When publishing a Rise course in our LMS, the course opens in a pop-up window like all of our SCORM courses. When a user clicks a link in the course, it brings up the background browser window and adds a tab to it and then shows the linked content. In the process of this it bumps the course window to the background. To some user it is like the course just disappeared.
So what would be nice is if you had the option to open hyperlinks in their own pop-up windows rather than as a tab in the background browser set. This would avoid the issue where the user loses track of where the course window is located.
Or, here is an even better idea! How about allowing to set a link to open in a Lightbox? This would avoid the messiness of pop-up windows, but would allow the content (such as a video) to take over display of the entire window. (Unfortunately for us, our LMS disables the fullscreen button of all video players)
Love all these ideas and the enthusiasm for Rise! I know our Product team keeps an eye on the forums in addition to the feature request form, but I'll give them an extra tap on the shoulder about your thoughts here. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks, Will - this forum discussion hasn't seen a lot of traffic since last year, but we'll still track this in addition to your feature request you submitted.
I'd like to chime in - we could absolutely use this. We've started using external links, but in the LMS the links are opening new windows. In fact, it appears on some browsers it even makes the student re-enter the course. Ugh. I love the idea of lightboxes!
This is definitely a needed enhancement. I would also like to see the ability to input content into the lightbox instead of just linked content. For instance, I have a term that a learner may not recognize. I would like them to be able to click the term and have a box appear with details. I've tried a single accordion block, but it looks cumbersome and disrupts the flow of the course.
Related to this would be the ability to open an embedded video in a faux full screen lightbox (one that just fills up the browser window). Our LMS causes the full-screen option on embedded videos to be disabled, and this would help at least get the video to almost be full screen. [Edit] Sorry, I just realize I said this before in a previous comment!
This is absolutely needed. It's not just an ask. This should be a standard feature. You do not always display the type of content you want a user to fully navigate away from. In our world as learning developers, sometimes we need to open a popup window that supplies a bit of 'help' to the user, but it needs to be 'on top' of the Rise content. We cannot do this without the ridiculous editing of CSS and JS content in the published web package. If you are going to build in a link handler, there is no reason NOT to give developers the power to decide where that link, and how that link should open. This desperately needs to be added to Rise to make it fully functional.
Thank you for sharing some context around the need for a different way to handle linked content. I've added it to our feature request, and I'll be sure to update this discussion with any changes that will help!
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So what would be nice is if you had the option to open hyperlinks in their own pop-up windows rather than as a tab in the background browser set. This would avoid the issue where the user loses track of where the course window is located.
Or, here is an even better idea! How about allowing to set a link to open in a Lightbox? This would avoid the messiness of pop-up windows, but would allow the content (such as a video) to take over display of the entire window. (Unfortunately for us, our LMS disables the fullscreen button of all video players)
Will,
Love all these ideas and the enthusiasm for Rise! I know our Product team keeps an eye on the forums in addition to the feature request form, but I'll give them an extra tap on the shoulder about your thoughts here. Keep 'em coming!
Ran into this again today. So I'm bumping it back up. This is still a big problem. People think that the course closed when accessing external links.
(And I've submitted a feature request in case I forgot to last time).
Thanks, Will - this forum discussion hasn't seen a lot of traffic since last year, but we'll still track this in addition to your feature request you submitted.
I'd like to chime in - we could absolutely use this. We've started using external links, but in the LMS the links are opening new windows. In fact, it appears on some browsers it even makes the student re-enter the course. Ugh. I love the idea of lightboxes!
This is definitely a needed enhancement. I would also like to see the ability to input content into the lightbox instead of just linked content. For instance, I have a term that a learner may not recognize. I would like them to be able to click the term and have a box appear with details. I've tried a single accordion block, but it looks cumbersome and disrupts the flow of the course.
Related to this would be the ability to open an embedded video in a faux full screen lightbox (one that just fills up the browser window). Our LMS causes the full-screen option on embedded videos to be disabled, and this would help at least get the video to almost be full screen. [Edit] Sorry, I just realize I said this before in a previous comment!
Count me in, this is needed! It's been two years (!) since Will requested such a seemingly simple feature...
This is absolutely needed. It's not just an ask. This should be a standard feature. You do not always display the type of content you want a user to fully navigate away from. In our world as learning developers, sometimes we need to open a popup window that supplies a bit of 'help' to the user, but it needs to be 'on top' of the Rise content. We cannot do this without the ridiculous editing of CSS and JS content in the published web package. If you are going to build in a link handler, there is no reason NOT to give developers the power to decide where that link, and how that link should open. This desperately needs to be added to Rise to make it fully functional.
Thank you for sharing some context around the need for a different way to handle linked content. I've added it to our feature request, and I'll be sure to update this discussion with any changes that will help!
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