Have multiple additional content shown/embedded beneath each other - in the same lesson - Not just as a link in the sidebar (in the new community layout)
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Siif Floor
Hi.
In the "old" membership sites it is possible to have multiple videos, PDFs, audiofiles and so on shown as embedded files beneath each other.
This feature has been removed from the new community feature 😢
We use this SO much in our courses, because we create a lot of short videos for each lesson.
Please add this feature to the new community as well.
Thank you
Siif
Ps. This was originally a dialog in the comments of a closed feature request:
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Ryan Sullivan
I voted for this but now that I am in the system more and know what it can do, seems you can already do this by embedding media dn text below the main video however you want with as many videos as you want right now. So maybe missing the request or what th plan is to execute since from the requested video example this can alread ybe done.
Siif Floor
The Simplero team are very welcome to take a look at our course with additional content here:
(Sorry to everyone else. it is only visible for paying members and the Simplero team) :)
Merete Stenner
If any of those of you who voted for this have examples to share with the team looking into this, please either share links here or through Simpleros support, we really need to give Simplero all the examples they can get, and so far they have very little to work with compared with the number of votes on this request.
Mette Aalykke
I agree, that would be nice to keep
Calvin Correli
planned
We've heard you loud and clear. We'll need to figure out the right way to do this.
Kristina Smith
Calvin Correli
Thank you so much 🙏 If I can help in any way, please yell!
Christina Christiansen
Calvin Correli Great! If your team need links to examples for testing they are welcome to get acces to my memebersite - I can find different exampels - with links for them - if its of any help? let me know - maybe the video and ticket with links is fine -
Calvin Correli
Christina Christiansen Kristina Smith Appreciate you both.
I think we have what we need. We'll reach out if we need more.
And also feel free to to share anything else that comes to mind, if you have places where you use it differently than what you've already shared.
Christina Christiansen
I have posted this video - to explain my deep concerns about this https://www.facebook.com/groups/simplerogroup/posts/7544827895596282/
Merete Stenner
And it's really important, that the new design keep adhering to the existing embed, hide.. and expand... toggles on additional content, so we don't have to go over thousands of lessons to edit or check they still work!
Christina Christiansen
OHHH noooo this will really mess up my membership site I have worked on for years - hope you get this feature back - so I do not have to rebuild the entire membership.
Tue Olesen
I really agree here: Feels like the additional Resources are getting too little screen estate and teaching importance, in the new community layout, to be useful. Having them show up in a pop-up covers the main content video.
Feels like a step backwards.
A possible solution has been described her: https://simplero.canny.io/feature-requests/p/support-for-expanded-pdf-resources-in-the-new-site-layout
Merete Stenner
Yes please! Having more content visible in one lesson was one of the most asked after features, when membership sites and courses were first launched as replacement to spaces, why go back to something less asked for?
The text below is copied from the original discussion in the autoplay feature request, and focuses on pdf's, but the issue is the same for videos, we want to be able to have more than one piece of content visible at once. There has been put a lot of time and thought into deciding which pieces of additional content to embed or not, and when embedded, whether to have it expanded on pageload or manually. Why does Simplero want to trash all that?
If all that is going, the amount of work required to get it back into an acceptable setup in the new layout will mean that users who are already fed up with the current state of things in Simplero might as well move platforms at the same time.
PDF's are almost never the main asset on a lesson (even if the current interface supported that in a good way, it would not be used a lot), the most common case I have seen (and I've seen a lot) is, that the pdf is something that supports a video or audio file, like slides or a textbook that goes with the video/audio content. So it's super important for usability to have the option to have both elements visible on the same page, not in the next lesson and not as some additional hidden stuff down in the corner. I really feel the development is going backwards not forward here, just took a look at some of my own lessons in the new look and it's basically a disaster, Simplero is literally pouring hundreds and hundreds of your clients carefully spent hours down the drain.
That embedded (in the lesson!!) pdf feature on the old layout is killer, it works SO well, and it's fantastic to be able to stop and start the video and the peruse the relevant part of the adjoining pdf. That will not be possible anymore.
What is the inspiration for these new designs? Which and how many of your current long time loyal users have you asked about how they use their courses, what they're lacking, and what is really working well? Where's the pedagogical evidence supporting the new structure, because clearly there must be some logic behind, that I just haven't realized yet? I'm afraid the strong focus on building community features is taking the educational design side of things hostage in this proces.
Danno Sullivan
In my case, a PDF actually IS the main content of a lesson -- sheet music for the student to read. (I'm agreeing with you :) )
Merete Stenner
Danno Sullivan pdf's as main content will still be able to be shown embedded and folded out as default, it's all the files in additional content that is hidden away.
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