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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 ...
For professional content development it appears that with your current model, Rise is not an option that can be used in most enterprise or even academic scenarios.
Apart from obvious legal or regulatory reasons that may require keeping source files offline, there is also the issue of the ability to edit something that you have “archived” at a later time.
Example: a client requests development of courses. Courses are created and delivered in the desired published format. In most scenarios the client requests-expects the source files to archive. The developer also keeps a backup for any future updates – changes (educational content is not a static thing...).
Then a year later the need arises to edit one of the courses. Unless there exists somehow the option to “upload” these source files to the editing environment in order to work with them, any “archiving option” is useless.
It seems that now, Rise “source files” are required to exist only within the active subscription. Even assuming that the developer maintains an active subscription every year (regardless of actual demand for work) it is not realistic to expect the client to also keep an active subscription just for storing the “source files” for a project.
In reality, this has stopped us dead for proposing Rise as a development option in a lot of cases that it would otherwise really make sense.
Unfortunately SImeon you are completely on point regarding this. I definitely wish I had looked more into RISE before I proposed it to my enterprise level clients, but I did, and they loved it and now we have this problem. Justin provided an answer, it's just not the answer upper management wants to hear; they simply will not buy off on the current solution. Alternatively, I've had to re-develop courses using other applications while "mimicking" many of the interactions and look and feel they liked about RISE. So far, so good.
Hi James,
Would you mind sharing with the group what alternative applications you've been utilizing to mimic Rise interactions/blocks?
When we're not able to use RISE to develop a particular course (because of variables iterated quite well by Simeon and Glen above) our team has made use of WordPress and various add-ons, Elucidat (for more in-depth branching scenario buildouts), and Docebo's (LMS) content creator (which is probably the most similar to Rise I've seen yet, but proprietary/locked to their LMS).
Thanks!
