My current SL360 course has the Closed Caption button enabled in the player. The customer loves the CC feature; however, would like a 'tooltip' or hover text to appear when a user places their cursor over the icon. The concern being the small 'speech bubble' icon may not immediately be recognisable as Closed Captions.
I can't figure out how to add a tooltip or hover text to this button in the player. Please help!
The CC button sits on the player, and there isn't a setting to adjust the state associated with that as you may a custom button on the slide, but the steps Joanna points to will allow you to toggle it on and off based on a user action on the slide:
Build Your Own Custom Navigation Buttons
If you disable the built-in player features and build your own custom navigation buttons, you can use triggers to show and hide captions. Just add a trigger to a button with these trigger wizard parameters to create a toggle:
Action: Adjust Variable
Variable: Player.DisplayCaptions
Operator: = NOT Assignment
When: User clicks
Object: Select your custom button from the drop-down list.
Tip: You need to import at least one caption file into your project to see the built-in caption variable.
Chris, Your other option is to include a navigation slide up front in the training that explains all the options a user will see in the course. We do that all the time for our government clients. We include a screen shot of the course with callouts to each navigation or slide feature and put the relevant information in popups (slide layers). The nav slide is not restricted so the user can choose to look at it the information or simply move on to the content. You could also use the built in callouts in Storyline for those as well. One slide covers everything your user needs to know.
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A solution for you Chris would be to create a custom CC button with hover status.
At the end of this article you'll find out how to set everything up. Hope this helps.
Hi Chris,
The CC button sits on the player, and there isn't a setting to adjust the state associated with that as you may a custom button on the slide, but the steps Joanna points to will allow you to toggle it on and off based on a user action on the slide:
Build Your Own Custom Navigation Buttons
If you disable the built-in player features and build your own custom navigation buttons, you can use triggers to show and hide captions. Just add a trigger to a button with these trigger wizard parameters to create a toggle:
Tip: You need to import at least one caption file into your project to see the built-in caption variable.
Chris, Your other option is to include a navigation slide up front in the training that explains all the options a user will see in the course. We do that all the time for our government clients. We include a screen shot of the course with callouts to each navigation or slide feature and put the relevant information in popups (slide layers). The nav slide is not restricted so the user can choose to look at it the information or simply move on to the content. You could also use the built in callouts in Storyline for those as well. One slide covers everything your user needs to know.
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