Saving Rise Source Files to Local Hard Drive

Precisely what I had to do with one of my clients in terms of transference. They were happy with the end product, not so happy about not being able to retain native source files.

My five cents.
Basically , reading this thread tells me,  every case here screams, break out Rise as a separate lower cost license. It is simply not feasible to ask clients to get a yearly license and use so little of the capacity bought and paid for. if you want the application Rise to take the role of powerpoint in businesses ( an expected applications standard everywhere..) then the business model of today will likely not make that happen.

The business model need to change as step 1. As step 2 the offline requirements need to be considered. meaning, Articulate need a small Rise desktop client that can securely handle the online files, offline. Free as part of the Rise package.

Couldn't agree more. Just lost two prospects because of this. It's killing Articulate's good reputation. Rise's usefulness is being seriously compromised. Sort this out & you'll keep customers; don't & you'll see a drift away I'm afraid.

Has there been any updates on this?   I am hired as a contractor for a university and I currently use RISE to design courses.  However it would be nice that I could save a copy of the SOURCE files somewhere so that if someone else needs to update/modify the file they are able to do so.  At least with Storyline 360 you can do so but unfortunately RISE does not have a local file that everything gets saved to.  Any update would be great.  Thanks.

Any update on whether or not you can save source files from RISE locally?  It seems like a request that many users would like to see.  Hopefully the smart guys & girls at Articulate make it happen.

Hi Layton!

Right now, we don't have plans for adding a source file feature to Rise 360.

That being said, don't worry about losing your content if you leave your current Rise 360 team. The admin of your team will have the option to reassign all your courses to another team member before you leave. 

In addition, be sure to check out our recommendations for freelancers working with Articulate 360 teams!

I'll add another voice into the mix.  We switched to Articulate 360 last year, and have been using Rise 360 a lot in the past few months.  A few weeks ago, one of our Rise courses mysteriously disappeared - the published content was gone, resulting in a 'Hmmm, we can't find what you're looking for' message to the user, who reported it to us.  When we viewed the link, it was gone - and when we went to re-publish, we found the source file was also missing.  

Articulate Support was unable to locate the source file and insisted that we must have deleted it - which we didn't.  The course had been stable and working from December, had not been modified or updated, none of my team had touched it.  Yet it was gone.  Because nothing was stored locally or backed up, we didn't even have the published version to refer to - we had to re-create the entire module from scratch.

Obviously this had made me extremely motivated to not only backup all of my content, but to deliver it from our own servers and not through Articulate servers.  If I can't depend on the content being stable, and if files are just going to disappear and I can't back them up, it's not a reliable solution for us.

So... what exactly is Articulate suggesting that I do?  Send a copy of every file to myself, and manage the duplicates?  I hope you realize this isn't a viable solution.  We need a way to store and/or backup our content.  Make it editable only through a valid Rise 360 subscription, for sure - but if you can't guarantee that my content is stable, especially if you can't recover something that has disappeared (for whatever reason), you need to provide me with a way to back it up and store it on my own server.

Hello, has there been update on this new feature to save Rise files on a localized hard drive for future editing instead of editing on the cloud?

Hi Meenu,

Because Rise 360 is cloud-based, all course editing is done online. There isn't a way to download a course for offline edits. 

I don't think anyone here is requesting offline editing.  What we're asking for is CONTROL of our own intellectual property, so that it can be passed along to clients or to our successors if we move on.  I have a repository (on our own servers, with our own security) of all of my authored content.  When I move on, someone else will gain access to that repository.

No one here is asking for the keys to the kingdom.  We're asking for a source file that WE can store locally, so that WE are responsible for its security, so that WE always know where to find it and can send it on to a client at the end of a contract or can pass it to our successor in a way that WE think makes sense.  If that file then has to be edited in the cloud with a valid Rise 360 subscription, that's fine - it's no different than my successor having to buy the software used to create any other initial file.  But not to allow us to control our own intellectual property is clearly a problem for a lot of us, and will result in us not utilizing Rise 360 (however useful a product it may be).  

I want to store all of my content in ONE place, so no one has to wonder where it is.  ALL OF IT.  And I want my security people to control who sees it, and who can edit it.  How it gets edited depends on the type of file - and a Rise 360 file which is only editable with a valid subscription is absolutely fine with me.