A step-by-step guide to using the tool to make bulk text changes to a Rise 360 course — including fixing American English spellings — without editing the course directly.
→ Open the toolWhy this tool exists: Rise 360 has no native find & replace. This tool uses Rise's translation file export (.xlf format) as a workaround — you export the file, run your changes here, then reimport. Rise applies the updated text to your course on reimport.
In Rise 360, open your course and go to Settings → Labels. From the label set dropdown, select Export to XLIFF. This downloads a .xlf file containing all the text content in your course.
Tip: Keep the original .xlf somewhere safe before you start. If anything looks wrong after reimport, you still have the unmodified version.
Open the tool and drag your .xlf file onto the upload zone, or click to browse. Once loaded you'll see a file bar showing the filename and size — and all your rules will immediately show live match counts against the file content.
You have two ways to add rules — use one or both together.
Option A — British English preset. Click the green preset button to add 100+ American→British spelling rules in one go (organize→organise, color→colour, behavior→behaviour, etc.). Click again to remove it.
Option B — Add your own rules. Type your find and replace terms in the form and click + Add (or press Enter). Each rule appears in the list below with a live match count.
Match count badges: Blue = matches found in this file. Grey = no matches. A grey badge before you've uploaded a file just means the file hasn't been checked yet.
Case sensitive toggle — by default rules are case-insensitive. Turn on Aa if you need to match exact capitalisation only (e.g. replacing NHS but not nhs).
Regex toggle — for advanced users. Enables JavaScript regular expressions for pattern-based matching. Leave off unless you need it.
Leaving "Replace with" empty will delete the matched text entirely. Useful but double-check the match count before applying.
Once you have a file loaded and at least one rule, the Apply replacements & download button activates. Click it to process the file.
You'll see a results summary showing how many replacements were made per rule, and how many <target> tags were added. Then click the download button to save your corrected file.
About "Target tags added": Rise 360 requires a <target> tag in each entry for an import to take effect. The tool adds these automatically — without them, Rise silently ignores the file and reverts everything to English defaults. This is a known Rise 360 behaviour confirmed by Articulate support.
Back in Rise 360, go to Settings → Labels, open your label set, and select Import from XLIFF. Choose the _modified.xlf file you just downloaded.
Preview or publish your course to see the changes applied. Rise only shows updated labels in preview/published mode — the editor view may still show the original text.
Nothing changed? The most common cause is missing <target> tags — but this tool adds them automatically, so it shouldn't happen. If it does, check you're importing the _modified.xlf file and not the original.
<source> and <target> tags. XML structure, IDs, and attributes are untouched. Buttons, interactions, and layout are unaffected.