Hiding the front page menu in Rise

Welcome, Joanna – glad you're exploring Rise!

It sounds to me like you’re looking to hide the lesson titles seen in the front page. So your learners won't see the agenda when they enter your course, but they will see the list on the side after they start your course.

 I want to make sure I give you the best advice, so let me know if that isn't quite right!

I'll be here! ☺️

Hi Katie,

Yes, that is what I am trying to do.  Is it possible to do this in Rise?

You bet it is, Joanna!

Check out this video to find out how. 👍

Hey again Joanna! 👋

After rereading your post, I see you want to hide the front page menu but still keep the sidebar menu open. 

For now, you can do one or the other: keep the front page menu and sidebar menu, or remove both menus completely. There isn't a third option to remove the front page menu and keep the sidebar menu open. I'm happy to pass along a suggestion to our Product team for that third option, though! 

One more tip: If you're not planning to host the course on a LMS, you can skip the front menu page entirely by linking directly to the first lesson in your course. My colleague Bret recorded a quick tutorial of that right here. 

Thanks for the reply.  It would be great if that could be an option in the future. We will just keep the front menu for now as we will be hosting it in an LMS as a SCORM package and look for this update to potentially come in the future.  Thanks!

Hi Joanna

I have done what you describe above by using my own custom CSS after I have exported the course, the downside to this is that everytime you export your course (because of updates or tweaks) from Rise you would need to add the custom CSS and a line in the index.html page to make it work again.

if you would like to know more let me know, and I can give you some details.

Yes. As a new user wanting to accomplish this it would be great.

Thank you in advance!

Hi here are the steps that i took to turn off the navigation on the first page but keep it in the side Menu.

Please note that at the point of writing this, this works with Rise, but this could become obsolete in future updates from the articulate team.

So to begin with you will be adding this functionality once you have exported your Rise course and have downloaded to your computer, this will either be as a scorm package or as a standalone package to play on your computer locally.

Once you have the downloaded package you need to unzip the file and locate the following path within, dependant on what package you have downloaded,

scorm package path = (name of your file)/scormcontent/lib,

Local package = (name of your file)/lib,

Download the file that I have attached and place in this location.

Next, you need to modify the index.html file it can be found in either of these locations

Scorm package path = /(name of your file)/scormcontent

Local package = /(name of your file)

Once you have found it open the file using a text editing piece of software such as notepad or text wrangler or Dreamweaver if you have it.

Inside the code for the html, you need to paste the following

<!--custom css-->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="lib/custom.css">

Paste it just after </script> around line 18 and click save

If you are running this file locally and not as a scorm package that's all the steps you can now open index.html and should see the changes.

If you are modifying a scorm package jump back to the previous directory

Scorm package path = /(name of your file)

And in a text editor open imsmanifest.xml

Look for the section that says <!-- RUNTIME COMMON STUFF -->

And add the following after the last entry <file href="scormcontent/lib/custom.css"/> and click save.

Now select all items in this directory and zip them back up and move to a new location. and test on your LMS

And that's it I will stress that if you alter the CSS too much you can break the functionality with Rise in my testing this has not done so with this custom script probably because all we are doing is implementing the same function as what turning the menu of in Rise does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFRc7q7_Dxc&t=6s

This is the video i first watched which helped me to understand how to do this

Thanks for sharing that idea, Craig and I'm glad it'll help folks like Joanna. I've also made sure to include this discussion in the feature request our team is tracking about changes to the Rise Start page. We'll keep you posted here with any updates on that!