Assignment Isn't showing as completed. Could Next buttons being reviewed be the problem?

Aug 11, 2023

I have created an assignment in Articulate Storyline 360 that is from a PowerPoint with voiceover. I created triggers and variables to make the Next button available if someone was interrupted and needed to go back to a slide to review it. The presentation has some video as well as an audio file. There are no quizzes or anything too complex in the presentation.

When I reviewed the presentation using our LMS, it runs through correctly and I was able to hit the Prev button and the Next button was on the slide as I wanted. When I ran through the full presentation, it didn't show a completion, and when I opened it up and it gave me the option to resume, it took me to a video that was about 1/3 of the way through the presentation. Could my triggers/variables be causing this? Should I get rid of the variable disabling the the Next button? Or, is there another trigger or variable that needs to be set for the slide to show as completed if someone needs to go back to a slide?

Here is a sample of triggers and variables from one of my slides:

Thank you!!

1 Reply

Judy Nollet
Hero

9 months ago08/11/23 at 6:57 pm (UTC)

If a course resumes at a point earlier than where you exited it, that could be caused by using a publishing standard that doesn't allow enough room to store the suspend/resume data. SCORM 1.2 has a very low limit for that data.

If that's the case, the fix is to publish with a standard that has a higher limit. Check with your LMS folks to see if SCORM 2004, edition 3 (or later) is okay.
Here's more info on this: Storyline: Exceeding SCORM Suspend Data Limits - Articulate Support

You can also try to lower the amount of data needed to resume. For example, that can be done by using fewer variables and by not saving states. But it still may not be possible, and those sort of changes can have a negative impact on how the course works.

FYI: you don't need any triggers or variables to require a user to view every slide in order. Just set the Player's Menu Navigation to Restricted. The program will automatically disable the Next button the first time a user visits the slide, and it will enable the Next button when the timeline ends. This works even if you don't show the built-in Menu.

Here's more info about that and other ways to control the Next button: TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes

Also, you don't need a trigger to delay the start of the audio. Just drag the audio to the desired start time in the Timeline: