Slide layer and audio

You had copies of the three buttons on all three layers. By the way the triggers to change button xyz to Visited are not necessary. The Visited state will automatically be displayed when a button is clicked. Have a look at the attached.

None of my text shows up on your attachment.

Hi Kendra,

I see that the text from Slide 2 is missing although it's viewable on the slide itself - and I'm not seeing anything to hide it, but Michael may have done something that I'm just not seeing yet? You also have copies of the text on the layers too - which I'm  unsure based on that if you want them to show on the base slide and on the layer itself or just on the layer? 

I want it to work just like slide 2.1.

Any ideas?  I need to get this to my boss by noon Central time if possible.  Thank you.

Hi Kendra -

As Michael said, you have copied the buttons from the base onto each slide. The buttons on the base are changing to the visited state (turning red) when clicked, just like you would expect, but you cannot see that because the copied buttons in the layer are on top of the changed buttons. Delete the buttons in the layer and then you will see that the buttons on the base are working properly. The first graphic below shows this for you.

You cannot see your text because you have the Initial State of the text boxes set to Hidden. You never change the state of the text boxes to Normal, which would make them visible. To fix this, change the Initial State of the text boxes to Normal (not hidden).  The second graphic below shows this for you.

So a quick summary of what you might consider doing...

• Delete the buttons on each layer. You only need them on the base.
• On the base, delete the triggers that say "Change button X to visited..." . You don't need them, as their state will change to Visited automatically when the learner clicks on them.
• Delete the text boxes from the Base, as I assume you only want them to appear when the appropriate layer is shown.
• Use only the appropriate text box on the appropriate layer. For example, on the TA layer, you only want the text box that pertains to the TA discussion. Delete the other text boxes off of that layer. Do the same for the other layers.
• Change the Initial State of each text box to Normal - they will only appear when the layer is shown, so they don't need to be Hidden.

That should make slide 2 act like slide 1.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Chris

Hope these suggestions helped Kendra!

Let us know if you still need assistance.

I deleted the buttons on each layer and the text on the base.  However, the learner can still click the boxes and then I have double audio.  I'm hoping the learner won't catch on that they have to push each button to learn more.  

Hello Kendra,

Have you tried using the "prevent user from clicking on the base layer" in the layer properties?

Hi Kendra -

There's a couple of ways to handle that. One is to prevent clicking on the base layer as Emily suggested.

Another option is to keep the learner from clicking and launching the layers until they have heard all of the audio on the base, which may be what you really want after all?  You want to be sure they have heard everything before they start clicking around to the different layers. If so, then in the timeline on the base, don't show the buttons until after the audio completes.

An alternative method is to show the buttons right away like you do now, but use a hotspot with no trigger over the top of the buttons so the learner cannot click the buttons. Then remove the hotspot once the audio has completed by having the hotspot "end" at the end of the audio in the timeline. But the first method is simpler. :-)