Forum Discussion
Interactive Video within a Rise Course?
Building on Andrew's answer — until native support lands, there's a workable bridge: if the interactive video gives you a published or shareable link, you can pull it back into a regular Rise course with the multimedia embed block, then put your front matter in intro lessons and your summary in an outro lesson. Learners get the full bookended experience in one course.
Three caveats to bake in before you commit:
- Completion reporting won't flow through the embed. Your LMS will track the Rise course, not what's happening inside the video — so decide up front what 'done' means for your reporting.
- Set the embed block's height deliberately and test on a phone. Embedded interactives can letterbox or overflow on small screens.
- Keep the video's navigation self-contained. The Rise lesson nav lives outside the embed, so don't put 'next lesson' buttons inside the video.
Not as clean as native support will be, but it gets the course in front of learners now.
We have done exactly what Ronald described, and managed to pull the new content types into a Rise course using an Embed block.
While it technically "worked" the result was completely unusable from learner UX and UI perspectives. Yes, we tried several different embed code settings, e.g. changed the height, etc.
While the Interactive videos are extremely useful to us, until they are available as native Rise blocks, we will be unable to use them.
Karl, thank you for actually testing this — that's worth more than a dozen theories. "Technically works but unusable for learners" is an important distinction, and it confirms the embed bridge has a real ceiling. What specifically broke on the UX side? Was it scaling on smaller screens, the interactive controls not fitting the embed frame, or the interactive elements not responding properly inside Rise? Knowing which part failed would help everyone calibrate whether any embed settings can salvage it or whether it's a hard wait for native blocks.
