Remove the Start Course Button in Rise?

A & B are both best achieved by just setting those fields to use an empty string from within Rise label settings.

C only requires visibility:hidden;

Ashley, thank you for posting that Peek example. 

Similar to Aakshi Manchanda, I'm looking for a way to export a course for my LMS, that begins on the lessons page and skips the introduction page. Although your example shows a way to do that, I need it to occur within the LMS.

Is there a way to have a RIse course launch directly into the lessons, skipping the introduction page with the "Start Course" button?

Background: We are attempting to build a curriculum that is made of several small modules that can also stand alone outside of the curriculum. When launched within the single curriculum, I don't want the learner to have to jump into an introductory page for each module. 

Outside of the curriculum, we'd want that intro page available for each course, but within, it becomes redundant. 

Hi Cory,

Thanks for sharing that additional info. I can see how removing that button would really help with your course design. There isn't an option to remove it right now, but I can definitely pass this along to the team. 

Optionally, you may be able to use your LMS to direct learner to a URL link rather than the scorm package. That would allow you to skip the landing page using the methods described above.

However, you'd loose all tracking capabilities that come with scorm/tincan/etc. 

• Perhaps no completion data, or you LMS may allow you to provide course credit by simply clicking the link. You'd have no idea if the learner actually took the whole course. A work around here might be to use a scorm packaged quiz with questions written in a difficult manner so that the learner MUST take the course in order to answer them correctly. 
• You learner would need to take the entire course from start to finish each time, rather than picking back up where they left off. This is a great aspect of storyline 360. I feel like Rise always starts the learner at the beginning, but if you have navigation restricted - it may allow returning to a course and skipping completed lesson.

Food for thought! 

Ashley's video is helpful, but is there a way to accomplish this (completing removing the entire Start page) if our method is exporting a Tin Can format? (We want to use the Tin Can format so that we can pass a learner's quiz answers and score back into our LMS.) I don't think this is possible if we go with the link method as shown in Ashley's example. Thanks much!

That's great! I had never thought of deleting the text :)

Any idea on how to remove the little down arrow? No big issue with it being there, perhaps there is something in Javascript that can be removed? I know absolutely nothing about that side of things but perhaps someone else does?

Could anyone please tell me if we can also remove the Percentage Completion by modifying the Java Script file?

Yes, my suggestions are intended only for an exported course (web only or LMS) - but as Stuart points out, you can remove the "Begin" and "Details" button directly through Settings>Labels (so I was over thinking it). 

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any way in the Settings>Labels to remove the inverted caret/downward chevron (so you can hide the  "Details" button but you are left with the inverted caret/downward chevron only). So currently, the only way to hide the icon is by hiding it using the CSS change. Articulate really needs to address this through the Settings>Labels (e.g, make the icon optional, let the user select an icon to go with label text, etc.).

Also, to clarify my "C" suggestion above - my ONLY suggested addition/change was:

visibility:hidden;  

I was simply showing the steps to locate the location in the file to place the visibility:hidden; property  (for those who need/want detailed instructions).

Finally, here is how you can hide the progress bar:

E. To Remove the Progress Bar

1. Open main.bundle.css in a text editor;
2. Search for “.progress-bar” ;
   
   RESULT:
   

   .progress-bar{font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.12rem;font-size:1.1rem;color:#fff}

3. Add ONLY the "visibility:hidden;" property; and
   
   RESULT:
   

   .progress-bar{visibility:hidden;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.12rem;font-size:1.1rem;color:#fff}

4. Save the file.

I will add two more CSS solutions for a long-standing Rise pet peeve - the font size used in Rise's "Details" list of Sections/Lessons is too small (I submitted a suggestion that the user should be allowed to modify the Details font/sizes):

F. To Change the Details "Lesson" Font Size

1. Open main.bundle.css in a text editor;
2. Search for “.overview-list__link{” ;
   
   RESULT:

   .overview-list__link{display:block;padding:2rem 6rem 2rem 4rem;font-family:lato,sans-serif;font-size:1.3rem;line-height:1.6rem;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;color:#313537}

3. Change any property values according to your needs, e.g., I changed the font-size from 1.3rem (above) to 1.6rem (below); and
   
   RESULT:
   

   .overview-list__link{display:block;padding:2rem 6rem 2rem 4rem;font-family:lato,sans-serif;font-size:1.6rem;line-height:1.6rem;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;color:#313537}

4. Save the file.

G. To Change the Details "Section" Header Font Size (if you are using section headers)

1. Open main.bundle.css in a text editor;
2. Search for “.overview-list__title-content{” ;
   
   RESULT:
   

   .overview-list__title-content{margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:.5rem 0;color:#313537;font-family:lato,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:1rem;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.06rem;border-bottom:.1rem solid rgba(49,53,55,.1)}

3. Change any property values according to your needs, e.g., I changed the font-size from 1rem (above) to 1.8rem (below); and
   

   .overview-list__title-content{margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:.5rem 0;color:#313537;font-family:lato,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:1.8rem;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.06rem;border-bottom:.1rem solid rgba(49,53,55,.1)}

4. Save the file.

Note that these changes do not impact the font size of the Sections/Lessons listed in the side menu. 

Hi Angel! 

If you remove the Start Course button from the course main page, your learners should still be able to scroll down and click the first lesson title in the course outline to navigate to the first lesson.

Do you see the course outline on the main page of your course, as shown below?