Branching off for specific viewers only

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.