Changing the background color in Rise

Hello Leslie, thank you for the info. i would like to change the overall background color so thank you for taking it up to your colleagues. The reason from the customer is following: "we are also used to the white backgrounds, but if I have to look at a pc the whole day it is more relaxing for the eyes to have an off white of light grey background. But maybe this gives contrast problems for some people. (maybe as an option, change background colour, some sites a night modus)." Thanks.

Hi Leslie

Now that Kristyna's request is over a year old, I am wondering we are now able to change the background colour globally?

Many thanks

Martin

Hi Martin! Thanks for checking in. Rise 360 has a white background by default, but you can change the background of individual blocks. I'll let our team know you need a global background color setting!

I can't change background collor of "Process" interaction. Could you help me? 

+1 for global bakground coloring

+2 for global background coloring

This should really be a standard feature of Rise, along with the ability to format text/bullet points etc with more control.

Hi Alyssa, 

I really feel this should be done overall, The cover of the course (with the detail on what is in it) looks so boring on white and with no imagery available. Please can the team look into this?

Thank you :-)

Agreed. When setting up the Course Theme, and extra feature should be added where a designer can change the overall page background colour globally. I mean you can always create new block templates, but that is onerous.

+1 for global background

+1 for global background

+1 for global background coloring

You can't change the color of process content blocks or it's missing. (see screenshot)

Hi Jacob - you're right. Process blocks have a different type of container to handle the animation of each step, so the background for that block is actually completely covered by the interaction itself. Sorry for the confusion there! 

I've tagged this discussion for a follow up if we make any changes to how the process block background looks.

It appears that Articulate users have been requesting this feature for more than two years. When will Rise offer a global setting under the "Colors & Themes" to allow us to set a background color for the entire course (including processes)?

It's extremely time-consuming to change every single block in each section of the course. My marketing & sales teams demand something other than boring white. This requires that I spend at least 30 minutes copying and pasting a hex code into the settings for each individual block. Of course, some blocks can be copied and the content modified during course creation, but if I'm mixing headers with processes and text and multimedia and interactions, there's only so much of this block-copying that can be done to save time.

Please add this to a feature request, or +1 vote for the existing feature request.

Thank you.

+1 vote

+1 for background coloring, themes, fonts, etc. This is a requirement for my organization. Thank you!

I'd like to add a background texture to a plain text box, is that possible? I have the quote block (can't get rid of the "), or a text on picture block (can't get rid of the short line that appears above the text); is there a way to have clean text with a textured background image? Thanks!

Hi Sarah! Have you considered creating your own image overlayed with text? You should be able to achieve that using PowerPoint!

1. Start with a blank widescreen PowerPoint slide. 16:9 or 3:1 slide dimensions would work best.
2. Insert an image and text on the PowerPoint slide.
3. Save the slide as an image file (.png).
4. Import the image into an Image Full Width block in Rise 360.

Let me know how that goes!

Would love to be able to change the color of all blocks at the same time. Please make this a feature! 

I have a similar issue. I can't change colour for process block which means I have to use another block which allows me to that.

Global background coloring +1

I agree with this request.

I often find myself having to manually change the background of each and every block to match the branding requirements in my assignments. And if the background is dark, I also end up having to change the font color in each block as well.

That's a lot of extra work. I think it would spare users a lot of time if we could have select "Default background color" and "Default text color".

And the default background color would preferably affect the top & bottom bar of each chapter, because right now it looks kind of janky when we try to brand something in Rise, and it just cuts off to the default white.

I read in the automated email sent with feature requests that "we estimate the value it could bring to our products.". Wouldn't you agree that being able to say something in the lines of "Match your company branding requirements 100%" is great value added to the USP list for such a minor feature?