Today we released a new feature in Rise that I think you’ll appreciate—especially those of you who work in highly regulated industries! Now you can export your Rise courses as PDF files for easy printing and meeting regulatory requirements.
Someone mentioned this above, but the PDF export feature isn't yet perfect. A major hurdle we run into on the compliance side is that Rise does not export all text elements of the course. Many in-built labels and buttons (eg, navigation elements and scores in assessment sections, lesson navigation buttons) don't export. Would love for this to be updated.
I haven't scrolled through this whole thread (TLDNR), but, how do you address the issue of pages breaking an image across 2 pages? I need clean breaks!
Hi, Does anyone have guidelines to ensure that the Rise course exports to a PDF with clean page breaks?
I am running in to this exact issue. It would be amazing if there were an interactive PDF Preview were you could mark page breaks and have the output update dynamically. (i.e. I mark a break, content adjusts for the break, and I scroll down to see where the next forced break might be needed.)
Related Q: Is there an export/import feature for translation like SL360? (If so peeps, don't forget Translation export is another means of Word output)
Rise 360 does not have a publish/export to Word feature like Storyline does. There is an export for Translation feature, but the file output is XLIFF, not Word. You'll need a translation tool to read the XLIFF file.
Yikes, of course lol... TY Karl. I asked Alyssa too but, easy way to convert XLIFF to Word or would the result still be the messy word file you get going from pdf to word?
Will the improvement suggested above (to capture the correct answers and feedback) be added to RISE? It seems odd that the correct answer and feedback are not being captured, but I just exported a course and see that information is not included in the PDF.
Great addition. However, when I exported my course to PDF, the the video images are not rendering as they do in the Rise course. Please see example. Is this possibly because we are using private Vimeo links, rather than public links, to the videos?
Hi, Rich. Embedded web content doesn't always render as expected when converting it to print.
If having meaningful placeholder images for the blocks with web content is important for the PDF viewers, could you duplicate your course to create a PDF-friendly version? You could replace the embed blocks with image blocks for context of the web video content.
We could take Snagit images of the videos as they display in Rise, with their correct embedded titles, then create a PDF-friendly version of the course that uses these Snagit images for the image blocks. Labor-intensive, but it would work.
We could create a version with text blocks above the video blocks with the correct video titles, then use the generic video thumbnails of the speakers in new image blocks to replace the video blocks. Not an exact replica of the course, but less work, and probably acceptable to users.
It sounds like a solution to the problem of rendering embedded web content is unlikely, correct?
You shared some good options! Those will be your best course of action, since Rise 360 cannot control how web content renders when converting it to print.
Thanks for your qustion! I'll open the floor to the community to share their recommendations with you. In the meantime, I'll let our team know you'd like more control over the placement of blocks in the PDF export.
is there a way to print the whole Rise course but together with the comments from the Review section? I know we can print them separately, but my question is if it will be possible to print them together.
Hi Boyan. That's right! You can export your course and Review comments separately. There isn't an option in Rise to export this together. I'll leave this discussion open for other community members to chime in with their suggestions!
Here for the comments but TLDR... Gonna guess no changes to any of the wants above? Has anyone actually added any as a feature request? I never know whether comments people (or I) post like, I would love to have xyz get captured by staff as feature reqs? Or that only happens if a user like me submits one formally?
Anyway, given all the page break heartache, page #s people that want quiz answers displayed and not, etc. I think grabbing pages with Snag it scrolling captures might be another option. Drop them into Word/G Docs, If you need interactive elements too, drop those in there too. Time consuming but... Any other fresh ideas?
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James, regarding your point 1, our organization specifically does NOT want to show which answers are correct/incorrect.
What is needed is an option that allows the developer to choose if the answers should be included or not.
I appreciate your feedback, James!
Right now, the PDF export will not show correct/incorrect answers on knowledge check or quiz questions.
Also, I'd recommend publishing the Storyline 360 content to Word to reveal all the layers within the Storyline block.
HI Crystal,
Someone mentioned this above, but the PDF export feature isn't yet perfect. A major hurdle we run into on the compliance side is that Rise does not export all text elements of the course. Many in-built labels and buttons (eg, navigation elements and scores in assessment sections, lesson navigation buttons) don't export. Would love for this to be updated.
Thanks,
Curtis
We create a PDF for each of our online courses.
