Integrating Articulate Rise templates into your course-design process can have a huge impact on the look and feel of your learning experience. By spending a little extra time in the design phase, you can create unique transitions, more-polished images, and a more beautiful learning experience overall.
But using these Articulate Rise templates isn’t just about making your eLearning courses look better—it’s also about designing more efficiently, earning better learning outcomes, and meeting learners where they are.
If you’ve ever seen a Rise course and thought, “How did they do that?” then these free Articulate Rise templates are for you!
Take your Rise courses to the next level
Ready to uncover the secrets to building beautiful eLearning courses that truly stand out? We invite you to fill out the form and snag these free, easy-to-implement tools you can start using today to level up your Articulate Rise game. These three templates—built in FigJam, Illustrator, and Photoshop—will give you the framework you need to elevate your Rise courses from start to finish.
Looking for tips on how to make the most of these Articulate Rise templates? We’ve got you—in this blog, we’ll show you how to leverage external tools as well as tips and workarounds to push the limits of the authoring tool.
Here’s a quick overview of the three Articulate Rise 360 templates included in this download, why they’re helpful, and how to use them to make your next eLearning course truly stand out.
1. Moodboarding for Articulate Rise
Moodboards are an important part of the learning design process. Moodboarding helps you gather ideas and inspiration at the beginning of a project and challenges your team to think creatively. At Maestro, we build our moodboards to ideate and align on design elements like color palettes, fonts, image treatments, image styles, adjectives to aspire to, and layout ideas.
By using Figma’s collaborative brainstorming tool, FigJam, we ensure that everyone involved in the design of the learning experience is on the same page before diving into course development. Designers can also use moodboards as a reference to ensure they’re staying on the same page throughout the design process.
Articulate Rise Templates download: What you’ll get
Within this free download, you’ll get a simple but comprehensive FigJam moodboard template ready to be customized by your learning design team. With space for inspiration, short prompts to get the creative juices flowing, and tips for making the most of your moodboard, this template will help you and your team collaboratively establish a visual guide.
2. Using Photoshop to enhance course photos
By intentionally adjusting the images in your Articulate Rise training, you can better support the content, brand, and visual identity of the learning experience, demonstrating that time and care have been taken to craft your course. It’s that much easier to earn learner buy-in when a course looks and performs beautifully.
But Rise’s built-in photo editor is limited. That’s why our go-to tool for image enhancement is Adobe Photoshop. Not only can you crop, adjust colors, and combine photo, text, and illustration elements in Photoshop, you can also create simple gifs and much more. By using Photoshop, you can take a simple stock image and turn it into a beautiful, cohesive component of your eLearning course. Nearly every Rise training we’ve designed has been improved by Photoshop’s capabilities.
Psst! If you’re new to Photoshop, this brief outline of photo-editing tools is a great place to get started.
Articulate Rise Templates download: What you’ll get
Within this free download, you’ll get a Photoshop template with multiple artboards, all sized and labeled for their corresponding Rise components, from “Image Full Width” to “Flipcard/Grid” to “Icons.” To see how enhancing photos can help elevate the brand experience—and for some extra pro tips—watch our designers walk through photo enhancement examples in this on-demand webinar.
3. Transitions in Rise
Transitions are visual cues that let the learner know they’re moving from one concept to another. They’re important—especially in scrolling experiences—because they divide the material into digestible pieces. But often when creating a transition in Rise, you’re limited to the standard, horizontal banding look that results from simply changing the background color of the different sections.
At Maestro, we love pushing the limits of Articulate Rise, and making transitions is no exception. We’ve discovered ways to custom design transitions that are unique and more relevant to the content by adding bespoke graphic elements that we develop in Adobe Illustrator—and now you can too!
Articulate Rise Templates download: What you’ll get
Within this free download, you’ll get an Adobe Illustrator template with two examples of graphic transitions, formatted to the correct sizes for the corresponding Rise components. To learn exactly how to implement this useful Articulate Rise template technique, check out this complimentary on-demand webinar, in which two of our designers walk through the process from start to finish. You’ll be a pro in no time!
Do more in Articulate Rise with Mighty
Want more tools that supercharge your Rise courses? Meet Mighty, a powerful little Chrome extension that provides you with intuitive, no-code tools to enhance your Rise courses with ease. Mighty gives you the creative control and flexibility you always dreamed of, while maintaining the ease of use you love in Rise.
While workarounds like the Articulate Rise templates featured in this download are great for customizing your eLearning courses, Mighty takes customizing Rise a step further and makes it that much more efficient. Mighty works within Articulate Rise itself, allowing you to take advantage of new features and capabilities, like adding beautiful, custom transitions in just three easy clicks. With Mighty, you don’t have to use third-party programs like Adobe Illustrator or Canva to create beautiful transitions—you can simply upload a custom image or use one of our ten easy and efficient pre-set shapes, saving time and effort.
Ready to discover what else Mighty can do for your Rise courses? Learn more and try Mighty for free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial!
Download our free Articulate Rise templates
Utilizing Articulate Rise templates like those in this free download can help you create eLearning courses that truly stand out—wowing your learners and stakeholders. If you’re ready to take your Rise courses to the next level, snag your free Articulate Rise templates now and start designing your next best learning experience.