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

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 :)
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
KellyMeeker1
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi Irina! Thanks for the feedback. For reference, you can always share your feature requests here: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Hi Neha!

Learners can expand or collapse section headers in the sidebar menu. There's no setting to turn on this behavior – it happens automatically!

To test it yourself, add a section header to the course menu. Then, preview the course, and open the first lesson. In the sidebar menu, click the arrow to the left of the section header to expand and collapse the section.
- PonnammalSun502
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  A setting to choose like, keep the sections menu collapsed or expanded while loading the course, would be a great feature. Is this already available?
AlyssaGomez
Staff
5 years ago
Thanks for your feedback and the screenshot of what you're looking for, Kristin! We'll let you know if we add this option in the future.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
5 years ago
Hello, Ponnammal! Right now, the section headers display expanded by default. Learners can collapse the headers if they choose to.

I'll let our team know you'd like the option to keep the section headers collapsed or expanded while loading the course.
- SibaPrasadPadhi
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Thank you!
DavidSilvestro
Community Member
5 years ago
I'll add my vote to make whether the sections are expanded or collapsed a configurable option for the course. This will help navigate long courses.
JorgeCampos-369
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 I agree, this should be optional.
TeresaSaul-0de4
Community Member
4 years ago
Considering the number of requests to make this a default feature, I am surprised that it has still not been added. It's been nearly three years now from the first request.
MediaFarm
Community Member
4 years ago
Could this also be transferred to the start page? I'm working on a course with a lot of lessons, and it would be nicer looking if the sections were closed on the start page.