Is there a way to add a spreadsheet into Rise. Looking to include contact information into a lesson for a Board of Directors Onboarding Course: Name, Position, Number, Email. Doesn't need to have functions or features, just for organizing the info above.
Hello Sebastian, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
Can you tell us more about why tables are important in your content? This feature isn't on the current roadmap, but we'd love to have a better understanding of your needs.
Hi Justin, Have tables been added to the road map since you last posted? They're pretty important for me for displaying numbers or other dense data - an important skill for our target audience is to learn how to interpret data so we often want to team this with a multiple choice question. It would be great to have responsive tables in rise - an image with text doesn't display well at all on smaller screens. On a slight tangent, have there been any discussions about entering equation text in Rise? Cheers, Mich
I'll 4th this! Spreadsheets/tables would be huge for us to have! My company does education and review courses for the Certified Financial Planner exam so we use LOTS of tables. Ive been recreating them in other software and saving and importing as an image file, but we have to update numbers yearly, so it would be lovely to be able to make the updates right in Rise instead of elsewhere, re saving, and re uploading. Thanks!
Thanks Kelly-Anne, keep the ideas and information about your needs coming! The more we hear a particular feature request and the more we know about how that impacts your design, the better!
I would also like add my say to a Spreadsheet/table feature being a worthwhile addition to Rise, perhaps as a block component. I am concerned that the effectiveness of using a table as an image may be undermined by the possibly loss of clarity and effectiveness with different screen-sizes and may not be as responsive as compared to a table block component.
Thanks Dorrien for chiming in here too! You've shared a really good point, and I can see how that would make your life easier and be easier on the eyes of your learners. We're continuing to share this type of feedback with our Product team as well.
Embedding a Google Sheet (using the generated iFrame code when you publish the sheet to the web and adding to a multimedia embed block in Rise) works pretty well. And the content of the sheet updates automatically when changes are made to the source sheet so it is very handy for dynamic data.
Oh, good reminder Stuart! I've played with a few Google docs in Rise, but hadn't yet done a Google sheet. If you've got a sample you're working through, we always love to see those in the forums too.
The tables aren't responsive but do still work quite well on smaller screens, especially in landscape mode. Certainly a better approach than using an image of a table I would think.
Even Inkling allows for tables. It is a worthwhile feature.
While we're on worthwhile features, how about the ability to print. As has been noted on other threads, some industries are heavily regulated and audited and require printed material. I have a need for printing job aids for restaurant workers. While they do have access to tablets with digital media, they also have a need for the occasional printed-and-tacked-to-the-wall page.
You're right, Tom! A print feature is highly-requested here in the forums. Feature requests from customers like you contribute to our product roadmap, so thanks for adding your voice!
Thanks Ashley. I'd say more the former bullet than the latter. Which I think is in keeping with the spirit of some of the asks earlier in this thread.
Tablular formats, whether they be in source like Word tables or Excel sheets, are not always completely avoidable as I translate various source materials to re-envision them as Rise-authored content. So a Rise-native mechanism to author tables and also to be able to bring them in from common office formats would go a long way.
(As a bonus, it would be amazing if URL text brought in from tabular source was actually understood as hyperlink, but I realize that might be tougher nut to crack.)
That said... loveworking with Rise -- fine stuff you've provided. We'll get there!
Follow up question for you - now that Storyline supports tables, and we're working on the finishing touches for our Storyline block in Rise, would that cover your need? I know it may be hard to say since you haven't seen the Storyline block yet...but it's coming soon!
We're adding new stuff to Articulate 360 all the time - driven by great community ideas - so keep 'em coming! 🌟
Yeah, I really don't use tables much in SL, but it's nice to have them there. I can't comment on Rise's table-ability since I haven't seen it, but I would hope that it's at least the same thing that's in SL and not just a mechanism for importing tables CREATED in SL. Does that make sense? So IOW, give Rise users the ability to create and manage tables *IN* Rise, and not just import. Or am I being too literal-minded?
Yes, I was wondering if you built the table in Storyline and imported that into Rise. Based on the Storyline block that's coming - anything you create there can be pulled into a Rise course. When our team is looking at new features we're often considering the viability of any current methods to accomplish the same thing - take a look at our process here.
It sounds like that wouldn't work for you though so we'll keep Tables as a separate request!
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Good Morning, Justin.
We don't have support for tables within Rise right now, so here's a quick Peek at how I might handle the task at hand.
Good luck with your project!
Are you going to develop some feature to generate responsive tables with rise?.
Hello Sebastian, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
Can you tell us more about why tables are important in your content? This feature isn't on the current roadmap, but we'd love to have a better understanding of your needs.
