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Need help creating a branching course
Hello,
I'm new to Articulate Rise and wanted to ask if others have successfully created branched courses. I'd like to add a role selection at the start, so that based on the chosen role, learners are shown different lessons.
My challenge is figuring out how to disable or hide lessons that don't match the selected role. Has anyone found an effective way to do this?
Thank you.
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JamesEB: As AndrewBlemings- pointed out, you can branch to separate lessons in Rise using button blocks.
This post has basic info about branching in Rise: PRIMER: How to Branch in a Rise Course | E-Learning Heroes
As I wrote in that post, the ability to branch comes with some caveats:
- All navigation must be done with Button and Button Stack blocks. In other words, you have to turn off the built-in menu and the Prev/Next Lesson buttons.
- Rise doesn't have a way to track which branch someone follows. It can only track completion.
- Completion can only be tracked via one of the following methods:
1) Steer all users to the same final Lesson in Rise. In that Lesson, insert a Storyline block that has a completion trigger. Track completion via that Storyline block.
or
2) Steer all users to the same final Quiz in Rise. Track completion via that Quiz.
This demo in Review 360 provides more details: Rise: Branching Course | Rise 360
Hi there James! There is some experimentation with Labs called Skip-Ahead Quizzes, but it's currently in a development and feedback phase. Plus, I'm not sure if it will fully meet your needs since it still follows a linear path (it just places learners at different jumping-off points based on quiz results). Your best option for branched/personalized learning is Storyline, but this is a very robust tool that takes some getting used to.
For Rise, I might recommend using button blocks since that's the only way to link out to different lessons at this time. And then use either a common quiz or a percentage of completion to complete the course if you're tracking in an LMS.
This is still a pretty complex thing, and a bit messy in terms of LX. So if you can get up to speed on Storyline for this kind of branching work, that would provide the best learner experience. I've created a little example of a Choose Your Own Adventure course in Rise so you can see how it could work (and how it's still a bit imperfect).Hi James, and welcome. Rise is a bit limited in that regard compared to Storyline, but some measure of branching can be achieved as I understand it so long as the main menu (aka "Cover Page") is disabled.
If the cover page is disabled, then button blocks can be setup to point to different lessons in the Rise course. Clicking the Role1 button block would funnel learners to Lesson2 while clicking the Role2 button block would funnel learners somewhere else. Naturally be careful with using Continue buttons as they blindly go to the next lesson, whatever that next happens to be regardless of the role the learner selected, but from there yes, you could branch learners and even funnel them back together.
