Rise 360: Share Content with Learners

There’s more than one way to share Rise 360 content. You can give learners a link to view it on our servers, submit it for publishing in Reach 360, export it for LMS distribution, host it on your own web server, or download it as a PDF file. Here’s how.

• Share a Web Link
• Submit to Reach 360
• Publish an LMS Package
• Publish a PDF File
• Publish Web-Only Output

Share a Web Link

Sharing Rise 360 content is easy. We give you the ability to get your awesome content in the hands of small audiences quickly with a shareable link. It’s there when you want to show your progress or get input from someone that you’re not collaborating with in Review 360.

1. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard.
2. Click Share in the upper right corner of the screen and copy the shareable link. (If you're the owner, you have the option to protect your course with a password.)
3. Send the link to your learners. And if you set a password for it, be sure to give them the password too.

Viewing content via a shareable link is not a long-term hosting solution. And shared deliverables don't track your learners’ progress. When they leave and come back, they have to start all over.

We recommend you export your content to an LMS or a permanent web host for the best learner experience.

Submit to Reach 360

If your Articulate 360 team uses Reach 360, you can submit training directly from Rise 360 for an admin to review and publish. 

1. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Reach 360. 
2. The Submit to Reach 360 window displays (if the training was previously published, you'll see the date of the last publication).
3. Set completion parameters. Learners can complete the training by viewing a specified percentage, passing a selected quiz lesson (in courses), or both. You can also choose No Requirement.
   
   Note: If you lower the passing score of a quiz after the course is published, learners have to retake the quiz in the republished course to gain the benefit of the lowered score, even if their prior score would be a success with the new parameters.
4. Selecting the Course Duration option displays the estimated time it'll take learners to complete the training on the overview page. This is automatically calculated based on actual lesson content, but you can overwrite it with your own value.
   
   Note: Manually modified duration values are overwritten when you submit changes to previously published training. 
5. The Completion Celebration option displays an animated, confetti-filled, celebration for learners when they meet the completion parameters. 
6. Enable Certificate for course completion to provide learners with a downloadable completion certificate.
7. Training has no due date by default, but you can select a set number of days to complete the training after a learner is enrolled or specify a due date.
8. If you're not a Reach 360 admin, use the searchable drop-down menu to select a specific admin to notify and add a note, such as if you'd like the training to be included in a specific library or if it's part of a learning path. 
9. Click Submit to complete the submission process and return to the training. For courses, if you haven't added content to every lesson, you'll be reminded to do so before you can submit a course.

Once a Reach 360 admin reviews your submitted course and completes the publishing process, it’ll be available for learners.

Publish an LMS Package

Export Rise 360 content as an LMS package when you need to track learners’ progress. Rise 360 supports xAPI-, SCORM-, AICC, and cmi5-compliant LMSs.

1. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, 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 (completion percentage, quiz result, or Storyline block). If you're tracking by course completion or a quiz result and exporting a SCORM, AICC, or cmi5 package, you also get to choose a reporting option.
   
   Note: For microlearning content, only select complete/incomplete options are available for reporting.
4. Decide if you want to display an Exit Course Link for learners and/or Hide Cover Page. Selecting these options can help resolve third-party LMS issues. 
   
   Note: You can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates.  
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.
8. Upload the zip package to your LMS. If your LMS requires you to identify the launch file, point to indexapi.html.

Note: 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, select More settings and click the Reset Learner Progress option when you export your course. Then, 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. 

Publish a PDF File

Need to print Rise 360 content? Or download it for compliance documentation? Good news! You can export it as a PDF file. Here’s how.

1. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select PDF.
2. The PDF file is auto-generated. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask 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.

Want to see a video demonstration? Click here!

Here’s how the interactive parts of your Rise 360 content appear in the PDF file:

• Hyperlinks work as expected and launch in your default web browser.
• Audio clips, videos, and web objects 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.

Publish Web-Only Output

If you don’t need to track learners’ progress, you can export Rise 360 content as web-only output and host it on your own web server. It’s easy!

1. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Web.
2. The zip file is auto-generated. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask 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.
6. When the files are uploaded, give learners a link to the index.html file.