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Rapid elearning content creation: Articulate RISE 360 explainer 1 of 6

Let's create a new, blank project!

Posted by By pixel perfect 6 Min Read April 5, 2024

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Create an Articulate account and create a new Rise 360 microlearning project.

Overview

Name of explainer: Create an Articulate account and create a Rise 360 microlearning project

Creative theme: Rapid elearning content development

Software used: Articulate Rise 360

User level: BEGINNER

This is explainer 1 of 6 in this series

This series includes:

  1. Create an Articulate account and create a new Rise 360 microlearning project
  2. Explore Rise’s content blocks and add text and image blocks to the project
  3. Add an interactive timeline block incorporating embedded images and video
  4. Add a process block and create step by step user instructions
  5. Add a knowledge check including multiple choice and ‘matched pairs’ questions
  6. Export the learning content to a PDF, to HTML and to an LMS

The Software

This series of explainers uses Articulate Rise 360, a popular application for quickly building and deploying online learning. It’s part of a suite of programs called ‘Articulate 360’ which also includes Articulate (a traditional, slide-based e-learning creation application) and the online review and commenting platform Review 360. Articulate refers to Rise as ‘Rise 360’ – We use the terms ‘Rise’ and ‘Rise 360’ interchangeably throughout this series.

A website homepage for an e-learning platform called "articulate" displayed on a laptop screen, with text promoting it as the leading solution for creating workplace training.
A website homepage for the e-learning platform called “articulate” displayed on a laptop screen, with text promoting it as the leading solution for creating workplace training.
A hand holding a smartphone displaying an app for employee health and wellness, against the backdrop of a website homepage that advertises online course authoring.
A hand holding a smartphone displaying an app for employee health and wellness, against the backdrop of the website that advertises online course authoring using RISE 360.

You can download a free 30 day demo version of Rise 360 from Articulate’s website. This gives you access to a fully-functioning copy of Rise to use alongside our explainers.

Over the course of six explainers we’ll use Rise 360 to create a short ‘microlearning’ product introducing users to Generative AI is and showing them how they can interact with ChatGPT. We’ll include a short quiz at the end, and show how to export the short ‘course’ from Rise 360 to a range of formats including a PDF and html files to upload and use on our own website.

The finished product

This is how our Rise 360 microlearning project looks at the end of this explainer series. Welcome to ‘An introduction to Generative AI!’

The example above shows a near-final product based on the content included at the end of this series. It would be subject to final changes and finessing before being released to clients.

Here’s the PDF version of the above microlearning, downloaded from Rise 360 at the end of this series:

an-introduction-to-generative-ai-PDF-downloadDownload

The pre-requisities

This is a BEGINNER workflow explainer series. Ideally you already need to be familiar with simple text and image editing.

Why would I do this?

We need to create an Articulate account to obtain access to the Rise 360 application. We’ then need to create a new ‘project’, which is refered to as ‘microlearning’ to add content blocks to it.

Let’s do it!

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Use our example content

You can download the example content used in this explainer series. No specific assets are used in this individual explainer.

Good to know

We’re creating a single, standalone ‘package’ of learning which Rise refers to as ‘microlearning’. You can also think of this as a single ‘objective’. If you’ll be creating online learning for lots of separate topics or objectives you will use Rise’s ‘New course’ option instead. We do not use this option in this series as we’re focusing on rapid content development and deployment.

As mentioned in the explainer, Rise 360 includes templates to explore and edit rather than having to start with a blank project. If your use-case mirrors the supplied templates they can be a great timesaver!

A screen shot of a website with a variety of different images.
Examples of the templates available with Rise 360

Where to next?

Remember, this is part of a series of explainers for this application – Join us again for the other explainers in the series 🙂

Notes and updates

There are no notes or advisories at this time. This video explainer was last updated in April 2024. This page was last updated in April 2024.

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This is number 1 of 6 explainer videos in this series. Make sure you check out the others!