus on adding in your content—saving tons of time.
- Real-content templates with business and thought-leadership topics from bestselling authors chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink—so you can hit Export and upload courses to your LMS without missing a beat.
And because all of these templates are fully customizable, you can update the branding, make edits, and mix in your own content as needed.
Want to check out these new templates? Simply go to your Articulate 360 dashboard, click on New Course, preview the different options, and select the one you want to use. It’s that easy! Don’t have Rise 360? Start your free 30-day trial of Articulate 360 now.
Want more information about this cool new feature? Check out these helpful resources:
- Create Online Courses Faster Than Ever with 1,000+ Rise 360 Templates
- 3 New Ways to Create Courses Fast in Rise 360
- How to Mix and Match Real-Content Lesson Templates to Create a Rise 360 Course in Minutes
And be sure to keep an eye on the Articulate 360 feature road map and the What’s New page to stay up-to-date on what we’re working on.
Hi, everyone! The video block with the linked buttons was created exclusively for Next Big Idea Club content, since those buttons are required to remain below the author's video. There isn't a way to edit or remove those buttons, nor can you recreate this block type for other purposes.
For now, your best bet is to add a button block below a video block if you want to add links to related content.
Could you give any insight on how we should be citing this/giving credit within the course information being used?
Great content! I love the Big Ideas content but the exported SCORM (750 - 860 MB so far) is too large for my LMS's 600 MB limit. Is it possible to export with a smaller file?
Try to reduce the file size of the video. Export the content and unzip it, go to "scormfiles-assets-rbc". There you can find the video. If you use a Mac you should use the app Handbrake or a similar tool for WinPC. You can use it to make a good lossless size reduction. Replace the original video with the "smaller" one. But make sure that the file is named exactly as in the source file. If you have integrated several videos, you have to reduce all videos accordingly. After that you can pack everything again as .zip and should have a smaller package.
I agree with this. The new content is a tremendous addition, but the videos are just far too large in some environments so I either delete them (they tend to be instructionally redundant) or explore attempts to shrink the size without losing too much resolution...
I'm curious what others are doing.
I agree, I love the Next Big Idea, but our LMS has a 400MB limit...
Will additional content be added on an annual or other schedule? Love this add, it is so helpful! Thank you.
Has anybody been able to shrink the video files successfully? If so, what was your method?
Hi Brian,
I was having the same issue. We tried Handbrake but once the videos were re encoded the size was still too large. BUT I was able to use streaming to make the size useable.
I prepared the course as I wanted and exported the download. Then I unzipped the file and found the source video and jpeg's of the thumbnails in the Assets folder.
I uploaded the videos and modified the thumbnails in Vimeo and then went back into the course, deleted the video, selected the plus at the point of the old video and selected multimedia/embed and changed the embed code. Made sure the still frame thumbnail was full width and was done.
Re exported the course and the file size went from 555,000kb to 5,900kb. Worked like a charm.
Yep, export the course, unzip it, open the folder "assets-rbc". There you can find the video. I use the excellent free tool "Handbrake" (for Win and Mac) to shrink the size. With the right setting you reduce to a quarter of the original size lossless. Then copy the shrinked video back (note to keep the original name) to the rbc folder from the rise package and zip all together again.
My organization likes many of the topics with the pre-built courses, but I haven't seen where Articulate gained the content from various resources (for example: websites, news articles, books, etc.) used for these courses. For example, where did the content for "A Guide to Effective Meetings" come from?
Without knowing where this content was taken from, the credibility of these offerings could come into question.Echoing the need for more information about the courses. For some of the real content courses, it's clear who the speaker or author is but for others I'm wondering who the source is and would like to be able to name/cite them.
Hey, just checking if you had received a reply to the content query? Interested too!
I was able to take a look at the real content and could definitely see uses for it. One of our concerns however is providing translations. I know that for written content we can export to .XLIFF to get translated, but there doesn't seem to be a clear way to add additional caption languages to the video content or download the videos in order to burn in captions.
Hi Coniqua! You can download the English version of the video captions by opening the video block editor and clicking Edit > Manage Captions > Export Icon.
Then, you can translate the English captions yourself and add additional caption languages to the videos by following the steps in this article:
Hi there,
Is there any of these pre-built contents going to be translated into another languages like Spanish?
Thanks!
Hi Håkan! Thanks for letting us know how we can improve Rise 360! Can you share what e-learning functions you are most interested in so we can document your requests?
