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

StephenR
Community Member
3 hours ago
Any update on this feature?
JiaLingKhoo-7fd
Community Member
2 years ago
Hi there, just wondering if the requested feature has been implemented? Else, where may I vote up that feature request?

Thanks!
MarlenaWrobel-7
Community Member
3 years ago
Hi there, I am also looking for the option to have a setting to control the section headers. It would be an incredible enhancement to be able to default them to be collapsed initially. A win for user experience for sure. Thanks! Marlena
SteveBlackwell
Community Member
3 years ago
+1, a setting for this makes sense.

I realise Rise and Storyline are different products, but when you have a lot of learners completing their learning on mobile devices, the amount of scrolling is something I would like to reduce.

Sections give learners a great overview. I've started looking at Rise for online guides also, so having minimised sections is ideal for navigation.

Having a setting gives everyone the best of both worlds.

You might even consider another one for the first being open with the rest closed as an additional setting :) so there are three possibilities.

Thanks for listening.
MarkRash-bc5477
Community Member
3 years ago
I'm surprised this still hasn't made it into Rise, yet it's in Storyline. Please consider adding the feature to collapse one or more sections by default in a course.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi there, Mark. We've counted everyone's voices here on the request. We'll share an update if we release this feature.
MarciaOwen-f7c8
Community Member
3 years ago
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.
MargaritaGregov
Community Member
4 years ago
I too was looking for a way to have the sections in the navigation menu collapsed upon launch. It seems this feature is very much needed. Would love to know when it's made available. Thanks!
Renz_Sevilla
Staff
4 years ago
Hi All! Thanks for following up on this feature!

No news on this yet, currently the section headers are displayed expanded by default. If we make any changes to the way this works, I'll update you all here!
ConnieCoker
Community Member
4 years ago
I'm searching for a way to make this a setting, so that I can set the course to have all sections collapsed when it opens. I saw that as a request from three years ago...is it still not available?
GregSarver-9cd4
Community Member
4 years ago
A serious need for this functionality with the navigation menu. Not only for ease of navigation but for aesthetic purposes as well. Any progress on this feature???