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DanielaSlater-c's avatar
DanielaSlater-c
Community Member
4 years ago

Branching off for specific viewers only

Hi,

Is there a way to create a branched link where certain groups of people only would link to the pages they need and still continue through the course as the other larger group. Or can this be done within or better at the end of the course. So the larger group would get to the end and exit and the specific group would continue and would that be done through a link which would take them to the pages only they need and then take them to a separate quiz that contains what the large group has to complete along with additional questions for the pages only they had to continue viewing.

Sorry, I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Dani

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  • ScottWiley1's avatar
    ScottWiley1
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Hi Dani,

    You can accomplish this in multiple ways, but the way I've always made a course "adaptable" to various audiences, is using variables to control everything.

    For instance, let's say you have a course containing content for both a U.S. audience, and different content for Canada.

    Try to use the least amount of variables, so in this case I create a text variable named "location" that is initially set to blank. This is easier to manage than creating 2 variables (e.g., US = true, CA = false).

    Early in the course, usually right after the title screen/page, I create 2 buttons, each with a trigger that is told to change the "location" variable to "US" or "CA" depending which is clicked. I would also add a timeline trigger to disable the Next button until something is clicked.

    Throughout your course now, you can refer to this variable to control many things. 

    • Jump to different slide for US / CA (e.g., Jump to slide 5 if location = US. Jump to slide 10 if location = CA).
    • Show different content on the same slide (Show layer "US" when timeline starts if location = US).
    • Show different spellings of words using additional variables (Set "spell_cat" to value "catalogue" if "location" = "CA) within any text areas ("All products we produce can be found in the company %spell_cat%.")
      • Note: Setting alternate spellings for words in your whole course should be set up right when the user makes a "location" choice, rather than on the slide that contains that word - there can be a slight delay while it runs through the code)
    • Show different object/image states (Change state of "img_gov_bldg" to "US" when timeline starts  if "location" = "US")

     

    I hope that gets your creative juices flowing. If you need more specifics, you can share your file here.

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