Organising block templates and courses

Hi Matthew, 

It sounds like you'd hope to organize Templates into folders? Although that's not a current setup in Rise, you can quickly search by author or keywords:

In the Rise folders, you'll always default to the All Courses Folder, and then you can choose to look within a particular folder. I'm also a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use CMD +F on my Mac to bring up a search bar - that way I can search my courses based on a title.

I know a few other folks have asked for additional improvements to the Folder set up in Rise (and Review) so I'll include this discussion as a part of those requests! I'll keep you posted here with any updates. 

Thanks Ashley, this could help.

Also just a back note for the main folder or course organisation. It could be handy to add some categorisation checks for each course. i.e. Working / Draft, Active, Proposed....?

This might be a way to help provide additional information about each course and its purpose or status.

Thanks for the idea, Matthew! I'll pass it along!

Hey, I was just looking into this topic myself for some tips and found this discussion.  I would like to agree with the points made by Matthew and I really like the suggestion to add the categorization checks e.g. working/draft... great idea and I would love to be able to use that!

I really think having folders to organize custom block templates is a NEED, not a want at this point. We have multiple departments creating their own templates and now we just have too many to sort through. The search method mentioned above is ok but dependant on a lot of things out of my control. The ability to create a folder for each department would save so much time and stress! Please add my thoughts to your "requests for improvements" and add a million exclamation points to it, please.

^ Definitely agree with Sam on this. My team is working on several eLearning modules with different concepts and it would be a lot more efficient if we had folders for different templates. Please add this feature!

100% Agreed with Sam on this. This is a NEED. If I make a new course, I should be able to specify which block templates the course can 'see' -otherwise you're constantly haunted by templates I'm not using for the current project, but don't want to delete in case I need I go back and make updates in the future. 

Also... what about a hotkey to bring up the templates related to this course? It seems crazy to me that my own templates aren't in the quick access block bar down the bottom. Instead I have to click All blocks > Block Templates > Scroll down and find my template > Click to add the template! If our templates were in the quick access toolbar and I could reorder them as needed this 4 step process could be reduced to  a single click!

I'll add my vote for being able to organize block templates in folders. 

I also like the idea for having something to better organize/recognize courses. FYI: I just put in a suggestion to add an "Identifier" or "ID" field to each course. Here's how I envision it:

• The text entered in the ID field wouldn't appear anywhere in the published course. 
• It would appear (instead of the official title) when I'm looking at my set of courses in Rise. 

The ID field could default to be the same as the title (for those who like seeing the title). But the field's text should be editable for those of us who want to specify versioning, ownership, dept, and/or other info.

So, for example, instead of seeing a title like "Our Company's Code of Conduct: Maintaining an Ethical and Safe Environment," I might see something like "Code 2022 draft 1 Judy."

Thanks for chiming in here with what you need and sharing why it would help! I'm tagging this discussion so we can let you know if we add the ability to organize your block templates into a folder structure.

100 percent Agreed with Sam on this. This is a NEED. Assuming I make another course, I ought to have the option to indicate which square formats the course can 'see' - in any case you're continually spooky by layouts I'm not utilizing for the current undertaking, however don't have any desire to erase on the off chance that I want I return and make refreshes from now on.

Too... shouldn't something be said about a hotkey to raise the layouts connected with this course? It appears to be insane to me that my own layouts aren't in the speedy access block bar down the base. Rather I need to click All squares > Block Templates > Scroll down and track down my layout > Click to add the format! Assuming that our layouts were in the speedy access toolbar and I could reorder them depending on the situation this 4 stage cycle could be decreased to a solitary snap!