The Magical Abilities That Make Articulate Rise 360 Courses Special

Articulate Rise 360 is a dynamic tool that allows designers to create beautiful online courses with a few clicks of a button at a modest cost.  However, Articulate Rise 360 isn’t suitable for all course content.  Learn more about Articulate Rise, take our demo course, and imagine what your new course might look like.

What Is Articulate Rise 360?

Articulate Rise 360 is a modern, dynamic e-learning tool that allows designers to create courses for any device.  Using a web-based course builder enables instructional designers to create beautiful online courses with a few clicks of a button.  And the courses designed with Rise are fully responsive to all devices and automatically adapt to different screen sizes.

When To Use Rise

Articulate Rise is very user-friendly and has an intuitive interface.  And it often takes less time to build a course than other e-learning tools.  Also, we can design a course in Rise at a modest cost.

And Articulate Rise 360 enables instructional designers to create beautiful, professional, uncomplicated courses.  However, the downside of Articulate Rise 360 over other authoring tools, such as Articulate Storyline, is that there are fewer ways to customize a course and fewer formatting options.

But Articulate Rise 360 is excellent for many applications, such as text-heavy courses, which you want to develop quickly.  For instance, good Articulate Rise examples are annual compliance training or anything regulatory that requires a significant amount of on-screen text.  Compared to other e-learning tools, its interface has more space to input and fit text on the screen.

Articulate Rise Examples

Many courses are suitable for building using Articulate Rise 360.  Essentially, text-heavy courses requiring modest interactivity that aren’t overly complex are all good options for Articulate Rise.

For instance, at Spark + Co., we’ve created online courses using Rise for

• Major Educational Institution serving more than 25,000 students annually with multiple campus locations
• Provincial Government Department with numerous locations and services
• Publicly funded healthcare provider serving 300,000 people, including 55 Indigenous communities across an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometres
• Collaborative research network of multiple research Universities
• Crown agency responsible for regulating the financial services sector
• National Non-profit Housing Co-operative Association
• Provincial Child Health Network
• Province-wide network offering integrated health and wellness services to young people aged 12 to 24
• Human resources and health and safety association for the tourism and hospitality industry
• Ontario non-profit healthcare institution providing long-term care, complex continuing care, rehabilitation services, and community support services
• Global organization in 116 countries supporting over 2 million companies that develops and maintains supply chain standards

“It was an absolute pleasure to work with Holly and Spark + Co staff.  Holly’s leadership and expertise were pillars to the success of this project.  In addition to authoring the course, Spark + Co staff contributed by providing creative ideas for interactions and answered technical questions from the team.  We are very satisfied with the course that Holly authored for us and will consider Spark + Co for future contracts.  Our other project team members were impressed by the collaboration and quality of the work from the Spark + Co team with special praise for Melissa.”

Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Chief Forester, Ministry of Forests following completion of their RISE course

Topics can be diverse and have included:

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• Prevention of Sexual Violence in the workplace
• Indigenization Journey
• Respect in the workplace
• Standards of Conduct
• Information Security
• Protected Disclosure
• Emergency Response
• Respectful Relationships – Indigenous Cultural Safety
• Onboarding For New Housing Managers
• Preventing Sexual Harassment In The Hospitality Sector
• Climate Change
• Adoption of new supply chain standards worldwide
• Autism Awareness
• Administrative and Case Law
• Social – Emotional Development For Children 0-6
• Healthy Eating And Physical Activity
• Healthcare software training
• Maintaining global technical standards for improving value chain efficiency, safety, security, sustainability, and visibility across physical and digital channels

“I highly recommend working with Spark + Co. and I would hire them again in the future.”

Concert Properties following completion of their first rise course

Take our short demo course below on Articulate Rise – 101 to see the features available.  It will show you Articulate Rise examples and features and reveal what you can expect in a course built using Articulate Rise 360.

“This course is really amazing, I’m recommending it to all my fellow teachers and friends. Thank you for inspiring all of us!” Raffi Foundation

Articulate Rise 360 Super Heros

There are over one million members in the E-learning Heroes community for Articulate e-learning products.  These course designers use one or more of the Articulate products to create online learning.  And it is where course creators get advice and help on everything e-learning.  It’s the world’s most empowering site for industry pros.

And to identify and recognize those experts who go above and beyond to help others by contributing to forum discussions, sharing ideas, and pointing people to helpful resources.  Articulate designates a few with SuperHero Status.  The Super Heroes program recognizes only the top contributors.  At Spark + Co., our founder is one of the esteemed few acclaimed Articulate Superheroes.  So you can be sure that at Spark + Co., we have proven Articulate Rise 360 experts ready to help create your course.

