Incorporating a countdown timer in Presenter

Jul 19, 2011

Sue Ziegler
By Sue Ziegler

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum and fairly new to Articulate. I'm trying to incorporate a 5 minute timer into a section of a presentation on a procedure. The idea is to mimic the actual time allowed to do a certain task as part of the training. I'm not sure the best way to do it. Any ideas would be most appreciated.

4 Replies
David Anderson
almost 13 years ago07/19/11 at 7:31 am (UTC)

Hi Sue and welcome to Heroes!

Here are a couple options for forcing a slide to 5 minutes:

  • One option would be to insert a 5-minute blank audio file in the slide and have the slide auto advance to the next slide.
  • Or, you can open Presenter's Record Narration window and record a blank audio track of 5 minutes.
  • You can use Sync Animations and sync "nothing" for five minutes.

But it's probably more fun to include a visual timer

You can expand the timing of an animation to 300 seconds and then have the slide auto advance. I just used a simple graphic that goes across the slide to show progress.

http://articulate-community.s3.amazonaws.com/david/forums/countdown-timer/player.html

Source file: download

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