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KirstenSmith-5b
5 years agoCommunity Member
Hi, I have a question about lightboxes. Let's say I have ten slides, eight that you can access normally and two that appear as lightboxes when you click something in the course. In my publish settings, I make the selection Complete/Incomplete based on the learner viewing all ten slides. Do the two lightboxes count as slide views? Or do they work differently since the learner doesn't access them like a base slide?
- JeremyStump5 years agoCommunity MemberI have this same question. Did you ever figure something out to not include the lightbox slide in the total slide count if they have to touch every slide to get a completion?
- JeremyStump5 years agoCommunity MemberI did some searching and found this article that might be helpful. I have not tried it yet.
Excluding Slides and Scenes from Slide Counts
https://community.articulate.com/articles/storyline-360-add-slide-numbers#:~:text=Excluding%20Slides%20and%20Scenes%20from%20Slide%20Counts,-Control%20how%20your&text=In%20Slide%20View%2C%20go%20to,to%20count%2C%20then%20click%20OK.- JeremyStump5 years agoCommunity MemberAfter reviewing this article, it looks like this is just for on screen slide counts, but not for tracking LMS Completion slide counts.
- JeffMiller-b2d15 years agoCommunity MemberKristen - It counts each slide, regardless of if its a regular Slide or Lightbox Slide as a single slide. For quiz questions from a quiz bank, it counts the number of slides, it is supposed to ask. What my company does, because we give them the option not to click the Lightbox slides and skip the standard navigation/player slide(s), is to reduce the number of required slides to approximately 2/3 - 3/4 of the total number of slides. Now if you are going to require them to view the lightbox slides, I would set up the solution Owen listed, with the T/F Variable or a button state as "visited". Then if the variable(s) or states are visited, the course would record completion.