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 Photo A cover photo is added by default when you create your content.The photo is used in various theme layouts. You can upload your own photo or search for the perfect image from an extensive library of gorgeous, royalty-free photographs. If you prefer not to use a cover photo in your content, that’s fine too. Select a cover page layout that doesn't include a photo 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 generate an image with AI Assistant, upload an image, or browse Content Library 360. You can also edit the photo in the cover page settings. From the edit menu, you can crop the current image or adjust the overlay for your cover photo. If it’s hard to see your title with a photo 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. ClickSave 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: In the Colors menu, click Custom. 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. 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.821Views0likes0CommentsReach 360: Manage Your Account Settings
The Settings section of the Manage tab is where admins can modify account-wide settings like organizational information, company logo, notification emails, custom fields, and more. Let's go through each tab. Account Learner Notifications Registration Account The account tab is where you make changes to company info and account-wide settings. Upload Logo Click the Upload Logo button to choose an image from your computer to use as your account logo. Just like that, your logo is updated throughout Reach 360 and at the top of all emails. Pro Tip: Before you upload, make sure you remove as much whitespace as possible from around your logo before uploading the image. Your image should be about 35px high. If you’re using a transparent background, your image file should be saved as a PNG. Company Name and Time Zone Enter your company name and time zone. Due dates are based on the time zone you enter here. Tip: Completion certificates use the name you enter in the Company Name field. Brand Color Select the default accent color for your account with Brand Color. Either select one of the default colors or choose your own (or enter the RGB value) in the color selector that appears when you click Custom. You'll see the selected color across Reach 360 in your logo, buttons, even the favicon. URL If you're an owner, you'll see the option to use a Reach 360 subdomain or a custom domain of your choosing. This allows you to change your Reach 360 subdomain. This URL is where users access your site. If you change your subdomain, users accessing the previous subdomain are automatically redirected to your new subdomain for thirty days. After thirty days, the previous subdomain is released and can be reused by anyone. Tip: Subdomains can only contain letters, numbers, and hyphens. Custom Certificates Customize training certificates and manage existing custom certificates by clicking Manage Certificates. These certificates can be assigned as the default certificate for all new training or assigned to specific training. API Keys Generate and manage already-generated API keys to use with the Reach 360 API. SSO If you're the account owner, you can enable SSO for your Reach 360 learners. Learner Notifications The system sends default emails to notify learners when they register, when training is coming due, and when training is overdue. You can send a preview of the current message to your email by clicking Send me a Preview. You can also customize the subject and body of the email by clicking Edit content. Note: Default reminder emails are sent in thelearner's selected language. Preview emails are always sent in English. Editing Learner Notifications Select Manage > Settings > Learner Notifications and, in the appropriate section, click Edit content. Enter text in the Subject field to customize the subject line of the auto-generated email. In the Body field, enter text to customize the body of the email. Click Save Changes to commit the changes. Click the Back to link to return to the Settings tab. For welcome emails, the name and email of the admin that generated the invitation are automatically included below the customized welcome email text. For training reminders, you can use the following dynamic variables in your email templates to personalize and add details specific to each recipient: [learner_name] to add the recipient's name [course_name] to add the course name [due_date] to add the due date Neither the Subject nor the Body field has a character limit. Note: Only new users invited from Reach 360 receive customized emails. Customized emails are sent in the language written. Modifying Email Reminders Learners receive notification emails when they're enrolled in or complete training. They also receive reminders when a due date is pending or training is overdue, when applicable. Email reminders can't be disabled, but they can be customized. Use the Email Reminders section to preview the notifications sent to learners or modify the time period and frequency of reminders. Previews are sent to your registered email address. Note: Any modifications apply to emails only. Changes made here do not affect the timing of Slack or Teams notifications. Registration Self-Registration Enable or disable the option for users to register themselves as learners on your account and customize your self-registration page. Learn more about how