Is it possible for Rise users to share folders? We have a mid-sized team of developers and we would like to store final files in a shared folder structure (for maintenance and translation purposes). Is this possible?
I know you can add collaborators, but can you share folders with a specific group of people like you would share a google folder?
Right now, there isn’t a way to share folders with team members in Rise. We’d love to hear more about how this feature would improve your experience using Rise if you’d be up for logging a feature request.
We’re working on ways to make team collaboration in Rise even easier and I’ll make sure your voice gets added to the discussion.
Currently, we are using google drive to store final files (e.g. storyline sources) and have a process built around that. We cannot use that same processes with Rise.
I understand we can add collaborators but the point is that if you have a big team (ours is about 20 developers), adding collaborators to every file is not efficient.
These are typical scenarios:
1. All developers need access to all in progress and final materials in case someone falls ill or is absent. Or simply because another person is tasked with updating the content and not the original creator (and with a big team you can never know who it will be);
2. When you start translating content, the number of files gets even bigger and adding collaborators to specific files gets even harder. E.g. some of our courses are translated into 6 languages and when we update the English content we also need to update translations. We would like to be able to store final Rise files in a central place to which our developers and translation company would have access. This is where they would also add translated Rise files.
Any tips on how to make it more efficient are welcome! Thanks!
I totally get it! Thanks for your feedback and for providing specific examples of use cases, that's super helpful!. I'll make sure to let you know when I have an update here.
Would really love to see this feature as well. We need authors to be able to jump in and out of courses, so to be able to set this permission at the folder level would save those 'Argh' moments when you realize someone has forgotten to add you as a collaborator to a course.
Adding to this. Would love to see this feature because what happens to a Rise Source when the original creator of it leaves the company and I need to turn off his or her 360 Team Account?
Before someone leaves or you turn off their subscription, it's a good idea to have them transfer ownership of their courses to another team member.
If you don't, we'll still keep their courses on our servers for at least six months after their subscription expires. Here's more information on how that all works.
Yes, I too would like to have this feature added. Our team runs into similar issues as Ewa pointed out where a correction needs to be made in Rise and ultimately published before removing and replacing the original SCORM package in the LMS. If the individual who serves as "Owner" is out of town or ill, we are all stuck with waiting until they return to publish the changes or stop whatever they are doing to transfer ownership. This really slows things down.
I suggested to my colleagues that we create a "Service Email Account" for our team, create a new Articulate account from the "Service Email Account", give everyone access to it, copy all of our files and transfer ownership to the newly created "Service Email Account". Our concern is that Articulate would charge us for another account, as if we added another team member, even if it is not tethered to an individual. Is this a valid concern? Is it possible to please create a form of multiple ownership so we can stop playing the waiting game? This would be so helpful.
Thanks for your feedback! Hold tight, this is a feature we're currently working on. I don't have an ETA for you but we'll let you know as soon as it's available!
I'm interested too, but in a different way. My colleague set me up as a collaborator on two courses (so he owns them). When I log in, I use a folder structure for organization. I would like to move theses two courses owned by him to one of my folders, but Rise won't let me do this.
Jumping in to request folder share capabilities. Our team will use the Rise cloud storage to organize and share the content. Having the ability to organize our content in folders and share them with the team will not only enhance productivity while working on the project but is very important for later reference existing materials. We are constantly updating our content and need the ability to give everyone on the team visibility into what exists on the Rise server.
We would also find this feature really useful. As the number of courses grow, we would like our Teams members to be able to access that content straight away, rather than having to assign each individual.
I agree with the other requests. While we can share the file, and even provide admin rights to the file, the inability to have shared folder structures for developers is functionality that should be core the idea of collaboration for Teams.
Having a Rise folder structure for Published, Archive, WIP on my end, and the inability to share that with the team is not an ideal situation.
Tagging into this thread to see updates. This is a feature we desperately need.
We have team members in a couple areas of the country collaborating on projects. We need to be able to have members from two different networks/locations able to access the same Storyline file at different times. RIght now, it looks like Google Drive is our only option. The issue is that we will have to download the file any time someone is working on it and the upload the updates. It's very easy to just hit save and forget that it's not saved to a cloud. It would be great to have a teams cloud to save to and access the files directly no matter where you are located.
