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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.
Is there a way I could turn off the new theme updates? The new resolution for the banners crop my existing banners.
Hi Lorein!
While there isn't a way to turn off the Themes feature, you can continue to use the original cover page layout that you're accustomed to in Rise 360.
Simply use the use the Standard Rise theme, plus the Left overlay cover layout. Doing this should ensure your cover images aren't cropped differently.
Let me know if you're seeing something else from your side when you try this combination!
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Thank you!
Regards,
LisaLisa Lederer
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I am wondering if there is any indication of the release date on other themes? The promotional video shows other themes in use which we are very interested in as they will more closely align with our branding. I am specifically interested in this theme option.
If these are coming soon I will hold off on making changes to our current style guides if they are still months away then I will make some changes in the meantime.Thanks!
Hi Natalie - I'm glad others noticed that too! I really liked that curved theme design but never found it in the choices. I hope it gets released soon too.
Bonjour,
Il n'y a que chez moi où l'accès au thème prend des heures et des heures. 2 à 3 minutes pour charger la page... y'a plein de bug... et dès que je change un truc ca prend 3 minutes de chargement !!
C'est juste pas possible !!!
Where can I find the copy function after the update? see attachment.
Thank you in advance.The copy function is only from Articulate support version, not for users.
But i would really like to have such function, would make the setup of new users with correct templates a lot easier.
I was exploring the themes feature.
Please tell me, it is just me, and i just havent found - the one button reset to the original theme, the original course setup including the custom color, custom fonts and other previous course settings?
Please let it be so..Again have i missed something? The images that i add to the placeholders doesnt resize. or offer me an option to do so..
If this is the case, the placeholders have less functions then powerpoint...image placeholders...
To work with this new feature it would then be great to provide a list of image sizes and ratios that will work in the various image placeholders. That way we can prepare the images before uploading and maybe just do some minor adjustments. Also if you could provide PSD templates for this that would be good.
Even better / obvious would be to have the options of resizing in the placeholder edit.. in the image handing in rise. Cropping only goes so far..
It would be great if the placeholders could shift background color so that images that are created for the purpose of being used in these placeholders can either use transparency or the preset background color of choice.
But all this currently missing? functionality, boil down to that the whole point of Rise ease of use went out the window with this release. Much more image preparation to do on desktop/adobe photoshop etc.. to get it right, for each template!. And as i see it, there is really no need to have that issue with todays modern web image editing basic toolbox that could be integrated. i was really happy when cropping was introduced. I expected that image editing trend to continue.
Maybe these world class designers didn't think this far in the first release, but i sure hope they rethink a lot of things for version2.
Im not sure i can motivate to stick by to see this topic progress over the course of years like in many other e-learning hygienic factor topics in the forum.
But i look forward to the next update what ever it might be, Whenever it might be.
Articulate decision making process have proven their releases can surprise even someone with 25+ years in the e-learning consultant and corporate training business. That in it self is not easy.Sorry to harp on but i find out as i try it out, various things i wasn't expecting from world-class designers.
Have any of the world class designers tried a white image background on the apex theme? To me, and i might be partial , but it looks like the image is broken. Slashed sideways into pieces.. Why is there no definition lines on the placeholder edges? Small gray lines or something , anything...maybe even an option to choose, color and how thick lines should be..?
Or is the mindset that one shouldn't use white background on images with themes?Images that dont resize in the various devices? At least what i see in preview for portrait and landscape, sent in a video to you.
With regards to the Compact menu, that is on "always on top" in landscape, thats fine as long as it doesn't interfere with the page content, which it will at some point since it is always on top and not very small. but worse, in portrait mode it changes to the left side bar and makes the content area pretty much useless? why? How that an expected behavior? Is this intended by the designers to be like this? I am spending about 5 minute trying this for each part and i can write a novel of the things i find to be mind boogling strange..
I have made similar designs in flash in sometime 2000.. but i used a smaller discretely pulsating circle that when clicked it shows the menu. Also the color would be nice to have inverted/highcontrast dynamically against its background content.
But i like the first step toward an always available menu, that i think also can be useful as a future glossary always available, type word/abbreviation/text reference tool.