this works. This option must be selected to enable group self-registration and direct content sharing. Custom Learner Profile Fields Use custom learner profile fields to collect additional information from learners when they register for your site. This is the page registrants see after verifying the email they provided when clicking an email invite or self-registering. Click Manage Fields to see the custom fields that are currently defined or to add new fields. To add a new field, click Create New and select Text or Drop-down. For text fields, enter a label and an optional description. For drop-down fields, add options for learners to choose from (options display in the order in which they're entered). Click Create when you're finished. Preview how the field looks by clicking the registration page link in the section description (the preview page isn't clickable). Pro Tip: Want to add a learner profile value for existing users? Once you've created the field, you can manually add the value to individual user records. Learner profile fields are visible on individual learner records. Add or edit responses on the Manage > People tab by expanding individual records and clicking the edit icon in the Learner Profile section. You must enter values for all required fields to save your changes. To modify or delete a field, hover over it, click the icon that appears, and select Edit or Delete. When you delete a custom field, all user data associated with that field is also deleted. Adding a custom learner profile field with the same name as one that's been previously deleted doesn't restore previously entered data. Delete individual drop-down options by hovering over the option and clicking the X that displays. Note: Custom field labels and drop-down options must be 50 characters or fewer. Descriptions can have up to 120 characters. Learner entries are restricted to 200 characters or fewer. You can't have more than 200 options for a drop-down field.336Views1like0CommentsGetting Started with Articulate 360 Teams
An Articulate 360 Teams subscription gives you all the benefits of a personal Articulate 360 subscription plus easy team management, consolidated billing, priority support, unlimited storage space, and exclusive collaboration features and add-ons. This article explains everything you need to know to get started with Articulate 360 Teams. Check out this overview video, then dive into the details that follow. Visit the Articulate 360 Teams user guide for even more info. Start a Free Trial orBuy a Subscription Confirm Your Organization Name Understand User Roles Add and Remove Admins Assign Users to Open Seats Remove Users BuyMore User Seats as Your Team Grows Get Help When You Need It Start a Free Trial orBuy a Subscription Get everything you need from course development to distribution with Articulate 360, including award-winning authoring apps, 20+ million course assets, a simple project review app, live online training, exclusive collaboration features, easy account management, and a frictionless LMS. If you haven't already tried Articulate 360 Teams,sign upfor a 30-day free trial and invite up to 10 additional users to join your team during the trial period.Learn more about free trials. When you’re ready to subscribe,click hereand follow the prompts to complete your purchase. If you need help,let us know! We offer academic discounts for teachers and students at qualifying institutions. See this article for all the pricing details and discounts. Articulate 360 Teams subscribers can pay via credit card orpurchase order. Articulate 360 Teams subscriptions are ideal when you need to purchase on behalf of someone else. For example, your company’s purchasing department might pay for a subscription then designate you as an admin for the account, allowing you to assign seats to users on your team. Confirm Your Organization Name After buying a subscription, you’ll be prompted to open the account management console and confirm your organization (or company) name. Choose a short version of your company name. If your organization has more than one Articulate 360 Teams subscription, include a label to differentiate them—for example, "Glivy - Marketing" or "ACME - Sales." Once you’ve entered the name, click Save. It’s that easy! Learn more about naming, renaming, and switching between teams. Understand User Roles There are four types of users in an Articulate 360 Teams account. Account Owner The account owner is the person who bought the subscription and is responsible for billing management. The account owner is the only one who can buy more user seats. If your team has activated Reach 360, the account owner is also the owner there. The account owner is an account admin as well, so they can manage all users, groups, and admins for the whole team. That includes the ability to activate or deactivate Reach 360 and opt in or out of Articulate AI. You can be an account owner for multiple teams, but you can only be a user on one team. Account Admin Account admins manage all users, groups, and admins for the whole team. Details here. Account admins can't make purchasing decisions, but they can ask the account owner to buy more user seats as your team grows. They can also activate or deactivate Reach 360 and opt in or out of Articulate AI. Account admins don't consume user seats (by default), so you can have as many as you'd like. However, if they need to manage the team and create