Adding a Pause Button to the Player

Hi Margaret, welcome to Heroes.

In the Player Properties, select the 'Seekbar' option. This will give you a Pause button.

Wow, that was easy.  Please excuse my newbie ignorance!  Thanks so much!

Hahaha, no excuse needed. Glad to help

Glad Brian was able to help your here Margaret - and I did also want to point out this article on how to pause the timeline of a slide.  As a proclaimed newbie, I thought it may help to see that with Storyline there is typically more than one way to accomplish it. :-) 

HI Again,

Thanks for all your help in getting the player loaded so we'd have Pause, Next, etc., added in the Player.  Now I have just two more questions:

1.  The "Previous" button does not always work.  It pretty much works when it wants to with no rhyme or reason.  Any idea why?

2.  The "Time" function in the player keeps scrolling across at the bottom of the screen, but the presentation I created is NOT intended to be timed.  It only acts as a distraction making the user feel like he/she had better hurry up in case time runs out. 

All assistance is welcome!  I am learning lots and might not be a newbie by the time this presentation is complete!

Hi Margaret, 

1. Without seeing the set up it's difficult to say. What have you set for the navigation within the player menu? If you're using locked the user can't navigate back to slides that they've previously seen. You'd want to use free or restricted navigation. Also perhaps you've modified the trigger for the previous button (it's built in to go to the last slide the user saw, much like a browser back button) so although it's not visible immediately if you added a trigger to it that could be interfering. 

2. The seekbar "time" element is based on the overall slides timeline. Unfortunately if you need the play/pause button then you'll have to have the seekbar as well. Depending on what is on your slides you could set the timeline to be very short or very long so that it's less distracting or seen as a way to clock how long they're in the course?  

Hi Ashley,

I have found the solution of removing play and pause button with the seekbar.

Regards

Reena

Glad that's a solution that'll work for you Reena! 

This was sooo helpful!

how to insert play/pause , stop button in player bar  as like next, previous button.

Hi Anu! You can add a play/pause button to the player simply by enabling the seekbar in the player properties window. 

Can you tell me more about why you would want a stop button? How would that button function differently than the pause button?

Hello Ma'am,

Thanks a lot for your humble response .

I have a problem with Quiz. It is not refresh when i am choosing resume option.

I  completed the project with quiz . again i open project it tells prompt message Resume/Restart ,i choosed resume option then quiz is seen in already checked correct option and i had not option of submit . Quiz part is read only and given next button option for jump to next slide of project.

I want to user attempt quiz in unlimited basis , in case user have to choose both Resume/ Restart option. 

Hi Anu!  You can retake a quiz once you reach the results slide.  Include the option to retake the quiz, and Storyline will reset the quiz slides so that you can choose Submit again.

If you resume a course after reaching the results slide, unless you choose to retry the quiz, it will show the quiz slides in Review mode when you revisit them.

Let me know if that helps!

Alyssa,

Honestly, the seekbar is really distracting across the bottom of the screen. I have never liked using it and always have removed it from eLearning (I would rather see time duration). It's extra and unnecessary animation. It would be helpful if there could be a play/pause button that we could use on the player for when we have created screencasts in View Mode. The learner can just pause and resume the eLearning as needed.

Hi Nikki,

The play/pause button are built-in to the seekbar, but if you'd added a video on a slide, have you looked at enabling the video controls? That would allow you for further control while on the slide itself without the player seekbar.

You could also look at creating a custom button, that once you've added the triggers to play/pause media based on a users' click would allow you to have the learner pause a video as needed. 

Hi Nikki,

Thanks for letting us know what you'd like to see! It sounds like a pause/play button without the seekbar would work better for you. I'll let our development team know about your idea!

Good morning, 

I'm working in Storyline on a course, and I'd like to add in a Play/Pause button, but not have the seekbar. The course is fairly long, and I don't want the seek bar acting as a visual indicator. The menu is engaged, so navigation is done that way. Do you know how I can add in the Play/Pause without the seekbar? I see the answers from a few years ago; it  looks like it wasn't possible at that point, but maybe something has been implemented at this point? 

Thanks for your help!

You can customize it with Javascript and CSS and make the 'seek'-part invisible. Try using your console in the browser to test it.

Hmm, sounds promising -- however, I'm not a coding expert. Do you know how I would do this? (or a link to somewhere if it's already been explained, would be great!) 

Hey Christine! I'm no Javascript expert either, and we don't support it, but I did stumble across a couple of posts that might get you on your way!

Hide or Show Seekbar in slide

Show and hide seekbar in a slide: Is it possible?

Looking forward to what other ideas the community chimes in with — Good luck! 😊