Hey Everyone, We released a new feature to Rise today that allows you to set sidebar visibility. You can now choose to: Set the sidebar to be open at course launch (default) Set the sidebar to be closed at course launch Remove the sidebar completely from the course Check out this 90 second video for the details: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/f22ae2c2-90fa-431e-9d40-08cb8d0e4a5b/review Enjoy! Adam

I took an infographic from the CDC and created a single less Rise demo with no sidebar. Original infographic Rise demo: I converted the bullet points to interactive flash cards.

It would be great to be able to pick and choose which sections (and lessons within the sections) have sidebars. That way you can specifically hide pages to do a branching scenario (without playing with JavaScript) while leaving the navigation there for the other components of the module.

In a future release it would help to have the option that the side menu only shows the lesson titles (like you can in Storyline) and not all the details.

Thanks for the image Theresa! Looks like you're using Sections in Rise? I could see that being helpful to have the individual lesson titles in each section collapsed until the user is in that section, like what you're used to in Storyline. I'll share that with the team as a feature idea! There isn't a way to remove those icons/types either, but I can pass that idea along as well. I find them really helpful at a quick glance to know if I'll be reading content, interacting with something, or even taking a quiz.

Many thanks Adam ! It's a very helpful feature :-)

New Rise Feature: Sidebar Visibility | Articulate

NeenaMaleben500
Community Member
5 years ago
Is it possible to hide a lesson in the sidebar? Not the entire sidebar.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
5 years ago
Hi Neena!

Thanks for your question! All lessons will appear in the sidebar, and there isn't a way to hide individual lessons.
KarinRex
Community Member
5 years ago
It would be SUPER GREAT if there was a sidebar feature that allowed the sidebar to be visible but collapsed to just show section headings.

Give a +1 if you agree!
JohnToh-fb4bbed
Community Member
4 years ago
hi, just wondering if it's possible to display the sidebar permanently, for example, hide the 'hamburger' icon to prevent users hiding the sidebar?

thanks!
- Renz_Sevilla
  Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi John, the sidebar options are for when the course initially launches. This can't be permanently set to open. That being said, if we make any changes to this you'll hear about it!
MichelleFink
Community Member
2 years ago
For those who are looking into hiding the sidebar navigation in 2023 - the setting for this has moved to the Theme section in Articulate Rise and NOT under settings. You can go to the lesson you are exporting to web and click on Theme in the top right menu, find Navigation and toggle the sidebar off there. THEN you can proceed to export to web.
- AngeloCruz
  Staff
  2 years ago
  That's right, Michelle! That setting can now be found under Themes > Navigation > Sidebar.
  
  Thanks for sharing this. In addition, you can find more information in the article "Rise 360: Control Course Navigation."
PaulCook-f6796f
Community Member
8 months ago
Working with Rise today I'm finding that I now have only two options Side bar menu open at start or hidden completely.

The video describes three options. Things have obviously changed since the video was made available. I've been finding 'Navigation' under 'Theme' rather than 'Settings' when I have been working with it recently. But until today I could turn navigation off in the theme settings and the user could still use the hamburger icon to open the side menu.

I prefer to have no side bar open at start but allow the user to open the menu if they want to. I have also found that having the sidebar open at start can sometimes cause problems when using a screenreader - I have got caught in a loop.