Update 5- Prev/Next buttons showing on Quiz Review

Hi Matthew, 

When learners review a quiz (or revisit question slides they've already submitted), they'll see Articulate Storyline's built-in Prev and Next buttons in the lower right corner of the player—even if you've disabled them throughout your course. These navigation buttons are necessary for learners to review quiz slides.

If you'd like to have an option to disable the Prev and Next buttons during quiz review so you can use your own custom navigation buttons, please let us know. We value your feedback.

This was occurring prior to update 5, and the only workaround is to make sure that all Player features in all slides (Previous, Next, Submit and even the Volume button) should be disabled. You'll want to check each slide as well in case there was a setting there to use custom player settings. 

Hi all,

I researched this and was sad when I found that you cannot remove the next and previous custom player buttons from the player when reviewing the quiz.  I always manually build out navigation with custom templates.

With that said, I found a work around.  If you are using custom navigation and submit buttons, you can edit the default player button colors in the player.  Go to the player, select color & effects, select Show advanced color editing, and change all of the colors under button to the same color as your player.  The buttons are technically there, but to the learner they look non-existent.

I know this is late, but hope it helps someone!

Brian

Late but not a solution I had heard Brian, so I appreciate you sharing here! I have heard from other users that if you remove all elements of the player and make it "chromeless" than those buttons have no room to appear. 

I have gone chromeless but also have the same issue. The file uses custom navigation and the prev and next buttons during quiz review look odd and out of place. The buttons do not appear anywhere else, but only in quiz review. Would appreciate any resolution.

Hi Celito, 

We expect them to appear as detailed here, but the chromeless behavior is something I know a few other users shared worked successfully for them, so I'm sorry it didn't work as well for you. 

Hi Ashley, it did work in chromeless as you suggested. I just missed a few details, specifically the button settings in the Player which I failed to set to 100% transparent. But it's good now and the Prev and Next buttons are no longer visible when reviewing the quiz. Thanks for the concern.

Thanks Celito for the update and I'm happy to hear you were able to get it working once accounting for all those potential elements. 

I believe I have cracked this nut. You need to enable the next and back buttons in the slide properties for each quiz slide, then add a slide trigger to make each of those buttons hidden when the slide starts. Be sure your slide property is to resume saved state, and no more next/previous on your review slides!

Hi Michael,

I know the behavior is inconsistent but the next/prev buttons will appear by default on the review, as detailed here. But as you mentioned there are a few workarounds to disable them. 

Michael's solution is working for me. Thank you very much!

Happy to hear that Alex and thanks for sharing that update with us here! 

Hi Michael

Can you please give me the details of the slide trigger that you use to hide the next and previous buttons when the slide starts. I have switched off all Next and Prev buttons in my storyline file, but have the issue of them appearing when I revisit any of the quiz slides. I am very keen to get rid of these.

thanks

Gabrielle

Hi Gabrielle,

I'm not sure if Michael is still subscribed for notifications, as the post is a bit older - but you could always use the "contact me" button on a ELH users' profile to reach out to them directly! 

My guess is the trigger reads like this on each slide:

• Disable the Next button, when the timeline of Slide X starts 

Best of luck with your project! 

Thanks Ashley

I have managed to do this now. Took me a while to work out how to set this trigger, so for anyone reading this, the two key points are:

In the slide settings, you must turn the Prev and Next buttons on (under Slide navigation controls). Initially, I didn't do this and couldn't create the triggers. 

The triggers you need to set are:

Change state of Next button to Hidden when the timeline of slide x starts

Change state of Previous button to Hidden when the timeline of slide x starts

cheers

Gabrielle

Thanks Gabrielle for that additional breakdown of triggers!