Why doesn't Articulate Storyline offer course progress bars rather than a slide progress bar?

Hi Deb.

It's a good question, but the answer isn't going to be what you're looking for. :)

It would be impossible to create a generic course progress bar. Everybody designs their courses differently, often with branching, optional paths, jumping between scenes, and other non-linear navigation. Even linear navigation would be tricky in certain cases, depending on how you treat review of prior content. Some would calculate progress based on responses to interactions and not on navigation at all. So it would be impossible to define or calculate progress generically for the virtually unlimited number of ways that individual developers design their lessons.

But creating your own progress bar based on the design of your own particular lesson doesn't need to be especially difficult or frustrating. If you share a specific need you have with the forum, I'm sure lots of folks would help come up with a quick and easy solution.

Regards,

Chris

Hi Deb,

Here's a workaround/alternative for you.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/demo-menu-toolkit-for-articulate-storyline

Hope this helps,
Alex

Most of the problem is the fact that I'm putting it in place after the course has already been built, much more difficult than including it with the template to start with, and we aren't using the left menu pane.

Hi, Deb -- Thanks for reaching out here, and you are welcome to share your thoughts and suggestions with our Product team by using this form! 

And In addition to the input offered by Alexandros and Chris, you may want to take a look at this e-learning Challenge: Progress Meters in E-Learning #60 for some additional ideas you can try. :)

Hi Deb,

It sounds like this may be similar to the scenario you described here where you shared your files, so I wanted to link it here for anyone else who may be able to take a look and assist you.