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Rise tutorial versions & resume where left off potential interruption
I have a technical question about Rise tutorials. My colleague and I created two Rise tutorials that we shared at the beginning of the academic semester (so, a few weeks ago), both of which approximately take 30 minutes to complete.
One benefit of Rise tutorials is that they can be completed in multiple sittings because it will resume where you left off. Our supervisor has indicated a desire for more branding and uploading a new version of the Rise tutorials to their same respective hyperlinks (https://library.csus.edu/guides/Information-Sources/#/ and https://library.csus.edu/guides/Research-Development/#/), but I indicated I wanted to confirm that this wouldn't disrupt any students who were currently in the middle of working through the tutorials.
My question is this: If we upload a new version (say, V.2) at this point in the semester, and a student has already begun working on V.1, despite having the same hyperlink, will the tutorial reload from the get-go? There are no navigation restrictions by lesson in the Rise tutorial, but since in our tutorial opener we indicate how resuming the tutorial works, it might be frustrating for the student. My assumption is that even though the V.2 will replace V.1 with the same hyperlink, the Rise tutorial will start from the beginning because it'll be a newly updated file we are uploading to the web server.
Thanks for any insight you can provide!
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
Hi Samantha,
If you are publishing your Rise courses for Web and hosting them on a web server, it will not resume where you left off, and students will always restart the course from the beginning, even if they accessed the course previously.
If you are publishing for LMS, and hosting on a a LMS, students will resume where they left off.
- SamanthaMcClellCommunity Member
Hi Karl,
Thank you so much for your response! I didn't realize publishing to the web always means restarting the course. This is incredibly helpful, thank you again!