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Using AI Assistant in a Rise Course Template
NeilForrest-ea7 (and everyone else). Good questions.
First, let me clear up some confusion. The pre-release videos were based on earlier designs and some of what was shown has changed. This often happens with software development. We apologize for any confusion from the previous demos.
Looking at the released features, I recorded a demo where I walked through some source content and how I'd get started to build out the course. I start with an old OSHA ladder safety PowerPoint file and I changed all reference of ladder to zizbo to show that the AI is pulling from the PPT file and not generic ladder information.
Link to demo walkthrough.
Once you walk through the initial process with AI, you can go into a lesson and only work from source content to build all sorts of blocks. In my demo you'll see how easy it is.
A couple of other considerations:
- If you have imagery and whatnot in PPT, the AI won't extract those. However, I show how to quickly access all of the PPT media which will make it easy for you to insert into your course.
- You are the owner of the authoring process and can make the content anything you want. You can make it as instructionally sound as you want and add any objectives you need. The AI truly is only assisting the process and I think speeding up a lot of the block creation.
Also, check out some of the tutorials and videos we have in training to see what's there and how the features work. There's even a hands-on practice video.
Sorry, but I have been testing this extensively for the past 3 days and not getting anywhere near the same results. It would be useful if you also showed us by reference the PPT content. Also, pulling the information from the Notes section is also crucial as that is where the bulk of the information should be as that is the speaker notes where they explain more than what is on the slides. The slides should only be showing supporting text and images and be minimalist, as what the speaker is saying is more important. Dumping large amounts of text onto the slide is not the proper process for good slide design. Anyway, I copied and pasted the test from the notes onto the slide, just as a test anyway. I got the same structure prompts for the lesson sections, picked one and chose paragraph. The information did not use anything from the PPT. So maybe it might be useful to provide instructions on "Building a PPT to work in Articulate AI" or something similar. I also tried a Word doc and it pulled nothing from the word doc.
DarrenNash Regarding your Word docs and your tests, I'll have someone from support connect with you to figure out why it's not working for you as expected.
As far as my demo, I literally just opened an old PPT file I had and changed ladder to zizbo. That's it. Here's the PPT I used for the demo. https://a.cl.ly/yAueynYA
In general the more content you have the better, so I wouldn't rely on just the PowerPoint for the exact reason you mentioned. I'd also extract all the notes, easy to do in PowerPoint using the export or print feature or just copy and paste into a text document.
As far as template, I don't think you need one. Just get the content ingested. Personally, I like having just text so for a real project I'd get all of my PPT stuff moved into a text document which you can do pretty easily.I have also seen a demo of converting text to AI video which produces a character and background speaking the text. This does not seem available in the beta version currently. Is there any way to test this?
Hi Tom,
Thanks for jumping in to provide your insights. The video seems useful, so I'll give that a try on an upcoming project and go from there 👍
I understand your comments around changes during software development, but as some feedback for Articulate, there was such a gap in communication between that initial video being shown and what has actually been released, you can see why some members of the community might feel a little frustrated. It's an MVP, that will naturally evolve and improve over time, but the comms and roll out could have been handled a lot better, in my personal opinion.
Your demo certainly gives a more accurate representation of how it can be used, so that's something I can draw on at least as part of the free trial, so thank you.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your instructions. I'm fairly new to Rise and use Chat GTP for help with course content/instruction. What would be the benefits of me purchasing and using the AI Assistant within Rise compared to using chat GPT and then creating the course in Rise using that information?
Rise is as simple as it gets anyway. Rise is meant for those with little or no learning experience, designs skills or instructions design knowledge. Use a block and put in the info, or use a template. It is actually worrying now to hear more and more people "using Chatgpt" to do things, especially basic things. AI is actually not great in the learning area as it is often incorrect. The AI used in Storyline aids you with what you are already designing and offers alternative solutions but you should still be in charge.
Thanks Darren. I appreciate your feedback :)