e-learning courses, assign them to user seats so they can use the Articulate 360 apps. If your team has activated Reach 360, account admins can manage Reach 360 admins, managers, and reporters. You can be an account admin for multiple teams, but you can only be a user on one team. Group Admin Group admins manage users in the groups they’re responsible for. They can’t see or manage other groups or admins in the account management console. Details here. Group admins can't make purchasing decisions, but they can ask the account owner to buy more user seats as your team grows. Group admins don't consume user seats (by default), so you can have as many as you'd like. However, if they need to manage the team and create e-learning courses, assign them to user seats so they can use the Articulate 360 apps. You can be a group admin for multiple teams, but you can only be a user on one team. User Users are seatholders. They can use Articulate 360 apps, such as Storyline 360 and Rise 360, and they can submit content for publishing to Reach 360 if it has been activated. Users create e-learning courses and collaborate on projects. You can only be a user on one team. See this article for more information about roles and permissions in Articulate 360. Add and Remove Admins The account owner and account admins can add and remove other admins. Add Admins Admins don’t consume user seats (unless they’ve been assigned to seats), so you can add as many admins to your team as you want. We recommend adding at least two admins in case one is unavailable when you need help. Sign in to your account management console and click Manage Team on the left side of the screen. Click the Admins tab below the organization name. Click the last row, enter the new admin’s email address, and click Invite. New admins will receive an email invitation with instructions to create an account. You’ll want to show them how to manage users, groups, and admins. By default, all admins are account admins, meaning they can manage all users, groups, and admins for the whole team. You can change an account admin to a group admin (and vice versa). Details here. Remove Admins Sign in to your account management console and click Manage Team on the left side of the screen. Click the Admins tab below the organization name. Hover over the admin you want to remove, click the X that appears, and click Remove. For Reach 360 subscribers: Articulate 360 admins are not automatically synced as Reach 360 admins. Learn more about the different roles in Reach 360 and how to invite learners to your training. Assign Users to Open Seats Users are the team members who use the Articulate 360 apps to create e-learning courses. Here’s how to add users to your team: Sign in to your account management console and click Manage Team on the left side of the screen. If you’re an account admin, make sure the Seats tab is selected below your organization name. If you’re a group admin, you’ll see the groups you’re responsible for. Click an open seat, enter the new user’s email address, and click Invite. Tip: Account admins can import multiple users all at once rather than adding them one by one. List the users’ email addresses in a CSV file, then upload it to your account by clicking Upload a CSV on the seat management screen. See this article for details. New users receive an email invitation with instructions to create an account. You’ll want to show them how to install the Articulate 360 apps and manage their profile. Here’s some helpful information you can share with them: Watch this video overview of all the Articulate 360 apps and resources. Install the Articulate 360 desktop app. Install the desktop-authoring apps, such as Storyline 360 and Studio 360. Learn how to use the web apps, such as Rise 360 and Review 360. Manage your profile, account, and preferences. Get answers to common questions in the Articulate 360 FAQs. Remove Users Sign in to your account management console and click Manage Team on the left side of the screen. If you’re an account admin, make sure the Seats tab is selected below your organization name. If you’re a group admin, you’ll see the groups you’re responsible for. Hover over the user you want to remove and click the X that appears. Complete the process by selecting a team member as the new owner of the user's shared content and choosing whether or not to include personal content. Learn more about managing content when users leave your team. If the user is also an admin, keep or remove their admin access when prompted. For Reach 360 subscribers: Articulate 360 users without admin access are automatically synced as Reach 360 authors. Adding/removing Articulate 360 users will also add/remove them as Reach 360 authors. Learn more about the different roles in Reach 360 and how to invite learners to your training. BuyMore User Seats as Your Team Grows As your team grows, buy more user seats right from your account management console. Admins can request more user seats, but only the account owner can purchase them. After signing in, click either Manage Team or Billing on the left side of the screen, then click Buy More Seats. See this article for details and answers to common questions. Let us know if you need help. Contact us at biz@articulate.com or (800) 861-4880 ext 6. Get Help When You Need It Articulate 360 Teams subscribers get priority email support. Just submit a case, and you'll jump to the front of the line. You also get live chat support 24 hours a day Monday through Friday, Eastern Standard Time (except U.S. holidays). Just click the Live chat support button on our contact page when you need us. (You must be signed into Articulate 360 to access live chat support.) And here are some useful links to bookmark: Training: Participate in exclusive training webinars. They’re free for subscribers. Forums: Join discussions with e-learning professionals around the world. User Guides: Find detailed user guidesfor Articulate products. E-books: Download free e-books on e-learning topics and Articulate apps. FAQs: Get answers to common questions about Articulate 360. Documentation: Check out our knowledge base for instant answers.876Views0likes0CommentsRise 360: Get Started with AI Assistant
