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Saving Rise Source Files to Local Hard Drive
Hi
Currently it does not seem possible to save the Rise source files to one's local machine. As we plan do develop some modules in Rise for clients, we would need to send them the source files if ...
Please count one more voice clamoring for the ability to save a local source file! I work on a team of administrators supporting a team of instructional designers in a heavily regulated industry, and we're just looking into Rise as it really makes for elegant learning materials. We're looking at developing more using Rise as opposed to Storyline, however the cloud-based structure of Rise does give us pause.
The big questions for us are: What do we do when a regulator requests all of our training materials post-incident? How do we track and control versions? The PDF feature seems like a good fit for tracking versions (make a course, PDF it, file it; revise a course, PDF the new version, archive that, etc.), and the ability to create preview links just like we do in Storyline 360 should enable us to let a regulator view the course nearly in situ. I guess we could 'Create a Copy' every time we want to revise the course so that each version would be distinct and accessible at a later date to fit this function. I'm not sure managing some 1500+ courses in the Rise home page is going to be as effective (or fun!) as our in-house filing system, however it seems there's enough noise being generated in favor of a downloadable source file feature that we will likely be able to get the best of both worlds soon enough.
Glen, you hit on an important aspect – version control and managing a large number of courses in the Rise homepage. It’s one thing to have 10-20 courses, quite another to have 100+ with different versions. It’d be great if we could keep only the current versions in Rise, while downloading an offline copy of past versions for our records and to be accessible at a later date if needed.
