Here are the latest features and fixes for Rise. Because Rise is a web app, there's nothing to install. New features and fixes are immediately available, though you might need to publish a course again to update it with a new feature or fix.
New: Professional Skills Course Template
Our latest course template provides you with the knowledge you need to make effective workplace presentations.
Categories: Authoring
Released: December 3, 2021
New: Real Content on Customer Service, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Sales Topics
Share these ready-to-go courses with your team to build their knowledge about brand identity, improve their cultural sensitivity, get started in human resources, and protect themselves from social engineering attacks.
Categories: Authoring
Released: December 3, 2021
Enhanced: Sort Users by Activity
See when users were most recently active in Rise with the Last Activity column, found in Manage > People > Users.
Categories: Managing
Released: November 16, 2021
Enhanced: Question-level Reporting
Question-level reporting now supports newly-imported third-party training.
Categories: Reporting
Released: November 16, 2021
New: Marketing Content
With 37 new business content lessons focused on marketing, your team can get a head start on success. Learn the fundamentals, then dive into brand identity, market research, content marketing, email marketing, and more!
Categories: Authoring
Released: November 16, 2021
New: Real Content on Information Technology
Share these ready-to-go courses with your team about IT security fundamentals, protecting data, and avoiding phishing attacks.
Categories: Authoring
Released: November 12, 2021
New: Real Content on Customer Success and Service
Empower your team to deliver excellent customer service, navigate difficult situations, and lead manage customer service teams with these seven ready-to-go courses.
Categories: Authoring
Released: November 10, 2021
New: Real Content on Leadership, Professional Development, and Sales Topics
Share these ready-to-go courses with your team to offer fresh professional development opportunities on adaptability, business writing, sales, and more.
Categories: Authoring
Released: November 1, 2021
New: Real Content Courses on Wellness
Share these ready-to-use courses with your team to help folks on your team plan for retirement, learn more about COVID-19, and dig into common questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Categories: Authoring
Released: October 19, 2021
New: Real Content Courses on Wellness and Professional Skills Topics
Dig into the latest new, ready-to-use courses in Rise to help your team build a more diverse workplace and learn new problem-solving skills.
Categories: Authoring
Released: October 4, 2021
New: Prebuilt Training Created in Partnership with the Next Big Idea Club
Empower your team to overcome common barriers to change with new, prebuilt training based on Katy Milkman’s “How to Change for the Better.”
Categories: Authoring
Released: October 4, 2021
Enhanced: Image Alignment
Choose alignment options for images in accordion, tabs, timeline, and process blocks.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 30, 2021
New: Real Content Courses—Diversity and Inclusion, Human Resources
With these three real content courses, you’ll learn how to cultivate diversity in your organization, attract top talent, and conduct a job interview.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 17, 2021
New: Course Templates
The latest new course templates make it a cinch to build your team's brand messaging skills and sales pipeline understanding.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 10, 2021
New: Next Big Idea Club Content
Learn how to tap into your inner potential when you dig into this course, created in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club: Annie Murphy Paul on Thinking Outside the Brain. We've also released 11 new lessons based on Thinking Outside the Brain that you can customize and insert into your own content.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 1, 2021
New: Manage Course Collaborators
Admins can add and remove course collaborators for published courses directly from course details.
Categories: Managing
Released: August 19, 2021
New: Security Awareness Content
With 15 new business content lessons focused on security awareness, it's easy to help your team make smart decisions. Get started with lessons that'll empower your team to use social media safely, protect data in the workplace, avoid online scams, and much more.
Categories: Authoring
Released: August 19, 2021
New: Real Content Course—Leadership
Empower managers to chart a course to success with our blueprint for effective leadership.
Categories: Authoring
Released: August 4, 2021
New: Next Big Idea Club Content
Explore the surprisingly subversive idea that humans are inherently good in the latest Next Big Idea Club course on Humankind by Rutger Bregman.
Categories: Authoring
Released: July 23, 2021
Enhanced: Accessible Block Management
Screen readers now see and announce the move up, move down, and duplicate buttons used to manage blocks while authoring.
Categories: Authoring
Released: July 7, 2021
New: Course Templates
Discover the fundamentals of PR with the latest course template.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 30, 2021
New: Next Big Idea Club Content
Explore the benefits of delusion with Shankar Vedantam. Then learn how to recognize and extricate yourself from high conflict situations with Amanda Ripley.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 30, 2021
New: Business Content Lessons
We’ve added 13 lessons to our Career Management series! Explore skills crucial to success for new professionals and learn the fundamentals of professional etiquette.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 24, 2021
New: Business Content Courses
Dive deep into workplace integrity, business ethics, career development, and sales and marketing with these 13 new real content courses.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 17, 2021
New: Course Templates
Quickly create compliance training for FMLA, help your employees manage workplace stress, or improve the wellness of your remote workers with these new course templates.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 15, 2021
New: Customer Service Content
Take a master class in customer service with these 41 business content lessons that cover basic skills, how to respond to difficult conversations, the importance of cultural sensitivity, how to supercharge support team management, and more.
