One Free Scene in a Restricted Navigation Course
Sep 27, 2023
Hey y'all,
I've walked head-first into an course design issue, and I'm wondering if anybody has a suggestion.
The built-in glossary function didn't provide us enough room to add all of the accessory information that the SMEs wanted to include. Instead, we built a scene of slides that are referenced throughout the training, and are accessible in the menu, as an encyclopedia.
Then the SMEs wanted the navigation restricted. Restricted navigation works fine for the 4 scenes of the training, but I would love the 5th, encyclopdia scene to be free and available the entire training through.
- Training Overview (restricted navigation)
- Topic Activity (restricted navigation)
- Training In-depth (restricted navigation)
- Summary (restricted navigation)
- Encyclopedia (free navigation)
I thought about using triggers to lock the next and previous buttons, but users could still jump around using the menu. I tried to unlock just scene 5, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Pierre
7 Replies
Hi Pierre! Interesting question! I don't believe you can lock individual scenes in the Menu. But you got me thinking. Have you thought about removing the encyclopedia from the menu and instead adding a custom tab to the player. For example, you could name the tab "Encyclopedia," and because it's in the player, the learner can access it at any time they need it. You can have that tab lightbox your slides so it always shows as a pop-up above the content they're already viewing. Just throwing out some ideas!
I see Sarah beat me to the answer: access the Encyclopedia scene via a custom tab in the Player. (Here's my post about doing that: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/tip-create-custom-player-tabs-for-your-resources-glossary-and-more .)
Because it's got more than one slide, you'll need to include the navigation buttons when you lightbox that scene. But, as Sarah said, it'll be available throughout the course.
Oooh, I like that example Judy! 🤩 Thanks for sharing it! It's always nice to see what that could look like.
One more thing: If you're showing the built-in Menu, you'll want to remove the Encyclopedia slides from that. This User Guide articles explains how to do that: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-customize-the-menu
Thank you all so much!
I had to create a table of contents for my encyclopedia, but then I lightboxed that when the user presses the custom tab. This is working nicely, and I appreciate the approach!
-Pierre
Here is my solution for this.
What you would need to get it working in your setup is some conditions ( either plain Storyline or Javascript ) that decide when the menuitems need to be restricted.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/c6b7e48a-f204-441d-81ea-4cdd5ed6a524/review
One big plus of this approach is that you can customize the menu/listitems if you want to.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/146cbdd5-f36c-4ce4-a5f6-94effde85c42/review
As you can see in the second review.
And here is the working Storyline.
Kind regards,
Math
Thank you for sharing your file, Math. I continue to be inspired to learn Javascript.