Today we released a new feature in Rise that I think you’ll appreciate—especially those of you who work in highly regulated industries! Now you can export your Rise courses as PDF files for easy printing and meeting regulatory requirements. Watch this quick video to learn more:

I’ve made the PDF available to learners by simply adding a block lesson “download course” and inserting the PDF as a “multimedia” file attachment.

Helpful, but less so since collaborators still cannot export ANYTHING...only the Rise course owner can currently perform an export. We need more granular control so the course owner can authorize collaborators (globally and/or individual course) to do certain tasks (e.g., export to LMS, web, PDF; post to Review, send Share link, etc.). Let the course owner (rather than Articulate) decide how course workflow should be handled!

Really pleased you've introduced this feature. Thanks so much! One suggestion for future improvement is to include the feedback for any multiple choice / multiple response questions, as the PDF version doesn't appear to give an indication of the correct answer(s) nor the feedback given. But otherwise, it's great.

Thanks for clarifying, Ashley. I can see why the correct answers and feedback aren't included if the target audience is the learner. But sometimes our stakeholders want a printed copy as part of the development process, and so it would be helpful if we could choose to include the feedback answers when exporting to PDF.

Hi Ann and Christine, When you export a Rise to PDF, there are certain changes we have to make for interactivity. They're detailed here: Here’s how the interactive parts of your Rise course appear in the PDF file: Hyperlinks work as expected and launch in your default web browser. Audio clips, videos, and web objects become static placeholder images. Interactions, such as labeled graphics and tabs, become a series of screenshots, one for each item in the interaction. (Each flashcard becomes two screenshots, one for the front and another for the back.) A Storyline block becomes a screenshot of the first slide in the project. Quiz lessons and knowledge check blocks display questions and answer choices. They don’t show correct/incorrect responses or feedback statements. The issue that Sumi mentioned was something our team also spotted last night where the Next function to another lesson was missing, and it was fixed up! Let us know if you're still spotting it!

New Rise Feature: Export as PDF | Articulate

AlexMiller
Community Member
7 years ago
awesome. thanks!
CamSymes
Community Member
7 years ago
Thanks so much guys! Loving the feature. However we are not able to use it today. No courses will export as PDF. The msg is:

Something went wrong
There was an error exporting your course. Please try again

Thanks!
- AshleyT-Pollard
  Staff
  7 years ago
  Hi Smart,
  
  Were you able to use it prior to today, or today is the first time you've tried it and it's not working?
  
  I was able to successfully export a course I had handy this AM. If yours still isn't working, can you tell me what browser you're trying to export from? I used Chrome/Mac, but you can use any of the browsers detailed here.
  - CamSymes
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Hey Ashley,
    
    I was previously able to download and tried the feature on Thursday and
    Friday with no issues.
    
    I have tried both Chrome and Safari on Mac and I get the same error:
    
    Thanks!
SimonSmith-db99
Community Member
7 years ago
This is great, I would rather have had xliff translation added though. Any idea when this will be?
- AshleyT-Pollard
  Staff
  7 years ago
  Hi Simon,
  
  This is still on our list, so we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.
JoyKlitzke
Community Member
7 years ago
So this is pretty cool... can it be disabled if the course includes some content we don't want to allow for download? :)
CaronNewman
Community Member
7 years ago
This is really great news - thanks for making the effort to deliver this functionality. In future updates please consider the metadata with graphics as blind screen readers use this information.
CarlaSegurola-5
Community Member
7 years ago
Thanks for releasing this. For the next version, can you have it so you can select which parts of the course you want to export to .pdf? I recently got a request to include a downloadable copy of one section of my course (a FAQ section using the accordion style feature) and it would be great to have the option to just convert one section to .pdf. Thanks!
BlairParkin-f3e
Community Member
7 years ago
This is a great feature and very useful for making a job aid from a course.

Two requests:

ability to choose what sections/lessons are included in the PDF

Flash Cards/FAQs are breaking across pages making it hard to read. Also doesn't show all of the text if it has a scroll bar
Ronny-Salmeron
Community Member
7 years ago
Excellent feature release, thank you.
CamillaSmith-99
Community Member
7 years ago
"Finally ... it's happen' to me... "

Oh wait. That's a song.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (I could go on...)
CarlaSegurola-5
Community Member
7 years ago
There are still some bugs to be worked out. The .pdf squashes together words, which doesn't always work out well. For example, look what happened to the word 'affiliated'.
- CarlaSegurola-5
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  This problem seems to be whenever there is a double f.