Forum Discussion
Possibility to Add video to Rise Home Screen
I have been running google analytics on our rise courses and there is a severe drop off from people who don't even click the button to start the course. We are wondering if there is a way to add a video instead of the written course description to get potential clients to excited to watch the presentation. If there was a way to skip the intro screen and start them on the first page of the presentation that would be even better. Forcing people to click "start" seems to be a big hurdle and having one less step can make all the difference.
Hello Eric and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
That's a great example and use-case scenario. I'm going to share this feature request with our team on your behalf.
If you have any other ideas, you are welcome to share them here.
Being able to skip the start button and land on the first lesson would be helpful to us as well.
Hi Brian
In the Settings / Labels section, if you delete the START COURSE text out of the Custom Text column, then the Start button will disappear.
Hey there, Brian. We also released a new feature where you can choose how the sidebar displays. You'll need the start button to begin the course if you choose "No sidebar," but it will get some of the navigational content out of the way for you!
Thanks for the feedback. The "no sidebar" feature is a great addition. Very convenient when developing a branching course. However, with the sidebar off and then deleting the START COURSE label, I had no way to start the course. I envision no sidebar and the course opens up ready for the first lesson.
Hi Brian,
Correct, you'll need to keep one or the other. I saw another post today about removing the start course/introduction page altogether, so that's something I passed along to my team. It looks like that would also work in your situation? I'm happy to share this discussion as a part of the feature request I submitted to our product team!
This is a bit unrelated, but i'd like to learn more about how you're using Google Analytics to track exactly when users "drop out" of the course. i think this would be really useful for my organization.
Is there an update on the possibility of embedding a video on the welcome/start screen (in the description of the course?). See image example below:
Hi Isaiah!
While there isn't a way to add a welcome video to the course main menu page, I would suggest adding a "Welcome" lesson to the very beginning of your course. That lesson would be the first lesson the learner sees, and you could add the welcome video there!
Hi Alyssa,
in the meawhile, is there a way to either add a video to the course main menu page or to skip the start button and land on the first lesson? I hope after almost two years there will be some improvents on this point? :-)
Hi Stefan,
There isn't a way to add a video to the course main menu page or skip the start button. Thanks for letting us know what you want to see in Rise!
I really need this functionality as well. My clients all want to include videos on the course main page. Will this feature be added soon?
I have created a 30 Day course. I had to create an extra lesson because I can't add a video to the welcome area. The result is the official Day 1 of my course shows up as "Lesson 2 of 31" instead of Lesson 1 of 30... is there a work-around??? Can I hide the "Day 2 of 31" message maybe?? Can I create a block that is not an official lesson?
Hi Wendy,
There isn't a way to add a none official lesson. You can hide the lesson count though by going to Settings > Navigation and set the Lesson Count Labels to off.
