Articulate Localization: Create Multi-Language Rise 360 Courses

 

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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. Read on to learn more.

• Translate a Course
  • Early-Access Course Stacks
  • Translate Text Updates
• Manage Languages
• Tips
  • Add Collaborators
  • Localize Video and Audio Assets
  • Understand Question Banks
  • Include Right-to-Left Languages

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:

1. In your dashboard, hover over the content tile for the course you want to localize, click the more (...) icon, and select Translate.
2. 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.
3. Click Translate. Rise 360 will create a multi-language course with all the language versions presented as a single course “stack”. The course stack tile on the dashboard indicates how many languages are in the stack, as shown below.

 

Translating a course creates a course stack

Multi-language courses share the same theme and structure. If you add, move, or delete a block, lesson, or section in one language, those changes will apply to all other languages in the course. Other factors to note:

• Clicking the tile opens an overview page that lists all the current languages in a sidebar and allows you to preview each language.
• Click EDIT COURSE to make changes to any language version.
  • The language dropdown on the top left lets you switch between languages while authoring, as shown below.
    

    Here are some guidelines to keep in mind when choosing a language from the dropdown:

    • Stay in the source language if you want to make changes in all languages, such as updating course content, adding new blocks, lessons, or sections, and changing themes.
    • Switch to a target language if you want to make language-specific changes, such as replacing media assets, editing existing text, and changing course labels.
• 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.
• Audio and video assets will be the same across all languages after translation. Any changes you make to the media—such as alt text or image alignment—in the source language will be applied to all target languages. You can have language-specific media by modifying the media asset in the target language. Remember that editing a target language disconnects the asset from the source language, so any changes done to the source won’t be applied moving forward.

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 Translate at the bottom left of the stack overview. If the language exists in the course stack or the Archived Translations folder, click Translate again to overwrite existing versions.

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. However, if you duplicate the multi-language course or send a copy to someone else, any new translations on the copy—including translating text updates—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. Retranslating archived languages will also permanently delete the versions in the Archived Translations 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:

• Click Share > View collaborators from the course stack or while editing the course to 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. If the course already has collaborators, a Share Settings option displays instead.
• 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. 

You can add anyone with an Articulate 360 Teams subscription, but they must have Articulate Localization to access course stacks. Note that course managers and editors can view and edit multi-language courses, but only course managers can initiate course translations and manage languages.

Collaborators without access to Articulate Localization can’t access the course stacks, but course managers can save separate copies of each language to their account when they try to launch the course stack.

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.