Cool Tool: Articulate Rise
May 1, 2020
I recently had the good fortune to work with SweetRush to develop some custom, mobile eLearning. The experience was WONDERFUL. I encourage you to check them out here. Their process is agile, learning design is sound, and visually the final products are beautiful. They also do cool pro bono work for many charitable organizations.
During the process they walked me through questions to help decide which authoring tool was the best fit for the situation. I was already familiar with Captivate and Storyline, having used them myself to develop other courses. But they recommended another authoring tool also provided by Articulate: Rise.
During my Corona Sabbatical, I decided to learn developing content using Rise. I got a free trial version and sank back into the couch ready to crank. To my delight, the process is very similar to that of using web site authoring tools, like Squarespace. There are standard templates you can start from, then customize the look, feel and function by adding, moving, or removing content elements. Iām still working on the sample, but you can see it here, Learning Value Stream.
Half the battle with content like this though is figuring out how to publish it so that the users can access it on the devise they have and have it function as intended. Thanks to Google, I figured out how to setup an account with Amazon AWS to host the content. Like many online services, there is a freebie level.
