Is there a feature in Rise to add a popup text box? I would like the ability to click on text to provide further information to users. Does Rise have that capability?

+1 (again, 10 months ago) on this feature. This thread is a great example of something that has been on my mind. Full disclosure: I apologize in advance for the outlook on my long comment. I hope it is perceived with positive intention. As a fellow customer, with a deep appreciation for the Articulate platform of products and its active community of users... I'm a little disappointed that a community request such as this from two years ago (with incredible traction of interest, comments, and even a temporary workaround provided by a community member/existing customer) has not elevated the priority for this feature to be implemented by Articulate's development team. Meanwhile, there are other requested features shared within the community forum that also seems to be ignored. For an active community of users, willing to be transparent and vulnerable about their product interests, a "Thanks, we'll keep this in mind." or "We'll keep you posted." or "Check the What's New webpage for future releases." time and time again from post moderators or community admins becomes cliche. These replies have simply become "We see your comment". I believe that if users are going as far as to build "workarounds" for each other, 1. that's an incredible reflection of the community Articulate has helped establish, and, I am so very fortunate to be supported by such fellow users, and 2. the community moderators or admins should be equally as transparent in revealing the priorities of the Articulate development team. I do understand there is a timeline of "What's New": https://articulate.com/360/whats-new. However, these are new features already chosen to be released and marketed. Side note: Personally, expressing displeasure without an effort to provide a solution is simply complaining. Complaining is not my goal. I'd like to offer a few suggestions as to potential solutions to my aforementioned pain points: Offer the Articulate community of registered users/current customers a transparent voting platform for the most requested features... perhaps per product, such as Rise. (Milanote has a great poll example: https://milanote.com/poll) Provide extended insight on the polling platform as to how the Articulate development team prioritizes its feature requests. Articulate users should be aware that any company has finite resources–in time, talent and treasure (operating expenses). Any great SAAS company works to enhance its value to new and existing customers (value propositions) while carefully ensuring there are no sacrifices made to the current user base or the functionality of its established products. Features do take time and resources to build, test/measure and adopt. Everyone's comments on this thread are so incredibly valuable. And I find that there are so many other great feature requests in other posts that deserve organized attention and transparent response. Wouldn't it be great to see them in aggregate as a community? An upvoting system derived from specific forum threads (e.g. for each Articulate product) may be the answer. Whether it's voicing support, hesitation, or assisting others with a workaround, I hope that we can continue to come together as a community to improve how we can collaborate with Articulate and its amazing product offerings. I look forward to reading anyone's additional comments!

I'd like to chime in with a request for this. Currently, I make text appear as if it is a link but then include a Note block nearby and highlight the term. The problem is that it is abrupt and disturbs the flow of the content. It would be ideal to have a rollover pop up that appears only when the user hovers over marked text. (Pls see attachment)

Yes, and I have used it for other things. The issue I am having is I have terms in my content (text blocks) that we want to add definitions to; so if someone doesn't know what the term means while they are taking the training, they can hover over or click on the word and get the definition.

An interim solution, provided you don't have pages and pages of text to work through, is to use Storyline to build up your pop-up definitions and then use Storyline blocks in your Rise course. Here is an example with SL file attached. Each selected word has a filled rectangle over the top of it, set to maximum transparency and a new layer with the definition and a yellow underline for the word appears when the user hovers over the associated rectangle.

I am a long term user of Storyline, but trying to work with Rise and I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be any functionality for pop up text boxes. Especially seeing there's been an ongoing list of requests for it for 5+ years! Is there any news that it's on the horizon?

Rise - adding popup text box | Articulate

LeanneMadjidi
Community Member
5 years ago
Please add me to this list. This would be so useful for definitions and new terminology!
EthanCayko
Community Member
5 years ago
I am currently testing Rise and the rest of the Articulate 360 products to potentially use them at my organization and the lack of this particular feature is disappointing. We regularly include vocabulary terms in the text content of a lesson and having the ability to tap that term to see a definition pop up (and then tap anywhere else on the screen to close it) is a high priority. Seeing this as a potential feature addition to Rise would be a major selling point for us.
CarolynSiccama
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 for me, too. Looking back over the comments from the past few years, wondering if this feature has been added yet and/or a nice, easy work around identified?

This would provide a beneficial way for learners to get more information/definitions of key terms in context without having to navigate elsewhere to look up a specific word/term.

thank you.
EvelienSchil692
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 for me as well! This would really be a great addition from an educational perspective. People who already know the term can ignore the pop up and the ones who do not can click on it.

Right now I have to define each term, which may bore some of the more advanced learners. Would really love for this feature to be added to the roadmap! :)
EmeeErmel
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 for me...just received multiple requests on this functionality within a few days and we're trying to find a workaround.

Our only interim solution right now involves too much clicking and moving away from the section people are viewing...flipping back and forth between a glossary and the main text is not ideal. We've tried taking images of the text and adding the interactive pop ups over it, but those extra buttons inhibit you from seeing the text in any meaningful way.

Would greatly appreciate adding this functionality!
SaadiqSamodi178
Community Member
4 years ago
Has there been any update on this functionality? The ability to hover over text
- AlyssaGomez
  Staff
  4 years ago
  No updates yet, Saadiq. Thanks for checking in!
TimRobinson-540
Community Member
4 years ago
It's been another year, but I would still really love to have a modal popup for term definitions. Thanks.
- marisaguber
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  +1 Looking for this! Any update, @Alyssa or any other staff monitoring?
  
  We're creating a slew of courses with lots of technical content. This feature is crucial!
  - hazelB
    Staff
    3 years ago
    Thanks for your interest in this feature! No updates yet, but we'll make sure to update this thread if we do make any changes.
KerryLarson
Community Member
3 years ago
+1
Susanne
Community Member
3 years ago
Yes please, same here! +1
OlgaKanapelka
Community Member
3 years ago
So sad to see this request has been so popular, yet it has not been acted upon. For my organization, this is a big concern and the reason why we will not be using Rise.