Rise 360 quiz generator: Articulate Rise quiz maker for knowledge checks and question banks

What question types does Rise 360 support?

Four: Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Fill in the Blank and Matching. That is the complete list, and it applies to both quiz lessons and knowledge check blocks. If you need a numeric answer, a sequence, a Likert scale or an essay box, Rise cannot do it and Quizmaker 360 can, which is one of the honest reasons to keep Quizmaker on the seat.

The per type limits are small but they bite late, usually when the questions are already written. Fill in the Blank accepts up to 10 acceptable answers per question and treats them as case insensitive unless you tick Case sensitive. Matching accepts up to 10 text pairs and always shuffles the draggable left column while leaving the right column in the order you typed it, so a matching question cannot be made harder by scrambling both sides.

Multiple Choice and Multiple Response both require at least two answer choices and set no upper bound, and you can flip a question between the two types from the drop-down in the top right corner without retyping the choices. Only Multiple Choice offers By Choice feedback, where every option carries its own response. The other types give you Any Response feedback or Correct and Incorrect feedback.

What is the difference between a Rise 360 quiz and a knowledge check?

Scoring and reporting. A quiz lesson is scored, has a passing score, and sends that score to your LMS. A knowledge check block is ungraded, sits inside a lesson rather than being one, and does not capture the answers at all, which means you can never go back and see what a learner chose.

That last point decides most cases. If anyone will ever ask you to prove that a person passed, it has to be a quiz lesson. If the goal is to keep attention up in the middle of a long lesson, a knowledge check block is the right shape, because it interrupts the reading without turning it into an assessment. Both offer the same four question types, so the choice is about evidence, not about what you can ask.

One more constraint catches people building short courses. Quiz lessons are available in courses only. Microlearning does not support quizzes, so a microlearning piece can carry knowledge check blocks and nothing scored.

• Quiz lesson: scored, has a passing score, reports to the LMS, answers retained
• Knowledge check block: ungraded, lives inside a lesson, answers not captured
• Same four question types in both
• Microlearning supports knowledge checks but not quiz lessons
• Matching knowledge checks are keyboard accessible and screen reader compatible

How do I add a quiz to a Rise 360 course?

Open the course, add a new lesson and choose the quiz lesson type, then edit it. Give the quiz a title and an optional description, click Add Question in the lower left corner or edit one of the template questions, and pick the type. Enter the question text and the answer choices in the main window, mark the correct option, and add feedback if you want it.

A few things live one click away and are easy to miss. The camera icon in the upper right corner adds media to a question: an uploaded image or video, a Content Library 360 image, or embedded web content. The More icon on any question duplicates it, deletes it, or adds it to a Question Bank. And settings live behind the gear icon in the upper right of the quiz editor, where every change applies to the whole quiz rather than to the question you happen to have selected.

If the questions are coming from a recording rather than out of your head, generate them first and treat this step as data entry. Paste the link to the lecture, webinar or training session above, review the questions VidQuiz writes, then move them into the Rise editor. The part that used to take an evening becomes an edit pass.

What are the Rise 360 quiz settings?

The gear icon in the quiz editor opens four groups: General Settings, Scoring, Question Options and Format Options. The defaults are worth knowing because two of them are more permissive than most people expect. Learners can retake a quiz an unlimited number of times unless you set a retry limit, and the passing score starts at 80 percent.

The timer is off by default. Turn it on and the default duration is 10 minutes for the whole quiz, not per question. Learners can choose to hide the timer even when you display it, results submit automatically when time runs out with unanswered questions marked incorrect, and the timer resets on every attempt.

The setting that causes real support tickets is Require Passing Score to Continue combined with a retry limit. If a learner fails every attempt you allowed, they cannot advance to the next lesson and they cannot complete the course. That is the intended behaviour, and it is worth deciding on deliberately rather than discovering it in week three. Skip Ahead If Passed has a side effect too: enabling it automatically enables Restrict Navigation in your theme settings.

• Quiz Retries: unlimited by default, or set a fixed number
• Passing Score: defaults to 80 percent
• Timer: off by default, 10 minute default duration for the whole quiz
• Randomize Question Order and Shuffle Answer Choices, both off by default
• Reveal Answers: Reveal All, Hide All, or Show Incorrect Answers with Feedback
• Settings apply to the current quiz lesson only, not to the course

How do I bulk add questions to Rise 360?

There are three honest routes and none of them is a file import. First, AI Assistant: select Generate quiz from the AI Assistant menu on the course overview page and it writes questions from the lessons already in the course, or upload an existing question set and have it converted into knowledge checks with your wording kept. Second, Question Banks, which let you build a pool once and draw randomized quizzes from it across the course. Third, the Storyline block, which trades Rise styling for Quizmaker and Storyline's real spreadsheet import.

The AI Assistant route is the one that scales, and it needs a question set to work from. That is where a generator earns its place. VidQuiz reads a YouTube link directly and writes multiple choice questions with the correct answer marked, a short explanation and a timestamp back to the moment in the recording. For a Vimeo file, an MP4, a webinar recording or a screen capture, paste the transcript alongside it, because the tool has no speech to text of its own.

If you need a graded assessment with genuine bulk import rather than a Rise knowledge check, take the same questions to Quizmaker 360. Its template wants Question Type, Points, Question Text and Answer Choices, with an asterisk in front of the correct choice and a pipe separating a choice from its feedback. Our CSV export opens in Excel and carries all of those fields, so reshaping it into the Quizmaker template is a column exercise rather than a retyping exercise.

How much does Articulate Rise 360 cost?

Rise 360 is not sold on its own. It comes with an Articulate 360 subscription, which Articulate prices at 1,749 US dollars per user per year for the Teams plan and 1,449 US dollars per user per year for the Personal plan, billed annually. Both include Storyline 360, Quizmaker 360, Review 360 and Content Library 360, and Teams adds a built in LMS covering up to 300 active learners.

Two things are priced separately and are easy to miss when budgeting. Articulate Localization starts at 5,000 dollars a year based on published translation volume, and Reach Pro starts at 3,600 dollars for 1,200 active learners a year through sales. There is a 30 day evaluation of Articulate 360 that does not ask for a credit card.

The reason those numbers matter on a page about question generation is simple arithmetic. At roughly 1,450 to 1,750 dollars a seat, the expensive thing in your assessment workflow is author time, not software. An author spending two days a month hand typing questions into Rise is the single largest recoverable cost in that subscription, which is the case for generating the set first and reviewing it rather than composing every item in the browser.