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.

Hi Alyssa - thank you for your post. Just to put a bit of context around my own "+1", I run a reasonably large training company and we're considering using Rise more widely because it does create lovely output, and is also a pleasure to use. However, we are creating individual modules rather than set courses. These modules can be combined in different ways within a variety of LMS and LCMS. Rise lets us do this by hiding the menu, and essentially creating one module per course, but the cover page breaks the flow as people move from one module to another. We could kludge it by pointing to an HTML page within the module, but that's a nasty solution. Far better if your team are able to make it optional. Many thanks indeed! Richard

How can this feature be so popular and completely disregarded by Rise? So disappointing to see it has persisted into the Beta release. Yes, there is a workaround, but like many people I have created hundreds of micropages that can be stiched together in multiple ways. That workaround is very onerous compared to a toggle switch. Please resolve this. How can you have been so busy for 4 years that this can't get on the backlog? Posting this whole thread in the public domain to raise awareness... Let's see if the Twitterverse can help us.

In Rise360 there doesn't seem to be a way to do this yet. If your SCORM holds onto learner data, they should only see it the one time. I'd personally like to see the cover page be optional as well.

I figured out a way around this that works for us -- hoping that Articulate doesn't change it though. We use Google Cloud to host our courses - and then call on them from Thinkific or Teachable, primarily. On the hosted page (not preview), click the "Let's Begin" button, and copy the link address of the launched page. Then, use THAT link as your content URL in your LMS. It skips the landing page and gives our students direct access to the content. Hope this helps some others solve this problem.

I thought the one of the main motivations for Microlearnings was allowing us to disable the course cover; not supporting a toggle on that seems like a huge mistake.

Remove course cover page? | Articulate

GarimaGupta-473
Community Member
4 years ago
+1
JenniferPilking
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi everyone, is there an update on this yet from the Articulate side?
- CNavarro
  Former Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Jennifer, thanks for checking in. We don't have any updates for this feature yet, but we will post it here as soon as we do.
ThomasRudolph
Community Member
4 years ago
+1
JorgeMuniz-0d55
Community Member
4 years ago
+1

“we are creating individual modules rather than set courses. These modules can be combined in different ways within a variety of LMS and LCMS.

Rise lets us do this by hiding the menu, and essentially creating one module per course, but the cover page breaks the flow as people move from one module to another”
ChristinaPark
Community Member
4 years ago
+1
JanAndreassen
Community Member
4 years ago
Hello
Is this possible yet? - It has been two years now.
- LeaSAgato
  Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Jan! No updates yet, but we'll be sure to share here if we make changes that will help!
  - JoshGeiger-93fe
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Hi Lea - just wanting to bump this thread again. I really need this feature to make the most out of Rise with our LMS. Without this feature it feels like I am forced to either commit a whole course to rise, or ignore it all together. For our team, and the tools we use in our LMS, it would be so nice to just be able to use Rise as its most appropriate, and avoiding a start page would help us do that.
    
    Warm regards!
JoshGeiger-93fe
Community Member
3 years ago
We desperately need this feature. It's really bad for the user experience when integrating Rise content into an LMS. In our LMS, a learner has to navigate through any rise content's start page and it really detracts from immersion in the experience. Is there any update?
TimDanes
Community Member
3 years ago
I got all excited thinking that the new theme feature would finally resolve this problem. I was sadly mistaken.
I second Erica. The LMS user experience makes Rise look like a 2nd rate plugin on launch.
The only viable options are to run the course page in Rise (bad SEO and a blank page in the LMS), or double up the pages. That's really bad UX design.
- hkanstrm
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  
  Tim Danes
  
  I got all excited thinking that the new theme feature would finally resolve this problem. I was sadly mistaken.
  I second Erica. The LMS user experience makes Rise look like a 2nd rate plugin on launch.
  The only viable options are to run the course page in Rise (bad SEO and a blank page in the LMS), or double up the pages. That's really bad UX design.
  
  I agree, i had to use a Storyline block in separate module that links to a page that bypasses the rise first page to get around the "first page" problem. This only works for share links.
  But would probably not be that hard to give the option of a storyline based (do anything) starter page? Basically it would be to have an option with a page with a storyline block set as starter page. That should satisfy just about any needs, provided they work in storyline of course..and to complement that "solution", offer some nice editable , templates for this specific purpose.
BradGuillory
Community Member
3 years ago
+1
BridgetCarne595
Community Member
3 years ago
I vote for this too!