Rise 360: Manage Course Media

While text often forms the backbone of a Rise 360 course, adding multimedia can really make your training content shine.

You can easily add images, audio, and video directly into many Rise blocks or in their own special blocks. Adding web content can enhance your training even more. Keep reading for tips on working with multimedia content.

• Images
• Audio
• Videos
• Web Content

Images

In addition to image blocks, many other Rise 360 blocks also support adding images. Depending on the lesson or block type you’re using, click the camera icon or the Add Images button. Sometimes it’s found in the main window; other times it’s accessible in the sidebar via the content menu.

Generate images with AI Assistant, upload images from your computer, or search photos and illustrations from 14+ million assets in Content Library 360.

Since Rise 360 compresses images with virtually no loss of quality, you can use high-quality images in your courses. Rise optimizes them for web distribution. Select Preserve file quality when uploading images to bypass optimization. File size limits still apply.

After adding an image, use the action toolbar to remove or replace it, crop the image, or add alternative text for screen readers.

Audio 

The easiest way to add audio to your training is with a multimedia audio block. After inserting the block, add audio by clicking the Content icon to open the sidebar and then the Replace audio icon to the right of the audio playback bar (it looks like a microphone). 

You can also add audio to most text, statement, quote, and list blocks, as well as some interactive blocks. See this article for a list of audio-enabled block types.

For supported blocks, open the content sidebar. In the Audio section for the relevant block element, click the Add/Replace audio icon. 

When the Course Media window displays, you can either generate AI audio, Record audio, or Upload an audio file.

AI Audio

If you have an AI Assistant subscription, you can use the AI audio tab to generate an audio file from a text transcript. More than 5,000 voices are available, with others added regularly.  AI Assistant can also generate an audio transcript for you if you have existing audio. Learn more about text-to-speech with AI Assistant.

Record Audio

To get started with the Record audio tab, simply click the Record button. Note that there's no countdown, so you’ll want to be ready to record once you click the button! Once recording, you can pause and resume recording. Stopping the recording saves the current session. Click Record again to discard the current audio file.

To have AI Assistant transcribe your recording, select the option before inserting your audio recording. Click Insert audio to add your recording to the current block.

Upload

If you have existing audio, add it via the Upload tab. Rise 360 supports playback of all major audio file formats, up to a maximum size of 5 GB per file. Rise 360 optimizes uploaded files for broadcasting without sacrificing sound quality, maintaining stereo tracks or creating two mono tracks if the original audio is mono.

Audio Transcripts

Where available, select Transcribe audio file option to manually enter a transcription of your audio file or have AI Assistant transcribe your audio for you. When using the auto-transcription feature, make sure you edit the transcription to ensure accuracy. To cancel the auto-transcription process, toggle Transcribe audio file. The transcription field isn't available for editing until your audio has been processed. When generating audio with AI Assistant, the script you use is included automatically as the audio transcript. 

When audio transcripts are available, learners can click the icon in the audio player and open the transcription in a sidebar. 

Delete 

Once audio is attached to your block, open the sidebar, hover over the audio playback tool, and click the Remove audio icon.

Videos

In addition to video blocks, several other blocks support video content. Where available, click the media folder icon and choose Upload media. Sometimes the icon is in the main window; sometimes it’s in the sidebar.

For best results, we recommend using high-quality videos with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Rise 360 compresses videos so that they maintain high quality while offering smaller file sizes for web distribution. To bypass optimization, select Preserve file quality when uploading videos. The maximum file size for each file uploaded to Rise 360 is 5 GB. 

After adding a video, click Edit to remove or replace it.

Tip: You can also import screencasts you create with Replay 360 and Peek 360.

Web Content

To add web content in blocks that support embedded media, click the media folder icon and choose Embed from web. Sometimes the icon is in the main window; sometimes it’s in the sidebar.

Just paste the URL or embed code for the web content you want to use—for example, a YouTube video or an interactive graphic. You can even use parameters for embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos. 

Note: Videos in embedded web content don't pause when the learner switches to another tab or scrolls away from the content. To enable auto-pause, you must upload the video as a file, as detailed in the previous section.

We use Embedly to embed rich media in Rise 360 courses. That means you can use videos, images, documents, and other media from more than 400 content providers, including YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, and Scribd. See the complete list of supported content providers here.

If an error occurs or your web content doesn’t display, see these articles for tips:

• Embedded Content Is Missing or Blank
• How to Fix Invalid Embed Code