We are working with an Articulate Storyline File from our vendor. We can see that the course tracking is saying 44 out of 55 slide need to be complete in order for the course to be complete. Our question:
1. Does this mean that the first 44 slides need to be viewed or can it be any of the slides?
That "44 of 55" setting means that the course would be considered complete as soon as the learner views any 44 slides. And that might mean someone could complete the course by viewing optional slides while never seeing what you consider the "final" slides. For example, this might happen if there are a lot of optional lightbox slides.
FYI: the learner wouldn't know that they could exit early and still be marked as complete, because that info isn't visible to them. But if they happen to exit after 44 non-essential slides, then they'd discover the course was completed.
Thus, except for linear courses, it's tricky to track completion via # of slides viewed.
If you have Storyline 360, I suggest you switch to using a completion trigger on the last slide.
If you have Storyline 3, well, that version doesn't have completion triggers. However, this post provides an alternate method for tracking completion:
In 360 using the menu you could track by a percentage or number of slides from the menu so could put only the slides that have to be viewed in the menu
Can you tell me if slide layers count toward the total? Is there a work around to get 100% viewed if you have a lightbox slide (for resources) and learner doesn't click it?
Thank YOU! We're not using the menu, but it's still there. I deleted the two slides that are not mandatory. In tracking, I choose: 100% of slides in menu. Fingers crossed. We'll upload to LMS this week.
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Hi, Jenna,
That "44 of 55" setting means that the course would be considered complete as soon as the learner views any 44 slides. And that might mean someone could complete the course by viewing optional slides while never seeing what you consider the "final" slides. For example, this might happen if there are a lot of optional lightbox slides.
FYI: the learner wouldn't know that they could exit early and still be marked as complete, because that info isn't visible to them. But if they happen to exit after 44 non-essential slides, then they'd discover the course was completed.
Thus, except for linear courses, it's tricky to track completion via # of slides viewed.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/tip-completion-in-storyline-3-without-quiz-questions-or-tracking-by-slides-viewed
In 360 using the menu you could track by a percentage or number of slides from the menu so could put only the slides that have to be viewed in the menu
Heroes,
Can you tell me if slide layers count toward the total? Is there a work around to get 100% viewed if you have a lightbox slide (for resources) and learner doesn't click it?
Layers don’t count, in 260 you can now remove slides from the completion count if you track via the menu.
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We're not using the menu. The client wanted some custom icons, one is for Resources, that's where the lightbox comes into play.
Phil,
Thank YOU! We're not using the menu, but it's still there. I deleted the two slides that are not mandatory. In tracking, I choose: 100% of slides in menu. Fingers crossed. We'll upload to LMS this week.
Sorry forgot to say you don’t need to be using the menu to track by it. Glad you got it working.
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