Articulate Localization: Get Started with Language Validation in Review 360

 

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Articulate Localization language validation results in higher-quality translations with fewer rounds of feedback, streamlining and speeding up the localization process for Rise 360 and Storyline 360 courses. Validators use Review 360 to review AI translations in the context of the course, and they can preview their changes in real time. 

Course authors send a link to access the translated course via email and ask a validator to review it. Validators can suggest changes to any of the text in a course, see a preview of their changes as they’re made, mark lessons or slides as validated to avoid duplicating work, and indicate to the course author when validation is complete.

Validators can follow the steps below to get started. Course authors may also want to read on to learn how the process works for validators.

• Signing In
• Validating Courses and Tracking Progress
• Adding Comments
• Completing Your Validation
• Tool Tips

Signing In

Once you receive a validation request email from a course author, use your email address to sign in. You need to provide at least an email address to comment or suggest changes to the translations. Depending on the permissions set on the course, you may also need to sign up for a free Articulate ID using your email address before you can validate. 

Validating Courses and Tracking Progress

When you open a translated course in Review 360, you'll see a Translate tab. This tab contains the course preview on the left and the validation table with all the text in the course in both the source and target language on the right. The numbered areas in the image below are the different sections of the Translate tab. Refer to the table that follows to learn more about each section.

 

Ready to start validating? You can navigate the course translation in one of three ways:

• Use the course preview on the left.
• Click the course navigation dropdown above the validation table and jump to a specific lesson or slide.
• Select the previous or next arrow below the table on the right.

When you’re ready to make a suggestion, follow these steps:

1. Click the text segment you want to change in the target language column on the right. The course preview on the left will scroll to the relevant part of the course.
2. Edit the target language text with the preferred translation. The course preview automatically reflects how the course will look after your suggestions have been applied.
3. Click outside of the segment to save your suggestion. A pencil icon appears on the right to indicate the suggestion was saved. A green checkmark icon here means the author has accepted your suggestion. (You can hover the mouse over the icon to see who made the last update and when.)
4. To restore the original AI translation, click the edited segment. Then click the reset icon at the bottom right and choose Reset from the prompt that appears.

The author will be able to see any changes that you make, as you make them. When you finish validating a lesson or slide, click the Mark [lesson/slide] Validated button to track your work and avoid conflicts when collaborating with others. Click the course navigation dropdown above the validation table to get an overview of the course structure and the validation status of each lesson or slide.

Adding Comments

If you have feedback on the course that does not relate directly to specific text or want to add context to your suggestions, you can use the Review tab to comment more generally. Comments are attached to the slide in Storyline 360 projects or lessons in Rise 360 content. Learn more about using Review 360.

Completing Your Validation

Once you finish making suggestions, email the course author or post a comment and tag them so they know you've completed your review.

If you're an assigned reviewer, you can expand the Review Assigned To You drop-down and click Finish Review. This doesn't prevent further edits—it simply signals to others that you have completed your validation.

Tool Tips

Search Tool (Replace coming soon!)

Quickly find specific words throughout the course in either the source language, the target language, or both. Here’s how:

1. Click the magnifying glass icon above the validation table in the Translate tab
2. Type in the keyword you want to find in the Search… field and press Enter.
3. If you want to filter the results by source or target language, click the Source and target dropdown above the search field.
4. Search results are grouped by slide or lesson, which can be collapsed and expanded. 

Advanced Tag Format Editing (Experimental)

Formatted text—text that is bolded, italicized, or in a different size or color—shows up differently in the validation table for Rise 360 and Storyline 360 users.  In Rise 360, the formatted text and plain text appear in one segment, with the formatting visible, as shown in the image below.

In Storyline 360, formatted text is indicated by a separation from plain text, which divides the segment into multiple fields or spans. The formatting itself is not visible, as the image below illustrates.

You can use advanced tag format editing to easily see formatted text and adjust which text gets formatted. Follow these steps to make an adjustment:

1. Click the text segment you want to change in the target language column.
2. Click the Format Editing: Off toggle at the bottom of the segment to switch tag format editing on.
3. When enabled, the text in the segment is standardized. The formatted text turns purple and is enclosed with square brackets [...] called “tags.” (Click the images below to see examples in Rise and Storyline.)
4. Click and drag the square brackets to add or remove texts in these tags.