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Articulate Localization: Create Multi-Language Rise 360 Courses (Early Access)
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With Articulate Localization, you can translate course and microlearning content into 70+ languages and manage all the language versions as a single project, right from the Rise 360 dashboard. Watch the video to learn how to translate and share the translations with validators. Then read on for more details on managing multi-language courses.
Translate a Course
Before translating your course, run through this checklist to avoid common issues.
- Prepare your course for AI translation with the following best practices:
- Avoid using all caps to emphasize certain words. AI translation often interprets this as an acronym and won’t translate it.
- Avoid splitting a sentence into multiple text boxes, as this removes necessary context for effective translation.
- Avoid using emojis. Their meanings can vary across cultures, and machine translation tools may not interpret them accurately.
- Use proper grammar.
- Simplify formatting. Complex formatting can create challenges for all forms of AI translation. Here are some best practices:
- Don’t format spaces.
- Let Rise 360 handle text wrapping. Using shift+enter to manually insert line breaks will impact other languages, where it won’t always be appropriate.
- Scan through your content one more time for terms that might need to be added to the AI translation glossary. The glossary specifies how terms are translated—or not translated. For example, you might have a specific term for “service” in a particular language. Or you may want to make sure your brand name does not get translated.
Once you’ve double-checked your course, follow these steps to get started with Localization:
- In your dashboard, hover over the content tile for the course you want to localize, click the more (...) icon, and select Translate.
- A translation dialog will appear. You can confirm the source language, select one or more target languages, and adjust the formality if the languages support that option.
- Click Translate. Rise will make a copy of your project for each language and bundle them together into a single course ‘stack’ tile on the Rise dashboard.
Adding languages creates a course stack
When you add languages to a Rise course, each translated language becomes a separate copy of the original course. Note that:
- The source language and all target languages are presented as a single ‘stack.’ The course tile on the dashboard indicates how many languages are in the stack.
- Clicking the tile opens an overview page that lists all the current languages in a sidebar and allows you to preview each language.
- To edit an individual language, switch to it in the sidebar and click the Edit button in the top navigation bar. Any changes you make affect only the language you are currently editing.
- Custom label sets are not translated, but translated courses will automatically have default label sets for each target language. If you prefer to use custom label sets, you can assign them to individual courses after translation.
Manage Languages
You can add or remove languages from a multi-language project at any time. You can also save a copy of a language as a separate course.
Add or Replace a Language
To add or replace (retranslate) a language, re-run the translation tool by selecting Translate from the stack tile option in the dashboard or clicking Add Languages at the bottom left of the stack overview.
Note: Retranslating or using AI translation for existing languages in a multi-language course within the same billing period does not affect your total purchased translation count. If you duplicate the multi-language course, however, any new translations on the copy will be counted.
Remove a Language
To remove a language, click the ellipses (...) beside the language from the stack overview, and choose Archive. The language moves to the Archived Translation folder at the bottom left. You can restore or permanently delete the language from the Archived Translation folder.
Save a Copy of a Language
To save a language as a separate course or microlearning, click the ellipses (...) beside the language from the stack overview, and choose Save as. Give the copy a name and click Save. The copy is saved in the same folder as the multi-language project and includes the default label set for the corresponding language. The label set is also added to the list of built-in label sets under Course Settings.
Tips
Add Collaborators
You can add collaborators to your multi-language course in three ways:
- Go to the source language course and add them via course settings.
- From your Rise dashboard, hover over the content tile for the course, click the More (...) icon, and select Share to add them via share settings.
- Hover over the content tile for the course from your Rise dashboard, click the More (...) icon, and select Move to move the course to a team folder. Everyone who has collaborator access to the team folder you choose will have the same access to the course.
Make sure the collaborator you add has access to Articulate Localization. Course managers and editors can access course stacks, but only course managers can initiate course translations and manage languages.
Localizing Video and Audio Assets
Localize video and audio assets automatically by inserting closed captions before translation. Since closed captions are text, they will be translated when you add languages to your course. If you already have translated versions of the assets, you can upload them to the corresponding language variants.
Understand Question Banks
Questions drawn from question banks are translated together with the course. When publishing to Review 360 for validation, we recommend including all the questions from the question bank so validators can review them. Learn more about using question banks in knowledge checks and quizzes.
Include Right-to-Left Languages
Rise 360 supports multi-language courses with both left-to-right and right-to-left language versions. In edit mode, right-to-left language versions are in a left-to-right layout, but they will automatically adjust to right-to-left layouts when the course is previewed, reviewed, or published.