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Rise Request: Lock Courses to Prevent Changes and/or Accidental Deletion
I have caught myself on more than one occasion modifying the wrong Rise course. Wondering whether there's enough demand to add a lock function at the course level to prevent accidental change or deletion. Maybe add it to the course menu as shown in the picture?
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Hi William,
Uh oh! Sorry, you've accidentally deleted a few courses or edited them by mistake. For the course deletion if you recognize it right away there is a handy undo feature to help bring those back or you can always go find it in the Deleted Courses folder.
We're always on the lookout for new features or ways to make your course authoring easier, so I can pass the idea for a "lock" option along to my team. Thanks for sharing here!
Hi
Any updates on the Lock feature?
Thanks
MS
Thanks for providing a solution for deleted courses, Ashley! I am mostly interested in locking a course so as to prevent making accidental changes to it. At this point there is not way to do this, correct?
I'm with you William. I've unintentionally edited courses too. A Lock of some sort would be helpful.
There's a few ways this could work:
- Like you suggested, a simple Lock in the dashboard view.
- A Lock on a folder.
- i.e,. I've setup In Progress and Published folders to sort my courses. But the default dashboard always shows ALL courses. If there was a way to set my "default" view to In Progress courses only it's be less likely to edit my Published courses.
- Add a Status feature for each course. e.g., In Progress (editable), In Review (editable) Published (read only).
- To change a Published course a user would need to a) Change the Status to In Progress, b) Click Edit Course. A two-step process would eliminate accidental edits.
Thanks, Dino, for elaborating on those ideas! We continue to track your input, so I appreciate you sharing here.
Hi, William!
While we don't currently have a feature to lock courses in Rise, I've shared your insights with our product team. We always appreciate hearing how we can improve Rise, so thanks again for letting us know what you'd like to see–and with a visual!
Perhaps one method can be to create duplicate copies of your courses, so that way you'll at least have the original content accessible to you just in case?
Hope that helps, and thanks for being a part of this community!
Hi Guys,
I have been creating lessons in RISE and suddenly I cannot see the last 2 lessons (blocks). When I Export it or Share it I can see it but not when I am in Edit mode. Can you help?
Hi there Helen! That's certainly strange--I can help you get to the bottom of this!
First, would you mind sending me the Rise "Share" link?
Also, are there any collaborators on this course, or are you the only author?
Finally, what web browser are you using to author the course?
Hi Alyssa,
Thank you so much for responding to my request.
1. I am "Sharing" the link.
https://rise.articulate.com/share/wbjt4vjcGP
Hey Helen!
Thanks so much for following up! It looks like that "Share" link is incomplete.
Be sure to click inside the link field to select the entire link, then right-click the selected link and click Copy.
Then you can paste the link in a new reply here. Thanks!
Thank you for the correction. Let's try this:
Hi Helen,
That link still shows an error - and it looks still a bit short for the Share link.
When you click inside the Share box, it's important to capture the whole link, as only a portion is visible until you scroll to the right. You could try using the CTRL+A to select all and then Copy the selection to share here.
Hi Helen,
It looks the same as the links before - what browser are you working in to pull these links?
You'll see here's one of my Rise Share links - https://rise.articulate.com/share/wqmRTCWTmBoXNyAn
Here's a quick look at what I mean about the link text extending beyond what you can see:
Hi Ashley,
My link looks like yours - very long. I did the Cntrl - A feature. As I
said before I am using Google Chrome and have shared this with my manager
several times.I am trying again:
OOPS forgot image in last email. But this is what I see on my end.
Helen
Hi Helen,
Can you let me know the course title and the lesson titles which are missing? Our team can look into your account and figure out what happened to this course.
Thanks!
Hi Ashley,
Thank you for following up. Late Friday evening, a fellow designer had a
chance to look
at my design: Generations.We think what happened is all of my lesson were bundled into one of the
first lessons ...all the content ran on in a single lesson.I did not set up the Outline correctly - sectioning off specific content by
lesson title.This is my first time using RISE and my project is a bit ambitious for a
beginner so this is definitely a beginner mistake. I have since copied over
lessons very carefully checking to see if they are appearing as they
should. This is a wonderful creative tool and I look forward to gaining
mastery over it.Thank you,
Helen
Aw, so happy you were able to figure it out, Helen! No worries - we all have to start somewhere, and if you have any other questions about using Rise just let us know! I'd also recommend taking a look at the Rise User Guide, I still refer to it daily. 😉
Thank you Ashley!
Helen
