Resuming the course without using the player.
Aug 21, 2017
By
Sally Kish
Hello Everyone,
I have a client who wanted custom navigation so I created all custom buttons and am not using any feature of the storyline 360 player. They do however want to resume where they left off, on restart. I assumed that the player was always in the background so setting the option would work, but it doesn't. I checked my slides, and some are set to "return to initial state". Thinking that the state might be an issue I changed a scene all to automatic, but it still didn't work. I wouldn't have a problem adding a button to make it happen but have no idea on what the trigger would need to say. Anyone else have this issue or a solution?
Thank you
9 Replies
Hi there Sally!
The prompt to resume should still appear, even if you've disabled all player features. What resume setting did you select?
Also, where are you testing the published file--on a web server or a learning management system?
Hello Alyssa,
I tried the both the "on restart - prompt to resume and then the always resume" options. It didn't make a difference. The testing was only from the extracted zip file. Will it work once it hits an LMS or web server?
Ah, That could be the culprit! If you're testing the content locally, you may be encountering security and browser restrictions. Instead, try this:
Then you should see the prompt to resume appear! Let me know if that works. ☺️
Hi Alyssa,
It didn't work. When I refreshed it took me to the first/starting slide again.
Hi Alyssa
I'm using Tempshare to pilot a course at the moment and I don't see the resume prompt either even though I published with that feature switched on....
UPDATE - I just tried the course using SCORM Cloud and straight away I was given the resume prompt.
Could be an issue with Tempshare?
Hang on....what's the difference between publishing for LMS and publishing for Web? I usually publish for LMS when I upload in to Tempshare...
Hi Sally, would you mind sending your original (unpublished) Storyline file my way? I'd like to give it a test.
Great question, Glenn.
Overall, the key is to test your published content in the same type of environment where the end-user will see it. I hope that helps!
Hi Alyssa, I sort of found an answer. I had been working on the same project base for quite a few courses, so I took the time to start fresh from scratch and it worked! I have no idea what glitch I had created but lesson learned. Thank you very much for introducing me to Tempshare and helping me through my issue.
Great detective work, Sally! I'm glad you found the culprit was project-specific. Good luck on the rest of your project! 🌟
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