Categories: Authoring
Released: June 2, 2021
New: Business Content Courses
Explore even more ready-to-deploy real content courses created from our own business content lessons in the Health and Wellness, Personal Development, and Professional Skills categories.
Categories: Authoring
Released: May 30, 2021
Enhanced: Next Big Idea Club Content
Explore four new courses from the Next Big Idea Club. Learn about the hidden workings of the human brain, how work plays a part in modern society, the way to be unapologetically ambitious to reach your goals, and how to harness your inner voice to your advantage.
Categories: Reporting
Released: May 19, 2021
Enhanced: Activity Report Minimum
Course activity with a duration of under ten seconds isn’t recorded on the activity report.
Categories: Reporting
Released May 13, 2021
Enhanced: Report Time Stamps
Learner, course, and learning path reports display exactly when the data was last refreshed by the system. The activity report refreshes continuously.
Categories: Reporting
Released May 13, 2021
Enhanced: Reporter Access for SSO-Managed Groups
You can now select SSO-managed groups when assigning reporter access.
Categories: Managing, Reporting
Released: May 11, 2021
Enhanced: Third-Party Content Learning Paths
Create learning paths from your imported third-party training.
Categories: Managing, Authoring
Released: May 6, 2021
Enhanced: Update Third-Party Content
Overwrite your existing third-party courses with new versions, maintaining current enrollments and reports.
Categories: Managing
Released: May 6, 2021
New: Multiple Rise Libraries
Create completely separate course libraries in Rise. Perfect for when you want to give different groups of people, such as external partners, access to a limited set of courses.
Categories: Platform
Released: May 4, 2021
New: Business Content Courses
We’ve combined our business content lessons into 55 real content courses covering topics such as Career Management, Communication, Leadership, Project Management, Stress Management, Team Management, and Time Management.
Categories: Authoring
Released: April 30, 2021
Enhanced: Cover Photo Text Contrast
You can set the text contrast on cover photos to 0%.
Categories: Authoring
Released: April 29, 2021
New: Question-level Reporting
Know how your learners answered each question so that you can refine training to meet their needs.
Categories: Reporting
Released: April 8, 2021
Enhanced: Search Users by Email
You can search the Users list by email address as well as name.
Categories: Managing
Released: April 7, 2021
New: Next Big Idea Club Content
Help your team reach their highest potential with life-changing, ready-to go training content from the world’s most brilliant luminaries. Offered in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club, these courses feature videos from the authors themselves, who share their insights directly with learners.
Categories: Authoring
Released: April 6, 2021
New: Content-Focused Authoring Experience
Quickly create courses from our extensive collection of modular, fully customizable lessons and exclusive partner content.
Categories: Authoring
Released: April 6, 2021
New: Problem Solving
Learn how to overcome barriers, brainstorm solutions, reframe issues, solve problems as a team, and more in these 18 new Problem Solving lessons.
Categories: Authoring
Released: March 25, 2021
Enhanced: Quiz Lesson Continue Button
In quiz lesson settings, you can select a Continue button to appear at the end of the quiz instead of the standard next lesson button. Your learners will see a familiar continue button that adopts your course theme color.
Categories: Authoring
Released: March 9, 2021
New: Slack Integration
Integrate Rise directly with your favorite team communication app. This lets you receive Rise notifications directly in Slack and more.
Categories: Integrations
Released: March 1, 2021
New: Sales
Learn how to build a sales pipeline, create relationships, manage deals, and close the sale. Plus, dive into sales leadership and management, the psychology of sales, and more with 59 new Sales lessons.
Categories: Authoring
Released: February 24, 2021
New: Custom Welcome Email
Personalize the email your learners receive when you invite them to your account.
Categories: Managing
Released: February 2, 2021
Enhanced: Accessible Labeled Graphics
Make labeled graphic interactions accessible to all users with improved keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and a color selector for markers.
Categories: Accessibility
Released: January 28, 2021
Enhanced: Automatic Audio and Video Bookmarking
When you navigate away from or close a lesson while playback is in progress, your position is saved automatically. Just press Play to resume where you left off.
Categories: Learning
Released: January 5, 2021
New: HR, Marketing and PR, and Workplace Safety Templates
We’ve added five new templates to our Human Resources, Marketing and Public Relations, and Workplace Safety topics.
Categories: Authoring
Released: December 18, 2020
Enhanced: Deleted and Completed Columns for Exported Reports
The Deleted column in exported course and learning path reports lets you see at a glance if a learner is still active. The Completed column in exported course reports shows the date a learner first completed the course.
Categories: Managing, Reporting
Released: December 17, 2020
New: Labeled Graphics Markers Color Selector
Make your labeled graphics markers stand out and ensure they meet accessible contrast requirements with the new color selector.
