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Show Us Your AI Makeover!
Whether you joined the AI Assistant: Beyond the Basics webinar or are just starting to explore what the AI Assistant can do, this challenge is for you.
In the session, we shared ways to go beyond quick drafts, using AI to help with the trickier parts of course creation, like writing questions, refining lessons, generating images, or even creating scenarios. Now it’s your turn to experiment and share what you’ve built.
💡 Show us your “AI Makeover”
Post a quick before-and-after example of how you used AI Assistant to transform your content.
You could share:
- A short “before” snippet — like SME notes, a few bullet points, a slide, or a paragraph of draft text
- The “after” — what AI helped you build from it (for example, an outline, lesson, quiz, or visual)
- A quick note about how you refined or customized what AI created
✨ Or just join the conversation:
- What parts of your workflow feel easiest to improve with AI right now?
- Where are you still experimenting or getting stuck?
- Have you discovered any prompt tricks or creative uses worth sharing?
Let’s use this thread to keep building on what was learned in the session and learn from each other’s experiments along the way.
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Sharing a best practice when using the AI assistant to generate images. As you enter all the descriptive words needed to get the image you want, the tool uses all those words in the jpeg naming convention. For example, icon-of-a-furniture-delivery-man-in-blue-shirt-talking-to-a-customer-with-a-white-speech-bubble-with-a-light-purple-background.jpg. The length of this file created issues with upload to our LMS. At first, the courses would not work at all. Then, after the administrators did some troubleshooting, the courses worked, but the images with these long names would not appear. The final solution was to download the images, shorten the naming convention, upload the newly named image to the course, and republish. I should mention that this issue was not a problem in all LMSs.
This is a good tip! ... reminded me of when I first studied html and limitations of concatenated character limits on filenames. The first time this happens to you it can be really frustrating but something once learned, always observed!
I am someone who learns from writing things down. So I'm going to type out my understanding of what happened:
The AI image generation tool is automatically creating file names by concatenating all the descriptive words from the prompt and this can result in extremely long file names. On top of this, the LMS might have file name length restrictions that could cause functionality issues with the course.When I experienced the concatenation issues 'back in the day', I recall doing the same thing you did, manually shorten the file names!
Thanks again for posting this tip!
Attaching snapshots of an example of before and after work. AI was instrumental in making this self-assessment activity more instructionally sound than it had been previously. In the SBIRT course, I also used AI to generate persona images for a some scenarios. AI Prompting expertise and technique definitely matters. This I learned prior to using Rise so now, everything is coming together. Loving it!
Hi Ginger, I had a chance to watch the recording but also am interested in the resources mentioned in the recording. They were not in the 11/20 email as you mentioned to Chris. Can you attach them here or do you need to send by email? Thanks much, great recording!
Here’s my small contribution to the “AI Makeover” challenge.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with using AI for micro-tools and quick utilities, especially for learners who need fast calculations or conversions.Before:
I had only a few rough notes about building a simple age-calculation helper for users who often search for “how old am I today?” in different calendar formats.After (created with AI):
AI helped me turn those notes into a complete working version with clear text, instructions, and a cleaner user flow. I also refined the tool using suggestions from AI about better wording and user guidance.If anyone wants to see the final result, here’s the tool I built:
(Age Calculator Tool: https://xn--mgbacer2ak5cxfl.com/)AI definitely makes the “boring setup work” easier, so we can focus more on design and learning experience. I’m still experimenting with prompt variations and exploring better ways to generate clearer micro-content for users.
Would love to see more examples from everyone here!
I've been using the AI Assistant in a trial version of Articulate Rise. I'm absolutely blown away by this impressive upgrade to Articulate. I could go on-and-on ... ;-)
The one request I have though is - after just watching a recorded version of the AI Assistant webinar, how do I access the guides referenced in the webinar? Either I'm looking in the wrong place or they weren't readily accessible due to the technical difficulties with the live webinar.
Hi ChrisOMalley, it looks like an email with the resource link was sent on 11/20. Could it be in your spam folder? If it's not showing up, let us know, and we can resend it to you.
GingerSwart, can you send my way as well? I appreciate it!
I'm working on a large project about engineering projects in the utility industry. Instead of asking SMEs to scour their files for illustrative photos and risk that they contain sensitive information, I was able to create illustrations instead. when my AI prompts weren't returning what I wanted, I turned to Microsoft CoPilot to help me write more effective AI prompts. Unfortunately AI also adds labels that are often misspelled but I can usually crop them out.
This is wonderful! I too work in the utility industry (for a small gas and electric utility company in WI) and am always struggling to find good images for use in elearning courses. Wondering if you'd be willing to share an example or two of the prompts you used to create an image like this?
Great tip about using AI to help write the prompts for complex images like that! (Feels a bit like using a cheat code! 😆)
