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Internal Links in Rise Courses
I am currently developing an electronic User Guide in Rise and in Section 2 of the guide I cover System Operation. This section includes a list of topics in two columns, followed by nineteen separat...
Keeping Rise simple isnt easy once this types of feature is enabled. It would also need a auto generated course map tree. The links relations can get really complicated really fast.
The compromise could be to have a third level in the menu on the right.
I personally think that we should strive to keep within the navigation limits that Rise currently has and adapt the course creation to those limitations. Keep it that simple or rethink the course content is my thinking. it is easy to want to build a lot of stuff in rise because it is that simple and fast to use.. but in doing so do we really think about the user learning experience?
Rise was never introduced as an Tech doc creation tool. Doesnt mean it could evolve to that as well.. I think a good strategy could be to be able to start a Rise project with a set of questions. Purpose, and audience at least. From that, the suitable set of tools would be made available.
To me, using Rise for a User documentation task is really stretching the "e-learning" concept to its limit. There are other applications specifically designed for creating great user guides. They also have support for DITA standards etc..None of which is available in Rise.
I would personally like to see a deeper level of sophisticated teaching objects and more of them. I would like to see audio sync feature in various ways. and much more focus on the teaching aspect. Sophisticated learning games/exercises available in blocks for instance. A button to see map of the branching. My list on development features for Rise is long. As i am sure many of those multiple year users have as well. Anybody thought about how to change your branding? This is today not possible as more then one course at a time. It is an online course creation system yet i cant change all my companies courses branding in one click? Maturity level of rise in that aspect has a long way to go. I dont think it is because it cant be done, it is because Rise roadmap is young and is learning from users input.
If both worlds, user doc and E-learning were available i would like stated purpose of the project to guide what tools would be visible.
Early support for the new LMS standard is great!
