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Hyperlink to a section within a lesson in Rise
Hi there,
I was just wondering whether there is a way to hyperlink to a section of a course. I know there are the button option which allows you to move around to different lessons, however, I'm looking for a way to jump to a section within one lesson.
For example, when a user launches a lesson I will have a series of videos for them to watch, but at the top I would like to have a list of these videos and they could click a link to the relevant video without having to keep scrolling - is this possible?
Thanks in advance!
Hi everyone!
Great news! 🎉 The hyperlink enhancements you have been asking for are now available in Rise 360!
You can now link text or images to a specific lesson or even a specific block within a lesson, giving you more flexibility to guide learners exactly where you want them to go in your course.
This capability started in Rise Labs with links to lessons and expanded based on feedback to include links to specific blocks. It’s now out of Labs and available in Rise 360.
Thank you to everyone who shared your use cases and feedback in this discussion. Your input helped us understand how valuable more flexible navigation would be for your courses. We hope you enjoy giving it a try!
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Hi Paul,
it's not possible to jump to a section within the same lesson.
This very useful function has been requested many times, but it's currently not available.
Hi Karl,
Thanks for the quick response.
I presumed that was the case. However, glad to hear I'm not the only one who has asked for it. Hopefully, this will be part of an update one day as I think it would be really useful.
Thanks
Has there been any further development on this ability in the past 2 years?
That would be wonderful!
Ditto! The ability to link to another section within a lesson would be super useful.
Hi Gareth, Sherri, and Janine,
Thanks for following up on this request and sharing that this would be useful for you. Though I cannot give an estimate on the feature's availability because of factors like complexity, breadth, and engineering's current workload, we'd be sure to update this discussion if anything changes that might help regarding linking to specific lesson blocks.
We're tracking votes for this feature, and we've added your voice to the report.
Desperately need that enhancement for the exact reasons the other requestors have stated. In my case, we are working with another application (AVA - Virtual Assistant) and would like to gather a URL to link to specific content contained within a Rise lesson. This is mostly for maintenance purposes. When something changes we can update it in Rise and not have to worry about updating it elsewhere.
This feature would be extremely helpful for our team.
Desperately need this feature as we use Rise for knowledgebases. Is there any timeline on this? Frustratingly, I thought it would be resolved with the new Add Code block, but apparently, giving a div an id and then hyperlinking to the div does not work. I was told that linking on the same page is not "natively supported".
Any timeline on this feature?Hi Heather - I am desperately looking for a solution to this as well. I too played with the Code block with no success on creating an anchor. Have you made any discoveries, or what did you end of doing to address your linking within a block issue?
Thanks!
Keep in mind a Rise course is just a website: made from html, css, and javascript. In this example I'm using each section with a subheading to create what I call a 'jump menu' using html, css, and js that gets added to the lesson heading. I used AI to help write the javascript. AI is finally part of Rise:
Phil, this is GREAT! Could you share more specifics around how you accomplished this? Thanks!
Hi Jackie thanks for some reason I don't get all notifications from this forum. I'll be putting together more info and documentation. It does require modifying your exported course files, I'm creating documentation on my recommended way to do this.
Hi Phil, if you have the sample course and/or documentation somewhere, I'd also love to see this! Thanks in advance 😁
+1 would love link capability and functionality in Rise.
Hi Phil,
This is amazing and exactly what I had in mind when I started this post. Would love to know how you've done this. Does this work if you're not exporting the file - in other words would it would if I'm just sharing a preview link with someone?It does require modifying the exported course, I show the process here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHZvj-cSqE and I thank you for proposing this functionality, I don't think I would have thought of it without seeing your post and people upvoting this kind of feature. Note- it will not work on headings that are placed after a continue block.
Phil, I am confused by your video.....at 48 seconds, you are copying a folder named theme. You mention your sample file. Where can I find this? Do I publish to web and then edit the index.html file?
This is fantastic, sir --thank you for sharing this!
At the bottom of our on boarding courses we have a Help Desk Information bar, which lists all the IT and HR contact methods, phone, email and portal. I would like add a button that when clicked would zip the student down to this bar.
It appears not possible without coding. If anyone has other ideas on how to accomplish this without coding, please post. -Thanks
