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Engage in Powerpoint
I would like to set slides in ppa to only advance by the user (which I am able to accomplish) after a time has been reached. Seems like I can do one but not the other. Is this possible?
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Hi, Ken.
Thank you for reaching out!
Are you asking about Engage interactions when using Presenter? You can set the default slide duration in the publish settings.
Check out the step-by-step here:
Let me know if this helps!
This doesn't seem to point out anything like having to reach a certain time before the user can progress. Am I missing something?
I'll check this out.
Hi, Ken.
I apologize, as it seems I missed that you wanted to advance by user, but only after a certain time.
The information I sent you above is for setting the time to advance the slides automatically.
While you can't have the user advance after a certain time, you can lock the slide so the user can't advance while setting a default time for the slide, then automatically advancing.
So, in essence, the slide needs to be advanced automatically?
Hello Ken!
It sounds like you want the user to move to the next slide once the timeline ends. If so, you'll want the slide to be set to Automatically, and the Navigation set to locked.
I've explained the different options in this short demo. Please let me know if you have additional questions!
Thank you. I will give this a shot and reply back here.
So I set to auto and locked. The slides still advance automatically and do not allow the user to advance or go to previous because it is locked. Did I do something wrong here?
My goal here is to make it so the user has to advance on their own, but only after a certain amount of time as past. Does that make sense?
Hello Ken!
Thanks for returning with an update! Yes, that makes sense, but I'm afraid you won't be able to create this is Presenter 360. This sounds like an interaction that you'll want to use Storyline 360 for.
Here's a demo of how you can build this in Storyline 360.
I'm also attaching the .story file of the course to this reply.
I see. So is there a way to get these old presenter courses to go into SL360? I have not seen anything that sshows it can.
Hello Ken!
Great question! Absolutely, you can import the Presenter courses into Storyline 360. Here are the steps!
Hi Lauren,
We were going with our current presenter and telling our learners to read each slide, but they kept blowing right through it.
So I am transitioning everything over to Storyline360.
I watched your demo on making the the variables, I am trying to do something like that. I made the trigger:
Make Next button normal when timeline ends.
But how do I get the next button to stay normal if revisited? I tried the variables but I may be doing something wrong.
Hello Ken!
It looks like you're on the right track! You'll need these three triggers and a variable for each slide.
There isn't a way to trigger an Engage interaction that is imported into Storyline 360.
You can attach your .story file, and I'll be happy to take a look.
Thank you Lauren,
That helped. Apparently I was putting the variable on the send next button to normal rather then the disable trigger.
