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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.
What are the limitations on the usage of these courses? Restrictions?
Awesome new content!! As a content provider, are we allowed to sell the Real-Content courses to third parties?
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!
Does anyone know how to replicate the block with the intro video that includes links to their books? I would love to do something similar in a lesson but not sure how this is done. It is not a separate block and not sure if this is within the video block or the opening description block? I have attached an image of what I am referring to. Any ideas?
Great question, Michelle! Did you ever find a solution?
No - I have not received a response on this. I am not looking to remove what was added to the content modules but learn to add so I can promote some of the company textbooks within the training. I am hoping someone can provide info on how to create this!
I would also love to know how they included the links and Lesson section on the very first page like Michelle and Michael...they also had a video/picture section with the links under the picture but I cant figure out how that was done either...if anyone can help you would have at least 3 happy users here.
Hi everyone! We’ve taken care of any rights and permissions on our end so you’re free to use real content templates as you would any other Content Library 360 asset. Your license with Articulate is all you need to use the content freely. We just ask that Rise 360 courses you create with this content remain as Rise 360 courses. Find out more here:
Alyssa,
I'm curious about the "real content" and how it was curated and created in general? I know that my leadership team will ask me to vet the content and want to know where the information came from. I haven't seen anywhere in the courses where it lists resources & SMEs used for the development. Thank you.
This is great news! To clarify, does that mean I can export my Rise 360 course containing Real Content as a SCORM to sell on my LMS? Or must the purchaser access the course directly on rise.articulate.com?
Hi, LeaderSharp Group! Yes, you can export your Rise 360 course containing Real Content to sell on your LMS. You can use this article as your guide when selling courses containing Real Content or Content Library resources. I hope this helps!
Is there a list of courses and their release date into Rise that is available in word or excel format? That would be helpful for keeping track of modules that we are evaluating or have chosen to use. Thanks!
Once I find out more about the video block with the linked buttons below it, I'll post an update here!
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...
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.
