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My Rise Wish List
The following is my wish list for Rise! Having used it extensively over the past few months, I still love many of the features, flow, appearance...but I am also frustrated with Rise and Articulate. ...
Thanks Don for all the thought and detail. All good food for thought and prioritization – but in the shorter term I’d settle for the following big rocks (in rough priority order):
- Global search capability.
- Copy blocks/lessons from one course into another course.
- Ability to mix and match within a single lesson the built-ins and the blocks.
- Rise-native mechanism to author tables and also to be able to bring them in from common office formats.
- Ability to subsection-ize material such that the Rise TOC/left-nav-pane can display more levels of direct navigation.
That said, the suggestion of community +1’s on specific number items is also a good idea.
YES!!! Copying blocks from one lesson to the other would be very helpful when you want to reorganize the flow of a course to be more intuitive or based on feedback. Instead I have to recreate it each time I want to move it.
Also, could get a LOT of bang out of a few improvements to configuring links:
- Ability to specify destination in which to launch the link (i.e some approximation of the HTML Target Attribute).
- Ability to configure hyperlinking from text in Rise as flexibly and fully-functional as hyperlinking from a Rise button (i.e. supporting internal bookmark link definitions).
Love the tool already -- just looking to love it even more.
In addition, end-users would greatly benefit from the following kinds of enhancements to the left-nav-pane functionality:
- Expand /collapse header sections to reveal/conceal their respective lesson contents.
- Make left-nav-pane scroll location (and above expand/collapse functionality) dynamically reflect what's being displayed in the center content pane.
Thanks thanks thanks if you could give some thought to this and what it would behave like. My users ask, "Where is this content reflected in the nav?" -- and I show them that they have to scroll and find it themselves.
We'll get there! Good stuff and more/better all the time.
Plus one on the Left Sidebar Navigation Pane auto scroll feature. It's confusing to not have it dynamically move to show where you are--especially if you jump to the next section with a button stack, etc.
I would like to add another "wish list" feature:
I use the interactive "accordion" block to create a glossary list for Rise courses. I need the items to be alphabetized, but if I don't know all the terms beforehand, it is a pain to add new items later. (You can only append new items to the end of an accordion block, so to add a new item, you must edit and rebuild the entire list. This is especially painful when adding an item at the beginning of a glossary list [for example, a term beginning with the letter "a"].)
The ability to add an item anywhere in an accordion block would be a great help.
Michael Fekete
AAMVA Senior Technical WriterHey Michael, you CAN 'drag and drop' your accordion blocks by clicking the edit content (pencil) and then when you hover over your item, the hamburger menu dots appear on the far left and your mouse turns to a hand icon. click your mouse and you can drag the item up or down as needed.
