New in Rise 360: Hide Cover Page
May 18, 2023
Have you ever wished you could hide the cover page of a Rise 360 course so learners could dive right into the content? Well, now when you publish for LMS you can! Simply toggle the option on before you export your course and you’re all set.
If you’re an Articulate 360 subscriber, you can access this new feature immediately in the LMS settings of any Rise 360 course. And if you don’t have Articulate 360 but want to try out this feature, you can start a free 30-day trial.
Once you’ve given it a try we’d love to hear what you think! Please share any feedback or suggestions in the comments below. We’ll be working on enhancements for this feature and want to know if there are areas for improvement or additional functionality that you’d like to see. We’re looking forward to your feedback!
The Rise 360 Team
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It's definitely great to be able to hide the cover page. However, I think it would be better to have the toggle button in the THEME > Cover Page area. That would put the decision making in context. It'd also mean that the course would show up that way in PREVIEW and in all types of publishing.
I agree with Judy that this is a great feature but is not implemented very well as it seems it cannot be previewed either in Rise or in Review 360.
I tried toggling the setting on and publishing my course for LMS to essentially "save" the setting, then published the course to Review 360 and it still appears with the cover page showing. We need to be able to preview and present courses for review exactly how they'll appear once published to our LMS.
Hi Judy and Lacey!
Thanks for sharing your feedback and suggestions; we'll forward this to our team!
We’ve released this feature for LMS exports for now, but we’re considering adding it for web exports and publishing it to Review 360 as well.
We'll keep this thread posted on updates that can help!
Having it included for web exports would be fabulous!
That does sound like a great feature, Georgi!
I'll add you to the feature request list so you will be notified if we receive any updates or make changes that will help.
Have a good one!
About course covers, previously the "START COURSE" button had a neighbour called "Details ⌄" displayed right next to it, it had a downwards caret symbol to encourage people to read the description.
People in my organisation simply missed the course description that came with the course because that button was removed sometime in 2021-2022. They had said that the course cover pages were too large for their screens so they didn't scroll down, as visually the cover image and title took up over 80VH of their older screens (some are not even HD!).
Will that be coming back or should I simply move all the descriptive stuff into its own lesson? It just outlines the course and contains the copyright which is important to include, but not that important for a learner that it counts as a lesson.
Hi Casey!
I don't think there are plans of adding back the caret with the details. Thanks for your interest in this. You don't need to add a new lesson for your course description. Here's a screenshot where you can find the field where you can add it:
Hope this helps you!
Hi Hazel, yes I already place it there.
The problem is that people unfamiliar with how online courses work simply do not bother reading that information because it appears below the fold on their screens and are unaware that it exists.
My organisation makes training for non-computer savvy people, so they do not find the user experience easy at all.
I have 'hide cover page' on and it still appears in my LMS Scorm 1.2 export - am I doing something wrong?
Hi, Lindsey! Thanks for letting us know you're seeing this issue. We'd love to take a closer look at your course to see what's happening. Please a support case using this form, and we'll reach out to you directly to help troubleshoot the issue.
I've submitted a case now (03706094).
Hi Lindsey!
Thanks for following up! Great call on submitting a case. I see my colleague Darwin has picked it up. You're in excellent hands working one on one with him! He should be getting in touch with you shortly.
We'll continue this conversation over in your support case.
I have the same issue with the cover space. I wish there was a way to remove some the blank white space between the photo and/or title and the course description.
I did find a way to get around this - but it's a bit faffy!
If you go to the Theme, then swap navigation to Continuous, and Indicator to None, then the Rise file opens just at the first screen of content.
You will also need to 'connect' all of the content, otherwise it comes onto the page quite 'blockily'. If you connect it all, you get a single scrolling page.
Articulate have put in a feature request to ensure that when you click 'hide cover page' it actually hides it. But this is a temporary workaround.
Hope that helps!
I'm curious about your directions above. In theme, I can turn navigation on or off and I can restrict navigation, but I'm not seeing "continuous" and I'm not sure what you mean by changing Indicator to None. Could you clarify? I'm very curious to be able to do a work around prior to Articulate making updates. Thanks!!
I've created this workflow to show where to make the changes:
https://app.tango.us/app/workflow/How-to-Set-Stepped-Navigation-as-the-Theme-22c8d79bcd264064b10edffd72e05425
Once you've done this you may find in your actual elearning that where the + to add sections is, you'll have a 'connect/disconnect' option too. You need to 'connect' to allow continuous flow of information.
Hope this helps 🙂
To add clarity to this, Lindsey is referring specifically to the micro-module course format in Rise. This does not apply to standard Rise course layouts.
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I have the same issue with the cover page. very informative and great post thanks.
I just created a micro-learning module and was happy to see this option. I wasn't a fan of the microlearning modules because too many learners didn't see the bouncing arrow to scroll through the course, and I didn't see a way to add direction to the course cover. With the ability to skip the cover, the learner is in the content, solving my issue.
Would be nice to be able to just show the main microlearning page without the front page with the arrow navigation. Adding the presentation as an iframe in Canvas causes the canvas page to jump down to the embedded rise presentation. It would be nice to disable the front page and just show the content page.
Hi Jack,
If you are publishing your microlearning to a LMS, you can turn off the title page as described in the very first post.
Hi Karl,
I saw that but I'm not using scorm to embed the rise microlearning presentation since the students are viewing the presentation along with additional information added to the LMS page.
"Hide Cover Page" is great, but wondering if anyone has noticed that it seems to disable the functionality of "Track using course completion" forcing the learner to scroll down to 100% to complete.
This feature worked yesterday, but today it does not. I published another version of the microlearning I published yesterday and the cover page is now appearing even though the cover page is turned off in the publish settings. I don't believe I changed any of the other settings since yesterday.