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New feature in Rise: Disable forward seeking
We just released a new feature in Rise that I’m excited to share with all of you! Now you can prevent learners from forwarding through videos in your course by disabling forward seeking. Learners ca...
Presumably, if watching an entire video is required, this should be combined with the Continue divider. It's a useful new feature but I wonder what others think about informing learners of this constraint. I can imagine frustration if they feel that they are unnecessarily constrained.
Hi Sam. Yes, if you don't want learners to skip over the video altogether (e.g. for compliance training) you will need to use continue block with the setting to restrict the learner from progressing until they've completed the block directly above along with disabling forward seeking.
In terms of informing learners of this constraint, I think that's a good call. You could customize the hint text on the continue block to say something like, "You must watch the entire video before moving on" to give folks a heads up.
