Animated Avatars
I'd love to be able to use Articulate (I mainly use Storyline) to create animated avatar training modules. I'm looking for more natural movements than what the static avatars allow using states and intro/exit animations. For example, I want to create an animated video of a cartoon avatar putting on PPE. Another example is an avatar whose mouth moves while talking.Ability to Copy/Move Microlearnings to Courses
In Articulate 360, it’s possible to copy or move a lesson from one course to another, but there’s no equivalent capability for microlearning content. 🙄 Instead, users are forced to rebuild microlearning content as block templates every time they need to reuse it in a course, which is both inefficient and unnecessarily time-consuming. 🤬 This gap creates avoidable friction in what should be a straightforward workflow. Enabling the ability to copy or move microlearning content into courses would be a simple but high-impact improvement that would remove a lot of frustration and redundancy. Rather than focusing heavily on AI features, it would be great to see attention given to strengthening these core content management capabilities that directly affect day-to-day productivity. I am sure I am not the first person to share this feedback. Thanks for your time and consideration! 🙂Rise - Hide Cover Page option for Quick Share
I really like the option to hide the cover page that's available for LMS and Web publishing, and having that available on the Quick Share link would be very helpful. We create job aids using Rise, and if we can eliminate that initial click, that will help users get to the content more quickly. They are in a call center environment, so every second makes a difference in their stats. Publishing to the web doesn't work because we host on SharePoint, and sharing the link to the story.htm file does not launch the file and returns an error to the user. Plus we need the tracking that Quick Share provides. Thanks!Sort Comments in Rise
Reviewer comments are visible when editing a course in Rise360, but they are not sortable. Ideally, users could sort these comments by time stamp, lesson/item order, etc. Currently, the oldest comments go to the bottom, typically aligning with earlier parts of the course, while later comments appear at the top. The current workaround is to start at the bottom of the comment list and work up, but it is counterintuitive. The comments do filter correctly to show only relevant comments on the quiz or lesson page, but they are still in reverse order. Maybe helpful to add filters/sorts for different reviewers too.Current File name missing in Labelled Graphic
When trying to replace an image used in a Labeled graphic within the Interactive block, there's currently no reference to the file name of the image that's already in use. This makes it difficult to confirm which image you're replacing, especially when multiple similar images are involved. It would be helpful if the system displayed the current image file name similar to how it’s done in the Image blocks please.Centralized Alt Text Manager with AI Suggestions for Rise 360
Description: I'd love to see a centralized Alt Text Manager within Rise 360 where authors can view and edit the alt text for every image in a lesson or course from a single location. Instead of opening each individual image block, the Alt Text Manager would provide an accessibility dashboard that streamlines authoring, SME review, and quality assurance. Suggested functionality: Display every image in the lesson or course with a thumbnail preview. Show the current alt text or clearly indicate when alt text is missing. Allow authors to edit alt text directly from the dashboard. Identify decorative images separately from informative images. Include filters (e.g., Missing Alt Text, Decorative Images, AI Suggestions). Optionally provide AI-generated alt text suggestions that authors can review, edit, and accept. Why this would help: As instructional designers, we frequently collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to review course content. SMEs are often the best people to describe the educational purpose of an image, but the current workflow requires them to open each image individually to review or edit its alt text. A centralized Alt Text Manager would allow SMEs and instructional designers to: Review all image descriptions in one place. Quickly identify images that still need alt text. Ensure descriptions accurately reflect the instructional intent of the image. Perform accessibility reviews much more efficiently during QA. AI-generated suggestions could further reduce authoring time by providing a strong starting point, while still allowing human review and editing to ensure descriptions are accurate and instructionally meaningful. For courses with dozens or even hundreds of images, this feature would save significant time, improve collaboration between instructional designers and SMEs, and help authors produce more accessible courses with greater consistency.Text toolbar, show top-row button tooltips above the buttons so they don't cover the second row
When you select text in a block, the rich-text formatting toolbar can wrap onto two rows. Hovering a button in the top row shows its tooltip directly below it, which lands on top of the button in the row beneath. In practice this makes the second row awkward to use. For example, hover Bold to check it's the right control, then go to set alignment (in the row below), the Bold tooltip is now covering the alignment button, so you have to move the mouse away to dismiss the tooltip before you can click it. Suggested improvement: Anchor the top-row tooltips above their buttons rather than below, so they don't overlap the controls underneath. Ideally decide the direction based on available space, top row opens upward, bottom row opens downward, so you don't just invert the overlap onto the other row. For reference, the toolbar renders into <div id="portal"> as "course-action-preview-tooltip__wrapper", with tooltips currently anchored below their trigger (top = triggerBottom + gap). Anchoring above would be top = triggerTop − tooltipHeight − gap.Settings for publishing courses in Rise
It would be really nice to have a few more options that are persistent between courses. In Publish --> LMS - Email: Toggle on or off to specify if you need an email letting you know a course has been published. Currently, I get an email every time I publish a course. It would be nice to have a way to disable this notification. - Compress Output: Toggle on or off to compress files generated by publish. It would be great if there was a way to just send me a compressed file for the output when I publish a course. In Publish --> Preview - Make the options we pick sticky between courses as well. If I pick that I want live updates, it would be nice to not have to pick this every time I create a preview link to send out for each course.
