We’ve rolled out a new shortcut bar that makes it a cinch to add your favorite blocks to lessons quickly. And with all the prebuilt lesson types available as blocks, you have more flexibility to mix and match block types to create beautiful custom lessons. You can also convert your existing prebuilt lessons into blocks to give your courses a refresh.
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We hope you’ll love how these features let you create gorgeous responsive content faster than ever.
This is a welcome feature. I would still like to place a continue button at the end of a quiz block. Is this on the roadmap, given the ability to use blocks for everything?
Great Feature, many thanks! Is it possible to convert to blocks only "atomic" lessons, meaning if I created a lesson out of blocks - it itself cannot become a block?
UPD. - Ooops I think I misunderstood the feature. I thought you can pick up a lesson and convert itself into an insertable block, so I can reuse it inside other lessons (add it as my customized block). But it actually converts an "atomic" lesson into a blocked lesson
Cool feature. I was hoping the update would include the ability to move a block into a different chapter of the course so you could easily move content to different sections without recreating that. Is there any way to do that or is that an upcoming fix? Thanks! Keep up the great work.
I have a Process sequence I was going to try but - the message was I couldn't undo it.
What happens to the sequence? Do I have to input the information and photos again?
What about a labeled graphic - what is the advantage in resetting 6 labelled graphics to 'block' ?Again does all the information transpose in the new blocks?
The bar is helpful, but what would be even more helpful, is if we can define per course, setting defaults for blocks. It's a real time waster to have to set these repeatedly.
Not sure if this is any better, than setting the top and bottom padding and bg color, however: I created a course with a lesson that serves as template that contains all the block types I use with the settings already defined. I then copy the course, and then duplicate the template lesson, and add my content. Unfortunately, what's bad with this approach is that I often to need move a copied block with the new content somewhere well below or above. The Up / Down arrowing of the block can be a real time waster, especially if you heavily intermingle block types like I do, e.g, code snippet then text then code snippet then text, etc. Can we get a drag and drop UI?
Hi - this looks great, but how do I now add video to a Rise course that I've created and published from Peek or Replay? All I can see is the option to upload a video file...
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Works well, but I'm missing the templates!
This is a welcome feature. I would still like to place a continue button at the end of a quiz block. Is this on the roadmap, given the ability to use blocks for everything?
Florian, templates are something you can create yourself so that you can easily reuse content in your Rise courses. Here's more info: https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-Creating-Sharing-and-Reusing-Block-Templates
Anthony, we don't currently have plans to add continue blocks after the quiz, but you can add that as a feature request here: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
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Great Feature, many thanks!
Is it possible to convert to blocks only "atomic" lessons, meaning if I created a lesson out of blocks - it itself cannot become a block?
UPD. - Ooops I think I misunderstood the feature. I thought you can pick up a lesson and convert itself into an insertable block, so I can reuse it inside other lessons (add it as my customized block). But it actually converts an "atomic" lesson into a blocked lesson
Hi Irina! You can do exactly what you're talking about using our blocks templates feature.
So if you'd like to combine existing prebuilt lessons into one lesson, just convert them to blocks, save as a template, and then insert into a new lesson. Trina has some great tips on this workflow here: https://community.articulate.com/articles/rise-authoring-is-getting-even-faster
Great new features. Thanks!
Thanks. It’s makes my life easier 🙂
The enhancement video is so neat!
Cool feature. I was hoping the update would include the ability to move a block into a different chapter of the course so you could easily move content to different sections without recreating that. Is there any way to do that or is that an upcoming fix? Thanks! Keep up the great work.
Noticed something lately, the check boxes are askew. See images attached. Also, cannot see the entire blocks menu when I bring it up.
Carla, you can accomplish that by saving a block as a template, and then inserting the template into any lesson you like. Here's more info on how.
Alex, can you open a support case here? Our team will take a look!
I have a Process sequence I was going to try but - the message was I couldn't undo it.
What happens to the sequence? Do I have to input the information and photos again?
What about a labeled graphic - what is the advantage in resetting 6 labelled graphics to 'block' ?Again does all the information transpose in the new blocks?
Thanks,
Beverly
Hi Beverly! Nothing about your content will be changed when you convert it to a block. You won't need to recreate any content.
If you'd like to try it out, I'd recommend just duplicating the lesson so that you have an extra copy of your content you can test with.
Nice change. Thanks!
Nothing better than jumping into Rise and seeing a new and helpful feature!
Where can we request features? I'd love to be able to customise the opening "slide" of a quiz.
Hi Reagan,
You can send those ideas in here as a feature request!
Thanks - and glad the shortcut bar is helping you out! 😀
You can create a Template to do it.
Edit: Oops already answered.
Great!
Is there any way to customize the shortcut bar to put our favorite blocks of each type. For example in Text --> Paragraph?
Hi Sergio! There's no way to do that right now, but that would be a great feature request.
Here's a great tip for quickly changing the block type after you insert it from the shortcut bar:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/fdda4968-edb7-4477-b4ee-deaafd3e7172/review
What a great improvement to enhance the user experience!
The bar is helpful, but what would be even more helpful, is if we can define per course, setting defaults for blocks. It's a real time waster to have to set these repeatedly.
Not sure if this is any better, than setting the top and bottom padding and bg color, however:
I created a course with a lesson that serves as template that contains all the block types I use with the settings already defined. I then copy the course, and then duplicate the template lesson, and add my content. Unfortunately, what's bad with this approach is that I often to need move a copied block with the new content somewhere well below or above. The Up / Down arrowing of the block can be a real time waster, especially if you heavily intermingle block types like I do, e.g, code snippet then text then code snippet then text, etc. Can we get a drag and drop UI?
Hi - this looks great, but how do I now add video to a Rise course that I've created and published from Peek or Replay? All I can see is the option to upload a video file...
Thanks!
Hi Stuart! Uploading a video file is the way to go. When you record a video in Peek, it's stored in two places:
Just grab the file whatever way is most convenient for you and then upload to Rise.
For Replay projects, just publish to .mp4 and then upload the file to Rise.
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