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New in Rise 360: Enhanced Block Settings and Block Contrast Controls
Get ready to do even more with the block settings menu—that little menu that appears when you hover over a block. You can still move, duplicate, or delete your block and edit block content, but now you can also adjust the design and apply new contrast settings!
Move, Duplicate, Delete, and Design!
Eagle-eyed Rise 360 users will notice a new design icon that looks like a painter's palette on the right-hand side toolbar. Click that to open the all-new format and background tabs.
Similar to the previous format tab, the new format tab has options such as padding and color selection for block items, such as button colors. But now, instead of having to guess how many pixels you need between blocks, you can quickly apply small, medium, or large padding options. If you speak pixels, that's cool, too. You can still dial in exact pixel-widths by clicking the more icon.
The background tab is where you can make your content really stand out. Select an option here to fill all the white space around your block content with your color of choice. It's like course theme header background colors—but at the individual block level.
In addition to standard light and dark options, you can add your theme color (or a lighter tint of it) as well as a custom color or an image.
Constant Contrast
When you apply a custom color background, you also get access to block-level contrast options: Auto, Light, and Dark.
With Auto selected, text and graphic elements conform to an accessible 4.5:1 ratio. Even if you select a different color, text and graphic elements change from light to dark as needed to preserve contrast. And if you don't want your content elements changing automatically, you can select Light or Dark.
We've got contrast on the brain when it comes to image backgrounds as well. When you select an image background, you can now adjust the overlay just like you can on a course cover photo). This option makes your background image lighter or darker by adjusting its opacity by percentage. Your content will really pop!
If you’re an Articulate 360 subscriber, you can access this new feature immediately in Rise 360. And if you don’t have Articulate 360 but want to try out this feature, you can start a free 30-day trial. For more detailed information about this feature, check out our user guide: Rise 360: Enhanced Block Settings.
We're excited to bring you even more options for customizing your content. Let us know if this hits the mark—or if we can do even more to make your content shine! Share your experience in the comments below. We love to hear your feedback.
- raymondseguinCommunity Member
Thanks Marcos, much appreciated.
- MartinSinclair-Community Member
First of all, excited to see this development and cant wait to see how people use it - feels like a big step towards creating even richer and more engaging courses.
I'd like to echo Tim's comments - feels like the alignment of backgorunds to top, middle, bottom should be relatively easy but it would make such a difference. I quite often use the workaround Tim mentioned, using empty labelled graphic blocks to create more interesting page dividers. But it isnt perfect on all dividers and if the background images had an alignment feature it would open up a whole world of possibilities - SaraSlaterCommunity Member
Did this new update also remove the other functions such as resizing images and choosing the left or right side? All I can see in this update are padding and colours.
Hi there, Sara! For the Image & text block, the Image position and size controls are now under the Format tab in the new design icon on the right of the block.
- TeresaVanderposCommunity Member
Hi there,
Did anyone notice that your Start buttons all got renamed to Start Module 1, or was that just me? I have not been in RISE since all of updates. Today I went in and they all say Start Module 1. I went into my LMS to ensure it wasn't me and it wasn't they all have the word Start on the button.Things that make you go hmmmm.. :)
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
Hi Teresa,
Not seeing that change at my end.
It sounds like your Course Label set was edited.
- TeresaVanderposCommunity Member
Okay thanks Karl for checking. Very odd.... have a wonderful day.
- UrmetTrainingCommunity Member
Hi!
For 'Flashcards' & 'Accordion' blocks, I no longer see the option to make only one open at a time.
Now if I have multiple flashcards, I have to manually close them - Same for accordion drop-downs.Please advise if this is going to be updated!
Thanks.
Tom
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
Hi Tom,
For Accordion blocks, click on the new Format icon.
Then select your options here:
- KmrathoreCommunity Member
Thank you so much for this wonderful discussion. I was facing same issue, resolved after reading this whole article comments #premiumteamnames
Hi Km rathore!
Thanks for the feedback!
So glad to hear the information shared in this discussion was useful to you. If you run into any setbacks moving forward, don't hesitate to reach out!
Have a great day!
- NaylorAndrewCommunity Member
It is very helpful article. I learned a lot form it.
Glad to hear this thread was helpful for you, Naylor. Feel free to reach out in the E-Learning Heroes Community with any new questions or discoveries you'd like to share.
Have a great start to your week!
- JeffColeman-e23Community Member
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- KarlMullerCommunity Member
Hi Jeff,
Yes it has changed. Which block type are you working on and what are you trying to do?