In our case we most definitely do not want any buttons and navigation elements included. We also do not include quiz questions for obvious reasons.
What is needed are options that allow choices about what needs to be included in the PDF.
I haven't scrolled through this whole thread (TLDNR), but, how do you address the issue of pages breaking an image across 2 pages?
I need clean breaks!
Owen, there is no solution to an image breaking over the bottom and top of pages.
I really wish there was a way to force clean breaks, as we get a lot of complaints about this issue.
We've tried editing these PDFs to fix this and other issues, but it's an impossible task.
I am running in to this exact issue. It would be amazing if there were an interactive PDF Preview were you could mark page breaks and have the output update dynamically. (i.e. I mark a break, content adjusts for the break, and I scroll down to see where the next forced break might be needed.)
And... any publish (export) to Word for Rise?
Related Q: Is there an export/import feature for translation like SL360? (If so peeps, don't forget Translation export is another means of Word output)
Thanks for reaching out, Chris!
Rise 360 does not have a publish/export to Word feature like Storyline does. There is an export for Translation feature, but the file output is XLIFF, not Word. You'll need a translation tool to read the XLIFF file.
If you have Acrobat DC just open pdf in that and Export to Word.
Having exported Rise PDF files to Word many times using Acrobat DC, the resulting Word document is really a mess and very difficult to work with.
There is a huge amount of manual cleanup and formatting to be done before you end up with a usable document.
Thank you - know of an easy way to covert XLIFF to Word? Trying to easily share course text.
Yikes, of course lol... TY Karl. I asked Alyssa too but, easy way to convert XLIFF to Word or would the result still be the messy word file you get going from pdf to word?
Will the improvement suggested above (to capture the correct answers and feedback) be added to RISE? It seems odd that the correct answer and feedback are not being captured, but I just exported a course and see that information is not included in the PDF.
Hi, Sharon. While we're still tracking requests for this enhancement to PDF output, it isn't on the roadmap for the immediate future.
Great addition. However, when I exported my course to PDF, the the video images are not rendering as they do in the Rise course. Please see example. Is this possibly because we are using private Vimeo links, rather than public links, to the videos?
Hi Rich,
We also use Vimeo videos and the same thing happens to us.
I'm not sure if private or public makes any difference.
Hi, Rich. Embedded web content doesn't always render as expected when converting it to print.
If having meaningful placeholder images for the blocks with web content is important for the PDF viewers, could you duplicate your course to create a PDF-friendly version? You could replace the embed blocks with image blocks for context of the web video content.
Thanks, Crystal.
We could take Snagit images of the videos as they display in Rise, with their correct embedded titles, then create a PDF-friendly version of the course that uses these Snagit images for the image blocks. Labor-intensive, but it would work.
We could create a version with text blocks above the video blocks with the correct video titles, then use the generic video thumbnails of the speakers in new image blocks to replace the video blocks. Not an exact replica of the course, but less work, and probably acceptable to users.
It sounds like a solution to the problem of rendering embedded web content is unlikely, correct?
Hi Rich,
You shared some good options! Those will be your best course of action, since Rise 360 cannot control how web content renders when converting it to print.
Hi!
Do you have any features/recomendations that allow you to optimize your course for pdf?
Like remove audio clips? or put links to online i their place
ensuring photos do not get clipped between two pages?
etc.
Hi Adrian!
Thanks for your qustion! I'll open the floor to the community to share their recommendations with you. In the meantime, I'll let our team know you'd like more control over the placement of blocks in the PDF export.
hi there
is there a way to print the whole Rise course but together with the comments from the Review section? I know we can print them separately, but my question is if it will be possible to print them together.
Thanks in advance
Boyan
Hi Boyan. That's right! You can export your course and Review comments separately. There isn't an option in Rise to export this together. I'll leave this discussion open for other community members to chime in with their suggestions!
Here for the comments but TLDR... Gonna guess no changes to any of the wants above? Has anyone actually added any as a feature request? I never know whether comments people (or I) post like, I would love to have xyz get captured by staff as feature reqs? Or that only happens if a user like me submits one formally?
Anyway, given all the page break heartache, page #s people that want quiz answers displayed and not, etc. I think grabbing pages with Snag it scrolling captures might be another option. Drop them into Word/G Docs, If you need interactive elements too, drop those in there too. Time consuming but... Any other fresh ideas?