Click-Start/Stop Animation

Hi Ken

When I have information that I want learners to "click" through so they can digest at their own pace I usehyperlinked buttons to display the information as they are ready to absorb it. You can still set it up so that it appears they are on the same slide, when infact they are advancing to the next slide

This tutorial from Jeanette gives a good overview of the process and how hyperlinks can make the learning more interactive for the learner

hope this gives you some ideas

Blair

Hey Blair - thanks for the reply.

Breaking the animation down into several slides is certainly one solution I guess, although it multiples the work involved of keeping the slides up to date and complicates things with respect to keeping the scene seamless across the slides, as well as updates consistent, etc.

I guess I need to take the lack of replies to this query as a defacto admission that there's no way that Articulate/Flash can handle Powerpoints animation features within a single slide, allowing the user to click their way through a series of sequenced animations.

I'll keep hunting on the web.

Ken

Hi Ken

There is no on click intereaction with articulate, Blair's reply is the best way forward. 

The best frame of mind to have is that articulate is not powerpoint and although somethings take more time and are more complicated in articulate some things are faster and easier.

If you want this type of interaction then it is possible to build this in flash and insert swf into articulate

Phil

In regards to it "multiplying the work" for changing slides later. Try making use of master slides for everything accept the animations. That way...if you need to change it later, you are only changing one master for every set of slides (that would have been one slide before)