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Enforcing Sequential Completing of Lessons in Rise Courses
Hello,
I have developed a Rise course comprising three lessons, which should take approximately two hours to complete. This estimate assumes learners fully engage with the content, including reading all material (such as expanding accordion sections and viewing tabs), listening to audio, watching videos, and completing the knowledge check questions.
I understand that during testing—prior to broader release (when the course was uploaded to an LMS) —an administrator was able to scroll through all lessons without interacting with the content, attempt only one knowledge check question in Lesson 1, and complete the entire course in under a minute. It also appears possible for a learner to navigate directly to the final lesson and exit the course.
Is there a way in Rise to require learners to complete each lesson sequentially before progressing?
Yep. You need to do two things:
- Lock the order of the lessons:
Theme > Navigation > On > Restrict Navigation > On - Lock the interactions in each lesson:
Add a 'Continue' divider beneath each interaction you want to force the user to interact with, edit the divider and select the 'Completion Type > Complete Block Directly Above' option, or just add one divider to the bottom of the screen and select 'Complete All Blocks Above'
- Lock the order of the lessons:
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Yep. You need to do two things:
- Lock the order of the lessons:
Theme > Navigation > On > Restrict Navigation > On - Lock the interactions in each lesson:
Add a 'Continue' divider beneath each interaction you want to force the user to interact with, edit the divider and select the 'Completion Type > Complete Block Directly Above' option, or just add one divider to the bottom of the screen and select 'Complete All Blocks Above'
- Lock the order of the lessons:
Hi Chris. Thank you for your quick response. This is terrific. I've just switched on the Restrict Navigation setting, as it appears to be off by default. Now working on the 'Continue' divider. You learn something every day! :)
Yes. In Rise 360, you can enable Restricted Navigation so learners must complete lessons in order before moving on.
A few things to note:
- Restricted Navigation prevents learners from skipping ahead to later lessons.
- You can require learners to reach the end of a lesson before the next one unlocks.
- However, Rise cannot fully verify that learners have carefully read every accordion, viewed every tab, or paid attention to all content.
- For videos, you can require them to be viewed before completion is granted.
- Knowledge Check blocks are generally for practice and don't enforce passing scores. To require completion or a score, use a Quiz Lesson and set a passing threshold.
If learners were able to complete the course in under a minute, check:
- Course Navigation settings (set to Restricted).
- Lesson completion requirements.
- LMS completion settings and tracking options.
- Whether the course was tested in Preview mode versus the LMS.
In short, Restricted Navigation + Quiz Lessons + completion tracking is the best way to enforce sequential progress in Rise, though no setting can guarantee learners actively read every piece of content.
Hi Hunza. That is excellent. As someone only relatively new to using Rise, this is sound advice for implementing navigation controls moving forward. Thank you.
