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.
Hi - I cant seem to find the theme option in courses where I am not the owner.
This will be an issue for us with the way that we share courses amongst our team.
Is there something I am missing to be able to access this menu option as a course manager?
Thanks!
I would love a cancel button. I changed a theme and immediately wanted to cancel it (from Apex back to Rise). When I went to "change theme" and then "Rise", it wasn't the same version of Rise as before. Sometimes we want to look at something and change it back immediately. This has been a pain.
Hi Sonja! I'm sorry you've hit a roadblock here. I recorded this short video for you (1:26) to demonstrate how you can go back to the original Rise 360 cover page layout after trying out a different theme.
The key is to use the Rise Standard layout with a Left or Left overlay cover page layout. Please let me know if this helps you!
Is there a way to save a custom Theme that you can use for other courses? Each of my courses must use the same theme and settings and I was wondering if there is a way to save the settings from one course and use them across new and existing course? Thanks a lot!
Hi Stephen! Saving custom themes is an enhancement that we're planning. I don't have an ETA yet, but we'll update you here once it's ready.
I also want to voice my frustration that Course Managers cannot access the new Themes feature. This does not work for collaboration. As others have said, everyone on our team needs to be able to access the theme settings for all the courses we share with one another.
Is there an option to remove the cover page altogether?
I'm guessing no ETA on the other themes that were given in the promo video on launch last year?
You should really prioritize the customization features, as this is definitely the biggest weak point of Rise. Please add full control, maybe something like the wordpress frontend editor or at least a "custom CSS" option together with a full documentation of CSS classes and IDs.
As a small step: Add more variation to choose from. I like the frontpage of the "Apex" theme, but to be honest the "Apex"-menu is ugly - why is the icon flying around above the lesson-title? I looks like a bug and creates an endless long menu??
With this update, every time I open a course, it automatically changes my course tab from a color to an image. There is no longer an option to delete the image, and I don't want to make this change.
I've attached a picture to show what is happening. All tabs were blue until I opened them with the update. What should I do?Totally agree with David about photograph versus colour. Hope that the fix comes soon.
Maybe I missed some comms from you folks, but I totally missed that this upgrade was happening. Personally, a heads up before the change would have been real helpful. And some tutorials explaining how the new Themes options would be very welcome. In my opinion, you dropped the ball on this one.
Agree!
I have the same question. I do not want the arbitrarily assigned images and do not find a way to delete them.
There seems to be an error with this feature. The continue button will not appear unless you have a page long enough to scroll. The button is still there, but hidden. Only mousing over where the button would typically be would the cursor change and allow a user to click continue. Please advise.
I am not going to add to the panic that has arrived for some scenarios due to this feature release.
I just want to say that i am looking forward to the ability to create custom themes.
However, will likely only use that feature once (or when company branding changes) - to create the branded version as it i can be, within the rise framework and its limitations.
Question,
How does applying another theme onto an already existing theme work for batch course rebranding? Is this a "change once" and all courses active in the system changes their theme?
interesting to hear / see this demonstrated with all users roles and all its perspectives.
I will not try on my team based on the ongoing forums discussions, i want to be careful with what is done with the feature at this time.Hi there! The custom themes feature is not yet released, and I don't have details about how that will work at this time. However, any changes that you make to a prebuilt theme that you apply to your course currently will only affect the one course. It will not update other courses that are using the same prebuilt theme.
Thank you for this answer Crystal. Makes it safer to get into trying this new feature.
