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NickElzy-1c2b87
Community Member
4 years ago

What do people use to create participant guides?

I've been using Rise for about 6 months now and absolutely love it.  That's gotten me to think more about a software program that I could use that would help me create a similar look when creating participant guides.  Up to this point, I've just relied on Microsoft Word.  However, there has to be something better for this, correct?  I would be really interested to hear what you're using - something very easy to use but looks REALLY professional with little effort (i.e. Rise).  Thanks!

  • KarlMuller's avatar
    KarlMuller
    Community Member

    Hi Nick,

    we use MS Word for our learner guides.

    We have created a stylesheet that is very similar to the visual style of our Rise courses.

    • NickElzy's avatar
      NickElzy
      Community Member

      Very interesting. Perhaps I need to learn more about style sheets. I would love to have something that would look like my Rise courses. I appreciate the reply. 

  • Hi Nick!  I use Word to create my guides, but since I want to encourage note-taking even for learners who aren't using a printed version of the guide, I take the PDF version and run it through Adobe Acrobat's Form builder.  It does a pretty good job of finding the blanks in my document and turning them into fillable form fields.

    It isn't perfect - honestly, it usually creates more form fields than I intended. But after a little clean-up, I have an easy to deploy digital version that looks just like the printed version.