Faking a branching interaction?

Hi Leigh - An additional option would be to provide links within one Rise course to separate 'learner specific' Rise courses. 

Here a sample of what I'm talking about. See the Labeled graphic in this "Common Area" lesson.  

Each marker on the labeled graphic links to an external Rise course. All that's used for the link is the Share URL from each course.

This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but maybe it will spark an idea of how you can better serve your learners. 

Related to this, is there a way to hide a lesson from view in the menu?  I had been exploring the button stacks as a way to create a branched scenario, but the problem is the learner will still be able to see and select all of the lessons from the menu.  Having the ability to hide lessons from the menu would make the button stacks much more practical for branching.

Hi Dawn,

There isn't an option to hide certain lessons from the menu, nor would there be a way to tell it to show certain lessons within the menu based on the path that the user is taking. If that is a hang up for your course creation, you may want to look a bit further at the suggestion offered by Bret as well - that would like the user to a new, external course and that version would have the individual menus specifics to the branch they're choosing.

Somewhat of a workaround. It has caveats, though. For example, the completion is not 100% since you miss some pages: http://rabbitoreg.com/risedemo2

Thank you Zsolt - I like what you've done with that. Giving the different branches (I guess they're sections) generic names takes away the users ability to navigate the correct path using the menu. So simple when you think about it. 

Thanks again, I'm gonna test it out :) 

How are you hiding the lessons? Is this done after Rise is published?

Zsolt, I'm really impressed with what you've done so far with Rise - this is pretty cool. 

Dawn,

Yes, the lessons are hidden after publishing, real-time. This weekend I'll have more time, I'll post a blog and the files in case someone else wants to try it.

Thanks, Ashley! Let's engage the WORL&D! 

Almost all of these are great solutions if I didn't have limitations with my LMS... it requires either a quiz or viewing all slides. Completion quizzes historically work very poorly in our LMS, and require a lot of customization to work properly (so Storyline is OK for this, but not yet for Rise). THanks everyone for the suggestions!

Leigh, what LMS do you have that has issues with SCORM compliant completions?

It's a small company called GreenLight, but we are replacing them in mid-2017 with a new (mobile!) LMS.

Hi Zsolt, thanks for sharing the demo! Cool workaround. I'm really interested how you accomplished to hide the lessons. Would you be so kind to share your knowledge with us? Thanks in advance!

Thanks Zsolt for sharing your branching sample. Any tips on how we can create this? I.e. how to
"hide choices in real-time in the published version". thank you!

Caroline, 

Here's the detailed blog on hiding some menu entries to create the "fake branching" effect. http://www.rabbitoreg.com/2016/12/08/how-to-create-fake-branching-with-rise/

Thanks Zsolt! So I need to tweak thAdd Attachmente backend. Let me try this out.

Thanks for sharing this example that Tom created about the microphones - I like how it's organized.

How do you get the separate sections with section headings in the Menu (Introduction, Desktop Microphones, Headset Microphones)?

Hi Amy,

Those are sections titles, vs. lesson titles. Here is an earlier Peek video I did on how to move a section around, and towards the end of the video is how to add in a section instead of adding in a lesson. 

Thank you, Ashley, that really helped!

I now see the tiny font that says, "Shift + Enter to add as a section." :)

Glad the video helped Amy! Keep us posted if you need anything else. 

Is there any update regarding whether the ability to do branching is on the roadmap? - if yes, how far away is it from being added?

Hi Tom, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!

Thanks for the suggestion. While that feature isn't currently in our development roadmap, we always appreciate feedback and suggestions.

Thanks again for taking the time to talk to us!

Tom - one thing to try is the Button Stack block. With buttons you can launch URL's but you can also link to other lessons. 

Bret, the link for the "Common Area" doesn't work for me.  Could you please provide it again?

Also, I want to do something similar but what I've found is that if I use a share URL, that URL is fixed.  So when i export the course and upload to my LMS, the URL doesn't point to content on my website but it still points to articulate content.  Any ideas of what I can do to have all URL's point to the right content after it's been exported?

Hi Andrew!

Sorry that Bret's content is no longer available. 

I did create something similar so that I can understand what you are reporting here.

• Created a Rise course that I want to use within another Rise course
• Created Rise course, included share link from 1st course, and published to LMS
• When clicking hyperlink, content goes to Rise

Is that what you are asking? Are you expecting that link to live within your LMS now? You would need to publish that Rise course to your LMS and have a share link in order for it to work in that way.

Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding your question.