This should be easy right? Import .Articulate presenter 360 into Rise?

Yeah, I hear you.

In an ideal world, there'd be an easy solution to do some sort of straight import. But assume you have a slide with decorative elements like shapes and images, and the slide content has an image, a video, text in various boxes some using templates, some free floating. Some text is header text, some is body. Perhaps there's text that identifies an onscreen object. The slide uses a master slide with it's own content (but that is all still part of what would be seen on the slide)

So you have all of these individual objects. Rise is based on content blocks. Where do the objects get assigned. Rise doesn't know the context of the object. At some point, the author would have to look at the objects and determine whether they should go to Rise and what type of block they go into. If it was all automated, you'd have a bunch of gibberish and waste a lot of time copying and pasting, deleting and moving things around.

One of the things I've tested internally with the AI in Rise is using the PPT source file to rebuild the course. It's not a one for one, but once you have source content, you can being to create a new course pulling from the content in PPT. In that sense, it save a lot of the copy/paste and the content isn't dictated by the PPT layouts. 

Bringing Storyline files into Rise as blocks, also means that they will never be editable within Rise. All editing will need to take place in Storyline, and then re-imported into Rise. 

PowerPoint and Storyline for that matter are slide based and authored in a freeform environment. Rise is formed based with very specific content blocks. The challenge with an import would be to look at every piece of content and then determine what type of block it should be assigned.

The easiest solution is to think about how you want you slide content to look in Rise.

• What is a slide equal to
  • Slide = lesson
  • Slide = content in a lesson that would hold multiple slides divided by a continue button
• There's no getting around the copy/paste but if you determine the points above, you can create lesson templates and then you're pasting into things you've already determined.
• I'd also unzip the pptx file and extra the media folder and that will give you all of the media in your PowerPoint so it's easier to upload and insert where you need it.

Another option is to save your ppt slides as images and then you can easily upload all of those images into image blocks or the carousel.

 I converted a PowerPoint into one image per slide.

I then added these images to Rise as image blocks. 

While it worked well, maintenance is now a real pain.

I recommend taking the time to convert your PowerPoint to actual Rise blocks. 

Karl this is a stopgap measure that if I get even more desperate I'll look at. thanks.

Tom I can only imagine what companies have have tons and tons of legacy content that they need to get quickly into rise -- what they have to go through.  But I"ve been an Articulate user since 2011 and there are no surprises here. Millions of dollars of wasted time.  Just start over is essentially the answer.  I realize you didn't write the program, you're the Godfather in here. I remember your posts from back in the day