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Course performance issue on review link after attempting pre-assessment – slides loading very slow
Hello Community,
I’m experiencing a performance issue in an Articulate Storyline course, when reviewing this course on review link and need technical guidance.
Course details:
- ~250 content slides
- 55 assessment questions
Structure: Pre-assessment → Course → Post-assessment
For alpha review, all 55 questions were kept open/visible in the pre and post-assessment, and reviewing course from review link.
Issue:
When reviewing this course from review link, If I attempts all (or most) of the 55 questions first and then proceeds to the course, slide loading becomes very slow after ~50–60% course completion. Navigation turns sluggish and remaining slides take a long time to load.
Query:
Does Storyline retain assessment data in memory until course exit?
Any recommended best practices or solution on this?
Looking forward to technical insights or similar experiences.
Thanks,
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Hello,
You’ve touched in the browser's RAM until you close the tab. When you hit 55 questions right away, you're filling up that memory "bucket" with data and cached assets; by the time you're halfway through 250 more slides, the bucket is overflowing, which causes that sluggishness. To fix this, your best bet is to split the course into smaller modules (Pre-test, Content, Post-test) so the memory refreshes between sections, or at least move those questions into Question Banks to help the player manage the load more efficiently.
