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MatAspinall
Community Member
7 years ago

How to make the 'Review Layer' not fade / dim all other layers?

Hi all,

I'm trying to design a course where all of the Storyline player features are disabled - including the Next / Prev buttons. This means I always include Next / Prev navigation buttons in the content as required.

This is challenging when reviewing a quiz - as this requires extra navigation (Next / Prev buttons) that the quiz would not usually have (usually it's just a submit button on each question.)

I followed this tutorial: http://blogs.articulate.com/word-of-mouth/3-easy-steps-to-customizing-review-feedback-in-articulate-storyline/ to create a custom 'review' layer. I can then add my own navigation buttons to this layer. This functions well.

The challenge I've encountered is that when reviewing the quiz, the review layer applies a strong fade effect over the question slide underneath this, making it hard to read the question text. Is there a way to disable this fading effect?

Here is the base layer question slide:

And when viewing the 'Review' layer inside the editor, the fade effect is visible:

Here's what it looks like when actually reviewing:

Hoping there's just a simple option to disable this that I haven't found!

Thanks all.

  • Hey Mat and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

    Would you be able to share your .story file so that we can take a look at how you've set this up. The default review does not look like this.

  • Hi Leslie,

    Thanks for the warm welcome : )

    Good news, I've found a solution. If I open the 'review' layer on the question slide, right click in the slide content, choose 'apply layout' and select 'blank', the faded white effect is removed.

    Interestingly though, if I view the feedback master for the 'review feedback' slide, there isn't anything there that I would expect to be causing the faded white effect. (I was expecting a semi-transparent white rectangle covering the entire slide or something, but I can't see it!) I can't see it cascading from the parent master styles either, but perhaps I'm missing it.

    I've attached the .story, can you see where it's coming from? In the version attached I have not fixed it as I describe above, so you can see what it looks like with the faded effect, seemingly coming from the master 'Review Feedback' styles.

    Thanks very much for your help,

    Mat

  • Hey Mat!

    If you open the Review layer, then click the Design tab >> Background Styles >> Format Background, you'll see that the layer background is a 'Solid Fill' with transparency.

    You can fix this by selecting 'No Fill' in the Format Background window. I hope that helps!

  • AshRoth's avatar
    AshRoth
    Community Member

    Changing the transparency on the Feedback Master slides did not solve this issue for me BUT checking the Disable skip navigation shortcut on the Modern player style did!

    Select Player > choose Other > check the box for Disable skip navigation shortcut