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Remove course cover page?
Is there a way to remove the cover page altogether? I'm referring to the first page you see with the Start Course button, Details link, and content areas listed below. When my learner clicks to view the course, I want it to open directly to the first lesson.
No update yet, Taylor. Thanks for checking in!
And I appreciate your feedback and ideas, Arun!
- TaylorAugerCommunity Member
I have a hard time understanding why this is so hard to implement. It really hinders the flow when exporting to a LMS or anywhere in general. Rise could be so much more valuable, with a simple "on/off" setting.
- JulesBralyCommunity Member
I just bought a membership with the purpose of building a course in articulate and then importing it into Thinkific. Not being able to remove the cover page is a real issue and is making it unusable for our purposes. Is there any update on when this feature might be added? I feel like we wasted $$$ signing up for a membership and will have to just build it in Thinkific which won't look nearly as good!
Hi Sara,
Thanks for reaching out! If we make any changes to remove the course cover page in Rise 360 in the future, we'll let you know!- mitchhorn-5ccb3Community Member
Thank you @Renz, I see this but do not see features that the users have been requesting for years. Rather disappointing.
Will just have to edit the code.Hi Mitch, you can check out these links from other community members,
and if you have questions, you can ask them in those discussions.
- DavidSanchez-96Community Member
Any update on this feature? I'd like to add a vote to have it implemented as well. Thanks!
- ElisabethHCommunity Member
Bumping this! With the new theme features, this would be great! Our LMS user experience is poor as a result of cover pages.
- YanValdes-0227cCommunity Member
Any update on this? Remove/hide cover page. Its extremely large and not very useful in some cases.
- TimDanesCommunity Member
It's a shame that @Joseph Suarez removed his comment. It was very valid.
We're getting pretty large organisations/institutes responding in this thread. We have new themes with new options. It doesn't feel like a big stretch to offer this option (fully understanding it might need a little bit of brain energy to figure out how to get around the front-page 'launch' element of the package).
I've also noticed Articulate Staff have stopped contributing to this thread (it's been going on way too long). For me, that's telling me it's dropping off radar and our +1's are in vain.
My strategy from here on out is:
1. Continue to get notifications for this thread
2. Every time I get a notification (within reason), plus 1 the idea
3. Re-submit a ticket at the Feature Request portal: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
4. Tag this thread as the source.
That way it will keep coming up in their Feature Requests. Just a thought :)- EmmaChapmanCommunity Member
I found this on another thread, have not tried it yet, but perhaps it will work. Posted 5 years ago(!) (here's the thread)
I found the answer I was looking for... After publishing, you can edit the indexAPI.html file with the starting page of your choice.
- First you'll need the URL of the page you'd like to start on. Unzip the exported course and in the "scormcontent" folder, open "index.html" in your browser.
- Navigate to the page you want and copy the URL after "index.html#". Should look something like: file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/TrainingPackage/scormcontent/index.html#/lessons/-abcdefghijklmnops?_k=xyzmp30
- Go back to the unzipped course files, in the "scormdriver" folder, open "indexAPI.html" with Notepad++
- Search for "StrContentLesson" and find the line: strContentLocation = "../scormcontent/index.html#/preview";
- In the indexAPI.html file, replace "preview" with the URL of the page you'd like to start on:
strContentLocation = "../scormcontent/index.html#/lessons/-abcdefghijklmnops?_k=xyzmp30"; - Save the indexAPI. html file.
- Rezip the files and you're good to go!
- JoshOlsen-132a0Community Member
Hey Emma 👋
That should work. I’m using something almost identical in one of my projects: Way to bypass the starting page?
The one thing I’d be careful with is the lesson ID - the part after index.html#/. It shouldn’t need the ?_k=… part.
Including that may cause an error, or it may be okay.
- AimeeSwartz-488Community Member
Wow, this very simple feature has been requested so many times for so long and still nothing done about it in over 3 years? Come on Articulate. So disappointing.