Reference Variable in the player

Hi Katie and welcome to Heroes!

The only way to add elements to the player would be to do so within the Storyline SDK available here. You'll need some flash coding skills to set this up. You could also look at creating a chrome less player to remove all elements and then embed that variable on a slide master which was used by all your slides. 

Thanks Ashley! Unfortunately I don't have any experience with flash coding and the deadline is Wednesday. We'll just make do with adding the slide numbers on each slide for now.

Certainly understandable Katie, and glad the individual slide number on each slide will work for you. 

Or perhaps reconsider whether to show the slide numbers at all. Do learners truly need to see that on every slide? To me, slide numbers distract from the real content and, instead, make the learner focus on how much further they have to go. Not to mention that if a slide has multiple layers, those might seem like separate slides to the learner, but they won't be numbered as such.

If your course includes a Menu (on the side or at the top of the player), learners can see what slides are in the course, which provides the reference point for how far they've come and how far they have to go. You can even have the Menu include numbers. (But, again, what purpose does that level of detail serve?) 

IMHO

It is primarily for review purposes, not for the end user.