Maximize productivity with AI Assistant, an AI information and automation tool now seamlessly integrated into Rise 360. Generate content and images, refine existing content, and more. Getting started is quick and easy. Keep reading to discover how to access AI Assistant and how it can help you at the course overview level. When you’re ready, learn how to use AI Assistant to create content in lessons. Then, check out some tips to help you get the most out of AI Assistant. Did you know AI Assistant is also available in Storyline 360? Check out the Storyline 360 user guide to learn more. Access AI Assistant Adjust Training-wide Settings Manage AI Assistant Access and Provide Feedback Access AI Assistant When you open a Rise 360 course or microlearning, click the AI Assistant button in the upper right corner to display the AI Assistant menu. AI Assistant button inactive or you don't see it at all? If features on the AI Assistant button aren't active, then your Articulate 360 Teams administrator has disabled Articulate AI on the Teams dashboard. If you don't see the AI Assistant button at all, the feature is unavailable for your account. Contact your Articulate 360 Teams administrator for assistance. Features are grouped together based on the section of training to which they apply. The options at the bottom of the menu are available at any time. Simply click an active option to get started. Adjust Training-wide Settings Click AI Settings to access training-wide settings and upload source content. Click Done when you're finished adjusting your settings. These settings apply to the current training only. You can access AI Settings from anywhere in your training. Documents Drag and drop or click Choose files to upload source documentation for AI Assistant to use in the current training. AI Assistant can process .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .text, and .txt files that are 100MB or smaller and have 200,000 characters or fewer. Once your documents have been uploaded, you can select one or more of them whenever AI Assistant prompts you to specify source documentation. Note that AI Assistant only references extractable text in your source document, skipping images, audio, video, and content found in the Notes section of a .ppt file. Pro Tip: If you want AI Assistant to include content from the Notes section, print the content to PDF or copy it into a text file. Then you can upload it as a source document. Green checkmarks appear next to successfully analyzed documents that are ready for use. To delete a source, hover over the title and click the trash icon that appears. You can also manage this list wherever source documentation is used. Manage AI Assistant Access and Provide Feedback Admins can turn AI Assistant off for all team members from the Articulate 360 Teams Dashboard. The AI Assistant button still displays in Rise 360 and Storyline 360 but the features aren't functional. To disable and hide Articulate 360 AI features completely, please reach out to Support. We'll be glad to help. We want to hear about your experiences with and ideas for improving AI Assistant in Rise 360. To provide our Engineering team with direct feedback on Articulate AI features, select Share feedback on AI from the AI Assistant menu. Need more information? Check out our FAQs to quickly find answers to common questions, or dive into our tips to get the most out of Articulate AI.1.9KViews1like0CommentsRise 360: Choose Lesson and Block Types
To build your content, select block types and, for courses, add quizzes. Blocks Blank Lessons Quizzes Lesson Templates Blocks With Rise 360 content, you stack blocks to create unique learning experiences. Use blocks to create custom deliverables. Blocks are components you stack to create unique content that looks gorgeous on every device, in every orientation. Add blocks to content from the blocks shortcut bar. If you don’t see the block you want to add, click Block Libraryand choose block types from the library that appears in the sidebar. As you add content, the blocks shortcut bar drops below the last block in the lesson. You can also use the insert block icon that appears above or between existing blocks to open the block library. Build media-rich learning experiences with image, gallery, and multimedia blocks. Create lean-forward learning moments with interactive accordion, tabs, flashcard, and button blocks. Add text, statement, quote, and list blocks to tell a story or call out important information. And separate your lesson into meaningful sections with divider blocks. Add your own text and media to each block. You can edit text in the main window or in the