Forum Discussion
Video Completion
Is there a way to restrict a Rise lesson to ensure the users finish (or at least click to start) watching a video before they are allowed to continue to the next lesson?
Right now, as soon as a learner clicks on the lesson with the video, it displays complete without the learner clicking play to view the media.
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Hi Aron,
Since embedded video is hosted elsewhere, it's not possible to for Rise 360 to control forward-seeking.
Are you able to download the video from the hosting site and upload it directly to your lesson?
Hi Alyssa,
Thanks for your reply. No worries - that makes sense. We're using an institutional vimeo account to host the content, as it's being used across different Rise objects (and we want to avoid uploading it to each Rise object separately). Thanks anyway.
Hey Eric!
If your video is uploaded to Rise 360 in a video block, you can set your video to disable forward seeking, and then add a Continue button right beneath. Make sure your continue button requires the block above to be complete.
If the video is hosted elsewhere like Youtube or Vimeo, Rise 360 cannot control the forward-seeking.
Is there a way to bookmark within the video itself using an LMS? We have training courses built in Rise that include lengthy videos with forward seeking disabled. So, if someone leaves the training halfway through the video then revisits the course later to receive completion, is there a way to avoid them having them watch the video from the start?
Great question, Kevin!
Rise 360 will remember what lesson you left off in and return you to that lesson, but you won't pick up at the point in a specific block where you left off, such as the middle of a video.
Let me know if you have other questions about that!
Hi Nancy, I don't think this will work on embedded videos since they are not hosted in Rise. A way around this is to embed the video in Storyline, and add a trigger that marks the course as complete after however many seconds long the video is. When exporting from Storyline, make sure that the tracking is set to "course completion." Hope that helps!
In concept that makes sense. However, if the user pauses the video, the trigger timer keeps running and will time out before the video completes.
Hi there, Nancy. Overall, I think you're right that it can be challenging to enforce watching a video. Some designers have added a knowledge check or a short quiz to get learners engaged with the video content. You could do that in either the Storyline component or in Rise 360.
Let us know how your final design comes out!
Thanks for chiming in to help, Holley!
This article has all the details you need, Nancy: How to Require Learners to Complete a Storyline Block
I have a MULTIMEDIA/EMBED block that streams a video from Vimeo, followed by a CONTINUE block, The CONTINUE block is set to completion type NONE because in this case, the learner is permitted to bypass the video if they choose to proceed directly to a quiz. However, when the course is started, the lesson with the embedded video shows as about 66% complete on the progress wheel before any actions are taken. Why?
Hi Nancy,
I believe the continue block is counting as part of the page requirements. The progress of that page will only be 100% once it is clicked.
Even if that's the case, why would it count the CONTINUE block it if it hasn't even been clicked? With that logic, the video should have been counted as well. I would like to see 0% complete when the page initially opens.
Unfortunately, since there is no way for Rise to understand if the video has been watched or not, as soon as the page opens it counts the embed block as "viewed."
Hmm... I was using the VIDEO block and uploading, but some of the videos are way long and a lot of the times won't upload because they time out, or take forever to upload. Also, if the video is updated, I didn't want to have to change every upload (and I'll have hundreds). Using EMBED allows me to update the Vimeo library and Rise will stream whatever is current.
