I thought I would share a solution to removing the progress indicator on lessons in RISE

After some additional testing, I have found another solution! As of Aug. 19, 2023, here is how to remove all progress indicators from a Rise course. Please note, this process will work until Articulate pushes another update in the future that could again change the file structure and/or the key css or js files that are used for generating the progress indicators in Rise. Also, this code only works when the default Sidebar navigation is used. So it won't work with Compact or Overlay navigation. 

1) From your published output, go to the "content" folder if published for web (or the "scormcontent" folder if published for LMS).

2) Go to the "lib" folder and locate the "rise" subfolder. All the files within it will be identified by the same names for every project. (I'm not sure why Articulate went with a cryptic naming convention, but I wouldn't be surprised if these file names change in the future.)

3) Within the folder, select the larger CSS file (not a JS file). For example, my larger CSS file is 629KB in size, while the smaller one is 55KB in size. The larger one is normally the second CSS file shown in the folder and the file name may start with a letter.

4) Once you open the larger CSS file, it should appear in Notepad or a similar simple text editor. Paste the following code at the very top of the page:

.nav-sidebar-header__progress-text,
.nav-sidebar-header__progress-track,
.progress-circle.progress-circle{
display: none;
}

The end result should look like this:

5) Save the file and test the course to make sure it now runs without any progress indicators.

That's it!