sidebar. To swap out media, use the sidebar. To reveal the sidebar, just hover over a block and click the Edit button that appears in its upper left corner. And if you change your mind about the block type you selected, use the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the block to switch to a different block type from the same category without having to re-enter your content. Customize a block’s settings—such as padding and background color—by clicking the design icon on the upper right corner of the block. Rearrange blocks by hovering over them and clicking the up and down arrows that appear in the upper right corner. Duplicate or delete blocks by hovering over them and clicking the appropriate icon in the upper right corner. Recover deleted blocks by clicking the Undo notification that appears briefly in the lower-left hand corner. Combine blocks in different ways to create completely unique content—the possibilities are endless. While each block is stunningly pre-styled, you can easily create your own look by swapping in content, switching fonts, and selecting an accent color. Block Category Description AI Blocks Accelerate content creation with AI-generated blocks. Generate text-based blocks or create custom imagery for your training. Text Tell your story with text blocks, such as paragraphs, headings, multi-column layouts, and tables. Statement Make important points stand out with statement blocks. There are four uniquely styled statement blocks and a note block. Quote Highlight quotes in your story with eye-catching quote blocks. Choose from several styles, including a carousel for multiple quotes. List Make your point with lists. There are numbered, check-box, and bulleted lists. Image Make pictures pop with stunning image blocks. Choose blocks with images and text or images only. Gallery Showcase multiple images with gallery blocks, including carousels and grids. Multimedia Create media-rich lessons with multimedia blocks, including audio clips, videos, web content, attachments, and code snippets (text only). Interactive Engage learners with interactive blocks, including accordions, tabs, labeled graphics, processes, scenarios,sorting activities, flashcards, buttons, timeline, and custom Storyline interactions. Knowledge Check Pick and choose from multiple choice, multiple response, fill-in-the-blank, and matching blocks to create ungraded knowledge checks. Chart Transform your data into beautiful and engagingbar, line, and pie charts. Learners can mouse-over each data point to see details. Divider Organize a lesson into logical sections with dividers, numbered dividers, and spacers. And use continue blocksto progressively reveal content and make sure learners complete interactions before moving on. Templates Build Rise 360 courses faster by saving existing blocks and their content as block templates, then reusing those block templates in other lessons. And if you have an Articulate 360 Teams subscription, you can share block templates with your team. Learn more about block templates. Blank Lessons To build a lesson from scratch in courses, click Add Content and choose Create Lesson. If a lesson already has content, click Edit Content to modify its text and media. Quizzes Note: Quizzes can be added to courses only. Microlearning doesn't support quizzes. See what learners know or simply pique their interest when you add a quiz lesson by choosing Create Quiz. You can choose from multiple choice, multiple response, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions.This article has full details on quiz question types. Quizzes can't be added to microlearning Just add text and media, identify the correct responses, and provide optionalfeedback for learners. To customize quiz settings, such as timing, passing score, randomization, and number of retries, clickSettings in the upper right corner of the quiz editor. For courses, you can add a quiz as a completion parameter. Create a Quiz with AI Assistant Easily build an effective quiz with AI Assistant! In just a few clicks, AI Assistant can generate a quiz based on your course content and the parameters you provide, and then revise and modify as you like. Learn how to use AI Assistant to level up your course authoring game. Lesson Templates Rise 360 has an extensive collection of modular, fully customizable lessons on business topics relevant to every employee. Select Lesson templatesto add this carefully researched content to your courses. Use them to create entire courses or mix them with your own content to develop custom courses faster. See this article for more details on how they work.900Views0likes0CommentsRise 360: Share Content with Learners
