From the course: Using Articulate Rise 360 for Rapid-Deployment Training

Reduce bullet points with accordion blocks - Rise Tutorial

From the course: Using Articulate Rise 360 for Rapid-Deployment Training

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Reduce bullet points with accordion blocks

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- [Narrator] If your safety courses rely heavily on bullet points to present related content, try using an accordion block to chunk that content into a single interaction, and letting your learners explore the content at their own pace. So let's take a look at how these accordion interactions work in Rise. So I'm going to jump up here to a new lesson. And you can see I'm working on my winter storms module. Now below the winter storms heading, I have this list of text. And it's a lot of text. What we can do is break this content up or chunk it into smaller pieces using the accordion block. So I'm going to keep the text here on this slide. We're actually going to get rid of it, but for now, I want to leave it there so I can copy and paste the text. And I'm going to come down here to the block shortcut bar and click all blocks. Now the accordion is an interactive block. So click interactive and you'll find it here at the very top. So click that. And we'll close out of our blocks library. And so by default, you get three items here. We'll add an extra one because we have four. And let's go ahead and just begin editing this by coming up here to the upper left corner of the block and clicking edit. So the first thing you see is we have a placeholder text here for the title. So I'm going to select that and type in my heading. Now to grab the description from the list, I'm just going to close out of here momentarily and grab the description here for frost. So Ctrl + C to copy. And let's scroll back down here and we'll click edit again. So I'm just going to override this description right here, Ctrl + V, and you have some basic formatting in here if you wanted to highlight certain words or phrases, and you can bold them, make the text larger, change the color for emphasis. So this some basic formatting you can apply here. This case, this includes a placeholder image. So if you wanted to replace that image with one say from your hard drive or from content library. You can even replace with embedded videos on to say YouTube or Vimeo. And to search content library real quick. So type in a search term. Frost on cars, yeah that works. I'm grab this first image. And that'll add a new updated image here for my accordion. And that's it. Just continue adding additional items for each of the bullets that you have. Now this case, we did need to add an extra one. So if I scroll all the way down here, I have the option to add an extra item. So that'll add a fourth tab here. And close out of my settings here and you can see we can preview the first item by clicking to expand. Now if you wanted to try this as a tabs interaction, you could come over here to the upper left corner. And just swap this out from accordion to tabs. Sometimes maybe a tab presents the information in a little better way based on the types of content and space that you have. But I really like using the accordions overall for managing and transforming bullet points into more poll-based content that gives a learner just a little bit more control over. Okay, there's just a couple ideas for how you can use the accordion block to group related content into a single interaction in Rise 360.

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