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NEW IN RISE: Timeline Block
Breaking news! There’s another new feature in Rise: the timeline block.
Now you can let learners explore a media-rich timeline interaction in the custom blocks lessons you create with Rise. This new block type gives you even more flexibility to add engaging interactivity to your custom lessons.
Take a look at this video to see the timeline block in action:
Enjoy!
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These are really useful for content that has steps too. Now if you can just get a labeled graphic into one of these I would be really happy!
Great block, however we got some usabilitiy issue with it:
When a timeline consists of a few steps, and we do not want to explicitly say in advance from how many - the learner scrolls down to a certain step, but the line which continues to the next step is not rendered.
I.e. a learner has no visual hint that the timeline continues.
We do not want to add a Continue button after - we would prefer to have a sustainable block element, which does not require any extra verbal or any other instruction how to use it.
Is it only a bug in Google Chrome or is it planned to be like that?
Is that possible together with the current step to render the line towards the next unseen step, so that user is not confused and knows they have to scroll down for other steps?
Many thanks!
Screenshot attached.Hi Irina,
I’m sorry that you’re having some trouble here. I tested this out and on my end everything seems to be working properly. I see the line to the next step as expected.
The quickest way to resolve this issue is to have our Support Team take a look. You can submit a case here.
In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
Dear Allison,
Thank you very much, I have submitted the case.
This happens when user scrolls slowly, while staying within current step.
If a user scrolls very energetically down, then more often than not the next step bounding box already appears in the bottom of the screen, and with it the connecting line.
However if a user scrolls down not so fast, and the next step bounding box does not already appear in the bottom of the screen -- then the user does not receive a visual hint that there is still something else to scroll for, as the line is not rendered below the current step.
Hi, I'm new to Rise and checked out the demo "New Employee Orientation". I noticed a clickable line with numbers above the timeline in which the numbers link to the relevant section in the timeline. When I tried adding a timeline, there was no option for the creating that line. How did you do it? Thanks!
Hi Sue,
Can you show me a screenshot of the part of that course you're talking about? I'm not seeing that on my end.
Thanks!
Hi Allison,
Here’s the screenshot of the line with the clickable numbers. It looks like it might be on another block just before the timeline block – how was it made clickable to show the relevant section of the timeline? Thanks!
Hi there, Sue!
We'd love to see your screenshot, but it didn't attach since you replied via email.
Instead, click here to open the discussion. Then, click the gray Add Attachment button at the bottom of the reply window. Click Choose File, and select the file from your computer.
We'll be standing by!
Here it is!
Hi there Sue! Looks like that example includes an old Lesson type called a Timeline Lesson. The existing Timeline blocks are slightly different and no longer have that bar with the numbers along the top. If that's something you'd like to see gaain, please take a moment to submit a feature request here with the details. Thanks :)
Thanks, Nicole, it's already submitted!
Dear Articulate Staff,
I was told that it is planned like that not to show the line connecting the next block in a timleline, until it is rendered - but this causes usability issues. Maybe you could reconsider and render the line of the next block together with the current block, so that the line hints that there is something more to come?
Here is the screenshot that confirms the problematics:
one of the blocks in the timeline contains text and video.
The user scrolls slowly through the text while reading (and thus the next block and the connecting line do not appear -as only a fast intense mouse movement causes the line to appear, and the slow one does not -- , so it looks like the last block in the timeline though it is not),
Then the user watches the video and thinks this was all! They do not have a visual hint that they need to scroll more, especially if they view the course first time -- so they just miss the rest of the material.We prefer the self-explanatory approach, where you do not have to say explicitly to a user to scroll down , and anyway a user can forget this as they proceed.
Maybe you could reconsider and render the line to the next block already when the current is displayed? People get confused.
Many thanks.Hi Irina,
Thanks for this feedback. I'm sorry to hear this is causing so much confusion for your learners. Would you be up for logging a feature request to tell us more about how you'd like it to work?
In the meantime, if there’s anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
Hi Daniel! I wanted to be sure you knew that you shared your contact information in the public forum. Feel free to edit your reply here!
Hi Team,
This is to inform you that we are having double line break between the paragraph in Timeline activity block. This is not happening before but now we are not able to reduce this as well. Please can you suggest how this issue will be fixed. Please see the image attached for your reference.
Thanks,
Arpana
Hi Arpana! Thanks for the screenshot to show us your issue. This doesn't seem to be happening on our end, could you please open a case with us by clicking here and share with us the following:
- browser and version number where you experienced the issue- font that you used
This will help us narrow things down!
Hi. I noticed that in this thread there was a request made (3 years ago) to disable the image zoom for this block. For me, it is an accessibility issue. I want to tag my images in this block as "" so they are not picked up by a screen reader, which is fine, but because I cannot disable the image zoom ,the screen ready picks that up. Without an image that makes no sense. My two options are to either not include an image, or write alt text for an image that could have been marked decorative.
Since that is still not an option, just voicing my support for that request.