There’s more than one way to share Rise 360 content. You can 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. Submit to Reach 360 Publish an LMS Package Publish a PDF File Publish Web-Only Output 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. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Reach 360. The Submit to Reach 360 window displays (if the training was previously published, you'll see the date of the last publication). Set completion parameters. Learners can complete the training by viewing a specified percentage, passing a selected quiz lesson (in courses only, microlearning doesn't support quizzes), or both. You can also chooseNo 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. Selecting the Course Duration option displays the estimated time it takes learners to complete the training on the overview page. This is 30 minutes by default but can be overwritten with your own value. The Completion Celebration option displays an animated, confetti-filled, celebration for learners when they meet the completion parameters. Enable Certificate for course completion to provide learners with a downloadable completion certificate. 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. 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. 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. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select LMS. 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. Select a Tracking option: completion percentage, quiz result (in courses only, microlearning doesn't support quizzes), 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. 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. 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.) 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.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton 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. 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, selectMore settingsand click theReset Learner Progressoption 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. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select PDF. 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. 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.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton 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! Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Web. 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. 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.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. 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. When the files are uploaded, give learners a link to the index.html file.3.7KViews0likes0CommentsReach 360: Manage Your Profile
Your profile, by default, displays your initials. Clicking the icon gives you access to profile settings. Here, you can upload a picture, select your default language, change your name, and update your email address. Note: If your role is something other than learner, your Reach 360 profile is read-only. Make changes to your profile in the Articulate 360 account management console. Learners who create an account with Google Authentication can't modify their e-mail address. If your account ismanaged via SSO, you'll need to contact your Reach 360 admin to make changes. We take security seriously at Articulate. That’s why we send an email to your new address to verify changes before updating your profile. To reset your email or password, we send a link to your verified email address with the steps you’ll need to complete. Tip: Passwords must contain at least 8 characters, including a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, and a number. Your name can't be part of your password. Trying to delete your learner account? Please reach out to your training manager to be removed from training. You can request that we delete your personal information by submitting a case here. Update Your Profile Photo Learners, replace the default profile icon with your own picture by clicking Upload Photo and selecting an image you’d like to use. Use the zoom slider and move the picture until your image fits in the profile photo outline. Click Save to update your profile. If your image looks blurry, it might be too small. Try picking a photo with a higher resolution or zooming out. Note: If your role is something other than learner, you'll change your profile picture in the Articulate 360 account management console. Select Default Language Select your default learner language from the drop-down menu. This translates the user interface (UI) for the Learn tab. You'll also receive default notification emails in your selected language.(If you receive an untranslated notification email after selecting a default language, it's been customized by your account admin.) Note: UI translation doesn't extend to the Analyze or Manage tabs. Manage Integrations The integrations section is where you connect Reach 360 with tools you use every day. If your organization has the Reach 360 app installed in their Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace, click the appropriate Add tobutton to connect your Reach 360 profile. Once connected, you'll receive in-app training notifications and more.218Views0likes0CommentsStoryline 360: Adding Content Library 360 Icons
Content Library 360 has 20+ million high-resolution photos, illustrations, icons, and videos. You can access them right from Storyline 360, and they’re all royalty-free with no attribution required. In this article, you’ll learn how to add eye-catching Content Library 360 icons to your courses and how to customize them with your own colors and effects. Adding Content Library 360 Icons to Your Course Customizing Content Library 360 Icons Making Icons Accessible Adding Content Library 360 Icons to Your Course Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Icons in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. Tip: The media browser remembers your last search term, previous search results, and the last asset you selected. Zoom in and out while you’re browsing for icons by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you want to look for a different type