While text often forms the backbone of a Rise course, adding multimedia can really make your training content shine.

You can easily add images, audio, and video directly into many Rise blocks or in their own special blocks. Adding web content can enhance your training even more. Keep reading for tips on working with multimedia content.

Depending on the lesson or block type you’re using, click the camera icon or the Add Images button. Sometimes it’s in the main window; sometimes it’s in the sidebar.

Upload images from your computer or search photos and illustrations from 14+ million royalty-free stock assets.

Rise compresses images with virtually no loss of quality. Use high-quality images in your courses and let Rise optimize them for web distribution.

After adding an image, click Edit to remove it, replace it, or add alternate text for screen readers.

The easiest way to add audio to your training is with a multimedia audio block. After inserting the block, add audio by clicking the Content icon to open the sidebar and then the Replace audio icon to the right of the audio playback bar (it looks like a microphone).

You can also add audio to most text, statement, quote, and list blocks, as well as some interactive blocks. See this article for a list of audio-enabled block types.

For supported blocks, open the content sidebar. In the Audio section for the relevant block element, click the Add/Replace audio icon.

When the Course Media window displays, you can either Record audio or Upload an audio file.

To get started with the Record audio tab, simply click the Record button. Note that there's no countdown, so you’ll want to be ready to record once you click the button! Once recording, you can pause and resume recording. Stopping the recording saves the current session. Click Record again to discard the current audio file. Click Insert audio to add your recording to the current block.

If you have existing audio, add it via the Upload tab. Rise supports playback of all major audio file formats, up to a maximum size of 5 GB per file. Rise optimizes uploaded files for broadcasting without sacrificing sound quality, maintaining stereo tracks or creating two mono tracks if the original audio is mono.

Where available, select Transcribe audio file option to manually enter a transcription of your audio file. The transcription field isn't available for editing until your audio has been processed. When audio transcripts are available, learners can click the icon in the audio player and open the transcription in a sidebar.

Once audio is attached to your block, open the sidebar, hover over the audio playback tool, and click the Remove audio icon.

In addition to video blocks, several other blocks support video content. Where available, click the media folder icon and choose Upload media. Sometimes the icon is in the main window; sometimes it’s in the sidebar.

For best results, we recommend using high-quality videos with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Rise compresses videos so that they maintain high quality while offering smaller file sizes for web distribution. To bypass optimization, select Preserve file quality when uploading videos. The maximum file size for each file uploaded to Rise 360 is 5 GB.

After adding a video, click Edit to remove or replace it.

In blocks that support embedded media, click the camera icon and choose Embed from Web. Sometimes the camera icon is in the main window; sometimes it’s in the sidebar.

Just paste the URL or embed code for the web content you want to use—for example, a YouTube video or an interactive graphic. You can even use parameters for embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos.

We use Embedly to embed rich media in Rise courses, which means you can use videos, images, documents and other media from over 600 content providers, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, and Scribd. See the complete list of supported content providers here.

If there’s an error or your web content doesn’t display, see this article for tips.