Using Progress Meters in E-Learning #60
Progress Meters in E-Learning #60: Challenge | Recap
Progress indicators are a great way to let learners see how much they’ve finished, and how much there is to go.
And since they’re one of the most popular questions in the community, I thought they'd make a great weekly challenge.
Before you progress through this week's challenge, take a look at a few of the creative examples your fellow community members have shared.
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.
View demo | Montse Anderson | Website | @mLearning
Showing Learner Progress
Keep your learners informed about their progress with this avatar-based progress indicator.
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.
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.
Bookmarking
Articulate Super Hero Bruce Graham shared a thermostat-themed progress indicator.
Bookmarking demo: View | Download
Challenge of the week
This week your challenge is to show how progress indicators can be used in e-learning.
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
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
- Course progress with percentage
- Fake Progress bar shared by Phil Mayor
- Client wants progress bar
- Owen Holt shared a creative solution for using Excel to create progress indicator graphics
- Bookmark Progress demo from Phil Mayor: View | Download
- Progress Tracker Template for Storyline 2
- Progress Tracker for Storyline 1
- Progress Bar by David Dye
Last Week’s E-learning Challenge:
E-Learning Games for Kids #59: Challenge | Recap
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Jumping in for my second challenge and first challenge involving a course. I plan to blog about this course soon, but in the meantime, here is my entry. https://db.tt/Tox1YgDz This is a stripped down version of a scenario-based compliance course I'm working on. I've adapted this template: https://community.articulate.com/download/interaction-flat-desktop-exploration. The idea is that the resources on the desk will give the user information needed to complete the challenge. Note that in Scenario 1, some of the icons open layers, but from that point on, it's just a skeleton structure. Also, in my real course, I have several layers of branching and choices dependent on variables, but I cut them out for the sake of the demo. Thanks for a great challenge that has applied directly t... Expand