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Q&A: New Content Formats — Guides, Decks, Interactive Video, & Scenarios
Using Articulate 360 AI, you can generate guides, training decks, interactive videos, and scenarios, giving you more options for turning your expertise and source material into the right format for the moment.
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Explore the documentation for each of the new formats:
- Guides: Articulate 360 AI: Generating a Guide
- Training Decks: Articulate 360 AI: Generating a Training Deck
- Interactive Video: Articulate 360 AI: Generating an Interactive Video
- Scenario: Articulate 360 AI: Generating a Scenario
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I’m Eric, and I’ll be answering your questions about new content formats. I work on our Customer Happiness team supporting the E-Learning Heroes community, and I'm excited to see how you all put these new formats to use in your own courses and training.
I’ll be joined by Rachael_Silvano and Liam_Eagen, who will also jump into the conversation and share their expertise.
💬 What are your questions about the new content formats? Ask them in the comments below.
For account-specific questions or technical troubleshooting, our Support team is the best place to get help: Contact Support.
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You need to make it clearer that these are 'paid' features. Purchasing AI Assistant doesn't give you these tools for free, they use credits every time you use them. I'm reluctant to use as a consequence.
Hey there! Thanks for the comment. These new format types are included with your Articulate subscription and do not use credits!
Credits are only consumed when content is translated, when AI Avatars are created, or when someone without an Articulate 360 AI seat creates via Frontline.
Hope this helps!
Rise already has a Scenario block, what's the difference with the AI Scenario tool?
Great question, HVfb0f498d-053b! While both let you build branching, interactive conversations, they work quite differently under the hood.
Scenario (classic) is fully manual: you build every scene, dialogue exchange, and branch yourself, choosing from a library of photographic characters and backgrounds.
The new Scenario format starts from a prompt and your own source material, drafting a complete branching scenario for you, including scenes, dialogue, decision points, and feedback, which you can then edit and fine-tune. It also opens up more character options (photorealistic, illustrated, or ones you create yourself), lets you choose between a chat-style or character-photo experience, and includes built-in scoring based on how learners navigate the choices.
So think of it less as a replacement and more as a faster starting point. The new Scenario format gets you a working draft in minutes that you can then customize using many of the same building blocks you're already used to.
Let us know if any other questions come up as you're exploring the new formats.
Love the new AI Scenario interface - WAY easier to build and see how things are connected. Is there a way to pull the new AI Scenario into a Rise course?
Very exciting new features. I really love the interactive videos!
Quick question: How can I translate the interactive videos if I don't want to use the built-in translation feature? Is it possible to export the interactive blocks via an XLF file?
We already have the videos translated, so we would only need the interactive pop-ups and instructions to be translated.
We also use our own in-house translation tool and cannot use any third-party translation services. Therefore, we would need a way to export the translations, ideally in XLF or Word format.
Hi Dominik1,
Thanks for the detail here, that's really helpful context.
For Interactive Video, the translation layer covers the chapters and checkpoints, in other words all the interactive text and instructions. The source video audio itself isn't touched, so that lines up well with your setup since you've already got the video translated separately.
I want to make sure I get you the right answer on the export side rather than guess, since Interactive Video is a newer format and I'm not certain the manual XLIFF export/import process works the same way it does for classic Rise courses. Let me confirm with our Localization team whether that's supported for Interactive Video specifically, and I'll follow up here once I know for sure.
Hi Dominik1, following up here.
I heard back, and XLIFF export isn't currently supported for Interactive Video or the other new formats, that manual export/import process is specific to classic Rise and Storyline courses. So at this time, there isn't a way to export just the checkpoint and pop-up text for translation outside the built-in tool.
I know that's not the answer you were hoping for given you can't use third-party translation services either. I don't have a workaround to offer right now, but this is worth us tracking internally as a need.
Hi EricSantos,
Thank you for your swift reply and for double-checking with the translation team. It would be great if you could raise this as a feature request, as we are probably not the only organization with specific translation requirements.
Our translation tool does not need to be integrated directly with Articulate. It can already handle the XLF files used by both Rise and Storyline. Our IT team has built a custom integration between our translation tool and the XLF format. We rely on this solution because it is trained on our company terminology, brand language, and tone of voice. It is used globally across all departments to ensure the highest possible translation quality and consistency.
Without the ability to export content for translation, the value of these otherwise very exciting new features is unfortunately limited for us to a minimum. Another example, I have rarely used Rise since its introduction in 2016, as the standard version still does not support right-to-left languages. RTL support is only available through the paid translation service. We can use workarounds, but they are not perfect to make RTL work.
For videos, we have already moved to another provider that allows us to export translations and work with our preferred translation process.
Thanks again for considering this request.
Love all the new pieces and parts, but my question is will they ever be available together? If I want to create a course and add the new scenario options plus maybe have an activity with steps by steps using the guide option or add an interactive video, will I ever be able to add those as blocks inside of a course?
Great question, BelleHabs, and you're in good company. A few others have asked something similar!
Right now, each of these new formats (Guides, Training Decks, Interactive Video, Scenarios) is built as its own standalone piece of content rather than something you can drop in as a block inside an existing Rise course. So creating a single course that combines a Scenario, a Guide, and an Interactive Video together as blocks isn't something you can do today.
As Liam_Eagen mentioned above, this isn't available yet, but it's something the team is planning to make possible!
Thanks for adding your use case to the conversation!
I second this comment - the interactive video is great, but it needs to be able to be placed into other courses. Since I build multiple videos in one course, unfortunately it isn't very useful at this time.
Thanks for adding your voice here, EpicEdward. Your use case (multiple videos in one course) really highlights why this limitation matters.
