Forum Discussion
Hide Course Menu on first page?
Is it possible to hide the course menu (under Details) on the first "page" of a course? Our learners are getting confused on how to navigate.
thank you.
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Really need to be able to hide the table of contents list from the home page. I still want to show it on the sidebar after "Start Course" is selected, I just don't want it listed on the home screen. I already submitted a feature request (possibly 2) to have the option to hide the TOC or even bypass the home screen. Any idea if it's on the roadmap? In the meantime, has anyone figured out a way to do this by manipulating the published output? Timothy's solution, although clever, won't work for me.
Hi Megan! Thanks so much for letting us know how important this feature is for your projects! It's not on our immediate roadmap at this time, but we'll let you know if that changes.
Agree that it's really important to be able to hide this list on the home page. For my course, it's important that users can navigate freely around the main content once they have begun the course, but they all need to start on the first page initially. If they see the different lessons listed on the home page, they always immediately click on the section they want rather than using the 'Start course' button. I don't want to bypass the home page - I just want users to have to click on the 'Start course' button to begin.
I would also like to chime in and request this feature to become available. Users naturally scroll down to see what's there, just to not to be able to click on it (when restricted), and then have to scroll all the way back up to start the course.
I found a work around to hide the TOC from the start screen by digging into the JS and CSS files created by the Rise export.
When exporting a course for SCORM 1.2 you will get a zip file to import into the LMS. Open this file within the zip:
scormcontent\lib\main.bundle.css
At the very bottom, add this line:
.overview-list { display: none; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 1; }
Zip it back up and install on the LMS.
Sounds interesting, Jay. I'll have to give that a try next time I want to bypass the menu. Thanks for sharing your workaround!
Good day. This worked, however do you know if it is possible to adjust the code further to remove the whole page altogether, just going right to the first page of the course? Thanks!
Hey Jeff, to bypass the bootup page and go directly to any page in your course, do the following:
- Unzip your extracted files into a new folder
- Open scormcontent/index.html in a browser
- The end of the url will probably look like index.html#/
- Click on "Start Course" (or any of the lessons)
- Notice that the url has changed and has more stuff after index.html#/
- Copy that text (i.e., index.html#/lessons/ABC123)
- Open scormcontent/index.html in Notepad or some other text editor
- At the very bottom (before </body>), add this code and replace my example with your stuff.
<script>
function skip_first_page() {
window.location.href = "#/lessons/ABC123";
}
setTimeout("skip_first_page()", 100);
</script>
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Good news, everyone! We've just released a new feature that allows you to turn off the cover page when you publish for LMS to improve compatibility, streamline training, and get learners into content faster. Give it a try, and let us know if you have any questions about it!
Note: You can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates.