It sounds like you're looking for collaboration features in Storyline 360. Teams Slides allows you to create a library of shared slides that everyone can access right from Storyline 360. You can upload branded project templates, share slides that need to be in every course, and give teammates access to reusable slide content.
While this feature doesn't allow multiple authors to work on a single course file at one time, hopefully it will make collaboration a little easier for your team.
Thanks Alyssa! That is helpful and it will achieve some of our goals. It sounds more like Team Slides will be used by us more as like a Master Template for projects within the normal corporate scope.
What we thinking is to be able to save a stored project in a location that is created by an East Coast Team. Later the West Coast team may access this project and continue to work on the project. Not that we would want access to work at the same time on the same file, but that we would want to have a single course file that is accessible from different users within a team.
Can I add another upvote for shared Rise 360 folder structures between collaborators? We have a small team of collaborators, but we publish a number of similar but differently-branded courses with the same title and the list quickly becomes unwieldy. We'd love someone to have an overall admin role who can create folders and keep the contents consistent for all collaborators.
Another MASSIVE vote for better folder sharing or at least a shared folder structure across a team - 33 courses into 8 languages is going to lead to a huge disorganised collaboration nightmare at this rate... :(
Adding my team's voice for this feature (sharable file structures). Collaborating with a team to create training for multiple products gets a bit cumbersome without the ability to organize this as a team. With the direction we're moving, this is going to exponentially get worse quickly.
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Hi Ewa,
Thanks for your question!
Right now, there isn’t a way to share folders with team members in Rise. We’d love to hear more about how this feature would improve your experience using Rise if you’d be up for logging a feature request.
We’re working on ways to make team collaboration in Rise even easier and I’ll make sure your voice gets added to the discussion.
Thanks, I did that yesterday :)
Currently, we are using google drive to store final files (e.g. storyline sources) and have a process built around that. We cannot use that same processes with Rise.
I understand we can add collaborators but the point is that if you have a big team (ours is about 20 developers), adding collaborators to every file is not efficient.
These are typical scenarios:
1. All developers need access to all in progress and final materials in case someone falls ill or is absent. Or simply because another person is tasked with updating the content and not the original creator (and with a big team you can never know who it will be);
2. When you start translating content, the number of files gets even bigger and adding collaborators to specific files gets even harder. E.g. some of our courses are translated into 6 languages and when we update the English content we also need to update translations. We would like to be able to store final Rise files in a central place to which our developers and translation company would have access. This is where they would also add translated Rise files.
Any tips on how to make it more efficient are welcome! Thanks!
I totally get it! Thanks for your feedback and for providing specific examples of use cases, that's super helpful!. I'll make sure to let you know when I have an update here.
Would really love to see this feature as well. We need authors to be able to jump in and out of courses, so to be able to set this permission at the folder level would save those 'Argh' moments when you realize someone has forgotten to add you as a collaborator to a course.
Adding to this. Would love to see this feature because what happens to a Rise Source when the original creator of it leaves the company and I need to turn off his or her 360 Team Account?
Does that Rise course disappear with them?
Hi there,
Before someone leaves or you turn off their subscription, it's a good idea to have them transfer ownership of their courses to another team member.
If you don't, we'll still keep their courses on our servers for at least six months after their subscription expires. Here's more information on how that all works.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Hello,
Yes, I too would like to have this feature added. Our team runs into similar issues as Ewa pointed out where a correction needs to be made in Rise and ultimately published before removing and replacing the original SCORM package in the LMS. If the individual who serves as "Owner" is out of town or ill, we are all stuck with waiting until they return to publish the changes or stop whatever they are doing to transfer ownership. This really slows things down.
I suggested to my colleagues that we create a "Service Email Account" for our team, create a new Articulate account from the "Service Email Account", give everyone access to it, copy all of our files and transfer ownership to the newly created "Service Email Account". Our concern is that Articulate would charge us for another account, as if we added another team member, even if it is not tethered to an individual. Is this a valid concern? Is it possible to please create a form of multiple ownership so we can stop playing the waiting game? This would be so helpful.
