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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.
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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.
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 :)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!
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.
+1 to that Joseph ;)
This was requested over 3 years ago, and heaps of people would like this feature. I would too. Is there any progress here?
Any update on this? Remove/hide cover page. Its extremely large and not very useful in some cases.
