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Expand/Collapse Sections in Rise
Hi everyone, is there a way I can expand and collapse the content of a section in Rise?
I have 15 sections with 5 lessons in each so my course has approximately 75 line items in the course preview screen.
If there is a way to collapse the sections I could reduce that greatly and make for a better user experience.
Thanks in advance!
- MarciaOwen-f7c8Community Member
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.
- PaulHendrixCommunity Member
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.
- Ronny-SalmeronCommunity Member
Thank you!!!
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- CassiusNetzleyCommunity Member
Are there any plans to have a course/navigation setting for being able to configure whether the sections are collapsed or expanded by default when the course is first viewed?
Or should I request the enhancement? Eeeek, I sound ungrateful for this feature-- not my intent. :DHi Cass,
The current set up is that they're expanded and can be collapsed by the learner if needed. We're always happy to hear how different variations on features would help you, so please definitely share your thoughts!
- SandraWhitfordCommunity Member
From what it appears that solution is looking at collapsing the sections on the learner side whereas I would really like to see the same applied to on the developer side. Also I'd like to be able to group and move whole sections. There might be a way to do both of these on the development side but I have not found it (operator error??).
- GemmaHobsonCommunity Member
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??
Thanks, Gemma! No update to provide yet.
- Ronny-SalmeronCommunity Member
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!
- CassiusNetzleyCommunity Member
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.
- AsthaParmar-6d9Community Member
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
- CassiusNetzleyCommunity Member
- JackieBartusCommunity Member
We would love to be able to control the expand/collapse on the back end rather than just the user have the option!
- CarlosGabrie566Community Member
Is there a way to have the sections collapsed as an initial view? As today, the sections are expanded as a default.
Hi Carlos,
There's not currently a way to start with the sections collapsed, but our team has a feature request logged for this capability and I'll make sure your voice gets added to the discussion.
In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!