New in Rise: More accessibility, the ability to copy lessons to other courses, and more
Nov 14, 2017
By
Trina Rimmer
Hello, everyone!
We’re thrilled to announce several new features that’ll help you build more accessible courses and author more quickly in Rise. Here are the highlights:
- Keyboard-accessible navigation: Learners can now navigate Rise courses entirely with their keyboards. And because keyboard accessibility is built right into the published output, you don’t need to do a thing to make it happen. (Coming soon.)
- Higher contrast for accessibility: Built-in course features, such as buttons and icons, have a higher contrast between foreground and background colors, so they’re easier to read.
- Copy lessons to other courses: Reuse existing content and create courses faster by copying lessons across your Rise courses.
- Custom fonts. Personalize your Rise courses with custom fonts for heading and body text.
- Multiple-response questions: Make sure learners understand course content with the new multiple-response quiz lesson. You can create assessments with more than one correct answer.
- Fill-in-the-blank questions: Challenge learners to recall key words or phrases from your course content with the fill-in-the-blank quiz lesson.
- Matching questions: With the new drag-and-drop matching quiz lesson, you can make an interactive assessment that includes up to 10 text-based matching pairs. (Coming soon.)
Check out our What’s New page to learn more about these features, and what’s new in Storyline 360 and Content Library.
53 Replies
Thank you for this wonderful list of completed and pending updates to Rise!
I noticed that keyboard accessible navigation is mentioned as "coming soon." Can you confirm that this well-awaited and important feature is still on track to be completed in Q4 (by December, 2017)? This accessibility feature is critical for projects to be deployed.
Thank you so much!
Thanks Kristie, l can't seem to find the Fill-in-the-balnk questions, can you direct me to where it is located. Rob
Hi Robert,
Take a look at the steps here to get started with the new Rise question types.
Hi Kristie. I've checked in with our Dev team and this feature will ship by the end of the year. I'll be sure to update this discussion once it's available in Rise.
Hi Trina, Thank you so much confirming with your Dev team on the ship date for keyboard accessible navigation as still being end of 2017. I will be looking forward to the update. :)
Being British I'm very quiet and reserved.
But copy lessons from one course to another?
More question types?
And new accessibility features?
Wow, Woohoo, Yay, Fantastic - it's just what I asked for. Xmas has come early!!!!
Thanks, now I'll go and lie down.
Stan
Great thanks Ashley.
To let everyone know - and in response to Robert Wild (above) - I too assumed that the new quiz features (multiple choice and fill-in-the-blanks) were in the interactive section of the Blocks area. They're not, they're in the main quiz section (see my GIF attached).
Thanks Sam, awesome clip, the current location is not intuitive and this is evident when viewing your clip.
This is Karen Pizur...thank you for these changes.
Here are a few other suggestions for improving RISE:
- Module and Lesson titles cannot do superscript or subscript.
- lesson headers font color cannot be changed
- be able to set the font size at the course level.
- have an option for audio tracks to start automatically at the opening of a lesson. Put this at the course level for auto-on of audio tracks.
- have the option to add audio tracks in all block options, example quiz questions and knowledge checks.
- ability to adjust the distance when using bullets.
- the ability to wrap text when using bullets.
- the ability to adjust the spacing between text when using the header+text or subheader+text options.
- the ability to do a hard-break in course titles. When you look at the mobile responsive instance, it orphans to easy.
Thanks for this Sam, really helpful.
Wow! Great list, esp. the lesson copy function!
It's been fun watching the app grow over the last year. Wonder what the next year will bring up!?
Hi Kristie, you mentioned custom fonts - can you tell me where this option is?
Thanks.
Hey Paul! That feature is coming soon :) You can check out all the details on our What's New page here.
Great post! Is there a feature enhancement in the works to allow non-public pages to be displayed via iframe or URL embed ?
like a company only intranet ?
or am I just missing a piece of code to make it happen ?
Hi Rijel,
How have you tried to link to internal company pages? You should be able to link to them, but depending on your set up the page may still require the user to log in on that page if they're not already logged in.
I was able to link it inside of the blocks "paragraph" option! Just doesn't look as cool as I wanted it.
But it works.
Thanks!
Yea, thank you!!!! Keep them coming. Karen Pizur
Hello there,
I am currently evaluating the tool for my customer. I have tested the tab thru (for accessibility) and it works well. But unfortunately it only tabs through graphics, buttons but not content. I know this was an issue with Adobe scrollable PDFS, but are you trying to fix that issue. If I use Jaws and I can't tab to the content then the learner can't hear the written content. Thank you so much
Hi Trina! Just checking if we are still targeting en of 2017 for keyboard accesible navigation.
Thanks!
Hello May and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :) It is still targeted for this quarter, yes!
Thanks for your prompt reply! That is awesome Leslie!! Can't wait for that!!! It is my Xmas wish :)
Will Rise courses be 508 compliant once it has the keyboard accessibility functionality?
Hi Leslie!
Happy new year!! Any update on the reléase date? we were targetting end 2017... and we are already in 2018! so, can't wait for this! :)
Thanks!
Hi there and thanks for the great question! Rise courses would not be considered 508 compliant yet, however we are working hard to add new accessibility features all the time. You can keep tabs on the latest features we're working on via our What's New page.