Expand/Collapse Sections in Rise

Hi Team

This request has been ongoing for OVER three years in this and other threads. The threads in themselves are indicative of how important this feature request is for many users and their learners. The fact that it is NOT on your roadmap is concerning!!!

My question is WHY is this not on your roadmap?

You only need  to trawl through the threads and requests to see this is not a 'nice to have feature' but a necessity for our learners to simplify their user experience.

In addition - I have just reviewed the features on your roadmap. My concern is that you are adding more bells and whistles but not attending to  foundational navigation features to enhance and support the user experience to move through a course.

Agreed. Seems like a very useful function, that should relatively simple to implement in an upcoming upgrade?  Kind of strange this wasnt part of the functional design of Rise in the first place, actually.

Hi all,

Learners can now collapse sections of the course outline in the sidebar to see the overall structure of a course. Take a look at this quick Peek for how that'll behave, and note this is automatically included if you're using Sections within your course. 

Is there a way that the sections can automatically be minimised when they start the course? or that only the first section shows for example? I feel that although they can go do it manually - it would be better that they just initially see the section they are working on so its a little less overwhelming especially if there is a lot of content?? 

EDIT* Just read this has been requested above!.... Any update on this??

A collapsible/retractable side navigation menu (sections) would be extremely beneficial as I too develop courses with a ton of sections.

It can be frightening to learners to launch a course that lists endless amounts of menu lines...

Thanks for your feedback, Paul. We're tracking requests for this feature, and we'll keep you posted if it makes our product roadmap! 

If it took a Patreon or GoFundMe effort to crowd-source and raise priority on particular issues (as noted by our learners and instructors over & over); I wouldn't even mind digging into my own pocket at this point to entertain the far-fetched idea. 

I would agree - the ability to manually collapse is good, but doesn't help with courses that have multiple sections and subsections.

Ultimately we need to help the user get a quick mental map of the course and keep them situated. The lengthy list, or having to manually collapse each one doesn't help with this.

1. It would be great if the menu functioned like an accordion: all sections collapsed, other than the current one.

2. Ability to set collapsed/expanded on start would be awesome too...but I would settle for the first request :)

Thanks!

Astha

We would love to be able to control the expand/collapse on the back end rather than just the user have the option!

Is there a way to have the sections collapsed as an initial view? As today, the sections are expanded as a default.