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Feature request: "Main menu" button
It would be great if there were a button similar to the "Continue" button in the "Dividers" block that allowed users to return to the start page for the course.
I realize that people can use the side bar to go to any section (or any section they have completed in Restricted viewing), but some customers ask that the sidebar not be visible in certain courses, and it can be hard for users who are unaccustomed to the Rise interface to figure out 1.) they can revisit previous sections and 2.) how to go back.
It would also be great to have the option to have a similar option available after completion of a quiz. When a Rise course is restarted, it take the user back to where they left off. So, if the user had completed a course ending quiz but wanted to review the course and had no sidebar, they might have difficulties navigating back to the beginning of the course.
I've included some mockup images of what this could look like. I can provide more info on what I am asking about here if needed. In the meantime, if anyone has some unconventional ways to make Rise do something like what I'm looking for here, I'd appreciate it.
Good feature requests. I added those for you.
You can use the button blocks to jump to lessons so that could work in some instances, but not as elegant a solution.
BTW, saw your profile said you're in St Louis. We're doing a workshop in there in a week or so. Good way to connect with other Articulate users.Something I discovered by accident:
When you create a button block but do not specify a destination, it will default to the course start page when used by a learner.
Thanks Karl. That works.
Hi Keith! Adding on to my reply, to help guide you further! This workaround Karl discovered, is no longer working as it used to. Buttons in a button block should always have a destination, and it wasn’t intentional that an unspecified button would be taken to the course start page.
I would recommend setting the destination to the first lesson, or enabling the menu so learners can click the course title in the sidebar to return to the course start page.
Since this unintentional workaround wasn't officially supported by our team, a recent update may have inadvertently changed this and we're sorry about that.
We roll out updates based on customer impact to address standing issues. At this time, we can't commit to changing this back to the way it used to be, as it could affect enhancements that are in place.
If we do make any changes that help, we'll reach out here and let you know!
Thanks for the great tip, it's solved that 'return to main menu' issue for me!
Also requesting this feature. It is an extremely easy thing to implement and it looks like it's been 5+ years since it was first requested - is this actually every going to be added? I would love to use Rise for all my projects but it's a simple feature like this that prevents me from recommending to external stakeholders.
Any updates on this feature, or suggestions for how to get back to the first page? The button feature allows me to go to specific lessons, but for the course I'm building I'd like to give users the option to return to the homepage using a button at the bottom of the page.
Hi Leah,
Thanks for your question and feedback.
I don’t currently have any updates but you can stay up-to-date with any new feature releases here.
If you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to reach out - I’d be happy to help!
I would really like to see this feature added (course menu as button destination). If it could be added to the destination drop down that would be wonderful. It is a strange omission and a relatively easy change I would imagine.
Otherwise love Rise 360.
Thanks for chiming in, Matthew! This isn't a feature on our immediate roadmap, but we'll let you know if we add it in the future.
Hello, a recent change to RISE appears to have changed the logic of the button branching. Alyssa suggesetd that, "When you create a button block but do not specify a destination, it will default to the course start page when used by a learner." Now, when a destination is not specified, the learner is taken to a new tab and course progress is not shown. This has broken a number of our in-production courses. This change appears to be true for Chrome and Edge. Was this an intentional change? Is there a way to get our courses working again? In other words, is there some way of letting the learner jump to the main page? Thanks in advance!
I just tested this in one of my courses, and my accidental discovery no longer works as described in my original post.
I now get the same results as Keith.
It's not clear why Articulate now forces the Menu to open in a new tab as a second instance of the course.
Hi Keith! Thanks for reaching out!
To clarify, you've attributed a quote to the wrong commenter. Alyssa, who is an Articulate staff member, didn't suggest that. That was mentioned by Karl Muller, who is a volunteer and Articulate user.
This was not an intentional feature nor intended to be a feature, nor a suggested fix. If you used this as a way to navigate through your courses, you'll need to update your courses to fix this. If the sidebar is available, a user can click the name of the course in the sidebar to return to the main course outline or "start page".
Hi Renz,
Thank you for this second, thoughtful reply. Although it was unintentional on Articulate's part, it was very useful to be able to hyperlink back to the main page. As the courses we build are "reference guides" for VILT--where the learner may jump around a lot in the reference guide periodically throughout the course--it was very nice to send them back to "the beginning of the book / main menu" rather than having them sit in one of the lessons for a long time and not have a good view of all the lessons. Perhaps a feature request could be entered to allow the learner to jump back to the main page?
NOTE: I do know at least one of the bigger Articulate shops in the U.S. uses this same feature, but I don't know if they've run into the problem yet.
Hi Keith! You're most welcome! I can add you to a feature request for a way to get back to the Start/Intro page. If we have an update for you all, you'll hear about it here.
Add my vote. This seems like such a simple thing to add (esp since it was available before, even if accidental).
