There’s a cool new feature in Rise that makes your courses even easier for learners to use: collapsing sections. Now learners can collapse and expand sections of the course outline in the sidebar to quickly see the structure of your course. Here’s how it looks: We hope you’ll love this latest enhancement to the learner experience in Rise!

Is there any way to have this set so that the sections are closed, to begin with, that way if you have a lot of content its hidden until a user either navigate to the page or selects a section and opens it.

Would it be possible to make this work in Edit view as well please?

Currently, when a learner launches a Rise course the sections are either "all open" or "all closed" - and all closed means that the sections are not visible at all to the learner unless they click on the hamburger menu. Is there any way for the sections to begin as collapsed upon launch, and then let the learner control what gets expanded - similar to the way the Accordion block works today? Ideally, upon launch, the default view would look like this: I see others posts' here asking for something similar, but I wanted to explicitly ask about showing the collapsed view upon launch. This is about giving the learner control and access to what they need to consume when they need to consume it, and reducing the chance they are cognitively overwhelmed when they initially launch the course. If it's at all possible today to execute this, please tell me how. If not, please work on this soon. Thanks.

I think having a way to end a section would be useful. I have single lessons before and after a section and I want them to stay as single lessons in the navigation, but to end a section I have to add another section, even though I don't want the lessons after to be in a section e.g. I want: Lesson 1 (standalone) Section 1 Lesson 2 (section 1) Lesson 3 (section 1) End of section 1 Lesson 4 (standalone) but currently I have to have: Lesson 1 (standalone) Section 1 Lesson 2 (section 1) Lesson 3 (section 1) Section 2 (name=space, so looks blank) Lesson 4 (section 2)

Hi Articulate staff, i note this feature has been requested over a number of years. Is it actually on your roadmap? This is a critical user experience function that I would like to see as a priority as opposed to some of the fancy new feature releases that have taken place to date.

NEW IN RISE: Collapsing Sections | Articulate

KellyMeeker1
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi Jeremine! We're working on it. You can always find the latest news on new features here: https://articulate.com/360/whats-new
JeremineHolt
Community Member
7 years ago
Awesome!

I'm also really happy with the hotspots in the blocks. And can't wait until the other interactions are available in blocks too.
Any idea when this is about to happen? I need it now :)
AnnaSabramowicz
Community Member
7 years ago
I use Rise daily and I have to say, I love the fact that it continues to evolve - this feature, and the interactive/hotspot image right in the blocks editor is a fantastic new add. Thanks for sharing Kelly. Keep it coming!
DavidTait
Super Hero
7 years ago
Nice addition Articulate.
KellyMeeker1
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi Craig! We don't have that functionality right now, but it's a great suggestion! You can add it as a feature request here: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request. Thanks!
- NehaSharma-db43
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  Is this feature added now? If yes, could you please confirm how do I make it work in Settings?
- IrinaPoloubesso
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Dear Kelly,
  If you do implement the closed sections from Craig's comment, please allow for the authors to control the default view (so that we can decide if we start the course with collapsed or opened sections for our learners). From our user feedback they prefer the menu be even more prominent, so we would like to allow this for them. Thank you!
CraigSumner-890
Community Member
7 years ago
Is there any way to have this set so that the sections are closed, to begin with, that way if you have a lot of content its hidden until a user either navigate to the page or selects a section and opens it.
- AngelChristian
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  That's a great idea Craig.
AngelChristian
Community Member
7 years ago
Thanks Kelly. That's a great feature. Kind regards, Angel.
LarryBowditch
Community Member
7 years ago
I was just thinking about having this feature this morning.

Thanks for continuing to make RISE better.
KarinRex
Community Member
7 years ago
Would it be possible to make this work in Edit view as well please?
- KellyMeeker1
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Hi Karin! That's a great idea. You can submit a feature request here: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request