Hi Xavier, thanks for reaching out and sharing your feedback!
That is the default behavior of the built-in player to show the controls at all times. There isn't a way without modifying the published output to autohide the control of the player.
What I can suggest is for your learners to press the Picture in Picture button, which will pop out the video and then resize it and move it. There are no player control overlays and the dark overlay does not stay in the Picture in Picture mode.
Another idea design-wise if your learners are having problems with seeing what's at the bottom of the video when pausing, is to add black cinematic bars to the top and bottom of the video.
This will center the content so even if the player buttons are there, they don't cover any content.
We also find it quite annoying to have this dominant player inside the content. A behavior like with Storyline items where the control is underneath the content frame would be ideal.
These control-popup-features are OK when having small mobile phone screen sizes in mind, but for e-learning all our users have a decent PC screen size. Anyway, most of our content would be too small to watch on a small screen.
Therefore we still hope for an alternative solution to save a lot of content rework time.
Have you now created a way to hide controls in Rise 360, so that the user cannot skip forward on a video? I need them to completely watch the video before continuing with a quiz or more content. I am aware of the Continue button as an option but it does not work when a video is being viewed because the user can skip to the end and the Continue button becomes visible
We haven't added the option to hide video controls in Rise 360, but if you would like your learners to not skip through a video, you can just disable forward seeking in the video block.
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Hi Xavier, thanks for reaching out and sharing your feedback!
That is the default behavior of the built-in player to show the controls at all times. There isn't a way without modifying the published output to autohide the control of the player.
What I can suggest is for your learners to press the Picture in Picture button, which will pop out the video and then resize it and move it. There are no player control overlays and the dark overlay does not stay in the Picture in Picture mode.
Another idea design-wise if your learners are having problems with seeing what's at the bottom of the video when pausing, is to add black cinematic bars to the top and bottom of the video.
This will center the content so even if the player buttons are there, they don't cover any content.
Hello Renz,
The “Picture-in-Picture” suggestion does not meet our requirement,
since too many manipulations would be needed for all videos.
The “black cinematic bars” suggestion does not meet our requirement,
since there would be an important waste of space in the resulting page.
In an e-learning context, I think, that it is a common requirement,
to let trainees see the video content, when the video is paused.
Therefore, I expected, that Rise would meet this requirement out of the box.
But I now understand, that it does not currently.
Thank you for your help,
XL
Hello Renz
We also find it quite annoying to have this dominant player inside the content. A behavior like with Storyline items where the control is underneath the content frame would be ideal.
These control-popup-features are OK when having small mobile phone screen sizes in mind, but for e-learning all our users have a decent PC screen size. Anyway, most of our content would be too small to watch on a small screen.
Therefore we still hope for an alternative solution to save a lot of content rework time.
Kind regards
Uli
Hi
Have you now created a way to hide controls in Rise 360, so that the user cannot skip forward on a video? I need them to completely watch the video before continuing with a quiz or more content. I am aware of the Continue button as an option but it does not work when a video is being viewed because the user can skip to the end and the Continue button becomes visible
Hi Lucy,
We haven't added the option to hide video controls in Rise 360, but if you would like your learners to not skip through a video, you can just disable forward seeking in the video block.
Let me know if this works for you!