Creating a lesson menu that indicates when a lesson is complete

Hi Sean, welcome to the community. See attached file with a menu that connects to 7 sections/lessons. At the end of each section, a variable is set to indicate completion of the section before jumping back to the main menu. Back at the main menu, the menu buttons' states are changed to visually indicate completion, based on the value of the variables. Once all 7 sections have been completed, a feedback message and summary screen are displayed. This may not be exactly what you want, but hopefully it gives you some ideas.

Hi Sean,

I just wanted to echo Michael's welcome to the community. It looks like he's provided you with a great example, so if you need anything else please let us know! 

Hi Sean,

Great work! Just one query. Can you please explain the rationale behind the trigger used? I mean you have used : Change state of> Button 1> Visited> Timeline starts> Explore screen: 

On Condition: Topic01Complete==Equal to True

does that mean that as soon as the learner visits the branch page the state of the button on the menu page should change?

Regards

Chetana

No, the branch page cannot change the state of a button on another page. What it does is change the value of the variable. The state only changes when the learner returns to the menu page. The state changes when the menu page timeline starts if the variable has been changed.

By the way, this is an old post, and I know from more recent posts that Michael has changed his approach. He no longer changes the button state to Visited. That is because Visited is a built-in state, and has its own built-in triggers.  You can have unpleasant conflicts if you write triggers that cause built-in states to take actions other than the built-in actions. The best way is to create a custom (bespoke) state. It will do the same things the visited state does in this example, but since it has a different name, it will not conflict with the built-in actions.

Hi Chetana,

This thread is a bit older, so I'm not sure that Sean is still subscribed. I hesitate to guess at his rationale, but would imagine the trigger is set up as such based on the user completing the entire topic - not just clicking on the button to go to that topic. As the built in visited state would consider it visited once the user has clicked on it as described here. 

Hello Chetana,

It has been a while, but if memory serves the goal was to have a menu driven course that when the learner gets to the last slide in a lesson a variable is changed from false to true at the start of the time line on the last slide (EX: lesson1Complete = true). When the user clicks next or goes back to the menu a completed state (created and customized by the course developer in the states area) is displayed on the topic button. In the menu slide there would be a trigger to change the state to Completed if lesson1Complete = true. 

Hi  - I have a related question. I've set up a menu similar to this. There are five modules. The user clicks a button to to access each module. All buttons except the first are disabled when the menu appears. When they finish the first module, the button for the second module changes to "normal" state (red), making it selectable. The first module changes to a "done" state (blue.) My question: how do I retain either the "done" or "normal" state setting?  When the users finish the course, the buttons are all "done," and still selectable.  But if if you start it again, the buttons revert to the disabled state, so the users can't go back to the content to reference one module without having to retake all the previous modules. I'd like them to be able to revisit any module in any order for reference purposes once they've gone through the course sequentially.  Sorry for the long explanation. I'd appreciate any help you can give!

Hi Patty

do you have the menu slide set to 'resume saved state' in the slide properties and do you have any other triggers that could be conflicting?

Hi - Not initially, but then I changed it to "resume saved state" and republished. Got the same results, unfortunately.

I wonder if it could be my LMS (using Moodle.)

Hi Patty

do you have a trigger that is setting the buttons to disabled? 

Might be easier for someone to help if you can upload your .story file - just use the Add Attachment button at the bottom of the post.

No, but "disabled" is the initial state of all but the first one. I've attached the story file. Thanks!

Hi Patty

I can't see the issue - I published the file and viewed via Chrome - I finished the Warm UP and Educate sections then closed the browser and went back in and it resumed where I had left off and took me to start the next section. 

Are you testing in the environment where users will see it - either on a webserver or in an LMS? 

Thanks so much for testing!. The issue is that once all the modules are completed, I want the course to keep them completed so users can return and access any module without having to retake the earlier ones. That way the course can serve as a reference afterward. But when you reopen the course after completing, it resets and you have to go through sequentially. Maybe I'm trying to do something that can't be done?

Hi Patty, 

Did you also look at the resume setting you're using? Do you see the prompt to resume as detailed here or does it just automatically take you back to the start of the course? 

It prompts to resume, which is the setting I selected. I made a few adjustments in Moodle, and now it seems to work the way I want, as long as a user who has already completed the course chooses to resume, rather than start over when they open it again for reference purposes. We'll see if it works okay for users. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for that update Patty and feel free to keep us posted on how it works.