Hi Gianina,
Thanks for your feedback! Hold tight, this is a feature we're currently working on. I don't have an ETA for you but we'll let you know as soon as it's available!
Thanks for your understanding and patience.
I'm interested too, but in a different way. My colleague set me up as a collaborator on two courses (so he owns them). When I log in, I use a folder structure for organization. I would like to move theses two courses owned by him to one of my folders, but Rise won't let me do this.
Hi Caroline,
Thanks for your feedback! That's also a feature that others have submitted, so I'll add your voice to that discussion.
Hi Allison. Good to know. Thanks!
That's great news! Awaiting more info!
Hi everyone,
Good news: we just released some new features that are going to solve a lot of the pain you've points you've brought up in this thread.
The first one allows you to assign different roles for different users. Here's a video that shows how that works.
The second one makes it easy to transfer Rise 360 content from one team member to another when someone leaves the team.
Check out this video to see how it works and this step-by-step tutorial for more details.
And these aren't the only cool features we released today! Visit our what’s new page for the full list.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments. :)
Jumping in to request folder share capabilities. Our team will use the Rise cloud storage to organize and share the content. Having the ability to organize our content in folders and share them with the team will not only enhance productivity while working on the project but is very important for later reference existing materials. We are constantly updating our content and need the ability to give everyone on the team visibility into what exists on the Rise server.
Thanks for the feedback, Julie! I'll add your voice to this request.
We would also find this feature really useful. As the number of courses grow, we would like our Teams members to be able to access that content straight away, rather than having to assign each individual.
I agree with the other requests. While we can share the file, and even provide admin rights to the file, the inability to have shared folder structures for developers is functionality that should be core the idea of collaboration for Teams.
Having a Rise folder structure for Published, Archive, WIP on my end, and the inability to share that with the team is not an ideal situation.
7 months and counting...
Tagging into this thread to see updates. This is a feature we desperately need.
We have team members in a couple areas of the country collaborating on projects. We need to be able to have members from two different networks/locations able to access the same Storyline file at different times. RIght now, it looks like Google Drive is our only option. The issue is that we will have to download the file any time someone is working on it and the upload the updates. It's very easy to just hit save and forget that it's not saved to a cloud. It would be great to have a teams cloud to save to and access the files directly no matter where you are located.
Hi Brandon!
It sounds like you're looking for collaboration features in Storyline 360. Teams Slides allows you to create a library of shared slides that everyone can access right from Storyline 360. You can upload branded project templates, share slides that need to be in every course, and give teammates access to reusable slide content.
While this feature doesn't allow multiple authors to work on a single course file at one time, hopefully it will make collaboration a little easier for your team.
Thanks Alyssa! That is helpful and it will achieve some of our goals. It sounds more like Team Slides will be used by us more as like a Master Template for projects within the normal corporate scope.
What we thinking is to be able to save a stored project in a location that is created by an East Coast Team. Later the West Coast team may access this project and continue to work on the project. Not that we would want access to work at the same time on the same file, but that we would want to have a single course file that is accessible from different users within a team.
That makes sense, Brandon! As long as authors aren't working on the file at the exact same time, we recommend using this collaborative workflow.
Can I add another upvote for shared Rise 360 folder structures between collaborators? We have a small team of collaborators, but we publish a number of similar but differently-branded courses with the same title and the list quickly becomes unwieldy. We'd love someone to have an overall admin role who can create folders and keep the contents consistent for all collaborators.
Thanks.
Another MASSIVE vote for better folder sharing or at least a shared folder structure across a team - 33 courses into 8 languages is going to lead to a huge disorganised collaboration nightmare at this rate... :(
Adding my team's voice for this feature (sharable file structures). Collaborating with a team to create training for multiple products gets a bit cumbersome without the ability to organize this as a team. With the direction we're moving, this is going to exponentially get worse quickly.
Thanks for adding your voice to this request, folks!