Learning Ninjas®

Everyone deserves a chance to learn.

Sarah Mercier

Welcome Haley Shust, Lead Instructional Designer!

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We are excited to announce a new addition to the Learning Ninjas® team! Haley Shust has joined us as Lead Instructional Designer.

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Haley Shust
Lead Instructional Designer

Haley brings a wealth of experience in curriculum design, eLearning design & development, and assessment design. Her work includes contributions to large-scale learning experience projects for organizations such as the Smithsonian. She strives to create learning experiences that are meaningful, measurable, and accessible for all learners. Her past experience as a teacher and science curriculum developer adds novel perspectives to the team. You can learn more about her on LinkedIn.

When she’s not designing content, you can usually find Haley doing something active, such as rowing, weightlifting, or walking her Saint Bernard, Eleanor. These activities help her maintain the Zen-like calm that Ninjas need.

We can’t wait to see what creativity and insights she brings to our work creating innovative learning opportunities – welcome aboard Haley!

Supporting Human Rights

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From the very beginning, one of our core values has been giving back: to the elearning community; to our local communities; to global causes. Our belief that everyone deserves an opportunity to learn drives much of our charitable efforts toward human rights, education, inclusion, accessibility, and conservation.

We recognize that human rights in our country is in a state of emergency. Earlier this week, we made a $3,000 contribution to the ACLU to support their work in racial justice, LGBTQ rights, immigration, criminal justice, voting rights, disability rights, women’s rights, and free speech.

Please join us. We are committed to MATCHING YOUR DONATION up to an ADDITIONAL $5,000 for the month of June. Together, we can make a difference.

Donate through our Facebook fundraiser or donate directly and text us (844-844-1595) or email us a copy of your receipt and we will match.

With love and respect for all humans,
Sarah C. Mercier
CEO, Learning Ninjas

Labels in Articulate Rise 360

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Let’s say you are creating a course in Articulate Rise 360 and want to modify the labels. You will probably go to the “Settings,” then “Labels,” and make your changes. Seems easy enough, right?

Guess what? You just changed the labels for every module you currently have in Rise, unless you are using the “Custom Course Labels” feature.

The labels in Rise are saved to these custom tags, not the specific module you happen to be creating at the time. So, if you don’t create a custom tag for each course (or collection of courses) with unique labels, you will change settings globally for everything using the English default (or other language default). This means that the next time you go into any of your other modules and republish, you will end up with the same updated labels  from whenever you last changed these global settings.

To avoid this, create a Custom Course Label tag for each unique set of labels using the following steps:

1. Go to Settings.

Edit course page with Settings link highlighted

2. Go to Labels and select “Create New” in the Custom Course Labels section.

Settings screen, labels section, with Create New button highlighted

3. Type in a name for your custom label set and select OK.

Pop-up box for entering custom label set name

4. Make sure that you have selected the label from the Custom Course Labels drop down for any course that you want to have these settings.

Label settings screen with Custom Course Labels drop-down highlighted

5. Check your course to ensure that the label settings have been applied correctly.

Course menu page example of the custom label change to say "in this module" instead of "details"

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