I want my students to watch the media I've inserted and to not be able to click on through. I found a tutorial that is supposed to make the stock "next" button inactive until the media is done, but that's going to confuse my students, because if the "next" button doesn't work during the video, they are not necessarily going to assume it will work afterward (and there's no visual to clue them in). I'm going to have too many of them just exit and send me an email about how the presentation is broken. How can I make the stock next button not even show up until after the media is completed?
Yes, this is the tutorial I referred to in my initial post. I really don't want to bother to create my own buttons and go back to my completed tutorial to add new next buttons to every slide. There really ought to be an action to do this.
Louise is correct that you can't currently hide the "stock" next button. If that's something you'd like to see in the future, please add your voice (as I've done) by submitting a feature request. TIA!
Oh, P.S. I haven't had a chance to watch the tutorial and need to "run" at the moment, so not sure if this is included: but are you aware that you can set up a prompt to explain to Learners that the disabled "stock" next button will be available after they've finished watching the tutorial? If not, and you'd like to know how to do that, please shout out. It's pretty quick and either I or others in the community can provide an example for you.
It looks like you're getting some great help here, and the tutorial linked does have a prompt included to tell the learner that they need to listen to the whole thing as Becky mentioned, but if you need extra help in terms of how to set it up, just let us know!
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You can create your own Next button and can change the state of it to Hidden or Disabled until the Media completes using triggers.
I dont think you can use the standard player buttons in the same way for this.
There is a tutorial here on this:
http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/how-to-disable-the-next-button-until-users-finish-interacting-with-a-slide
Yes, this is the tutorial I referred to in my initial post. I really don't want to bother to create my own buttons and go back to my completed tutorial to add new next buttons to every slide. There really ought to be an action to do this.
Hi Susan,
Louise is correct that you can't currently hide the "stock" next button. If that's something you'd like to see in the future, please add your voice (as I've done) by submitting a feature request. TIA!
Oh, P.S. I haven't had a chance to watch the tutorial and need to "run" at the moment, so not sure if this is included: but are you aware that you can set up a prompt to explain to Learners that the disabled "stock" next button will be available after they've finished watching the tutorial? If not, and you'd like to know how to do that, please shout out. It's pretty quick and either I or others in the community can provide an example for you.
Hi Susan,
It looks like you're getting some great help here, and the tutorial linked does have a prompt included to tell the learner that they need to listen to the whole thing as Becky mentioned, but if you need extra help in terms of how to set it up, just let us know!
As there is no way to hide the button, yes, I would be interested in setting up the prompt. Thanks.
Hi Susan,
The attached file, with a VERY bad and jerky video of our dog when he was a puppy, prompts the user via a layer, by using a variable.
Variable
T/F variable I called VideoComplete; default is false
Prompt layer
New layer I called please watch.
The properties of this layer are set to "hide other slide layers" and "Pause timeline of base layer"
There's a black rectangle with 20% transparency on the slide.
There's a text box to warn Learners.
There's an OK button with a trigger to close the layer.
Base Layer / Video Layer
Object Trigger adjusts the VideoComplete T/F variable = to True when the media (the inserted video) is complete
Player triggers:
Jump to next slide has been modified to include the condition if the VideoComplete variable=True
An additional trigger has been added to show the Please watch layer when Learners click next if the VideComplete variable is not = True
This is really bare bones (and bad video to boot!), but it does the trick. Still, there are a lot of steps, so please shout out with any questions.
Thanks Becky for sharing an example here - and what a cute little pup!
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