AI Assistant: Setting the Stage for AI Magic

Before diving into the course creation process, you want your authoring tool to be tailored to your specific requirements so you can focus on developing high-quality content. With features designed to streamline your workflow, AI Assistant allows you to do just that.

Available only in Rise 360, AI Assistant’s AI course drafts and AI settings features boost your efficiency—setting the stage for AI magic!

Get a Head Start

Generative AI speeds up course creation, but not all AI tools are built for e-learning, often leading to more time fixing than creating. Thankfully, AI Assistant’s AI course drafts workflow helps you turn concepts into structured, learner-focused content with just a few clicks.

The AI course drafts workflow involves four simple steps: gathering context, configuring course details, reviewing the course outline, and generating lesson drafts. The official AI course drafts user guide explains each step in more detail. Here are some tips to consider as you get started:

• During the first step, you can specify particular requirements when providing context, not just a description of the course content. For example, you might ask AI Assistant to write your content in a specific voice or character.
• In the second step, you can regenerate your Course information (topic, tone, audience, goals) by selecting any text and clicking the sparkle icon to edit with AI Assistant. To update all these fields at once, click the Edit with AI button to the right of the Course information heading, add any special instructions if needed, then click Try again.
• Similarly, you can manually edit each field or use Edit with AI next to the Learning objectives heading to update all learning objectives at once. To update both the Course information and Learning Objectives at the same time, use the global Edit with AI button in the upper right.
• Just like in the second step, you can ask AI Assistant for writing help when reviewing and refining the generated course outline.
• Remember, AI Assistant generates content in between steps, but you can always click Stop and go back to return to a previous step. And if you go back to update your input in the previous steps, the global Edit with AI button shows a pulsing blue dot to remind you of the option to regenerate the content.

After generating a course draft, you can easily return to the workflow by navigating to the AI Assistant menu on the course overview page and clicking Return to AI Outline. When reviewing your inputs from the Create course with AI view, click on the tabs at the top or use the navigation buttons at the bottom to quickly switch between steps.

Need to leave your course drafting process? Don’t worry—AI Assistant will remember your progress during the first three steps and resume where you left off once you come back. Canceling the process while AI Assistant is still creating lesson drafts will also delete lessons that have already been generated.

Keep Any Documents Handy

As a course author, you probably start gathering assets and reference materials right after choosing a topic and writing an outline. While you can now generate content from scratch using AI, you may also want to create courses based on existing documents.

You can import source documents to use as a reference whenever you want to generate new content using AI Assistant. But instead of uploading reference materials each time, you can keep them all in one place by uploading them in the Source content tab of the AI settings window before you start.

Access AI settings from the AI Assistant dropdown menu in the upper right. Drag and drop files into the Source content tab or click Choose file to upload them. Supported file types and limitations are listed in the following table.

Tips:

• For PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Storyline 360 source documents, AI Assistant only references extractable text. Images, audio, and video are not included.
• To use an existing Rise 360 course as source content, export the course to PDF, then upload the resulting file.
• Audio and video files are transcribed and then processed like caption files, so it’s faster if you just upload a caption file.
• Only text-based content contained in publicly accessible URLs is supported. Website URLs that require authentication, block crawlers, redirect to inaccessible content, or sit behind paywalls will not work.

While there’s no hard limit on how many files you can upload to use as source content for AI Assistant, we recommend uploading only what you need for faster processing. If you don’t have entire files as reference, you can also copy and paste content from the source into the text box provided.