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.
Me too for this one. I'd like an option for the PDF to contain all text in the course. It is very useful then for tracking changes between versions using PDF markup and comment functionality.
Thanks for letting us know that this would be helpful for you as well Matt. You should now be subscribed to this thread so that any updates we have to share will notify you :)
I'm so glad this feature was added at last! I have one client who didn't want any more courses built in Rise until this feature was available, for compliance reasons. Sorry I'm late to the game, but thanks for making this a priority! However...
In trying a couple of PDFs, and reading this thread, I agree with some suggestions, and have other comments to add:
For a tabbed interaction, because you're grabbing a screen cap of the tabs, if there are more tabs than can be shown without clicking the right arrow, then the additional tabs are of course simply cut off. The actual body text content on the tab is included in the PDF, but not seeing the appropriately-titled tab header with it is problematic.
Similarly, because you're currently using screencaps for flash cards, if the text on the card is longer, it fades away into nothingness--which is a real issue for a compliance course. I'm hoping you are working on a way to grab the actual text from these items, so none of the course content is lost?
Page breaks are sometimes awkward. Not the end of the world. But if you can add a "no widow/orphan" aspect, that would be great.
As others have noted, being able to choose whether or not to include question feedback would be very useful. Sometimes a client wants everything verbatim for compliance reasons; other times for accessibility reasons they want to supply the basic content as the learner would experience it online, but with the questions left unanswered (to prevent a learner from circulating the PDF as an "answer key.")
Thanks again for adding this essential feature (along with other great Rise enhancement), but I do hope you are committed to improving this PDF export as soon as possible? From a compliance perspective, either every word of the course is present in the PDF, or it's not. If it's not, it will not satisfy most clients' compliance requirements.
Thanks, Andrew for breaking down those additional components that would be crucial for you! It will help our team with continued planning and development on additional aspects of this feature - so I appreciate the honesty.
We'll keep you posted here as those parts roll out to Rise, but I don't yet have an ETA to share.
Andrew's comment about page breaks is my biggest concern. I've got a tabbed activity in my course and it's split across two pages in the PDF. Tabs are at the bottom of one page, and content nested beneath the tab is on the next. Additionally, the screen shot of the first slide of my Storyline block is cut in half, split across the page break. Would love to see options to set page breaks or for the export tool to anticipate items that should not be split apart.
This is an awesome feature! However when I export to PDF I see that Rise can break one image and slicing it, so that it partially slips to the next page. Same with some interactive elements. Would that be possible during the export to prevent this slicing? Thank you!
My team will often have multiple contributors to a module. I noticed that I could not export one module to PDF because I wasn't the "owner" even though it was shared with me. Is there a way to add multiple people to a module's ownership/allow them to export, review, share, edit settings etc. I currently just see the Preview button on the top bar.
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Hi Can we select only those lessons which i need to publish as PDF. That will help us to create customized PDF for a standards production environment where we can plan our lesson both for e-learning and class room training and published those PDF portion accordingly. Please add this feature to select only those lesson that we want to publish for a PDF output.
While that's not currently on our roadmap of upcoming features, I can see how it would be handy! I'll share this with our team for consideration. Thanks for the idea!
To Articulate staff: Here's another feature request: the ability to export the course in Word so we can edit/resize images and remove/edit the interactive blocks. Thanks!
You should be able to edit items like text size, images, and page break issues by editing the exported course in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I know there are also some free PDF editors available, so you may want to test a few of those if you don't have access to Adobe's version.
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Always happy to share it, Michael! So please keep the ideas coming.
A PDF copy of that cool Mars course you created though, doesn't sound nearly as fun! 😉
Hi guys, is there an issue with the export to PDF? seemed to be working ok at lunch, nothing is exporting at the moment? Thanks for the update! Cam
I'm exporting to PDF and getting a 1 page blank file. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Having the same issue Louise.
Hi Louise and Cam,
We did have an issue with the export to PDF function last night, but it should be all fixed up now! Can you try exporting again?
Me too for this one. I'd like an option for the PDF to contain all text in the course. It is very useful then for tracking changes between versions using PDF markup and comment functionality.
Thanks for letting us know that this would be helpful for you as well Matt. You should now be subscribed to this thread so that any updates we have to share will notify you :)
I'm so glad this feature was added at last! I have one client who didn't want any more courses built in Rise until this feature was available, for compliance reasons. Sorry I'm late to the game, but thanks for making this a priority! However...
In trying a couple of PDFs, and reading this thread, I agree with some suggestions, and have other comments to add:
Thanks again for adding this essential feature (along with other great Rise enhancement), but I do hope you are committed to improving this PDF export as soon as possible? From a compliance perspective, either every word of the course is present in the PDF, or it's not. If it's not, it will not satisfy most clients' compliance requirements.
Thanks, Andrew for breaking down those additional components that would be crucial for you! It will help our team with continued planning and development on additional aspects of this feature - so I appreciate the honesty.
We'll keep you posted here as those parts roll out to Rise, but I don't yet have an ETA to share.
Maybe add a function that would enable exporting feedback as a separate document?
Andrew's comment about page breaks is my biggest concern. I've got a tabbed activity in my course and it's split across two pages in the PDF. Tabs are at the bottom of one page, and content nested beneath the tab is on the next. Additionally, the screen shot of the first slide of my Storyline block is cut in half, split across the page break. Would love to see options to set page breaks or for the export tool to anticipate items that should not be split apart.
Thanks!
This is an awesome feature! However when I export to PDF I see that Rise can break one image and slicing it, so that it partially slips to the next page. Same with some interactive elements. Would that be possible during the export to prevent this slicing? Thank you!
Hi Irina,
I guess you found out about the pdfs on your own :) I just responded to your post here.
Items splitting across pages is an issue we are aware of. You may be able to correct some formatting issues via Acrobat Pro if needed.
Thank you very much, Leslie,
then I stay tuned for the updates.
Hi there,
My team will often have multiple contributors to a module. I noticed that I could not export one module to PDF because I wasn't the "owner" even though it was shared with me. Is there a way to add multiple people to a module's ownership/allow them to export, review, share, edit settings etc. I currently just see the Preview button on the top bar.
Hi Stacey,
This is a current feature request that we are tracking.
I will be happy to add this conversation to the report, which will also allow us to update you here when we can.
Awesome - thank you
No problem!
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Hi Can we select only those lessons which i need to publish as PDF. That will help us to create customized PDF for a standards production environment where we can plan our lesson both for e-learning and class room training and published those PDF portion accordingly. Please add this feature to select only those lesson that we want to publish for a PDF output.
Hi SibraPrasad,
When you export as a PDF it'll include the entire lesson.
If you need to export individual lessons, you could look at copying the lesson into a new course and exporting that version?
Is it on the roadmap for it to export the answers in the quizzes? A massive task for us to create answer sheets.
Hi Libby!
While that's not currently on our roadmap of upcoming features, I can see how it would be handy! I'll share this with our team for consideration. Thanks for the idea!
To Articulate staff: Here's another feature request: the ability to export the course in Word so we can edit/resize images and remove/edit the interactive blocks. Thanks!
Hi Libby,
You should be able to edit items like text size, images, and page break issues by editing the exported course in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I know there are also some free PDF editors available, so you may want to test a few of those if you don't have access to Adobe's version.
DUH this is an obvious work around I hadn't even thought of! Will still take us a while (some have 200 questions...!) Thanks for the suggestion.