Hi Justin,
Have tables been added to the road map since you last posted? They're pretty important for me for displaying numbers or other dense data - an important skill for our target audience is to learn how to interpret data so we often want to team this with a multiple choice question. It would be great to have responsive tables in rise - an image with text doesn't display well at all on smaller screens. On a slight tangent, have there been any discussions about entering equation text in Rise?
Cheers,
Mich
Hello again, Michelle.
Tables and Equation Text are super great suggestions. I’m going to forward your thoughts to our product team. Thanks!
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I'll 4th this! Spreadsheets/tables would be huge for us to have! My company does education and review courses for the Certified Financial Planner exam so we use LOTS of tables. Ive been recreating them in other software and saving and importing as an image file, but we have to update numbers yearly, so it would be lovely to be able to make the updates right in Rise instead of elsewhere, re saving, and re uploading. Thanks!
Thanks Kelly-Anne, keep the ideas and information about your needs coming! The more we hear a particular feature request and the more we know about how that impacts your design, the better!
I would also like add my say to a Spreadsheet/table feature being a worthwhile addition to Rise, perhaps as a block component. I am concerned that the effectiveness of using a table as an image may be undermined by the possibly loss of clarity and effectiveness with different screen-sizes and may not be as responsive as compared to a table block component.
Thanks Dorrien for chiming in here too! You've shared a really good point, and I can see how that would make your life easier and be easier on the eyes of your learners. We're continuing to share this type of feedback with our Product team as well.
Embedding a Google Sheet (using the generated iFrame code when you publish the sheet to the web and adding to a multimedia embed block in Rise) works pretty well. And the content of the sheet updates automatically when changes are made to the source sheet so it is very handy for dynamic data.
Oh, good reminder Stuart! I've played with a few Google docs in Rise, but hadn't yet done a Google sheet. If you've got a sample you're working through, we always love to see those in the forums too.
No problem Ashley. Here is a fairly simple example of what can be achieved using Google Sheets: https://rise.articulate.com/share/FFX-hlrYt2x8eD0W
The tables aren't responsive but do still work quite well on smaller screens, especially in landscape mode. Certainly a better approach than using an image of a table I would think.
Thanks Stuart - just love seeing the different examples and way folks are working with Rise!
Even Inkling allows for tables. It is a worthwhile feature.
While we're on worthwhile features, how about the ability to print. As has been noted on other threads, some industries are heavily regulated and audited and require printed material. I have a need for printing job aids for restaurant workers. While they do have access to tablets with digital media, they also have a need for the occasional printed-and-tacked-to-the-wall page.
Thanks!
That is useful. Thanks for posting.
You're right, Tom! A print feature is highly-requested here in the forums. Feature requests from customers like you contribute to our product roadmap, so thanks for adding your voice!
+1 on support for some form of table/spreadsheet content authoring/generation/import... Image capture from Excel does not always suffice.
Hi Chet,
That's a lot of things you listed! To make sure we capture your need, can you clarify, are you looking for:
OR
That'll help our product team as we continue to plan our roadmap!
Thanks Ashley. I'd say more the former bullet than the latter. Which I think is in keeping with the spirit of some of the asks earlier in this thread.
Tablular formats, whether they be in source like Word tables or Excel sheets, are not always completely avoidable as I translate various source materials to re-envision them as Rise-authored content. So a Rise-native mechanism to author tables and also to be able to bring them in from common office formats would go a long way.
(As a bonus, it would be amazing if URL text brought in from tabular source was actually understood as hyperlink, but I realize that might be tougher nut to crack.)
That said... love working with Rise -- fine stuff you've provided. We'll get there!
Completely agree with Chet here, for all stated reasons.
Thanks Chet (and Tom)! That helps a ton.
Follow up question for you - now that Storyline supports tables, and we're working on the finishing touches for our Storyline block in Rise, would that cover your need? I know it may be hard to say since you haven't seen the Storyline block yet...but it's coming soon!
We're adding new stuff to Articulate 360 all the time - driven by great community ideas - so keep 'em coming! 🌟
SL enhancements may help Tom and others in thread, but I'm all Rise.
Yeah, I really don't use tables much in SL, but it's nice to have them there. I can't comment on Rise's table-ability since I haven't seen it, but I would hope that it's at least the same thing that's in SL and not just a mechanism for importing tables CREATED in SL. Does that make sense? So IOW, give Rise users the ability to create and manage tables *IN* Rise, and not just import. Or am I being too literal-minded?
Thanks, Ashley.
Thanks Chet and Tom for that insight!
Yes, I was wondering if you built the table in Storyline and imported that into Rise. Based on the Storyline block that's coming - anything you create there can be pulled into a Rise course. When our team is looking at new features we're often considering the viability of any current methods to accomplish the same thing - take a look at our process here.
It sounds like that wouldn't work for you though so we'll keep Tables as a separate request!