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.
135 Replies
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.
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.
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.
As Dan mentions, only the course owner can change the course settings, including theme, navigation mode, and collaborators. We've made updates in this user guide on how to collaborate with other authors.
Thanks for sharing your feedback on the impact to your collaboration workflow. If we make any changes, I'll share here!
Echoing what others have already posted regarding removing Theme settings from Course Managers. This presents a real issue for organizations that have delegated course development to the manager role. Please explain Articulate' s thinking on this change which - as mentioned by others - creates an immediate workflow problem for orgs using this model. Please consider resolving as soon as possible.
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!
Thank you again, folks, for your honest feedback. We've made changes to the cover image behavior that was released with the new Theme features.
Course cards on your dashboard will reflect the option you've selected for your cover page layout. We've also removed the cover image from the outline when editing your course.
This means that if you've selected an option without an image, you won't see any cover image we've suggested on your course cards. I hope this helps, and we'll keep you posted on any changes to collaborators' permissions.
Please let us know how the Theme features are working out for you!
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.
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.
