I have a presentation with the complete player controls navigation horizontally across the bottom (default view). However, when my tabbed Engage interaction plays, it takes over the full window size moving the default player controls out of view and replacing them with small player control icons in the right bottom corner of the screen (not a problem...navigation is by tabs). The problem is that when the tabbed interaction is completed, and the course advances to the next slide (by user interaction) the player controls do not reappear. Instead, they remain as the small player control icons...instead, I want the presentation to return to the previous state and display full player controls. Any suggestions please?
Hi Scott, and welcome! Sounds like you just need to change the view mode on the slide that comes after your Engage interaction. Here's how to do it: open your presentation in PowerPoint, go to the Articulate menu, and select Slide Properties. Scroll down to the slide that comes after your Engage interaction, and in the Change View column, select Standard View (if you want the sidebar to appear) or No Sidebar View (if you want just the player controls along the bottom but no sidebar). Here's a tutorial that tells you all sorts of stuff about controlling the view mode, in case you need a visual walk-through. The slide-specific view mode stuff is covered in the blue heading that says "Step 3: Customize the view mode for any slide."
I just finished building a course with about 700 slides. Everything seems to be ok except for the fact that the player loads slowly and the course itself is extremely slow when playing.
I just finished building a course with about 700 slides. Everything seems to be ok except for the fact that the player loads slowly and the course itself is extremely slow when playing.
700 slides is a lot of slides, I exopect the player is running slowly because it is loading the presentation.xml file, the course may be slow because you have lots of video, or images. A way to speed up the slide is to transfer as much repeated information as possible to master slides.
700 slides should not have an effect on the running of the course becuase Studio only loads 3 slides at a time, but 700 is a lot, I would try to cut the course down, with only 30 seconds per slide that is over 5 hours. I would try to cut this down, possibly break into sections. elearning is better when delivered in chunks, Also if you plan to deliver via an lms you may run into issues of the resume data being to large
It is an o level course and there is no single video in the presentation thou there are lots of images. And for now, I have only published to CD so the issue of slow internet connection does not arise.
How do I go about resolving this issue? Someone recommended snap but I am trying to stick with articulate.
Hi Kelvin - so just to clarify - are having problems with the course loading efficiently even when you publish for CD and run the course locally from your own hard drive?
Also, do you get the same behavior on all courses that you publish, or is it only this one?
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Hi Scott, and welcome! Sounds like you just need to change the view mode on the slide that comes after your Engage interaction. Here's how to do it: open your presentation in PowerPoint, go to the Articulate menu, and select Slide Properties. Scroll down to the slide that comes after your Engage interaction, and in the Change View column, select Standard View (if you want the sidebar to appear) or No Sidebar View (if you want just the player controls along the bottom but no sidebar). Here's a tutorial that tells you all sorts of stuff about controlling the view mode, in case you need a visual walk-through. The slide-specific view mode stuff is covered in the blue heading that says "Step 3: Customize the view mode for any slide."
Hope that helps!
Perfect! I knew there was a solution and that is exactly it. Saved me a lot of frustration
I just finished building a course with about 700 slides. Everything seems to be ok except for the fact that the player loads slowly and the course itself is extremely slow when playing.
Please is there anything I can do about this?
I just finished building a course with about 700 slides. Everything seems to be ok except for the fact that the player loads slowly and the course itself is extremely slow when playing.
Please is there anything I can do about this?
700 slides is a lot of slides, I exopect the player is running slowly because it is loading the presentation.xml file, the course may be slow because you have lots of video, or images. A way to speed up the slide is to transfer as much repeated information as possible to master slides.
700 slides should not have an effect on the running of the course becuase Studio only loads 3 slides at a time, but 700 is a lot, I would try to cut the course down, with only 30 seconds per slide that is over 5 hours. I would try to cut this down, possibly break into sections. elearning is better when delivered in chunks, Also if you plan to deliver via an lms you may run into issues of the resume data being to large
It is an o level course and there is no single video in the presentation thou there are lots of images. And for now, I have only published to CD so the issue of slow internet connection does not arise.
How do I go about resolving this issue? Someone recommended snap but I am trying to stick with articulate.
How do I transfer as much repeated information to master slides?
Hi Kelvin - so just to clarify - are having problems with the course loading efficiently even when you publish for CD and run the course locally from your own hard drive?
Also, do you get the same behavior on all courses that you publish, or is it only this one?
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