Articulate Rise 360 Current Features

Articulate Rise 360, as an authoring tool, offers a suite of features that make it an exceptional tool for creating online courses.  These features are particularly informative for those seeking effective training solutions.  Below, we discuss 10 features of Articulate Rise 360 that highlight its capabilities.

1. Inherently Responsive Design: Courses built in Articulate Rise 360 automatically adapt to any device, ensuring a seamless learning experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
2. Extensive Content Library: Access to over 13 million royalty-free assets, including images and videos, enables the creation of media-rich courses. This library of assets allows us to develop courses without you incurring media production costs.
3. Interactive Blocks: We can use a variety of interactive elements in Rise 360, such as accordions, tabs, labelled graphics, and scenarios. This allows us to engage learners and enhance knowledge retention.
4. Customizable Course Themes: We can tailor courses for your organization and brand by adjusting layouts, navigation options, colours, fonts, and images, ensuring a consistent identity.
5. Assessment and Quiz Options: Articulate Rise 360 allows us to build multiple question types. For example, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching allow comprehensive knowledge checks to evaluate learner understanding.
6. Microlearning Support: Besides creating extensive courses, the platform facilitates the creation of bite-sized, focused content.
7. Accessibility Compliance: A significant advantage is that we create custom courses for you that adhere to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA. Using Rise ensures courses are accessible to all learners, reflecting a commitment to inclusivity.
8. Advanced Analytics and Reporting: Articulate Rise 360 allows us to integrate advanced analytics and reporting easily.  For instance, integrating standards like SCORM, xAPI, and cmi5 with your learning management system (LMS) provides detailed insights into learner progress and course effectiveness.
9. Scenario-Based Learning: We can design the scenario block to create branching scenarios, allowing learners to engage in decision-making exercises that mimic real-world situations.
10. Custom Enhanced Interactivity: As Articulate superheroes at Spark + Co., we are adept at creating customized, engaging online learning.  Using our skills and other tools, we can create highly interactive activities running seamlessly in Articulate Rise 360.  Enhancing creativity and tailoring content to your specific learning objectives and your target audience of learners.

These features collectively position Articulate Rise 360 as a powerful and versatile platform for developing engaging, effective, and accessible online training programs.  It makes it an attractive choice for organizations aiming to enhance their learning and development initiatives.

Future Articulate Rise 360 Features Planned

Articulate continually enhances Rise 360 to provide more powerful and flexible tools for course creators.  Here are seven upcoming features poised to elevate the quality and effectiveness of online courses created using Rise even further.

1. Custom Color Palette: Upgraded features will increase the ability to customize courses for your organization’s brand by adding more custom colour palettes.
2. Math Equations Support: In the future, it will be easier to build equations into courses, enhancing technical and scientific content delivery.
3. AI Video Generation: Leveraging AI, Articulate Rise 360 will enable the creation of professional-quality training videos featuring realistic actors, natural-sounding voices, and customizable backgrounds, reducing the need for more expensive media production.
4. Voice Library: Access to thousands of ultra-realistic, AI-generated voices, filterable by age, gender, and use case, will allow for more personalized and engaging audio narration in courses.  This will reduce the need for human narrators and the media production costs for courses.
5. Timeline Block Generation: AI functionality will transform sequential information into interactive timeline blocks, encouraging learners to explore content in a highly structured manner.
6. Enhanced Accessibility Features: Ongoing accessibility improvements in Rise 360 aim to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.  Ensuring courses are accessible to all learners.
7. Advanced Analytics Integration: Planned enhancements in analytics and reporting will offer deeper insights into learner engagement and course effectiveness, aiding in data-driven decision-making.

These forthcoming features underscore the dedication to advancing Articulate Rise 360 as a premier platform for creating impactful online training programs.  By leveraging these innovations, organizations can deliver more engaging, personalized, and compelling learning experiences, making the partnership with a company like Spark + Co. an invaluable asset in achieving your educational objectives.

When Not To Use Rise For Your Online Courses

While Articulate Rise 360 is an excellent tool for creating responsive, modular, and streamlined eLearning courses, there are some scenarios where it may not be the best choice.  Below are nine specific types of online courses that would not be a good fit for Rise and the better alternative tools to use instead.

* As noted above, Articulate Rise 360 are currently working on upgraded features that will enhance or enable Rise 360 to be a good option for courses in these areas.

We produce great courses using Articulate Rise 360: a responsive, easy-to-build, professional-looking course with modular content.  Using Articulate Storyline 360 or creating activities in Storyline to embed in a Rise 360 course provides better course outcomes when you need high interactivity, complex branching, gamification, and advanced simulations.  In some cases, other tools are better if specialized AR/VR and advanced analytics are needed.