Categories: Authoring, Accessibility
Released: December 3, 2020
New: Business Ethics
Learn how to develop a culture of ethics and integrity in the workplace as an individual or a leader with 19 new Business Ethics lessons.
Categories: Authoring
Released: October 20, 2020
New: Zapier
Add Rise to your Zapier workflows to automate your work and streamline your productivity.
Categories: Integrations
Released: September 22, 2020
New: Time Management
Learn how to stay on schedule, reduce distractions, maintain focus, and much more with our Time Management business content lessons.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 21, 2020
New: Content Transfer
Maintain control of your content and intellectual property. When someone leaves your account, choose what happens to their content.
Categories: Managing
Released, September 21, 2020
New: Leadership and Professional Skills Templates
We’ve added two new templates to our Leadership and Management and Professional Skills topics.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 17, 2020
New: HR, Leadership, PR, and Professional Skills Templates
We’ve added five new templates to our Human Resources, Leadership and Management, Marketing and Public Relations, and Professional Skills topics.
Categories: Authoring
Released: September 2, 2020
New: Granular Reporting Permissions
Specify which groups reporters can and can’t see. Please note that reporters created prior to this date have access to the Everyone report group by default. Reporters created after this date will have view access only for those groups assigned to them by admins.
Categories: Managing, Reporting
Released: September 2, 2020
New: Third-Party Content Support (Beta)
Import SCORM content from any authoring app and track learners' results in Rise.
Categories: Managing, Reporting
Released: September 1, 2020
New: Stress Management
Learn how to recognize, relieve, and deal with stress in these 17 business content lessons.
Categories: Authoring
Released: August 31, 2020
New: Invite Users to Groups
Add users to groups when you invite them to your account.
Categories: Managing
Released: August 25, 2020
New: Custom Domain Support
Use CNAME to use a personalized URL for your Rise training site.
Categories: Managing
Released: July 29, 2020
New: Custom APIs
With the Rise data API you can build custom integrations with your business systems, giving your team access to valuable training data where they need it most.
Categories: Integrations
Released: July 28, 2020
New: Sample Courses and Templates
We’ve added 5 sample courses and 12 templates to the business content library for the following topics:
Categories: Authoring
Released: July 16, 2020
New: Quiz Results in Exported Reports
Admins and reporters can see learners’ quiz scores in exported CSV reports.
Categories: Managing, Reporting
Released: May 15, 2020
New: Image Cropping
Only need part of an image? Just use the built-in cropping tool to create the perfect picture.
Categories: Authoring
Released: May 14, 2020
New: Time to Learn Calculation
Rise automatically estimates course duration based on your actual lesson content. You can still enter your own course duration value.
Categories: Authoring, Managing
Released: April 16, 2020
New: COVID-19: What You Need to Know
Use this sample course to cut through the confusion surrounding the new coronavirus with this course that aims to dispel misinformation about COVID-19.
Categories: Authoring, Business Content
Released: March 13, 2020
New: PDF Download
Need to print out a course or download it for compliance documentation? Quickly export a PDF of your course right from your Create dashboard. Learn more.
Categories: Authoring
Released: February 17, 2020
New: Video Closed Captions
Make your training more accessible by adding closed captions to videos, even those in the prebuilt lessons in Rise. Simply import a caption file for each language.
Categories: Authoring, Accessibility
Released: February 4, 2020
Enhanced: Video Playback Speed
This is now a course-level setting and is enabled by default for all videos. Learners choose a playback speed that's comfortable for them—from 0.25x up to 2x. Learn more.
Categories: Authoring
Released: January 23, 2020
New: Cover Photos for Learning Paths
Customize your learning path with a cover photo. The photo appears on the cover page behind the learning path title.
Categories: Authoring
Released: December 6, 2019
New: Sample Courses
Sample courses provide ready-to-use training on a wide variety of common business topics.
Categories: Authoring, Business Content
Released: November 13, 2019
New: Templates
Build engaging, interactive lessons quickly using gorgeous, customizable templates. Choose a template, add your text and media, and Rise does the rest.
Categories: Authoring, Business Content
Released: November 13, 2019
New: Business Content
Create courses quickly with our professionally-designed, fully customizable lessons that deal with business topics relevant to every employee.
Categories: Authoring, Business Content
Released: November 13, 2019
Enhanced: Video Playback Speed
Let learners select a playback speed that’s comfortable for them, from 0.5x up to 2x.
Categories: Learning
Released: October 30, 2019
Enhanced: Picture-in-picture Video Playback
Learners can move a video to a floating window so they can watch the video and scroll through lesson content at the same time.
Categories: Learning
Released: October 29, 2019
New: Export Reports
With one click, you can export any report to a CSV file for download.
Categories: Reporting, Managing
Released: October 25, 2019