Slide State Issue

Aug 13, 2019

Greetings,

I am working on a new lesson and I want to do the following:

When a student visits a slide, they must click on certain hotspots. Until he/she does, the next button is disabled.
Once the student clicks on every hotspot, the next button changes to normal and the student may proceed.
The issue is, I am having a hard time figuring out how to set up each slide, after it was successfully visited, to keep the next button as normal and not require a student to click on every interaction (hotspot) again.

I searched for ways to do this but nothing is working for me. I looked into slide states and set them to "Resume saved state" but when I run the lesson, the slides still require interactions. I looked into variables but I am at a beginner to novice level and have no idea how to properly set this up with variables.

Thank you in advance for reading this post and any solutions you may offer.

Sincerely,

Jay

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Diane Fallier

over 4 years ago08/13/19 at 5:24 pm (UTC)

When I need to do this I create a True/False variable with the initial value of false. When all hotspots have been clicked, change the value of the variable to true (trigger, what: adjust variable). Then when you revisit the slide, you can do actions based on the value of the variable.

Let me know if you need additional direction on how to do any of those steps.

Tom Kuhlmann
Staff

over 4 years ago08/13/19 at 5:37 pm (UTC)

Here's a post I did a while back. It covers the essence of what you want to do.

https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/answer-number-1-e-learning-question/

Track each hotspot clicked using a t/f variable
Set the next button to hidden when slide starts on condition that all those variables are not true. When they're all true, upon revisit, the next button should be enabled.
Set a trigger to change the next button to normal when all of the variables are true

Melissa Mendez

over 4 years ago08/20/19 at 6:33 pm (UTC)

I had a similar course, and I was using states, however I found a bug that the course is not saving the states. So upon relaunch, it requires the user to click on all the spots again. Causing far more work for the learner.

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 4 years ago08/22/19 at 1:45 pm (UTC)

Hi Melissa,

I see where you reached out to our support team and worked with Anna on the issue you mentioned.

I wanted to share some information on how we tackle bugs when they occur and let you know that I've added this conversation to the report as well for tracking and updating you here when we can.

Slide State Issue

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