Forum Discussion
New in Rise 360: More Course Customization with Themes
I’m so excited to share our latest release with you. Today, we shipped a huge update to Rise 360 that gives you more creative ways to customize the look and feel of your projects. Rise 360 now includes a variety of scroll-stopping themes—all created by award-winning designers—with more themes coming soon. Apply themes in just a few clicks, or, for that extra-personalized touch, we’ve added the option to customize many theme elements.
The possibilities are endless, so let’s take a closer look at all the latest Rise 360 goodness.
New Themes
Rise 360 has always been a great option for quickly creating beautiful, responsive courses. And with the addition of Rise 360 themes, you’ve got brand-new ways to add your own unique spin to projects.
Here’s a quick rundown of each theme:
- Rise—our original theme—is modern and clean-lined. It’s a tried-and-true design choice that never goes out of style.
- Apex makes a bold, contemporary statement with striking, angular flourishes.
- Horizon is a great choice when your project needs a design that’s elegant, sharp, and stylish.
You can see all three styles in the image below.
And these stunning new themes are just the beginning. We’ve got even more theme designs in development.
New Theme Customization
Before, Rise 360 theme customization options were found under the Settings menu. Now, we’ve pulled theme settings into a new Theme menu, as you can see below.
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This change streamlines course creation by nesting all of the theme customization options in one spot. Under the new Theme menu, you’ll click to choose your desired theme and then click Save to apply it to your project. It’s as easy as that.
These striking themes were designed to be used as is to simplify and speed the course creation process. But for that extra-personalized look and feel, we’ve added more options to customize elements like cover page layout, navigation type, lesson headers, accent colors, font pairings, button styles, and more. With so many flexible options, you can style your theme to better meet your learners’ needs and easily create more cohesive, branded learning experiences.
To give you an idea of how these new themes can be customized, explore the following examples. We applied each theme to the same course content—and we customized each version with unique colors, navigation, and lesson header styles.
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What’s your favorite combination? Leave me a comment below.
Summing It Up
The new Rise 360 themes feature opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And we’re just getting started. There are more stylish theme designs in the works and we’re making progress on giving you the ability to create your own custom themes as well. We’re excited to continue delivering features that empower you to create eye-catching, unique learning experiences in record time.
Want to try out Rise 360 themes for yourself? Head over to your Rise 360 dashboard and start with a new course, a course template, or any existing Rise 360 project. Don’t have Rise 360? Start your free 30-day trial of Articulate 360 now.
Be sure to keep an eye on our Articulate 360 feature road map and the What’s New page to stay up-to-date on what we’re working on.
PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!!! Myself and other team members are managing thousands of courses and you've now suddenly changed the settings, meaning we have NO access to any of the Theme settings.
I cannot understand why this has been actioned without any consultation or even a warning that it's coming. My team are now in a panic and unable to work on the courses.
This is urgent. Please resolve. Thanks.
Echoing the previous comments on the theme option being made available to Course Managers, will this be enabled or will we now have to make copies of the courses, delete the originals and reshare with the original course owners to bypass this everytime?
I'm sorry Crystal but this is completely unacceptable.
As suggested so many times over the years, ensuring access amongst team members is vital - for when people are off sick, away or leave.
Am I now expected to ask my team to now change 10 users per lesson from manager to collaborator for 7,000 lessons?
After this update, I don't have access to most settings anymore, unless I'm the owner. However, in our team, we share all the lessons with each other, and everyone needs to have access to all the settings. So now we have a huge problem. We really need a solution ASAP! Thanks!
Taking away navigation options from course managers is really an issue. If only one person can be the owner, then only that one person can manage that. A problem in team-based organizations.
Thank you everyone for your honest feedback! We just released a fix to allow course managers to also edit Themes!
Note: Edits you make in the theme or settings menus can potentially override another user’s. Make sure to coordinate with your team so that you’re not modifying a course simultaneously.
Please let us know how else the new Theme features are working out for you!
There have been a lot of requests for hiding the lesson header and skipping the course title page. Are these still considerations? It seems that you can’t do these things yet.
Hi there, Anthony! While you can't hide the lesson header completely, the new themes settings allow you to change the height of your lesson header to small, focusing attention on your lesson content. Here's an example where I've used the small setting, and removed the lesson count and author avatar:
I don't have an update on skipping the course start page yet, but we're continuing to work on some exciting changes to courses and lessons!
Will the Theme options be made available to Course Managers? It means I can no longer make any of the changes that used to be under Settings unless I am the Course Owner which limits collaboration.
Thanks
Philip, this is only for authors. Managers cannot see this Themes menu.
@Crystal could you please respond to the numerous queries above about lack of access to Theme/settings for Managers. Thanks.
