I'm new to the forum and fairly new to Articulate. I'm trying to incorporate a 5 minute timer into a section of a presentation on a procedure. The idea is to mimic the actual time allowed to do a certain task as part of the training. I'm not sure the best way to do it. Any ideas would be most appreciated.
Here are a couple options for forcing a slide to 5 minutes:
One option would be to insert a 5-minute blank audio file in the slide and have the slide auto advance to the next slide.
Or, you can open Presenter's Record Narration window and record a blank audio track of 5 minutes.
You can use Sync Animations and sync "nothing" for five minutes.
But it's probably more fun to include a visual timer
You can expand the timing of an animation to 300 seconds and then have the slide auto advance. I just used a simple graphic that goes across the slide to show progress.
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried to view the link you provided and it gave me an error saying I needed to log in. Is there any way I could see the example for the visual timer? I think that might work best for my presentation.
Hi Sue - I just saw that from a different browser. Not sure why it didn't take the first time. I've corrected the links but I'm also attaching the files since they're small enough to upload.
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Hi Sue and welcome to Heroes!
Here are a couple options for forcing a slide to 5 minutes:
But it's probably more fun to include a visual timer
You can expand the timing of an animation to 300 seconds and then have the slide auto advance. I just used a simple graphic that goes across the slide to show progress.
http://articulate-community.s3.amazonaws.com/david/forums/countdown-timer/player.html
Source file: download
Hi David,
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried to view the link you provided and it gave me an error saying I needed to log in. Is there any way I could see the example for the visual timer? I think that might work best for my presentation.
Hi Sue - I just saw that from a different browser. Not sure why it didn't take the first time. I've corrected the links but I'm also attaching the files since they're small enough to upload.
And the published version:
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