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Skip the Into Page > Immediately Start Course
We are working with a large corporation that hosts the rise modules on their internal LMS system.
Here is an example of one of the assets we created.
With some hacks we have been able to add "share this" functionality to the site. We want our users to share what they have learned with the outside world. Part of this would be creating "Teasers" of the rise modules that would sit on the open web, for anybody to view. These teasers would then direct them to the portal where they can signup and pay for the course etc.
Here is an example of our "teaser"
http://dialectic.solutions/RC-DERM/101/shareable/index.html
I want to use the mapping tool option as an item someone could share. HOWEVER. I don't think in this use case we need to have them "Continue" or "Start Course" - I really just want them to come directly to the first lesson.
So that it's the first thing they view. Is something like that possible, has anybody come across a hack that would accomplish this?
Wow...you would think after 5 years and 6 pages of requests (on just this discussion), this would at least get more attention than "thanks for writing to us".
Count me as another upvote to some seriously simple requests that Articulate appears to have no interest in implementing.
Just following up on this. I used all the helpful tips in this thread from Bill Dane and Dorrien Venables to put together a guide for the solution we opted for eventually: Tutorial
Hope anyone will find it useful!
That's a great piece of work. Thank you.
I still haven't gotten to it, but I'll need it to work for xAPI. I'll post any updates if needed.
I think I've posted something like this before, but I'm a Product Analyst, so I understand some of the technical reasons for why they might not have done this yet, and it's kind of revealed in your tutorial to some extent. However, I think Articulate are also missing the fact that it would open up new audiences and use cases that they may not have considered. I believe the Return On Investment is there ... but Articulate dev team have disappeared into other areas of focus/improvement. A bit of a shame really.
Despite that, I'll continue to love their products. They're hands-down the most efficient and effective tools on the market (though not great on the hip pocket).And also ... it's people like yourself, smashing it out of the park in the Community Forums, that make Articulate the product it is. They should listen to their Community Heroes.
I still haven't looked into xAPI, I'm new to these things :D but it's on my list!
But I agree with you, if this case will be supported, they'll have to look into how customers will use it and if the product is ready for it.
Just like yourself, I love the interactivity Rise 360 brings, so I'll keep using it and integrate it with our LMS!
I followed Michele Arrieta's comment from months ago on how to fix this with Tin Can. It worked on SCORM Cloud, but not in my LMS, Absorb.
So I asked Absorb about it, and they solved the issue, and it's even easier! In my LMS, when you upload a learning object (like Tin Can), there is an edit button. I just pasted the stuff after the # in Rise to the Source file in Absorb, so now it's
Private/Courses/05c676b4-2919-4338-8967-158a7206bfee/bam3j0um/index.html#/lessons/L_XdrgTIpnpOLbAyKoD4D4azV8RSrFqs
And it worked! No start page! Woot!
Interesting! I'm jealous that you can edit the starting URL like that in Absorb! We can't do that in Cornerstone. One thing to keep in mind: the long string after /lessons/ is likely unique for each course. But it is probably something you can find by inspecting the page.
Here's my hack for a "web" export.
- open your exported site and click on the "Start Course" button and in the address bar, copy everything after index.htm and save it for later
- rename the exported index.html file to index_target.html
- create a new index.html file with only the bare necessities:
<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Untitled Document</title><script>location='index_target.html#/lessons/z2g1--QmkDuYmxI-yuMEc4BMbBwbJle6';</script></head><body></body></html> - edit the javascript you just created to use the url string you copied earlier (keep the hashtag after ".html")
- Now open the index.htm file like you did before and the start screen is bypassed.
Hi all!
Good news! We've just released a new feature that allows you to turn off the cover page when you publish for LMS to improve compatibility, streamline training, and get learners into content faster. Give it a try, and let us know if you have any questions about it!
Note: You can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates.Thanks for the great news! This opens up a lot of options for us since we often publish single items in our LMS and a Cover Page was overkill.
I think putting it on the Publish LMS page works for me as well though it is slightly puzzling choice. I guess if someone needs it for some reason when not publishing to LMS, they could just pick that publish option even if they don't need the extra SCORM files...
Any way to do this when publishing for web?
I'd like to edit the index.html to direct the learner past the Start page when publishing for Web as well.
Hi Kirk - could you provide a little insight into how you do this with Web-only publish? Thanks!
Hello
We'd be really keen to see a new RIse feature to specify a custom start page in a course - any new s or update on whether this is in the pipeline for a future release?
We've tried following Michael Fimian's tutorial above but both our LMS (Litmos) and Articulate tempshare error when uploading. See attached screenshots.
Any suggestions?
Regards
Paul
All of what Tim said. I’ve been following for over a year. Pleeeease!
Is there any way to see your immediate roadmap? Maybe users could upvote what they want most.
It is puzzling why there doesn't seem to be more interest in making this available by Articulate. I've wondered if maybe Articulate intends Rise courses to always function as a whole or something. It just seems like something they don't want to do.
Having said that, I still hold out hope that it will be added as a feature. It would make Rise so much more useful to me.
