Rise 360: Export to LMS, PDF, and the Web

Ready to distribute your Rise 360 content to learners? You’ve got options! In addition to using Quick Share and Reach 360, you can export your content for LMS distribution, host it on your own web server, or download it as a PDF file. Here’s how.

• Publish an LMS Package
• Publish a PDF File
• Publish Web-Only Output

Publish an LMS Package

If you use a third-party LMS, you can export your Rise 360 content in a variety of compatible formats. Rise 360 supports xAPI-, SCORM-, AICC, and cmi5-compliant LMSs.

1. Open the content you want to publish from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select LMS.
2. Choose an LMS standard: xAPI (Tin Can API), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2,  AICC, or cmi5.
   
   Note: For xAPI and cmi5, if you alter the pre-generated identifier, don't use special characters. 
3. Select a Tracking option. All content can be tracked by completion percentage or Storyline block. Courses can also be tracked by quiz result. If you're tracking by course completion or quiz result and exporting a SCORM, AICC, or cmi5 package, you can choose a reporting option.
   
   Note: Not all complete/incomplete options are available for reporting on microlearning content.
4. Choose whether to display an Exit Course Link for learners and/or toggle the Hide Cover Page option. Selecting these options may help resolve third-party LMS issues. Note that you can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates.
   
   Less-frequent LMS issues may be solved by options in the More settings menu:
   
   If you delete a lesson in your course, then update the course in your LMS, some learners might see a blank page. If this happens, toggle Reset Learner Progress and click Continue to confirm. When learners launch the newly updated course in your LMS, their progress will be reset. Their quiz data will be retained. This option isn't available for xAPI exports.
   
   If your LMS supports hiding the Suspend, Continue, and Close buttons at the top of your training, you might see duplicate buttons in training exported using SCORM 2004. Toggle Hide LMS Interface to hide these extra buttons.
5. Click Publish in the upper right corner again to generate the package. (If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask if you want to edit the content or continue.)
6. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.)
7. Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save.

Upload the zip package to your LMS. If your LMS requires you to identify the launch file, point to indexapi.html.

Publish a PDF File

Need to print content or download it for compliance documentation? Good news! You can export your Rise 360 content as a PDF file. 

1. Open the content you want to export from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select PDF.
2. The PDF file auto-generates. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 first asks if you want to edit the content or continue with the export.
3. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to keep working while Rise 360 generates your PDF file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the PDF before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.)
4. Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save.

That’s it! You can read the PDF file offline, print it, distribute it to others, or even attach it to your Rise 360 content as an optional download using an attachment block.

Interactive elements of your Rise 360 training may display differently in your PDF file. Here's how interactive blocks are displayed in PDFs.

• Hyperlinks work as expected and launch in your default web browser.
• Audio clips, videos, web objects, and custom blocks become static placeholder images.
• Interactions such as labeled graphics and tabs become a series of screenshots, one for each item in the interaction. (Each flashcard becomes two screenshots, one for the front and another for the back.)
• A Storyline block becomes a screenshot of the first slide in the project.
• Quiz lessons and knowledge check blocks display questions and answer choices. They don’t show correct/incorrect responses or feedback statements.
• Code blocks display a compatibility error message.

Publish Web-Only Output

You can also export Rise 360 content as web-only output and host it on your own web server. Here’s how.

1. Open the content you want to export from your Rise 360 dashboard. Then, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Web.
2. The zip file auto-generates. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 first asks if you want to edit the content or continue with the export.
3. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.)
4. Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Content on the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save.
5. Extract the zip package and upload the contents to your web server. If you don't have access to a web server, here are some free options:
• Amazon S3 offers free hosting with generous usage limits. If you go over your limit, you'll be charged a small fee. See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Amazon S3.
  
  
• Google Cloud also has a free hosting service. You'll be charged a small fee if you go over the free limit. See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Google Cloud.

Once the files are uploaded, provide learners with a link to the index.html file.