Help - Designing a Course Flow

Nov 04, 2013

First off, thank you very much for reading this.

I have created a course that is broken into three separate scenes; indicated by three folders on the first slide.

The idea is to have the individual finish each scene (15-20 slides) starting from the left and work until reaching the final folder to the right.  As there is an order to the information in each scene, the individual should not be allowed to click on the second/third folder before completing the first.  For example, in the photo attached, one should finish the first “Inside The Group” scene of 15 slides.  Upon completion, it would transport back to this slide and now: a) “Inside The Group” would have a checkmark appear b) “Your Tools” would appear and the folder would now be accessible c) “Your Training” would still be nameless.

Sorry if that was confusing.

Any idea as to how I can go about achieving this?

I can’t get a thought process started.

8 Replies
Kevin Thorn

Hi Rajiv,

That's not as complex as it seems and is a common navigation structure. While there are several ways to approach this, here's what I would do.

SETUP:


  • On your three Folder buttons, add a "Disabled" state. You can keep it the same look or make it slightly darker to indicate it disabled.

  • Set "Your Tools" and "Your Training" folders to initial state of Disabled when course starts.

Since you're evaluating the end of a path, we'll need a few variables.


  • Create three True/False variables. Name them whatever you want but for this example I'll name them "topic1", "topic2", and "topic3" with a default value of False.

FUNCTION:


  • On the last slide of each path add a trigger that adjusts a variable.

  • Adjust Variable > "topic1" > to True > when timeline starts.

  • Do the same on the last slide of the other two paths with a trigger to adjust their respective variables.

ON THE MAIN SLIDE WITH FOLDERS (your screenshot)


  • Ensure the Slide Properties are Reset to Initial State. Reason is we're evaluating triggers based on timeline starts.

  • First, turn ON the checkmark fo completing the first path. Trigger: Change the state of "checkmark1" to Normal when the timeline starts IF "topic1" is equal to True.

  • Next, activate the next Folder. Trigger: Change the state of "Your Tools" folder to Normal when the timeline starts IF "topic1" is equal to True.

  • Rinse & Repeat for the other two variables. Just copy and past the above two triggers and just change the object (checkmark or folder) and the variable name.

That should work.

Rajiv Joshi

I wanted to ask another question pertaining to the same project if possible:

Under the thirdsection of “Your Training”, I was looking to have two separate sets ofquestions (one with 5 and the other with 8) published.  The section would read as 5 slides of info, 5 questions, 10 slides of info, 8 questions, and then a final slide with trigger button.

These questionswouldn't really be evaluated.  It’s moreto indicate that the individual has read the material; a wrong answer wouldtransport back to the slide containing said answer and/or provide a hint.  It’s more of a technicality.

However, upon finishingboth sets of questions, I want to set up a button/trigger to prompt Outlook andsend a pre-populated email with an address/title/message set up.  For example:

Email: Admin@HR.Com

Subject: I’vecompleted my first day training

Body: I’m sendingthis email to let you know I’ve worked through all your modules. 

It doesn't haveto auto-send; just want to make sure the individual just hits send as a final action to complete everything(literally). 

Is this possible?

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