For any Storyline360 course, once users switch to other browser tabs the audio playing (and slide timeline) would pause until they switch back. However if I do want the audio and slide advance in the background, is there any way to disable the auto-pause feature? Thank you.
The slide timeline and audio will pause by default when you visit a new browser tab. It sounds like you need the timeline and audio to continue playing though, so I'll pass along your request to our team! Thanks for reaching out.
Jumping in to say this would be more valuable than just music. This would allow me to add a delay to a CONTINUE button when sending the user to an outside resource (such as a website). I want them to NOT be able to click Continue until after a set amount of time, which they should use to navigate the outside resource. Once my set timer completes (using either a slide animation off-screen, or using a layer with its own timeline), the state of my continue button can change... This works—in theory—but as soon as the user clicks the button to launch the outside resource, all timelines pause. I need the option to turn this pause off and continue the timeline clocks.
Thanks for sharing more details, Daniel! I don't have an update to share on this feature request, as our team is currently prioritizing other features. I'll keep you updated if we add this to our roadmap.
No updates to share at this point, but I'd like to share some insight:
We designed Storyline to work this way since administrators don't want courses to continue to play in the background while learners are browsing other websites.
However, there are two sides to this coin, and others would like to continue playing courses to multi-task, so we'll add your name to the list of folks who've made this request and let you know if anything changes in our plans.
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Hi Pollux!
The slide timeline and audio will pause by default when you visit a new browser tab. It sounds like you need the timeline and audio to continue playing though, so I'll pass along your request to our team! Thanks for reaching out.
Indeed, Alyssa, looking forward to your team's solutions.
Hi Alyssa, any input from our developer team? Thank you.
Hi Pollux,
No news to share.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
Jumping in to say this would be more valuable than just music. This would allow me to add a delay to a CONTINUE button when sending the user to an outside resource (such as a website). I want them to NOT be able to click Continue until after a set amount of time, which they should use to navigate the outside resource. Once my set timer completes (using either a slide animation off-screen, or using a layer with its own timeline), the state of my continue button can change... This works—in theory—but as soon as the user clicks the button to launch the outside resource, all timelines pause. I need the option to turn this pause off and continue the timeline clocks.
Thanks for sharing more details, Daniel! I don't have an update to share on this feature request, as our team is currently prioritizing other features. I'll keep you updated if we add this to our roadmap.
Hi, would just like to ask if there are any updates on this? Thank you so much.
Hi Jeremy,
No updates to share at this point, but I'd like to share some insight:
We designed Storyline to work this way since administrators don't want courses to continue to play in the background while learners are browsing other websites.
However, there are two sides to this coin, and others would like to continue playing courses to multi-task, so we'll add your name to the list of folks who've made this request and let you know if anything changes in our plans.