of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to another type: photos, illustrations, icons, or videos. Select the icon you want to use and click Insert to add it to your slide. Tip: You can select multiple icons at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once. Customizing Content Library 360 Icons After importing a Content Library 360 icon into your course, you can customize its colors to match your course design. Just select the icon on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and use the style galleries to edit the fill color, outline color, and effects. For example, here’s the same icon with different styles. And if an icon is composed of more than one shape, you can ungroup itand format each shape individually. Just right-click the icon, scroll to Group, and click Ungroup to see all the components that make up the icon. Here's an example of an ungrouped icon. You can tell if an icon is one shape or many by right-clicking it. If the Group option is grayed-out, it’s a single shape. If the Group option is active, it’s composed of multiple shapes. Here’s an example of a multi-shape icon. The original icon on the left has no formatting. The same icon in the middle has been recolored all at once (without ungrouping it). And the same icon again, but this time ungrouped, with specific formatting for each component is on the right. Making Icons Accessible When icons are designed with accessibility in mind, they are more likely to be intuitive and user-friendly for everyone, not just those with disabilities. Here’s how to make your icons accessible: Meet color contrast guidelines. You can use a web-based contrast checker or download a contrast checker tool to test the contrast ratio of your icons (1.4.11 Non-text Contrast). Reduce ambiguity. Use icons that communicate their functions clearly and are widely understood across different cultures and demographics. If you use an icon as a button, provide a text label that matches the icon’s function (2.5.3 Label in Name). Size appropriately. Adjust the size of any interactive icon to at least 44 pixels wide and 44 pixels tall. This ensures your icons are large enough for learners to interact with without error (2.5.5 Target Size). Offer multiple ways to navigate. Icons must be navigable by assistive technologies like screen readers to ensure an inclusive browsing experience (2.1.1 Keyboard). Stay consistent. Reuse the same icon to signify the same meaning. This lets learners know what to expect from each icon (3.2.4 Consistent Identification). Rely on text—not icons—to convey important details. Offer text-based options and make sure each icon has alternative text (alt text) descriptions. Icons that are purely decorative don’t need alt text. Hide them from accessibility tools to prevent unnecessary announcements (1.1.1 Non-text Content). You Might Also Want to Explore: Formatting Shapes, Captions, Text Boxes, and Content Library 360 Icons Ordering, Grouping, Sizing, and Positioning Objects94Views0likes0CommentsArticulate 360 Teams: Starting a Free Trial and Buying a Subscription
An Articulate 360 Teams subscription gives your team access to all Articulate 360 apps, including Storyline 360 and Rise 360. You also get exclusive collaboration features, simple team management, consolidated billing, priority support, and a starter plan for Reach 360—our frictionless LMs. Read on to find out how to try Articulate 360 for free for 30 days—including AI Assistant—and how to convert your trial to a subscription. Signing Up for a 30-Day Free Trial Buying a Subscription Signing Up for a 30-Day Free Trial Signing up for a free trial is easy. Click here and enter your email address. If you already have an account with us (an Articulate ID), you’ll be prompted to enter your password and activate your free trial. That’s all there is to it! If you don’t have an account, create a password, enter your information (name, country, etc.), and then activate your free trial. After activating your trial, explore all that Articulate 360 has to offer—including free access to AI Assistant, an integrated suite of AI-powered tools designed to accelerate course creation and boost productivity. (Don’t worry if you’re not allowed to use AI yet. Here’s how to disable AI Assistant during your trial.) You can invite up to 10 additional users to join your team during the trial period. It’s a great way to check out the exclusive collaboration features you get with Articulate 360 Teams, includingshared team slides in Storyline 360, shared block templates, and collaborative authoring in Rise 360. You can also experience how quickly you can distribute your training to internal and external learners with Reach 360. See these FAQs for answers to common questions about free trials, and let us know if you need help! Note: If you're tasked with purchasing in your organization but won't be using the tools, ask the person at the organization who will be the primary Articulate 360 user to sign up for the trial. That will enable the primary author to get the first seat. They can then add you as an admin so you can convert the trial to a paid subscription. Learn how this works here. Buying a Subscription Any member of your trial team can convert the trial to a subscription. When you’re ready, go to our pricing page, click Buy Now, and enter the email address and password you used to sign up for your free trial. Follow the prompts to complete your purchase. We offer education and upgrade discounts. See this article for details. As an Articulate 360 Teams subscriber, you can pay via credit card or purchase order. Articulate 360 Teams is ideal when you need to purchase on behalf of someone else. For example, your company’s purchasing department might pay for a subscription and then designate you as an admin for the account. Have questions about buying a subscription? Check out these purchasing FAQs for answers. And contact us if you’d like to chat. We’re happy to help!147Views0likes0CommentsStoryline 360: Adding Alternative Text for Screen Readers
