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Course Codes and Course Descriptions in Rise360
Rise seems to lack the feature to include a course code and course description in the project that would be part of the published ZIP file uploaded to the LMS.
Does it actually exist, or am I just not seeing it?
We've made good use out of course codes when working with projects, but not every LMS seems to use/require them.
What thoughts or ideas do you have regarding course codes?
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Hello Brek,
What you see in the export options is what you get as the output. There isn't a course/description feature in the export settings.
What insight do you have as to the reasoning to not include these features that are standard in other Articulate Products?
That's what I figured, but I was really hoping I was wrong. =)
When we upload a SCORM ZIP file into our LMS, we manually add the course code and description on the course information page.
It requires very little effort (for our LMS anyway).
Just wanted to check on this, is there still not a way to add an internal-only course code to a Rise course? It would be used to match course assets, course in Rise, and published course on LMS. Without it, we have some courses that have the same title, but have customer-specific videos/images in them and it gets really confusing to keep track without a course code.
I haven't seen any movement on this feature. It would be super helpful for keeping things organized.
Okay yes, I don't see how it can be done without...? Unless you don't have many courses or different audiences to publish to, I guess. I might just use the Description field in the meantime.
I would like to see this as well. Every time I have to upload a new version of a RISE zip file to my LMS it erases my course code and description that I had to manually write in. So the code and description must exist somewhere in the zip file as it is pulling something into these fields which essentially erases what I wrote. For example: In my code field it takes out my code and puts in "articulate_rise" and in my Description field it erases all my course information I wrote and replaces it with just the word "Description". Would be curious if someone knows where that might be pulling from and if it is something we could update within the zip file. Preferably would like to see it in the Export settings one day :)
Is there an update as to whether this feature is being worked on? Importing the description automatically would be extremely helpful. My LMSA has to manually update this for every Rise course I send over. Thanks.
Hi, Qwin! We don't have this feature in our roadmap just yet, but we'll share our updates here if anything changes!
Checking in to see if there is any update. This came to mind as I am prepping updates to a program with over 10 modules, and each time I upload each module I need to keep notepad open to copy/paste these details. Thanks.
Have you tried manually coding the imsmanifest.xml (Manifest page) and just adding the description after the title?
It goes right after the title code tags:
<title>
<langstring xml:lang="x-none">Course Title</langstring>
</title>
<description>
<langstring xml:lang="x-none">Course Description</langstring>
</description>Of course, you would only want to add this on your final version because every republish will overwrite this. I've manually coded scorm manifest files for years, especially to correct some bugs with certain LMS's uploads/intakes of courses from Articulate.
