Storyline: "Resumed saved state" works in Storyline but not when published

Apr 08, 2024

Harmeet Grewal
By Harmeet Grewal

Hey, everyone:

When I preview my course in Storyline and re-visit slides, they resume where I left off. i.e. If I've already clicked on a slide and all the text has animated onto the screen, when I re-visit the slide, the animations don't replay. I just see all the text right away.

Oddly though, when I view the published course and return to a slide, it resets and replays the animations every single time. I tried clearing my cache and using a different browser, but the issue persists.

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? If I can't fix it, I'll have to make everything animate at the same time on each slide (instead of gradually over the period of a few seconds) since having to re-watch the animations every time is going to be super annoying for users...

Thanks!

https://storage.googleapis.com/harmeetgrewalseportfolio/The%20Course%20Planning%20Worksheet/story.html

4 Replies
Judy Nollet
24 days ago04/08/24 at 1:09 pm (UTC)

I went through a few slides in the link you provided. All of them resumed their saved state when I revisited them. They did not replay the animations. 

They even resumed properly after I exited the course and reopened it. Note, however, that a course on the web might reset if a user exits it and then returns. That depends on the user's browser settings. Personally, I'd never rely on someone being able to resume a course where they left off unless it's in an LMS/LRS. 

Harmeet Grewal
24 days ago04/08/24 at 2:22 pm (UTC)

Thanks, Judy! Oddly enough it suddenly started working for me as well... I tried publishing and playing around with my browser so much last night. Not sure why it suddenly decided to show up properly but I guess I'll leave it at that... 

That's a good point. With that in mind, any concerns with how much I've used animations (i.e. how long it takes for all the text on certain slides to pop up)? I don't want to irritate users if they have to exit and re-open the course and sit through all the animations again...

Judy Nollet
24 days ago04/08/24 at 4:06 pm (UTC)
Harmeet Grewal

... With that in mind, any concerns with how much I've used animations (i.e. how long it takes for all the text on certain slides to pop up)? I don't want to irritate users if they have to exit and re-open the course and sit through all the animations again...

I am one of those users who gets irritated if I have to sit through long animations just to see all the text. I didn't go through your entire project. The slides I viewed seemed to have fairly quick entrance animations, so they weren't frustrating to me. 

  • It's a tricky balance. First, because everyone has their own preferences. Also because people read at different rates. It could be distracting if an object animates on while someone is reading other text. In short: there's no one way to please everyone.

Because this sample has free navigation, anyone returning to it can simply jump to the next slide or another slide if they don't want to wait for the info to play on a given slide. 

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