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Gossip-Proof Your Workplace

Articulate eLearning Challenge #416  is Using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to Build Online Training. To create the interactive Articulate Rise example below, I decided to try out Canva’s new AI text-to-image feature for the first time.

Creating the Images

To create an image using Canva’s AI text-to-image tool, you need to type a description of the image you want. Then, you select a style from the approximately 20 styles the tool offers. When you click “Create,” Canva will produce 4 example images.

To help me decide on what style to use in my demo, I typed in the following prompt, then clicked create to see what the AI tool would produce:

Close-up of a female office employee talking, facing forward, with a pleasant expression on her face.

As you can see, changing the style completely changes the resulting image, even when using exactly the same prompt! Ultimately, I chose to go with the Watercolor style for this short demo.

Authoring Tools:

  • Articulate 360 Rise Microlearning
  • Canva Text-to-Image tool

Sexual Harassment Training

Each year Articulate issues a challenge based on using Pantone’s Color of the Year in an eLearning example. Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year is Viva Magenta.

Pantone says Viva Magenta:

“… vibrates with vim and vigor. It is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength. Viva Magenta is brave and fearless, and a pulsating color whose exuberance promotes a joyous and optimistic celebration, writing a new narrative.”

I decided to see how well Viva Magenta works as a “wake-up” color in a Sexual Harassment Training mini-course, rather than using the more typical blues and greys that usually accompany HR training. This course was developed in Articulate Rise. It includes an opening video I created in Powtoon, and edited with Camtasia. Click the image below to view the demo.

Master Mixologist

Become a Master Mixologist! Cool off with a refreshing Frozen Daiquiri. Learn a bit about the history of the famous cocktail, and get the classic recipe in How to Make a Frozen Daiquiri, the interactive version of this eLearning demo.

I created the animated video with a new tool I’ve been playing around with: CreateStudio. Although I’ve only had it for a short time, it looks promising! This demo was submitted to Articulate’s eLearning Mixology Challenge #381.

Authoring Tools

  • Articulate Rise 360Rise Apex theme was used for the interactive demo
  • CreateStudio – used to create the animated video
  • Murf Studio – text-to-speech voice in the animated video
  • Canva – icons and images

Become a Space Cadet!

Click the image above to view the Articulate Rise demo.

Become a Space Cadet was submitted to Articulate’s eLearning Drag-and-Drop Challenge #380.

Authoring Tools

  • Articulate Rise 360 – I used the new Rise Horizon theme for this demo
  • Articulate Storyline 360 – the Solar System drag-and-drop interaction was created in Storyline
  • Powtoon – the two videos in this demo were created in Powtoon, and edited in Camtasia

Transparent Echo Technique

Click the image above to view the Articulate Rise demo.

Articulate’s eLearning Challenge #377 is to create an Image Effect for eLearning Cover Slides. I decided to create an example of the Transparent Echo Technique for the banner image in an Articulate Rise course.

All of the images in this course were created with the mix-and-match vector cartoons available for use in the stock images section of the PowerPoint ribbon.

Articulate Rise Clear Image Tip

When you upload an image to a Rise course, be sure to put “_noprocess_” somewhere in the image file name. (Do not include the quotation marks.) This will prevent Rise from compressing the image, which lowers the quality. Image file name example: tracy_cartoon_noprocess_.png

Let’s go Surfing!

Check out the demo by clicking the image above!

Let’s go Surfing! is an Articulate Rise interaction I created as a response to Articulate’s eLearning Heroes Challenge #372, Create Toggle Effects with Button Sets in Storyline 360.

Storyline’s button set feature makes it easy to create interactive toggle effects for graphics, characters, and more. In this Rise course, I inserted a Storyline block that uses shells as buttons. As the user clicks each button, a different surfing term and definition pops up.

Another way I customized this Rise course was to use a custom, unblurred background for the scenario block, as well as custom surfer characters. The way to do this is by editing the published files in the the course folder. Articulate’s Tom Kuhlmann has a great tutorial on how to accomplish this — Hack: How to Add Custom Characters to Rise Scenario Blocks.

I used several authoring tools to create this presentation:

  • Articulate Storyline 360
  • Articulate Rise
  • PowerPoint
  • Freepik
  • Canva

Back to the Office

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, lifestyles have changed. Many former office workers now work remotely, from their homes. At this point, some organizations are demanding that workers return to the office. Check out the demo by clicking the image above!

Back to the Office is an Articulate Rise interaction based on this situation. I created this demo as a response to Articulate’s eLearning Heroes Challenge #371Using Labeled Graphics to Create Interactive Pictures in E-Learning.

I decided to use a comic book theme, and use labeled graphics to advance the scenario. Users click on the markers to reveal the graphics, which serve as speech bubbles for the characters.

I used several authoring tools to create this presentation:

  • Freepik
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • PowerPoint
  • Articulate Rise

I found the images I wanted to use by exploring pop art images on the Freepik site. I picked images that would be easy for me to manipulate using Adobe Illustrator and/or PowerPoint.

Vector mages downloaded from Freepik are easily edited in Illustrator. For each image I used, I removed the backgrounds by simply turning off the background layer in Illustrator, and exporting the image as a transparent png image.

Working with PowerPoint, I was able to compose new images by combining graphics, inserting new backgrounds, increasing color saturation and changing the expression on a character’s face by adding colored shapes strategically.

Wash Your Hands!

Click on the image below to see the course example.

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What is Articulate Rise?

Rise is a web-based authoring tool that allows you to quickly (and I mean quickly!) create fully responsive courses that look great on any device. While you build your course, you can easily preview how the course will look when it automatically adapts to computer screens, tablets, and phones.

You build the course right in  your web browser, choosing from a variety of pre-made lesson formats.

“No software to download, no learning curve.”

Articulate makes easy-to-learn software. I found it very easy to learn Storyline, and if anything, Rise is much easier to learn. Within a few minutes, I was creating my first sample course–called Wash your hands!in order to learn the application.

Lesson formats

I used the following lesson formats in my short course:

  • Image gallery (for a comic-book effect)
  • Tabs interaction
  • Embedded YouTube video
  • Interactive labeled graphic
  • Interactive checklist
  • Quiz with immediate feedback
My Verdict

I’m very impressed by how quickly and easily I could work with Rise, with no training at all! I’m not used to working within pre-built lesson formats, so it did feel a bit constraining when I couldn’t do exactly what I envisioned immediately. But I’m sure if I continue to play around with the application, I will learn how to be more creative with it.

I’m also quite impressed by the beautiful course examples shown on the Articulate website, created with the Rise application:

Wish List for Rise
  1. I would love more format options for quiz questions.
  2. Some built-in eLearning game interactions.
  3. A timer.
  4. Badges, and/or certificate of completion.
  5. I REALLY wish there were more options other than one-year subscriptions!

Have you tried any of the Articulate 360 applications yet? If so, what did you think?