instructional design
839 TopicsRetry only incorrect option for Rise quizzes?
Warning: Rant incoming... Wondering why, after so long. this is still not an option. I found conversations/requests from years ago asking for this. If a quiz has anymore than a just a few questions, it's just mean to make them have to redo the ones they got right when they may only be 1 or 2 short of the passing mark. I recognize one can use a Storyline block, but doing the extra to format to match a Rise course is one strike against it and that many clients don't have SL for future updating is another (big) strike. Surely it's not a huge amount of effort to add this feature. Please advise if you have any intention of providing this option in the future. It would be most appreciated by designers AND learners. Rant over.110Views1like4CommentsArticulate: Stop Chasing AI for a Moment and Fix the Learners Question Experience in Rise
Now, Articulate has done a somewhat impressive job integrating AI across its products, and those capabilities undoubtedly have value. Love the AI image editing. But there comes a point where new features begin to overshadow the VERY long-standing usability issues that instructional designers have been raising for years. I'm begging you... please revisit Rise's question and assessment experience. Knowledge Checks and Quiz Lessons still feel visually dated! They've barely changed since Rise launched nearly a decade ago. Huge padding. Heavy shadows. Massive blocks. They consume excessive screen space and offer almost no meaningful control over layout or presentation. And then there's the KCs... they remain fundamentally disconnected from LMS analytics! The most frustrating aspect isn't simply the visual design and which is outdated, boring and barely customisable but the missed opportunity. Knowledge Checks are where learners naturally demonstrate understanding throughout a course, yet none of that information is reported to the LMS. In a SCORM 2004 environment such as CSOD, only Quiz Lesson questions generate reportable interaction data. The crazy thing is the data is already there. Rise knows the question, knows what I clicked and knows whether I got it right... it just doesn't send any of it to the LMS. If I have use your awful layout at least pass the SCORM data! So not only do they look outdated with oversized cards, padding and shadows, every embedded Knowledge Check effectively disappears once the learner moves on. Organisations are forced to choose between good instructional design and meaningful analytics. We should not have to make that trade-off in 2026. At a minimum, there should be an option allowing authors to designate selected Knowledge Checks as reportable SCORM interactions while retaining their in-line presentation and immediate feedback. In many ways, Articulate has built one of the most approachable authoring tools on the market, but it's time to revisit the foundations rather than continually expanding the AI feature set. Refresh the quiz templates. Modernise the interaction design. Give authors meaningful control over assessment presentation. Most importantly, provide the option for Knowledge Checks to submit question-level interaction data to LMSs that support SCORM 2004. Those changes would have a far greater impact on the quality of digital learning than yet another AI button added to the toolbar. Rant over. Sorry... well, not really.96Views2likes3CommentsError Loading Course on Apple Products - iPhone, iPad
I have 3 courses that have been live for a few months, and I've continued to have complaints that users are running into issues when trying to open a course created in RISE360 from our LMS site. I have been able to narrow the issue down to Apple. It happens mostly on iPhones and iPads running later versions of iOS, but sometimes on newer versions too. Sometimes the screen will go black, then kick them back to our website and sometimes they will receive a white error message page. 89% of our users are mobile and Apple users make up a good portion of that. What do I need to do to fix this?!?255Views1like10CommentsFill in the blank not allowing user to enter answer
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me here. I have a question bank with multiple questions, 2 of them are Fill in the Blank question. When I preview, or use the review site, I can not select the box to type in an answer. Sometimes it worked fine, most of the time I can't select it at all. There is nothing covering the answer box. I've tried deleting the slides and starting again, but I'm still having the same issue. The only thing I can interact with is the Submit button, which won't work because I didn't answer the question. Any ideas are appreciated.47Views0likes4CommentsAI Animation
I am normally a Storyline user, but I do use Rise to make AI animation. But recently when my animation in Rise is generated random words or shapes appear on the screen. I am not sure why or how to make it not happen. I am also wondering if I can create custom AI videos in Storyline yet? If so how? Thank you for all of your help. You can email me at mailto:[email protected] if you'd like.44Views0likes2CommentsNewbie needs Help
I am using a Content Libary slide called Tabs Interaction. The slide is designed to advance through the 4 icons and switch pix when user clicks. I am trying to automate that so the slide delivers the 4 points on it's own, and then at end, I added a 5th tab designed to show all 4 bullets show together. I was successful, except the last stop, where it shows all 4 bullets for 1 second and then goes to 1st bullet only. What have I done wrong? Attached are snips of my tabs/base layer layout, my timeline and my object triggers. Any suggestions? Thanks - First time here.Solved63Views0likes10CommentsEnabling CC by Default in Storyline
Hi Team, Is it possible to have closed captions enabled by default in Storyline when a course begins, without the learner needing to manually click the CC button? I’m currently exploring the built-in captions feature in Storyline 360, and it would be helpful to get some resources or articles.Solved176Views0likes3CommentsShort form content: what does it mean for us, and is anyone actually using Rise microlearning?
