The Menu function

Jul 13, 2016

Hello - I am currently developing a suite of courses using articulate to provide training for users to a clinical system. The course uses screenshots from the clinical system combined with triggers to imitate the live clinical system. Ideally staff will complete the courses in full, with each page set up to ensure the course does not progress unless the desired action is completed.

This was all working well in the preview stage until a menu field was added to the RHS of the course which shows users how much of the course they have completed. I found that by clicking on any of the menu links that I could progress through the course without having to complete each step of the course - Does any know how I can resolve this issue?

With thanks in advance.

Kate

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Joanne Chen
Hero

almost 8 years ago07/13/16 at 3:05 am (UTC)

Hi Kate, The navigation method for Storyline courses defaults to Free, you can switch to Restricted or Locked navigation. See solution here.

Restricted: This means learners can view the current slide and any slide they previously viewed, but they can't jump ahead or skip over slides.
Locked: This means learners can only view slides in the order you've designed. They can't jump ahead or skip over slides, nor can they go back to any previously viewed slides.

Kate Sekias
Author

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 6:38 am (UTC)

Joanne

You are very kind to respond to me - can I ask one more related question?

I have followed your instructions to restrict the slides - however I now have another problem to overcome it seems now that my slides that use the Next button to progress the learning module now take 3-4 clicks to actually progress when restricted is activated. I have not touched any triggers to try and adjust this - Do you have any advice on this?

With thanks in advance...

Kate

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Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 7:24 am (UTC)

Restricted menu access will also disable the next button until the timeline ends, you could shorten the timeline

Joanne Chen
Hero

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 9:17 am (UTC)

Thank you Phil, I didn't know Restricted mode will disable the next button until the timelined ends.

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 9:18 am (UTC)

In SL1 it doesnt in SL2 it does, there is a workaround on here somewhere where you change something in the published output

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 9:20 am (UTC)

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/sl2-restricted-menu-navigation-and-next-button-solution-workaround here it is

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 9:58 am (UTC)

Phil, thanks for sharing.

Kate Sekias
Author

almost 8 years ago07/18/16 at 11:06 pm (UTC)

Thank you Joanne and Phil - your insight and tips are very helpful......Clearly there is no end to learning intricacies of Articulate! Until next time.....

The Menu function

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