Reusing images from content library throughout a Rise Course

Hi Patty,

Good News !!  When in Storyline, search Content Library photos under "Meeting Handshake" and you will find your image in the eighth row of page one (copy attached):

Hopefully this has got your day off to a good start !

Thanks so much! Definitely made my day!

Just checking back on this because I've spent almost an hour trying to relocate Content Library images I already used. Are you any closer to improving the image search?

I'm in the same boat. Entered a feature request.

This happens to me all the time.  One thing I have found very helpful is to use Pixabay to search for images. I am pretty sure that RISE 360 is using the pixabay image library.

I find searching on Pixabay is quicker and you can see both photos and illustrations at the same time.

When i find the image in pixabay I can also see the key words that have been linked with the image.  This helps me to dig out the image directly on RISE 360 or i can download the image from Pixabay and upload directly

This would be an amazing enhancement... I can't tell you how much time this would save if we could copy one image to another course. I swear my search term was "Restart computer" when I found my first image and now I've done searches for Laptop, PC, Restart, etc. and it has disappeared on me :)  

Any updates on this? I need to reuse a whole bunch of images from an old course and trying to find them is a pain.

Block templates won't work cause I need to get them into a different kind of block. Reverse image searching through TinEye doesn't yield good results and searching different stock libraries is very time-consuming. I might need to resort to saving them individually but was hoping to avoid any loss in quality from smaller images.

It would be really helpful to have some kind of unique identifier saved as part of the file name so it's not just "stock-image.jpg" - like the identifier the original stock library uses. Even if different libraries use the same identifier, at least that would narrow it down to a few images.

Thanks for adding your voice here, Lea!  We don't have this in our roadmap right now, but if ever we release a feature that will help, we'll be sure to share an update here.

In the meantime, if you need to reuse images from an old course, please try the following steps:

1. Open your course from your Rise 360 dashboard. 
2. Export your course for web. 
3. Extract the zip file, and open the content > assets folder. You should see all of your media there. 

Thanks to all for helpful workarounds! This is a serous problem. I've often come across photos (while searching for something different) that will work great with parts of our course that we haven't even started to build. Saving them to my hard drive will save a lot of time. I strongly suggest that Articulate consider improving the image search engine. From what I've seen so far, the Content Library is almost entirely useless when a search term returns completely useless images. Using the search term "boys" should not return a bunch of girls trying to look sexy. And adding additional search terms to find a particular age group, for example, does not improve the search results. Having a large database of images is useless if users can't find the images they need in a reasonable amount of time.

Hi Michelle!

The example and feedback you gave are valuable, so thank you for sharing your experience. Our image search results are populated based on how well your search terms match tags that our content providers use on each of their images. I'll bring this up with our team so we can continue to refine the search process, and will keep you posted with any new information.

In the meantime, my colleague Trina offers some great time-saving tips for using Content Library here. She also recommends:

Start with a little word association since one word can mean a lot of different things. Let's say I need a picture of someone falling for a workplace safety course. If I search "fall," I end up with lots of images of waterfalls and fall foliage. But if I search for a related term like "safety," I’m more likely to find something that works.

It can also help to think contextually to broaden your image options. Instead of searching for "boss" or "businessman," I might search for environments or situations where you’d find those types of people. I've found that the results of this approach are relevant to my course and also help me convey the right feeling for my content.

If there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!