Rise 360's New "Update Content" Feature: My First Impressions ✨

I stumbled into a new beta feature in Rise 360 this morning during an early jam session, and I'm genuinely excited about it: Update Content, tucked behind the little pencil icon in the top right of the course editor. ✏️

Here's the pitch. You type what you want changed, and it updates text across your whole course or in specific lessons and blocks. No more clicking into every single lesson to fix one recurring typo or awkward phrase.

Why This Actually Matters

If you've built more than a couple of Rise courses, you know the drill. You finish a course, a SME flags that "utilize" should be "use" everywhere, or leadership wants a friendlier tone in the intro blocks, and suddenly you're clicking into every lesson and hitting Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F) to search for the phrase, one lesson at a time. It's not hard work, just tedious, repetitive work that eats time you'd rather spend on the parts of design that actually need your brain.

Update Content ships with four ready-made prompts to get you started:

• Find and replace terms — swap a word or phrase everywhere at once
• Change the tone — shift the whole course warmer, more formal, more concise, whatever you need
• Remove jargon — flag and simplify language that's tripping learners up
• Rewrite the first block — a quick way to punch up your opening without starting from scratch

And you're not limited to those. You can type your own instruction and it'll work across the course or a targeted section.

The Catch (For Now)

It's in beta, and Articulate is upfront about what it doesn't touch yet: closed captions, custom blocks, scenarios, and code blocks aren't supported. If your courses lean heavily on custom-built interactivity, that's a real gap.

But here's the thing: most of my day job courses at work don't actually use Code Blocks. Those show up much more in my eLearning Heroes challenge builds. So for the bulk of what I build professionally, this feature already covers nearly all my content. I'd still keep an eye on anything jargon or tone sensitive (compliance language, for instance) and give it a careful read after any automated pass, since the feature flags itself as needing that kind of double-check.

Where I See Myself Using This 🌟

Realistically, in my day job all the time. Standardizing terminology across a multi-lesson course, tightening tone after a stakeholder review, cleaning up jargon before a course goes live to a general audience... these are exactly the unglamorous edits that pile up at the end of a build. 

Having them handled in a few clicks instead of a manual sweep is the kind of small workflow win that adds up fast.

Now if only Articulate would bring this over to Storyline too. I checked, and it's Rise-exclusive for now, with no announced plans for Storyline yet, but the request has reportedly been passed along to the team. Here's hoping it makes the cut eventually! 🤞