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New Rise Feature: Export as PDF
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.
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Hi Irina,
Thanks for adding your voice here. The PDF Export was initially designed for authors who needed a "hard copy" of their Rise course for compliance or legal reasons.
It sounds like you're hoping to edit the output? Could you share more about that and how you'd edit in Word vs. editing in Adobe Acrobat? Is your final goal to have a PDF copy?
Hi, Ashley--with regard to Rise output PDFs for compliance purposes, has there been any movement on ensuring all text elements of a Rise course publish to PDF (including all flash card text, and headers of tabbed interactions, etc., per my examples of 4 months ago)? My clients understandably still don't want me to use Rise for any of their compliance courses until the PDF output includes at least all the text content shown in the course. Having images broken up over pages is awkward, and it would be great to fix that, but as I mentioned in my prior post, not having all the text elements present in the PDF is a show-stopper for compliance content.
I just received a request for another compliance course today, and would love to have some good news for my clients. As others have mentioned, the chief value of the PDF export is to be able to offer clients a hard copy version of the full course content with only a few clicks (and no editing in another software). Thanks for any updates you can share on this point!
Hi Andrew,
This is still an open issue with our team, so sadly I don't have an update to share at this point. As soon as we have more info, we'll be certain to let you know.
Dear Ashley,
I would prefer not to edit anything and use the export as a hard copy, we have a very high demand for that, thats a great and a very needed feature.
But the exported PDF cuts images (they are broken in the middle and split to two pages, this issue was already submitted in the forum of this community somewhere. We were advised to use some pdf editors for that but this is not possible. Do you have an ETA when exported PDF from Rise will resolve this issue?
Thank you very much!
Hi Libby,
You should be able to edit items like text size, images, and page break issues by editing the exported course in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I know there are also some free PDF editors available, so you may want to test a few of those if you don't have access to Adobe's version.
Dear Ashley,
I join Libby on this request: we would like to avoid the post processing time on the exported PDF files, as I assume the whole value of the Export Feature is to obtain the functional outcome fast. Otherwise the work amount on our side is comparable to copying everything in Word and editing there, saving PDF by ourselves :)DUH this is an obvious work around I hadn't even thought of! Will still take us a while (some have 200 questions...!) Thanks for the suggestion.
LOL - no worries Libby. When you have to update or edit that number of questions, it's easy to be overwhelmed. Hopefully, the PDF editing goes smoothly!
To Articulate staff: Here's another feature request: the ability to export the course in Word so we can edit/resize images and remove/edit the interactive blocks. Thanks!
Hi Libby!
While that's not currently on our roadmap of upcoming features, I can see how it would be handy! I'll share this with our team for consideration. Thanks for the idea!
Is it on the roadmap for it to export the answers in the quizzes? A massive task for us to create answer sheets.
Hi SibraPrasad,
When you export as a PDF it'll include the entire lesson.
If you need to export individual lessons, you could look at copying the lesson into a new course and exporting that version?
Hi Can we select only those lessons which i need to publish as PDF. That will help us to create customized PDF for a standards production environment where we can plan our lesson both for e-learning and class room training and published those PDF portion accordingly. Please add this feature to select only those lesson that we want to publish for a PDF output.
No problem!
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Hi Stacey,
This is a current feature request that we are tracking.
I will be happy to add this conversation to the report, which will also allow us to update you here when we can.
Awesome - thank you
Hi there,
My team will often have multiple contributors to a module. I noticed that I could not export one module to PDF because I wasn't the "owner" even though it was shared with me. Is there a way to add multiple people to a module's ownership/allow them to export, review, share, edit settings etc. I currently just see the Preview button on the top bar.
Hi everyone,
Exciting news! We've enhanced collaboration in Rise 360. Find out about different collaborator roles here. This update means collaborators will be able to export to PDF as well!
And this isn’t the only cool feature we released today! Check out our What’s New page for the full list. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. 🙂
