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 can pause and go backward through the video, but not forward. This new feature is great for compliance courses and any other course with required video content since it prevents learners from skipping ahead. Watch this video from CTO Arlyn Asch to learn all about disabling forward seeking:

What if they watched it previously? Will they be able to scroll forward after it's already been marked as 'complete' (for those who like to go back and review things)?

Hi Crystal, Thanks! Maybe not a change, instead give creators an option would be nicer. For those who want to restrict forward seeking vs those who do not want to restrict forward seeking of videos after completion of module. I'm not sure about other cases, but for my case, I would definitely use the option to allow my learners to forward seek a video once they have completed/ or seen that part of the video as it is more intuitive for me.

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.

Hi Rhoda. Great question. Once a learner has watched the entire video, they can fast-forward the next time they view it. If they launch the course again later, forward seeking will be disabled until they watch the entire video once more. Here's an article that goes into more detail: https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-How-to-Disable-Forward-Seeking-in-Videos

New feature in Rise: Disable forward seeking

AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Nathan,

We're always interested in hearing other features that would help your course development. I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!
DianaBanik-df5d
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi,

Does this video feature also apply to videos that have been added as part on interactions, for example, a video added to Tab or Accordion interaction?
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Diana,

It's only an option for video blocks and lessons, not for a video inside of another block type.
- DianaBanik-df5d
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Hi Ashley,
  
  Thank you for your response. This would be a really helpful feature. Is this in the pipeline though?
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Hi Diana,

Not yet, but we're always adding new features to Rise and looking for more insight into what would help with your course design. I’ll be happy to let our product team know this is something you'd like, but you can also feel free to provide more detail through a feature request!
DanielBeatty
Community Member
7 years ago
I love all the accessibility features Articulate has added to Storyline 360 suite, and a personal fav of mine is the closed caption toggle on/off button in SL 3. I would absolutely LOVE to see the same option with RISE. While yes it would be great to be able to manually add CCs to a video using the interface like you can currently with SL3, I would absolutely settle for being able to manually upload a CC file (.srt, for ex) and have the video player interface then include a CC on/off toggle button. I will make this feature request. Thanks.
SheriLee
Community Member
7 years ago
This is FANTASTIC!!! Exactly what I have been waiting for. I was getting push back on using Rise because learners could bypass the videos. Now I can push forward with my class development in Rise....
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
So glad to hear this will help you, Sheri! Thanks for that update.

If you have any other questions, please let us know!
JarredSmith2
Community Member
6 years ago
Hello,

Can someone help,

I am busy with simulations in storyline 360, a student can go through the simulation and can click to go to next to go through them. When you click to home button to go back home and start over it fast forward and takes you back to where you stopped. is there a way to disable that fast forward function?

Thank you
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hi Jarred,
  
  I'm not sure I'm understanding exactly how you've set this up. Are you able to share your file so I can have a look?
AndreaFranklin-
Community Member
6 years ago
I have a course with a video embedded. I made sure to uncheck the box so they could not forward seek. However, when the video is playing, if they attempt to forward seek it starts the video from the beginning. Any ideas on how to fix this? It does not allow them to forward seek which is good, but if they were to try in the middle of the video then they have to start the video from the beginning which can be frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hi there, Andrea. Videos that don't allow forward seeking should just prevent the learner from moving beyond the playhead:
  
  Can you let me know in which browser you're seeing this behavior? Also, are you sharing your course through the Share URL, web or LMS?
  - AndreaFranklin-
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    Hi, thank you for responding. We are sharing the course through our LMS and we did not have this issue a week ago. We tested in both IE and Chrome, we had the same issue, then I recreated the course and published to the LMS, IE seems to work now and Chrome does not, which usually we have issues with IE so we encourage people to use Chrome. Could it be something internal like a firewall or setting change on our corporate side?
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Hi, Andrea! It sounds like you've set everything up correctly, but something has gone awry in Chrome.

You mentioned this happens when you test the course in the LMS. Have you tried testing the Share link in Chrome? Does the same problem happen there?