Rise 360: Personalize the Theme

You can easily customize your theme in Rise 360 by changing the photo, choosing a theme color, changing fonts, changing your cover page, adding a logo, and more. Just click the Theme icon in the upper right corner of the editor to access the following options.

• Change the Cover Photo

• Change the Theme

• Modify the Cover Page and Add a Logo

• Select Course Navigation and Button Style

• Change the Lesson Header

• Hide Author Avatars

• Set the Theme Color and Adjust Contrast

• Change Fonts

• Modify Blocks

Change the Cover Image

A cover image is added by default when you create your content. The image is used in various theme layouts. You can upload your own image or search for the perfect one from the extensive assets in Content Library 360.

If you prefer not to use a cover image in your content, that’s fine too. Select a cover page layout that doesn't include an image and your selected theme color displays instead.

In the Theme menu, select Cover Page in the sidebar. Next to the photo, click Edit. From here you can upload an image or browse the Content Library for the perfect image. You can also edit the image in the cover page settings.

From the edit menu, you can crop the current image or adjust the overlay for your cover image.

If it’s hard to see your title with an image background, try adjusting the Overlay. Select a light or dark transparent overlay, then adjust its opacity as needed by percentage. Overlay adjustments affect text contrast for the image on both the cover page and sidebar navigation. For instance, if you select a dark overlay, the text color will be light and vice versa.

Pro tip: Check your navigation settings to make sure your selected overlay provides the expected contrast on the sidebar image.

Change the Theme

New content has the Rise theme applied by default. For additional themes, click the Change Theme button. Changing the theme reverts any style changes you've made, such as font or theme color.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Note: If you've changed your cover photo, you'll see that image previewed instead of a default image for each theme.

Modify the Cover Page and Add a Logo

Select Cover Page from the themes menu in the sidebar. Select an available cover page layout to see it with your current content in the main window.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your cover page changes or Cancel to discard them. 

For courses, you can add a logo. Click the Add Logo button at the bottom of the sidebar to upload your image file. Once uploaded, you can change or delete the image by clicking Edit.

Reduce whitespace in your uploaded image by selecting Crop logo. In the crop image pop-up, manually crop your image or click Constrain to square to automatically apply a square crop which you can manually resize. Click Save to commit your changes. If you change your mind, open the crop image pop-up again and manually remove the crop.

You can also increase the size of the logo on the cover page by selecting an option from the Logo size drop-down list. 

• Small—default logo size
• Medium—1.5x larger than the default size
• Large—2x larger than the default size

Note: SVG and GIF files can't be cropped. 

Logo changes are automatically saved. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Select Course Navigation and Button Style

You have multiple options when it comes to navigation. For courses there's the sidebar menu, compact navigation, and overlay navigation. For microlearning, select between continuous scroll or incremental steps.

By default, Rise 360 courses use the sidebar menu. The compact menu is a small menu that appears as a minimized card in the bottom-left corner of your course. Overlay navigation is a large, persistent card that appears at the top of the course.

For microlearning, blank content defaults to continuous scroll while stepped navigation is the default for content templates. For stepped mode, you can select an indicator type or disable the indicator bar entirely.

Select Navigation from the themes menu in the sidebar, then select one of the available navigation layouts to see it with your current content in the main window. 

For courses, click the Buttons tab for options to change the appearance of previous and next buttons. Select from full width:

Or floating:

You can also choose from white or dark color schemes or versions that use your selected theme color. Theme color options have a 4.5:1 color contrast ratio.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Click here for information on additional navigation controls.

Change the Lesson Header

For courses, select Lesson Headers from the themes sidebar.

To disable lesson headers, toggle the Hide Lesson Headers setting to On. When turned on, the lesson count label, lesson title, and author avatar won't display at the top of each lesson. Additional lesson header options in the Theme menu are disabled.

There are several available header layouts. Select one to see it with your current content in the main window.

If you'd like to use an image as your header, select the Image style and choose an image from Content Library 360 or upload one of your own. Modify the existing image by clicking Edit Image to access additional menu options. Use the drop-down menu contained here to modify the image overlay color.

Once you've selected a header style, change the header height by selecting an option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the sidebar. Lesson count labels can be toggled on or off with the appropriate option.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Hide Author Avatars

There are three ways to hide the author avatar that appears on the cover page and in each lesson header.

• Globally: On the cover page, click the author avatar and select Hide Author. This hides the author avatar on the cover page and all lessons.

• For all lessons: Navigate to Themes > Lesson Headers and slide the Author Avatar option to Off. This hides author avatars for all lessons but keeps the author avatar on the cover page.

• Per lesson: In each individual lesson, select Hide Author from the author avatar drop-down menu.

Set the Theme Color and Adjust Contrast

Customize your content with a theme color and adjust text and graphic contrast in the Colors menu.

Theme Color

The theme color appears throughout your content to tie it all together. Choose from one of the suggested colors or create your own custom color:

1. In the Colors menu, click Custom.

2. Add a color by entering the hex code or manually selecting one from the color palette. Button text automatically changes from light to dark as needed to preserve a 4.5:1 contrast ratio for accessibility.

3. Click Done to close the color selector.

Contrast

Ensure that text and graphic elements that appear over your theme color adhere to an accessibility-conformant 4.5:1 ratio by selecting Auto from the drop-down list. With this selected, the text and graphic elements that appear over your selected theme color change from light to dark as needed to preserve contrast. 

Note: When you select Light or Dark, training elements won't automatically adjust and may not maintain contrast that's conformant with accessibility guidelines.  

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Change Fonts

In the Fonts menu, you can select and preview several recommended fonts based on your current theme.

If you'd like to mix and match heading and body fonts, click the More tab to add and manage your own custom fonts.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.

Modify Blocks

By default, non-text blocks animate smoothly into view as learners scroll through block lessons, but you can turn the animations off if you prefer. Select the Blocks menu, then toggle the Block Entrance Animations switch to Off.

Click Save in the upper left to commit your changes or Cancel to discard them. Click Back to return to the main themes menu.