Support for Export / convert to PDF or DOCX format in Rise ?

We are looking using an authoring to create both training and guide material and wanted to have a single tool,  We are planning on using Rise to support guides labs. Rise provides amazing functionality if you are online,  we wanted a way to export parts of the course to a PDF / Word template. 

Thanks Maurice for that additional explanation. There isn't a way to currently export out the content to a PDF or Word template, although I could see taking individual screenshots and inserting those into a PDF although that's a bit more manual effort. I'll pass this idea along to our team as a feature request as well! 

We would also have a need for this at my company. We are currently planning on using Rise for training materials. Some learners prefer to print their materials, so having an option to publish to Word or PDF would be helpful. 

Thanks Stephanie for chiming in as well - would you be looking to have that as a user controlled option then? Versus the ability for the author to export it to Word/PDF and provide it to learners, or even both options? 

I think both options would be nice to have. That way, if the user wanted to export, they can. And, if I need to export a copy, maybe to give it to someone else to review (since it isn't a part of Review yet), that would also be nice. 

Thanks Stephanie - and I added both to the list that our team is reviewing as they further detail out our road map. We'll keep you posted once there is additional information to share, and the great thing about Rise is once the feature is available you'll have it immediately. 

Just adding my support for this request -- we need an offline version to support users without continuous internet access. I'm surprised this wasn't included in the export options? 

Hi Leah,

If you export for Web only - No LMS, your users could play the Rise course locally without internet. They'd need the folder that was created as a part of the Export and they'll want to look at opening the Index.html file.  I recorded a quick Peek of the steps I would go through to export and then the file I'd use to test it. 

Hope that helps for your offline users while we continue to investigate the export to PDF option a few others have discussed here. 

Thanks for the reply Ashley!

I assumed it had this feature, that makes creating one time consuming at the very least.

My company needs this feature. We are a regulated industry, so we need to have a hard copy that can be provided to regulators. This is something we do with every course we create.

Hi Alicia,

This discussion is a bit older with a couple topics -so I just want to clarify which piece you're looking for!

You said a "hard copy" of the Rise course - would an offline version that regulators could view work? If so, take a look at the steps in this Peek video. 

Or

Do you need to have a printable copy in hand? You can use the Ctrl + P option to print each page of the course or save it as a PDF. Adam recorded a nice demo of this using Peek here, right around the 1:05 mark.

I hope this helps!

It would still be great to have the Ctrl + P option for an entire course, and not just a single page at a time.

We would like to do training material in one place, and not two. Many users want to have a printed document to refer to when they are in a real life situation. In that case paper simply beats an online solution in speed. Of couse videos and other interactive features won't work, but that's for us to make sure that the printed material still conveys sufficient information. And in many cases the printed document is just to refresh memory and to reassure the user that they are on the right path.

Thanks Jonas for that insight - we'll keep you posted if anything changes in regards to the printing options! 

I also would find it useful to be able to have the option to publish Rise content to a PDF/DOC format.  I work for a large laboratory, and not all employees have computer/internet access.  

Jonas and Marianne, I agree. Most of my courses have to go through 2 compliance reviews and they almost never actually look at the course. I must always provide a hard copy.

Ctrl + P for each page is a bit of work and doesn't convey the interactions or quiz settings like Storyline does in a printed format.

Hi Ashley... I just noticed your comment here...  What happens if you are using links to material on the internet?

Hi Michael, 

In terms of printing? Users would have to choose to print those out separately. 

Let me know if you're looking for something else! 

My company also needs the PDF export option, it would be very helpful. Thanks!

Hi Erick,

It isn't a feature on our roadmap yet, although a few folks have talked about the need for a printable copy or a version they could edit (like a Word doc). I'd love to know more details about what you'd need the PDF copy for as that'll help our product team evaluate potential solutions. Feel free to share the ideas here in ELH or tell our product team about it here!

 In case you're wondering, here's how we manage all of the ideas we receive!

Hi Ashley - is there any update on this? Just wondering as we're hoping to have a printable solution as well. Thanks! 

Hi Emily, 

It's not made it to the roadmap yet, but we continue to track requests for this feature! The more customers impacted and requesting it is one of the items we use to evaluate new feature ideas. 

In the meantime, you'd need to use one of the workarounds mentioned earlier here.

Hi Ashley,

We also need this as a feature. The requirement for audits must be PDF or word - no online. This feature seems to be a highly requested or enquired topic, so I when will it be added to the roadmap? The workarounds are not an option for us.

Can you please advise if this is going on the next list of iterations for update?

Thanks,

S

I'll chime in to say that my company needs to be able to publish a Word manual as well. We are currently using Oracle UPK and have decided not to renew, which is why I'm evaluating Articulate. I have not found another content authoring tool out there that outputs to both online and print format, so if Articulate offers that, it will hands-down beat the competition. (The other tools we're evaluating have print features, but they just print slides like you would see if you printed PowerPoint content.)

For it to be the most useful to my company (university, actually), it should convert the headings and subheadings into styles - heading1, heading2, etc., so that I can generate a Table of Contents in the Word document.

It seems like that should be doable, but I don't know how it would handle lists. We use numbered lists to list the steps in a procedure. Most steps include an image of a portion of the screen. The Lists block in Rise is pretty, but not very user friendly since you have to add an Image block between each List block. In order to make the next List block display the appropriate number, you have to add numbers under the third number until you get to the one you want, (say 6 for instance), and then delete all of the numbers above that one (1 through 5).  A few of our processes have a large number of steps, so this procedure isn't very useful to us.  (Other than that, I really love Rise.)

Hi Sherie,

We get tons of ideas here in the forums and also through our  feature request form. We track them all and share with our Product team, as we hear from more users, determine there are no workarounds or other options, and evaluate the impact it has on working with the tools.  Here's how that process looks in a broad sense. But, I can't say when or if it'll be added to the roadmap only that once we have more information we'll share here in the forums!