Tracked navigation (history).

Mar 04, 2011

Is there any way to allow learners to navigate freely to different modules within a course but for them to see which modules they may have missed once they come back to a table of contents (landing page)? I know that you can unlock the navigation but I'd like a way for them to see (visually) that they completed modules 1 and 3, but not 2 and 4 yet, for example. Can this be done? If so, how?

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Brian Batt

Hi Murray & welcome to Heroes,

Unfortunately there's not currently a way to differentiate visited sections of a course, if you've built your own menu slide in PPT. If the sidebar navigation panel is visible in your course, though (i.e., if you're displaying the presentation in Standard View) then Presenter will automatically assign a different color to the visited sections as compared to non-visited. Sometimes it can help to make these two colors more dramatic... you can use the color scheme editor to change the settings for "Unviewed slide titles" and/or "Viewed slide titles." The picture below is an example of a course where the colors were changed... the orange titles in the sidebar are the visited titles, and the gray ones are unvisited.

Murray Reimer

Thanks Brian,

I went to that course demo in the Articulate Showcase but couldn't enable the outline view. Was this done using branching? I would prefer not to rely on the outline view for this.

One of the things my colleague did was lock the navigation and recreate the main menu after each module prompting them to click on the next module, giving them the illusion that they were navigating on their own. It's probably not that big of a deal. I thought there might be a trick to doing this in Articulate.

Here's a completely different question. I want to create a course and embed Captivate movies throughout the course teaching the new features of Microsoft Office 2007. Our company is upgrading from Office 2003 to 2007. I know, we're a little behind the times.

Any thought on how this might be done effectively using Articulate and Captivate together?

Brian Batt

Hi Murray,

To add Adobe Captivate movies to Articulate Presenter presentations, please review the following article:

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=2903

Also, you may want to take a look at this third party tool that will display which slides the end-user hasn't viewed:

http://elearningenhanced.com/products/display-unviewed-slides

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