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Customising or removing the Lesson icons
Hi,
I see that the lesson icons, such as the Aligned Left icon cannot be edited or hidden or replaced with branded icons for lessons.
Is this something that will be catered for?
The icons do not actually add any value to the courses and users tend to get a bit confused as to the significance of them. Being able to either hide them or customize them would be useful.
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Like many other folks, we are using Rise as a gateway to other courses and resources and it would be very helpful to be able to use our own icons. For example, we could flag required items. We could use our product icons to identify product related content. We could flag by expertise level. I really wish you would add this feature.
Hello! Is anything being done about the icons? I noticed a few people asked what they mean but I haven't seen a response. I'd like to know too.
Also, it would be really useful if there were more options. Like "i" for information, a pair of glasses for reading, a pencil for writing, etc.Hi there, Paul. Here are the icon choices currently:
You and your learners can ultimately interpret what the icons mean in the context of your courses, but here are some ideas on how to use them:
- camera: lessons centered around media
- touch: lessons centered around interactivity
- lines: lessons that are mostly text based content, or a learning lesson (not a quiz)
- question box: quiz or other lesson centered on assessment
We haven't made any changes to the icon selection at this time, but we have this discussion tagged to be updated if we make a change!
Any progress on this?
it would be extremely helpful to be able to add custom icons to the menu.
Hi Leanna!
No updates to this yet, but thanks for following up! If we add more icons or add the ability to allow custom icons, I'll let you know about it!
It would very beneficial to the learner to allow even a small circle bullet to select from as an option. Or at the very least, nothing.
The three lined icon creates visual cognitive overload in the design of the menu as it feels out of place, AND, when a user hovers over that icon in the published version, the hover box pops up and indicates "align left." That's super confusing for the learner. We are telling them to "align left" for what reason?
The pointed finger also adds chunkiness and the other two icons aren't relevant to everything. It would be wonderful to have more options here. Rise is wonderful in that it is a simple, clean platform, and these icons contradict that.
Thank you!
I didn't realize that about the text when hovering! I agree, the 'touch' icon feels chunky and out of place compared to the other 3 icons. I feel like a mouse/click type icon would better give the impression of interactivity, but maybe that's just me.
Another vote to give more options to the very limited 4 icons. This should be really easy to add to. Not sure what the hold up is. Even better allow us to add our own branded icons next to the lessons!
I'd like to add a vote to give more options than the limited 4 icons. I feel this would be a very simple enhancement for your development team to add. I would also love to have the option to add our branded icons, but at the very least having more than 4 to select from would be amazing.
+1 ! Would be great to be able to add our own branded icons next to the lessons!
Being able to have a different icon and one they can check when done would be great.
Here an other request for more than four standard icons. Improting custom icons would be vey nice. I do hope this will be possible in the (near) future. is there a workaround to place custom icons somewhere in the installed folders or to overwrite existing icons?
Wanted to nudge this. Even if the icon could be turned off that would be great.
