Continuing Education Functionality
Feb 25, 2015
I am working on a continuing education course and am stumped by two issues I am trying to overcome (I am using Storyline 1).
My first issue is the course relies on interacting with various buttons to move through the course. I have created my own navigational buttons and the next is disabled until all the buttons are complete. I thought this would make it clear to the user that if they don't click all the buttons, next doesn't work (the buttons also change colors when visited to show the difference between normal and visited buttons) but want to take it a step further. I have created a layer in one of my slides similar to the feedback button saying "Interactivity Required - Please click all of the interactive buttons to move on" and created a trigger with the disabled next button for it to appear when any of the buttons are normal. Unfortunately, I realized that when a button is disabled it doesn't even register a click, so it won't work. I might be missing something very simple here, but is there a way that I can get this layer to appear when a user tries to move on but can't because there are still buttons left to be clicked?
My second issue deals with the verification and resume prompt of the course. This course is not in a LMS, verification is by a user interacting with the buttons, completing short quiz questions and reaching the end of the course where there is a submission form. The heads of the project would like the resume option to be available so users can do the course at their leisure, the only issue is if they reach that last slide with the form and close out of the course, another person can get on the computer, see the resume prompt, click yes to continue, see the form, and then submit information without taking the course. I am racking my brain on how to work around this. Can I limit what slides I want the user to resume or is it just all or nothing?
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Hi Alicia,
See if this helps. I placed a shape over a custom button. The shape is 100% transparent and has no line, if it is clicked it show the message box. Once all the layers are viewed the button becomes active and the shape is hidden.
As far as the course resume function. I think you are stuck with an all or nothing situation if you don't have an LMS.
Cary, thank you for your help! That worked beautifully and was exactly what I needed!
I am still trying to figure an way to work the resume prompt in, but feel if there is no way I can set what slide it is allowed to resume on I am stuck. There is only three options for the prompt so I assuming there is no further functionality.
I have been messing around with some options in regards to my second issue and I thought I was on to something using variable conditions, I will try to explain it the best I can.
I have 6 quiz questions in the course. I took the submission form and placed it on a slide layer in the results slide. Then I created a trigger stating show the submission form at the start of the timeline if the user scores 100% (if they attempt the questions they will score 100). Then I inserted a new slide layer and an image stating Access Denied and it links them back to the beginning of the course. The next trigger I made requires the Access Denied layer to show at the beginning of the timeline if the score is under 100 (meaning they didn't take any questions).
I thought that by doing this, if a user gets to the end of the course, submits the information through the form, exits the window, and another students gets back on the same computer and the resume prompt comes up, he can resume, but will get the access denied since the questions haven't been answered. I found out though, even when the quiz question slides are set to resume to initial state, it doesn't erase the previous user's answers. Is there anyway when a user exits out of a course, comes back in and resumes that previous quiz question answers are wiped?
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