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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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Dino says: "There's a few ways this could work: 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."
Good point, Dino! Folders might help, but not being able to set the default view IS a shortcoming once one has more than a dozen courses.
There are a number of issues with organizing courses, one being not able to set the default view. Another is that for the All Courses page, it's not possible to see what folders courses are in. With lots of courses I have to open two windows, one set to a folder page and one set to the All Courses page and compare to make sure I haven't missed putting a course into a destination folder. This issue also applies to Articulate Review.
Hi, wondering if there has been any progress on this issue. Would love to lock a course/folder. Would also love to default to a particular folder instead of seeing all courses. Thought there might have been progress as the question was raised over 2 years ago?
Thanks
Hi Celia, thanks for sharing your ideas. We're tracking requests for improvements in Rise folders, and I've added you to the list. We'll share updates here if we make changes that will help!
I'm also looking for this feature, which I see was suggested two years ago. Is this actually (and actively) being considered or have you decided not to do this?
Hi there! A "course lock" feature isn't on our immediate roadmap right now. Thanks for checking in on this feature request!
Can you explain why?
This is an obvious feature.
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Hi Celia! We prioritize features based on these criteria. If we make any changes that will help you, we'll let you know.
Asking about progress on this as well. The ability to "lock" a course or folder would be phenomenal!
Thanks for your interest in this feature. No updates on this, but we'll make sure to reply to this thread if this becomes available in the future.
+1 for locking courses! Or set a specific folder 'In progress' as default on the start page.
I would also like to add my voice to the call for this feature. In my opinion it is essential to be able to lock a course from editing, while still being able to view its contents. It is hard to understand how this feature isn't on the immediate roadmap. E-Learning Portfolios in Companies are growing, so are the teams that create and manage them. If Rise had a version history, where you could track changes and restore old versions, I would understand that this feature isn't pursued. But since there is no such thing, the lock feature would be an alternative. Sadly it seems we're stuck with making a duplicate whenever we're making a willingful change to a course.
Agree with the need to be able to lock down a course. I was hoping they were working on a way to lock a course by section as I have collaborated with 3 or 4 people to create an informational Rise and don't want to risk someone accidentally removing my content.
Thank you!
- James
