Progress Bars, Meters, and Indicators in E-Learning

Progress Meters in E-Learning #60: Challenge | Recap

Challenge of the week

This week your challenge is to show how progress indicators can be used in e-learning. Here are a few examples to help you get started.

Showing Progress in Quiz and Results Slides

Give your learner's a visual indicator of their remaining quiz questions using a simple progress meter. Another option would be to colorize completed questions to indicate correct and incorrect responses.

Montse Anderson

View demo | Montse Anderson | Website | @mLearning

Showing Learner Progress

Keep your learners informed about their progress with this avatar-based progress indicator.

Learner Progress

Atsumi-O-Meter: View Download

Course Progress Indicator

A simple approach is to use images to represent the progress of each slide like Tom shared in his security demo.

Course Indicator

Employee Security: View

Course Progress (Advanced)

Community member Alexandros Anoyatis shared a free template that uses advanced variables to drive the menu's progress meter.

Course Progress

Menu Toolkit: View | Download 

Bookmarking

Articulate Super Hero Bruce Graham shared a thermostat-themed progress indicator.

Bookmarking

Bookmarking demo: View | Download

Resources

Here are some helpful discussions, demos, and downloads to help you get started. We're happy to give you a hand with ideas or technical help. If you get stuck, let us know!

Video Tutorials

Visual Feedback Gauge

How to Design Visual Feedback Meters in Articulate Storyline

This video workshop on creating feedback meters in Storyline uses similar techniques for progress indicators.

Forum Discussions, Examples, and Tutorials

Last Week’s E-learning Challenge:

Examples of E-Learning Games for Kids

E-Learning Games for Kids #59: Challenge | Recap

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Share Your Progress Meter Examples!

We have a new progress bars challenge for 2019. Head over to the current challenge to share your work.

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