Been mulling this over for a while and wanted to see what others think. Most people now consume information in short bursts. Shorts, Reels, TikTok. I don’t buy the idea that attention spans have collapsed, the same people happily sit through three hour podcasts and binge a whole Netflix series in a weekend. What’s collapsed is tolerance for padding. And our industry has churned out an awful lot of padded 40 minute modules with a locked Next button over the years, so maybe we’ve brought it on ourselves. My hunch is that short form becomes the reinforcement and performance support layer. Sixty second how-tos at the point of need, spaced refreshers after the main course, that sort of thing. Deep skill building stays long form but has to justify every minute. The bit that gets squeezed is the generic middle, the 30 minute click-through that nobody remembers a week later. There’s a catch though. Watching feels like learning but mostly isn’t. Short form is built for engagement, not retention, and without some sort of retrieval practice all you end up with is view counts. And some subjects just don’t work chopped into bits. I mostly develop safety and technical engineering training for heavy industry and you can’t build judgement about process safety from a stack of clips. Which brings me to the tools. Rise has had microlearning as a course type for a good while now and I hardly ever see anyone using it. Genuine question, are you? My suspicion is the authoring isn’t the problem, it’s everything around it. SCORM and a traditional LMS are a clunky fit for a two minute piece of content. Nobody logs into an LMS for 90 seconds. Reach 360 goes some way towards this, but plenty of us are tied to a corporate LMS and that isn’t changing any time soon. If Articulate are serious about this I think it’ll take more than a shorter course type. Content that can be scheduled and drip-fed out over days and weeks. Notifications that land somewhere people actually look, Teams, email, their phone. Analytics that measure something more useful than completion. Vertical, mobile first templates wouldn’t hurt either. A few questions then. Are your stakeholders asking for shorter content yet, or is it still all full courses? Is anyone using Rise microlearning at any real scale, and if so how are you delivering it? And what would Articulate need to build for micro content to properly work in your setup? Would be good to hear where others have got to with this.57Views1like2CommentsStoryline 360 Text-to-speech
Hello everyone. I've been reading through the old threads regarding the issue I am having and found there hasn't been a fix for it yet, but the developer did comment on them that the issue was resolved. So, since I am having issues, I was hoping someone found a work around or solution to this and can share it with me. I haven't had issues with this until yesterday- articulate has been working beautifully for months. My text-to-speech option has disappeared from the audio drop down button. Sometimes it will reappear, and when I try to use it, I get the perpetual spinning wheel of doom. I have followed all guidelines and emailed the support group who has just asked me questions and had me complete procedures that I already tried. For background purposes, I have; Verified AI is enabled with my admin Signed out and back in multiple times Rebooted my computer twice Confirmed my colleague is having the identical issue Followed the advice from the Atlassian community board and their support group. This is affecting all of our project files, not just one I didn't change anything or recently update Articulate IT hasn't blocked AI services to our organization Additionally, I get random popup messages about logging in to articulate, but when I check on the website, I AM logged in. Then, this pops up and continually spins with no end. This tells me there is an issue with this on the developer's side. Any help in resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time.34Views0likes1Comment