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Translate an Articulate Rise or Storyline XLIFF file

Rise 360 and Storyline 360 export a course's text as an XLIFF file for translation. Open it here, translate it with its formatting tags intact, and export it back for Articulate to import — free, in your browser.

It opens in the editor in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded.

Steps

  1. Export the course text from Articulate. Use the course's translate option to export its text as an XLIFF file. Keep a copy of the original course: the translation is imported into a duplicate.
  2. Open the .xlf here. Drop it above. Each piece of course text becomes a segment, with its formatting tags shown as chips you can move but not lose.
  3. Translate, then check. Type the translation and press Ctrl+Enter to confirm and move on. Repeated phrases — button labels, headings — fill themselves when you confirm the first. The QA checks run by themselves; open QA to see missing tags or numbers.
  4. Export and import back. Choose Export (Ctrl+S). You get the same .xlf back with your translations in it; import it into the duplicate course with Articulate's translate option.

Formatting tags

Course text carries its bold, italics and links as inline tags. Every tag in the source is shown in the flags column until it is in the target, one click inserts a missing one, and an export never drops one silently.

Review by someone without the course

The ▾ beside Export builds a review workbook in Excel with a decision column on every segment; the reviewer's decisions are read back into the file.

Not yet tested with Articulate

We have not run a file through Articulate's own import yet. What is tested is the file itself: everything outside the targets you edited comes back byte for byte as it arrived, which is what an importer depends on. If Articulate refuses a file from here, please send it to us.