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.
Just a quick sketch what would be good as future options for "menu items, . one with menu (no need to see course name until clicked!) , one with glossary, should have different icons but i just did this to illustrate what i mean. This can probably be elaborated on for "other functionality layer" always on top of rise.
I hope this is received as well intended suggestions.From the compact menu ..but any menu applies..
Search button activation, reconsider the "close search" graphics (x) to be more finger friendly in mobile devices?Having done some testing with various themes, navigations and menus i dont find that the behavior when previewing the various types of theme elements is very predictable in the various devices. I am concerned if this is by intention.
The spectacular change between a compact version in landscape and portrait is simply unexpected. I would also say that in its current implementation, compact menus only really works in landscape orientation. Thats fine, but should be made clear in the instructions if that is what the designers intends. If not intended, then this is something that needs fixing asap.
It would be less then gentle feedback we would get if we released courses that used compact menus as it looks today in portrait mode. It would be embarrassing to stand by the message that the course "works in any device".My conclusion after testing themes in detail is that somebody simply missed to inform us, the customers, that we are very welcome to beta test the soon to be released function called "themes". Then it all makes sense. That i can join in on.
Anyone else having issues with the new theme update causing the course logo path to break once courses are loaded into your LMS?
For us, the theme logo displays fine in Rise and Review, but when we load the course into an LMS, the course logo path is broken. Looking for the logo in ../scormcontent/assets/rise/courses/.. which obviously doesn't exist in the published package.
This is obviously a serious issue for us. See attachments.Hi Nick, Yes I have had three instances of the logo link breaking. These are existing courses which I have made a minor change to the content and republished - not using the new themes and each time the logo link is broken.
Hello Nick and Gerry,
We released a fix earlier for course logos not making it to the published output. Republishing the affected courses should no longer result in the logos going missing.
Thanks you for your patience.Thanks for letting us know Michael :)
I posted a separate discussion 2 days ago, and submitted a support ticket (case number 03297262) on the 21st, have had no response so sharing the discussion link.
Hey, at least I'm not Rise 0.
Do custom colors carry over without the need to save it as a separate template? Previously they did. Thanks!
I like all the new options, but the option to add a logo seems to have been taken away.
Hi Stacey,
To add a logo, access your Course.
Select Theme.
Select Cover Page.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to where it says Logo.
Select Upload Logo.
Thanks! That is in a very odd spot!
While I'm pleased with the new options with themes, I'm now lamenting even more that there is still such inconsistency with which buttons and blocks have options to modify specific colors and text. I needed this more than new cover page layouts.
Our company's primary color is yellowy-orangey gold (#fdb913), which is great to draw attention but not so great for accessibility when Rise defaults buttons to be this color with white text. The contrast is too low. This also goes for hyperlinks and other text that Rise defaults to the accent color. Some I can manually change but a lot I can't.
Some of the new features help, but there are so many blocks that force the accent color without respect to how well it contrasts with the white background or white text, that I can't really use some of the new features without having a hodge podge of button styles and text colors, which just makes the less accessible stand out even more.
I can't find a simple way to get blocks to show in blank courses or course templates. I have read tons of articles and watched videos, but my courses don't seem editable. Blocks don't seem to appear on the Preview Page or the Edit option. There are no plus signs appearing on my pages. There are no options between content or paragraphs.
I can now find a way to add blocks under individual lessons, but no way to change the main page content or add blocks on the main page. I am new here, so I didn't see this topic duplicated, but I can't be sure. There also doesn't seem to be a way to adjust the spacing of the fonts.
What am I missing?
Hi there, Tandy. I'm sorry your post was buried a bit! I see that you opened a case with my team as well. If you're still having trouble, feel free to reply to Eric with a screenshot of what you're seeing.
What you said about blocks in individual lessons versus the course outline is accurate: Blocks are added within lessons. The course outline page is a table of contents for the lessons in your course, and you can't add individual blocks there.
