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In Public Beta: Source Content Image Extraction
This feature is now in Public Beta. Thank you so much to everyone who used this feature. We're really grateful for all of the feedback. We're still actively working on it, so please continue to share your experience and feedback as you use it!
Aspects of the SL360 Media Library is very useful, some different outcomes better than the Media Library.
If the course itself could be selected as source content for reuse at a point in time, it would be useful in Team collaboration where other authors use images from an internal media library.
Any team member may not be familiar with or remember the naming of media, but like searching the other content sources, the library thumbnails will prompt you to discover the internal reference available for reuse.
We're using Sharepoint 365 for a general media repository that Copilot can generate metadata like Alt-Text and Keywords, add a suffix "_append-the-keywords.png" so they are discoverable in SL360 Media Library filename search.
Loading test sources, I was unable to remove them from the course. I appreciate the Filter feature works around that, just a bit messy if unable to clean up when a Team is involved, introducing clutter.
I duplicated the course to find it cleared the sources, so I would ensure any pre-published working versions are cleaned up this way.
At that point, that's where the course itself internally referenced as a source would be useful providing itself as a media library. I can work-around achieve it by publish/exporting, applying the Sharepoint/Copilot workflow with .pptx image-per-slide and alt-text with keywords loaded as a media catalogue of the course, that can now be imported as a source into Rise, as well as Storyline with filename search in media player.
Thumbs up to the mechanism and all things Articulate all these years, staff and community. I found this little search result for nostalgia. I referred a new-to-Articulate colleague to TomK's history and noticed a grey hair update needed for our vector avatars, but hopefully gives confidence to our team that this stuff isn't an overnight AI phartup.
https://userware.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/custom-graphics-in-powerpoint/
Sincerely,
David.
Hi 42HAL9k / David,
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with Source Content Image Extraction and for the thoughtful feedback.
I can see how being able to use a course itself as a searchable source for images could be useful, particularly for teams collaborating on courses and reusing existing assets. I also understand the value of being able to clean up source content when it's no longer needed.
This feature is still in Public Beta, and feedback like yours helps us understand how it's being used in real-world workflows. I've shared your comments with our product team as they continue to evaluate and refine the experience.
Thanks again for sharing your insights and creative use cases with us!