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I agree with Tim Danes' comments above, but there is also a more basic use case:
As a course owner who wants to publish interactive learning content in an LMS AND easily track learner progress, I want to be able to break Rise content into individual sections that are navigable and trackable within the LMS.
Monolithic Rise courses that are embedded within an LMS are a bad UX. From the learner's perspective, they typically enter a course called, say "Introduction to Product Management" and see one SCORM unit named "Introduction to Product Management" or "Course Content" or something like that, then they go into that SCORM unit, where they then see more navigation (huh, why are there 2 levels of navigation?). Of course I can break up the Rise content into a bunch of little rise courses, and I can even remove the extra navigation (which is now handled by the LMS), but the useless intro page remains.
It's as if I enter the front door of a house, and I immediately see another house inside with another front door. I enter the inner house, and I finally see rooms. I can break the inner house up into a bunch of little houses each with its own front door that can be entered separately, but I really just want to enter a house and see rooms.
I think Rise is failing to recognize or is willfully ignoring what should be the dominant use case within an LMS. It is actually pushing me toward abandoning Rise and figuring out other ways to achieve cross-platform interactive content, which is too bad.