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Glossary in Rise 360
Has anyone found a way to create a glossary in Rise 360 that is easily and readily available for learners, as needed? This can be done in Storyline 360 by including it as a resource but I haven't figured out a workaround for Rise.
Any assistance is appreciated!!
- WilliamButlerCommunity Member
Guys, I have created a glossary that exists as its own URL, external to RISE. I drop the link at the bottom of each section and have it open in an external window if the user click on it. That is a decent workaround for us.
- UzmaSaeed-28815Community Member
Hi William,
Any chance you can share how you did this? Step by step - I'm super new to Articulate 360, so haven't gotten my head around intricacies. I would be much obliged! Thankyou kindly.
- WilliamButlerCommunity Member
- FionaOSullivanCommunity Member
All of the ideas in the video are not viable options. They need the learners to navigate to other lessons and then back to where they were. We need a proper glossary button at the top, next to the menu button, that allows us to open a popup dialogue without navigating away from the lesson.
It looks like this is a feature that many people are looking for. Is this going to be included on the Rise roadmap any time soon? Considering this thread is two years old, it should be a must for the product.
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
There are several issues related to this approach for our organization.
Using a button to get to the Glossary means that learners are navigated to a completely different lesson. Learners must remember which lesson they were busy with, and then manually find their way back to where they were before jumping to the Glossary. This may sound like a trivial thing to do, but we have some very large courses with more than 100 Lessons.
As the Glossary is a Lesson, it becomes a problem for us as our course completions are based on the percentage of the course viewed. The Glossary Lesson becomes a part of that percentage and learners that do not need to view the Glossary, may have problems achieving course completion status.
At best this is a workaround. For a Glossary to be effective, it needs to be a Globally available resource that can be opened, viewed and closed without the learner being required to physically navigate away from their current Lesson.
- MarcPoirier-552Community Member
I'm currently working on a old moodle course to bring it back to 2020 ;) I'm using Rise 360, I can get a lot done, but on their end what I liked was that the "glossary" was on the words itself. So as you do your course, a word is highlighted in a different colour, when you hover over it, a question mark appears and if you click a small popup window attached to the word pops out with the glossary for that word.. pretty neat feature that would be great to have in Rise!
Marc.
- KiahGuilfordCommunity Member
Hello! It's 2024 - has there been a solution for a glossary yet? Thank you!
- DelphiniaBrown-Community Member
An integrated glossary would be a great feature to add to Rise. - Watching this feed.
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
This is something that is really lacking in Rise, as there is no way to separately attach resources like a Glossary. A Glossary needs to be available to a learner at any time, and they should be able to access it from anywhere.
We use Accordion blocks in a Lesson for our Glossary. A Glossary is something that may or may not be used, so using a Lesson to create one is problematic because it potentially affects your course completion if the completion setting is based on the percentage of the course viewed.
If the Glossary is in a Lesson, it also means learners need to leave the Lesson they are currently in in order to view the Glossary, and then navigate back to where they were before.
- PatrickFinne459Community Member
I've solved the completion issue in the past by adding a requirement that the learner at least visit the Glossary once. You can do this as a course walkthrough that demonstrates the interface and resources. A button interaction is an interaction after all, so you can add one in the walkthrough and not let the learner proceed until they have taken a quick look at it.
- KarynMurray-48cCommunity Member
Just to echo what others have said it would be great to have a glossary function which opens whilst not losing your place in the lesson.
Hi Karyn!
Thanks for sharing how this feature could benefit you when authoring in Rise 360!
I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion as soon as we have news to share. If you'd like to stay up to date, you can bookmark our Feature Roadmap!
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
We only have one Glossary for the entire course in its own Lesson, as it would clutter up the other lessons by repeating it in each one. Having multiples of the Glossary also becomes a maintenance issue.
We use the setting where only one Accordion item can be open at a time.
- UzmaSaeed-28815Community Member
Please can we have an in-built glossary :'(
It so seamless in Articulate.. But my trainings look clunky at the moment - while I am learning the ropes on Storyline I would still like to produce professional looking stuff. It would be great if we could click on the term, and it jumps to the Glossary - like you can do in PowerPoint.