Password protect a course

Does it have to be different passwords, or can it be a single password that all supervisors use?

Single password.

you can set a text entry to restrict navigation until the variable is equal to whatever you want the password to be.

I included an example of a .story file doing this. The password is aligator1

Hope this helps!

Barry;

How about a layer with an input box.  When slide starts show layer.  the trigger to close the layer is dependent on the input matching whatever you choose for the password.  I have done this to override completion when I dont want to go through the whole course as a student to see the completion slide.

Tim

Here is a demo

Jackson beat me to it.

Jackson and Tim,

Both great suggestions. Now how do I make it where what is typed looks like a password (******) and not show the actual word being typed?

Thanks,

Barry

Barry;

I just tried to change the font in the password box to Wingdings and it made it unreadable. 

Would that work?

Tim

Tim,

That should do it. I wonder if there is a font that is only ******** or dots.

Thanks for the suggestions and the story files from you and Jackson.

Barry

Check out this thread Barry :)

Leslie;

I tried the file from that thread and it seems to not function in SL2.  The idea looks amazing but I can't tell why it no longer functions.  Another poster on the 2nd page noted that as well.

Tim

Well dang, sorry to hear that Tim, but thanks for pointing that out. Perhaps someone else in the community has some ideas/suggestions.

The font idea will not work as the user would have to have that specific font installed as variable fonts are not embedded.

Thanks Phil! Friday afternoon brain here :)

Shout out of thanks to everyone who responded to my question. This is a great community of users.

Did you get what you needed here, Barry?

There's another way to "trick" the input box. Since you know what the password will be there should only be a few selected keys to press on the keyboard. If so, try this.

• Create a rectangle shape. Blank white
• Add a State for each letter in the Password
• On each of the States, add one sequential * character
• Add a trigger for each key in the password that gets pressed to change the state of the shape.

No input box and no variable to keep up with. 

**Note**

A LOT more can be built onto this, but fundamental layout and structure is there. For instance, this example ONLY accounts for the password to be typed correctly. Any other variation would need to be built onto this to evaluate a mistyped or wrong password.

Good starting point though. Hope this helps (attached)

https://elearningshow.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/how-to-password-protect-a-articulate-storyline-2-course/

I would like to add my sample to the list, please note my concept to hide the characters with stars did require the first slide to have imported a flash object.  This attached sample is pure Storyline 2 and does not require any special coding.

Thanks so much for your contribution, Kevin, and I see that you shared a similar solution over here in this thread (just wanted to link the 2 for anyone following along). And for those looking for additional ideas, here is an older thread that has some additional ideas that may be of interest to those looking to password protect their course. :)

Hello Barry 

Please tell me what method you used to hide the password when typing?

Regards

Hi Nursultan,

This discussion is a bit older so I'm not sure if folks like Barry are still subscribed here. You could always use the Contact Me button on his profile to reach out.

Or, if you'd like to share a bit more about your course, how it's set up and what you're looking to accomplish I suspect the community would be able to weigh in and share some other ideas! 

One method to hide the text is to create a custom font with nothing more than stars as the font this way no matter what you type in a star will appear and will hide and protect your password.  I believe one of my downloadable samples include a custom created font.