The seekbar is nice for displaying progress for videos and the like. The downside is folks like me figure out how to shorten our experience by exploiting seekbar behaviors, etc.. For some compliance courses, I see occasional benefit to locking down the seekbar while still displaying it. This could be abused for long videos and could cause other avoidance behaviors (tabbing out while video plays with audio muted).
These are all symptoms of another problem. We tend to think we can "package learning" and this tendency results in us doing things TO people instead of FOR people:P
Still would be nice to have the option to lock out the seekbar. If for no other reason, I have clients that ask for it.
If anyone finds this thread. You can now lock the seekbar in Storyline 2. It is located in the Player Properties where you can pull down the menu to Read-Only(it will have properties of the pull down item shown, even if unchecked and grayed out).
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Nope.
John,
secondary question, why would you like to block the seekbar...
Geert
The seekbar is nice for displaying progress for videos and the like. The downside is folks like me figure out how to shorten our experience by exploiting seekbar behaviors, etc.. For some compliance courses, I see occasional benefit to locking down the seekbar while still displaying it. This could be abused for long videos and could cause other avoidance behaviors (tabbing out while video plays with audio muted).
These are all symptoms of another problem. We tend to think we can "package learning" and this tendency results in us doing things TO people instead of FOR people:P
Still would be nice to have the option to lock out the seekbar. If for no other reason, I have clients that ask for it.
one can always think of introducing a layer, that pauzes the seekbar until a user presses a button...
If anyone finds this thread. You can now lock the seekbar in Storyline 2. It is located in the Player Properties where you can pull down the menu to Read-Only(it will have properties of the pull down item shown, even if unchecked and grayed out).
Very true Richard. Thanks for popping in to share this with the community. It could certainly help someone that runs across this thread in the future.
Here is the documentation if helpful for anyone.
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