As mentioned above to others asking the same thing, Interactive Video is still standalone right now, so it can't be placed into other courses today. Not available yet, but it's something the team is actively planning to make possible.
Appreciate you flagging this!
We have 3 Articulate licences (team members). Is there a way we can all see how many credits we have consumed? with the admin seeing them for all accounts?
Also, what is this account which has appeared: Omniplex Articulate Purchases, ([email protected])
Hi HVfb0f498d-053b,
Great question, and glad you're thinking ahead here!
Right now, credit balance and usage visibility is an admin-only view. Admins can see the full balance and transaction history in Account Management, so if one of your three teammates is set up as an admin on the subscription, they'd be the one with that centralized visibility across the team. Individual seat holders can see when a specific action is about to use credits, but they don't get a running balance or usage history themselves. You can see more on how this works on our pricing page.
If you want tighter control beyond just visibility, admins can also set monthly spending limits at the group level, so that's worth exploring if you want to manage how credits get used across your three seats.
On the second part of your message, about the "Omniplex Articulate Purchases" account, that's an account-specific question I'd want our Support team to look into directly rather than guess at here. If you haven't already, reaching out to Support with your account details would be the fastest way to get clarity on that.
Let us know if anything else comes up!
Hey there! I love the new AI Interactive Video feature. Is there a way to lock the seekbar to prevent a user from skipping all touchpoints and knowledge checks? I see that there is a way to "require interaction" which only seems to work when watching the video in its entirety.
Thanks for flagging this, MatthewWeeden , and glad you're finding Interactive Video useful otherwise!
What you're describing lines up with a known issue on our end. The seekbar restriction tied to "Required interactions" isn't fully enforced right now, so dragging the seekbar forward can bypass a checkpoint even when that setting is turned on. This isn't expected behavior, and it's being tracked.
I don't have a workaround to offer at the moment, but I wanted to be upfront rather than leave you guessing.
Appreciate you taking the time to report it!
Question regarding the new Guides feature: I've imported a video and made a guide, and I have about 40 more videos I need to import and turn into more Guides. Then I need all of those guides to live inside of ONE Rise course link....Does this functionality exist? I couldn't find a way to move a guide into a Rise course, and didn't see any way to copy the Guide features like you would by creating a block template.
Great question, JenniferSweeney, and thanks for sharing the scale of what you're working on, that's helpful context!
Right now, Guides are built as their own standalone piece of content rather than something you can drop into an existing Rise course as a block, so there isn't a way to move a Guide into a Rise course or combine multiple Guides under one course link today. That also means there isn't a block-template-style option for reusing Guide settings across your 40 videos the way you might expect from Rise blocks.
I know that's a significant limitation given what you're trying to build, consolidating dozens of Guides under one course link is a substantial workflow. This isn't available yet, but it's something the team is actively planning to make possible.
In the meantime, if you need everything under one shareable link today, building this out in a Rise course using existing blocks (like the Video block) would be the workaround, though I know that doesn't give you the Guide-specific experience you're going for.
Appreciate you laying out your use case in detail, it helps to have that context!
I think making interactive videos and guides into blocks within Rise would be huge - probably should be at the top of the list for updates.
One of my colleagues has created an AI Avatar video inside a custom block. Is it possible to reuse the same video inside another block e.g. a Multimedia > Video block.
Also can you add a transcript button so users can see the entire script in one hit.
Hi HVfb0f498d-053b,
Happy to help with both of these!
On reusing the AI Avatar video, there isn't a direct way to copy it straight into another block type, but your colleague can get there in a couple of extra steps. From the custom block, click play on the avatar video, then click the Download icon that appears in the lower-right corner (more detail here). Once downloaded, that video file can be uploaded into a Multimedia > Video block like any other video.
On the transcript button, that's a fair ask, being able to scan the full script at once instead of following along in real time would genuinely make reviewing content faster. That's not something we have today. AI Avatar videos currently only offer auto-generated closed captions synced to playback, with no standalone full-text view. Out of curiosity, are you picturing this more for reviewing/editing the script while building the course, or as something learners could access while watching the finished video?
The transcript serves both the purposes you mention, for the author and the learners. I'll copy and paste the script text into an accordion block and place underneath.
- Is it possible to use/embed an interactive video inside a Rise course? I've published to Review 360 but it doesn't show up when I insert a Storyline block and browse.
- Can the date in the header be removed, edited or the colour changed? Grey text on a purple background is unreadable.
- Can the lesson preview top heading be switched on/off?
Hi HVfb0f498d-053b, thanks for laying all this out!
On embedding an Interactive Video in a Rise course, that's why it's not showing up when you browse via the Storyline block, that browse feature is specifically built to pull in published Storyline projects through Review 360, not Interactive Video content. Right now, Interactive Video is still a standalone format that can't be embedded in a Rise course, same limitation others have flagged above.
On the header, you're right, that's not just a preference thing, that's a real contrast problem. This is a known issue on our end tied to Interactive Video's header theming, and it's being tracked. I don't have a fix timeline to share, but wanted to confirm you're not missing a setting somewhere, this one's on us.
On the lesson preview top heading toggle, I don't have a confirmed answer for you on whether that's adjustable for Interactive Video specifically. Let me look into that further and follow up here.
Hi HVfb0f498d-053b, following up on this one.
On the lesson preview top heading toggle, I can confirm there isn't a Hide Lesson Headers option for Interactive Video today. Under Theme > Header, the only controls available are Image and Layouts, no toggle to remove the heading entirely.
Out of curiosity, what's driving the want to hide it, are you going for more consistency across the different formats you're using, wanting more screen space for the content itself, or something else? That context would help us understand what you're actually trying to achieve.
- Is it possible to use/embed an interactive video inside a Rise course? I've published to Review 360 but it doesn't show up when I insert a Storyline block and browse.
