I've been using Rise for about 6 months now and absolutely love it. That's gotten me to think more about a software program that I could use that would help me create a similar look when creating participant guides. Up to this point, I've just relied on Microsoft Word. However, there has to be something better for this, correct? I would be really interested to hear what you're using - something very easy to use but looks REALLY professional with little effort (i.e. Rise). Thanks!
Hi Nick! I use Word to create my guides, but since I want to encourage note-taking even for learners who aren't using a printed version of the guide, I take the PDF version and run it through Adobe Acrobat's Form builder. It does a pretty good job of finding the blanks in my document and turning them into fillable form fields.
It isn't perfect - honestly, it usually creates more form fields than I intended. But after a little clean-up, I have an easy to deploy digital version that looks just like the printed version.
Very interesting. Perhaps I need to learn more about style sheets. I would love to have something that would look like my Rise courses. I appreciate the reply.
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Hi Nick,
we use MS Word for our learner guides.
We have created a stylesheet that is very similar to the visual style of our Rise courses.
Hi Nick! I use Word to create my guides, but since I want to encourage note-taking even for learners who aren't using a printed version of the guide, I take the PDF version and run it through Adobe Acrobat's Form builder. It does a pretty good job of finding the blanks in my document and turning them into fillable form fields.
It isn't perfect - honestly, it usually creates more form fields than I intended. But after a little clean-up, I have an easy to deploy digital version that looks just like the printed version.
Very interesting. Perhaps I need to learn more about style sheets. I would love to have something that would look like my Rise courses. I appreciate the reply.