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Rise - Can you copy a block between lessons?
I made several lessons in Rise, and each lesson has multiple blocks. Is it possible to copy a block from one lesson to another? I found I can duplicate blocks within a lesson, and I can duplicate entire lessons. I'm trying to copy one bock of a lesson into another existing lesson. Thanks.
Hi everyone! We just released a Rise update full of new features and some important fixes, too.
The feature you requested, copying lessons to another course, is live! Check out this tutorial - it’s super easy.
Feel free to let us know what you think!
Hi there- is there an ETA on the feature allowing for content to be re-organized/moved from one block/lesson to another block/lesson inside the same course?
I would love to have this feature too! Any ETA on when it will be done?
Ollie Faison
Office of Faculty Development & Educational Support
Hi there- is there an ETA on the feature allowing for content to be re-organized/moved from one block/lesson to another block/lesson inside the same course?
I would love to have this feature too! Any ETA on when it will be done?
You can currently do that inside of Rise now by dragging and dropping the content section when inside of the main course list. You can also duplicate the block section using the three-dot menu to the right of it and then drag and drop the duplicate to wherever you want it to go. That same three-dot contextual menu (Copy to another course) allows you to copy a section over to a completely separate course if you need to.
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for chiming in here too! The feature I mentioned is still in the works, but I love your ideas and will make sure those get into the hands of our product team.
In the meantime, take a look at the folders in Rise to see if that helps you categorize and group your courses!
Block templates are well and good, but I want to be able to create a structure for the template as I build the course, then do another design pass and enhance the template then have those enhancements apply to each place they occur. For example, say I want to create a flashcard template then later add graphics to each card front in the "master" only one time. Seeing as applying a template only copies the template blocks, I'd have to add those graphics to every flashcard throughout the entire course multiple times.
Thanks, B Jue for sharing some additional enhancements you'd like to see with the block templates. It sounds like you'd want something similar to how a slide master behaves in Powerpoint, that you could re-apply it to an existing section to take on any changes made?
It's always helpful to know what tools and features you need for course design, so I appreciate you taking the time to share. If you have more details please feel free to let me know, or include it here as a feature request!
I was happy to discover the Block Templates feature. I needed to combine some content between lessons in more than one course, and I really didn't want to recreate the content.
Essentially, I wanted to be able to copy and paste a block from a lesson in one course to a lesson in another course. I just created a template block, copied the blocks I wanted, saved the template block, then created a block in my second course, using the template block to produce a copy of the block in the second course.
Really would have preferred a simpler copy and paste operation, but this got the job done. I hope that you will consider allowing designers to easily copy blocks from course to course in the future.
Thanks for the honest thoughts, Eileen! I'm glad block templates got the job done. 😊
Any word on the feature of copying blocks from one lesson to another ... or is it still the work around of creating a template block?
Hi Alyssa,
That's worked for me - thanks for sharing the link.
Really appreciated!
Paul
