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

KristenSchmidt
Community Member
7 years ago
This made my day. You guys rock.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Diane,

Can you try exporting again? We had a release to Rise moments ago that should have fixed this up!
MichaelHinze
Community Member
7 years ago
I tried to export two different courses. In both cases, the export never completes. All I get is the spinning progress indicator.
WendyFarmer
Super Hero
7 years ago
Hi Michael

It's working - I just tested with a 24 Lesson Rise course and it took 25 seconds to export (34MB).
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Michael,

Do you have a lot of images in your course? I know I ran into a similar issue last week, that our team is looking into, where a course which had upwards of 30 high quality, detailed images and it would freeze the export to PDF.

If you think that matches what you're seeing, let me know and I can send details on how to share your Rise course with me to confirm.
- MichaelHinze
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Yes, the two courses I exported had about 70 pics each. I don't really need the pdf output. I just wanted to try it out and it didn't work as expected.
ChetHertz
Community Member
7 years ago
Impressive stuff -- thank you Articulate!
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Yup, that'll do it! Thanks for sharing though, as it's good to know it wasn't just the one previous course with a lot of images.

We've got this filed with our team, so we'll post here once we have more info!
ellaholst-7b334
Community Member
7 years ago
I exported a course to a PDF and I'm seeing inconsistent font sizes in the PDF, even though the text in the course is all the same size. Attachment 1 shows different font sizes for section headings on the same page. Attachment two shows two content pages side by side. The second page text is much larger than the first page. Any idea what's causing this? Again, it's all the same size in RISE
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Ella,

Thanks for the images, and I was curious if you could also let me know what lesson types each of these pages are? Also, if you're able to share a copy of your Rise course with us, please let me know! You can reach out to our Support team and they'll share directions on how to send them a copy.
- ellaholst-7b334
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  These are all blocks. I'll reach out to support. Thanks!
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LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
7 years ago
Thanks for reaching out to the support team Ella! You should be hearing from someone soon.