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Packages you exported and uploaded to an LMS keep playing after a subscription ends, because they do not depend on it. Editing is what you lose. Most teams pick one of these, course by course:

• Keep a subscription. The only way to keep editing in Rise itself. Some teams keep one seat just for maintenance.
• Export everything and leave the packages as they are. Fine for courses that will never change; they run in any LMS without the subscription.
• Export to PDF for the text. Useful for review, translation or a rebuild elsewhere, but not a course you can publish.
• Import the export into Scormbusters. You get an editable course back, with its sections, lessons and blocks in order.

Every route but the first starts with the same step: export each course before the renewal date.

Worth doing whatever you decide next. An export is the only copy of a Rise course that does not depend on the subscription, and it is what any tool, Scormbusters included, can work from later. These are the steps in Articulate’s own guide, “Rise 360: Export to LMS, PDF, and the Web” (updated 29 October 2026):

1. Open the course in Rise 360, click Publish in the upper-right corner and choose LMS.
2. Choose the standard your LMS uses, usually SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2.
3. Choose Standard package. Articulate describes a connected package as one you upload once and update from Rise; an archive you keep should be the standard one.
4. Leave tracking as your LMS expects it, then click Publish again.
5. Download the zip. A small course downloads straight away; for a larger one, Articulate emails a download link when it is ready.
6. Repeat for every course, and keep the zips somewhere you control, named so you can find them: course title and date is enough. For courses that never ran in an LMS, Publish → Web makes a zip that imports just as well.

Do it before the renewal date. Articulate’s own community answers say that once a subscription lapses you can no longer edit or export Rise courses (what happens to Rise courses after you cancel, checked 2026-11-03), and that there is no source file to download instead (whether Rise source files are lost, checked 2026-11-03).

Unlike Storyline or Captivate, a Rise export is not a set of rendered slides. The whole authored course is carried inside the package as data, every section, lesson and block, with the media beside it. Scormbusters reads that data without running the package’s scripts, folds Rise sections into modules and lessons, and rebuilds each Rise block as a native Scormbusters block you can edit:

• Text: paragraphs, headings and subheadings, columns, tables, statements, quotes and quote carousels, and numbered, bulleted and checkbox lists.
• Pictures and media: images, galleries, audio, video with its captions, embeds, attachments (as download buttons) and code snippets.
• Interactions: accordions, tabs, labeled graphics, processes, timelines, flashcards, buttons and button stacks, sorting activities (as matching questions), and scenarios with their branching and feedback.
• Knowledge checks and quizzes:multiple choice, multiple response, fill in the blank and matching, with their answer keys and the quiz’s pass mark.
• Structure: sections and lessons, continue dividers (which still hold the learner until the blocks above are done), dividers and spacers.

We test the importer against 11 real Rise exports their authors published in public repositories. In them, every Rise interactive block arrives as a working Scormbusters block; the exception is embedded Storyline, below.

• Embedded Storyline blocks arrive as their text, pictures and questions, not as a working interaction. Import the Storyline publish on its own if you have it.
• Scenario charactersappear as a named avatar, not Rise’s photos, poses and backgrounds.
• Pictures on flashcards and media inside labeled-graphic markers follow the block as a gallery or beside the graphic, and portraits beside quotes are dropped.
• Feedback on fill-in-the-blank and matching questions has no field to go in.
• Charts become a table of the same values; custom blocks keep their text and pictures in reading order, not their free-form layout.
• Buttons that jump to another lesson are kept, to be pointed at the lesson again.

The import report lists each of these, with a count, before you open the course. Nothing is dropped silently.

Annual Scormbusters Studio includes a one-time migration of your whole Rise library in its first 60 days, with no limit on the number of courses. A migration is counted when an imported course is first exported, not when it is imported, so you can import everything, check it and fix it before anything counts.

Start with one course: see it rebuilt, free and without a card.