Direct navigation to the point a student is at?

Hi @hanswitteprins ,

Thanks for reaching out!

> One of our students was missing a navigation to directly continue at the lesson where he was at, instead of having to use the lessons list.

Is the idea that when the student logs in, he’s immediately taken to the lesson where he left off?

How do you envision this working? With more details about what you’re specifically looking for, I *may* be able to point you in the right direction> ??

Best,

Hi, I am also looking into this possibility. Let’s say a student has enrolled in two courses. In one of the courses, the student has started a course/lesson but decided to stop and logged out. It would be cool if one could prompt the student or remind the user where they left off the last time they visited, and maybe ask the student if they want to be taken to where they left off. This will improve course completion rates. Is not a must be a cool option.

@cena thinking about an implementation, I could imagine that a student could be directed to his/her current lesson directly after logging in, but that is not that easy since he or she could already be logged in, courses could be free, students may have multiple courses (which should we then select?) and our course implementation is part of an integrated website where courses are only part of the functionality. That path would probably be a bit complex to figure out all possible scenarios.

What I’m asking is just to reduce the number of steps a student has to take to get to where he or she probably needs to go (normally the next unfinished lesson according to the course progress of the student).

Right now, a student first needs to navigate to the course page and then scroll through the course page content (or use a button) and then scroll through the lessons list and then click on the appropriate lesson. Especially on a mobile device with a small screen that can be a nuisance.

One way to skip steps would be the My courses page. There Sensei LMS shows already a course results button, which brings students to the course results page, but there could also be a “continue with the course” button/link, or something like that, bringing the student directly from the archive page to the appropriate lesson.

In that case the student can just bookmark the my courses page and the next unfinished lesson/quiz is just a click from there. And course developers could make that archive something like a student profile page.

Also the same button/link/functionality would be nice to have as a gutenberg block (a shortcode would work too), so it can be placed at the top of the course page. Then a student can bookmark the course page and at the top will find a way to navigate to the next unfinished lesson/quiz.

I could also imagine a query-var in the course pages url results in a redirect to the next unfinished lesson/quiz. That would give developers an easy way to implement any way they want to direct students, by just linking to this special URL.

Something like that. Having said that… Is there a right direction for you to point me in?

Thanks, Regards, Hans

Hi Hans,

I really appreciate your detailed response.

It looks like we do have an open proposal for this, to which I’ve added your comments.

Realistically, however, this is unlikely to be implemented any time soon. There is a user in that issue who reports being able to code this functionality using

https://github.com/xwp/stream

However, that’s not something we could help implement.

I’m sorry I don’t have better news!

Best,
Cena