Storyline 360 supports alternative text (alt text) for slide objects so your courses are accessible to learners with screen readers and other assistive technologies. In this user guide, you'll learn best practices for writing alt text and three ways to add alt text in Storyline 360. Best Practices for Writing Alt Text Using the Media Library Using theFocus Order Window Using the Size and Position Window Best Practices for Writing Alt Text Non-text content needs alternative text (alt text)to describe its meaning to learners using assistive technologies. Add alt text to objects that convey meaning or context to the learner.Purely decorative images and shapes can be hidden from accessibility toolsto prevent unnecessary announcements that can fatigue screen reader users. Our on-demand webinar,How to Write Alt Text for E-Learning, offers more specific strategies. The following tips for writing good alt text can help you get started: Be descriptive and specific. Clearly describe the content, function, and context of the image. You should have enough detail that someone who cannot see the image will still understand its purpose. Don’t include repeating phrases like "image of" and "graphic of.” Screen readers announce this by default. Keep it short. Aim for brief descriptions that convey the essential information. We recommend that alt text be less than 150 characters. Write clearly. Abbreviations and excessive punctuation marks may confuse screen readers, so use complete words and limit punctuation to guarantee clarity. For example, *** will be read literally as “asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.” Using the Media Library The media library makes it super easy to add alt text to all the images, characters, and videos in your project. Open the media library by going to the View tab on the Storyline ribbon and clicking Media Library. Select an image, character pose, or video in the asset grid on the left side of the window. Enter alt text in the details pane on the right. Learn moreabout managing alt text in the media library. Using theFocus Order Window The Focus Order window lets you customize the order in which slide objects are navigated with a keyboard and read by a screen reader. You can also use the Focus Order window to manage alt text for all your slide objects. Here’s how: Open the slide you want to customize in Slide View. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Focus Order. When theFocus Order window opens, enter text in the Alternative Textcolumn. Click Save when you’re finished. Here are some tips for working with alt text on the Focus Order window: All objects for the slide will appear in theFocus Order window, including objects from layers and slide masters. Although slide master objects appear in the focus order window, you'll need to switch to Slide Master View (press F4) to set their alt text. Right-click each object on the slide master, click each object on the slide master and choose Accessibility. If a non-text object doesn’t have alt text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline. The alt text for a text object defaults to the content within it. If you don’t want an object to be read by screen readers, select it in the list, then click the Remove button in the lower left corner of the window. (This doesn’t delete the object; it just hides it from screen readers.) If you’re using the modern player, you can add alt text to your course logo in your player settings. Learn more about using theFocus Order window. Using the Size and Position Window The Size and Position window lets you control an object’s height, width, rotation, scale, crop, and location. You can also use the Size and Position window to add alt text to the selected object. Right-click the object you want to edit, then choose Size and Position. When the Size and Position window opens, select the Accessibilitytab on the left side. Mark the box called Object is visible to accessibility tools. Enter text in the Alternativetext field. Click Close. Here are some tips for working with alt text on the Size and Position window: When writing alt text, you’ll see a dynamic character count and a tip not to exceed 150 characters. (While there isn't a character limit for alt text, it's best practice to keep it concise.) If the visibility box is checked for a non-text object without alt text, screen readers will read the name of that object as it appears in the timeline. If the visibility box is checked for a text object, screen readers will read the content within that text object. If you’d prefer to hide the selected object from screen readers altogether, uncheck the visibility box. If you’re using the modern player, you can add alt text to your course logo in yourplayer settings. Learn more about using the Size and Position window.344Views0likes0Comments