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NEW IN STORYLINE 360: Slide Numbers
We’re excited to share a powerful new feature in Storyline 360: slide numbers.
Now you can add slide numbers to your Storyline 360 project to show learners their progress through a course. Storyline 360 will automatically calculate how far learners have left in your course. And you can quickly exclude slides if you don’t want them counted toward the total.
Here’s how slide numbers work:
Enjoy!
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Can I add slide numbers to the Menu or the player? I'd like the slide number total to be part of the player, rather than the course itself. I tried creating a menu item and calling it %Menu.Progress% as variavble but that didn't convert into a slide number, I simply see %Menu.Progress% in the top menu now.
Hi Soren,
The slide numbers will display on the slides themselves, and not within the player. If you were to use the option of Slide reference in Menu, that would match what you're seeing in the player menu to what is shown on the slide. If you'd like to see an option to showcase variables in the player, I'd love to have you log a feature request.
Here's a bit more about how we work to prioritize feature requests.
Hm, you mean the numbers in the menu when you click? Already got that. But would love a globally visible course progress indicator othet than the massive side bar.
Soren B
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This feature looks great, but would it work in an exam bank (quiz with randomized questions)? Thank you in advance.
Susan,
It does. They showed a tutorial on a previous reply.
Mike
I just discovered this new feature after spending 1 week adding a customized progress bar. This is great but when I go back to the previous slide, it is not subtracting the slide number for me. Do I still need to manually add triggers in each slide to do the subtraction? If so, could anyone tell me if there is a quick and easy way to add the same set of triggers to all the slides in the same scene or entire course? If there is a tutorial with more detailed instructions/explanations, I will also appreciate it if someone can point me to that page. Thank you!
Hi Yuyen,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are running into.
With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
HI Leslie,
I had previously set up triggers on each slide to add and subtract the page number displayed, so when a user hits "previous", the number would go down by 1 and when they hit "next", the number would go up by 1. When I discovered this new "Slide Numbers" tool, I was expecting it to work in a similar way. But we are now fine with the default way the percentage is set up with Slide Numbers. Is there some detailed guide on what each of the variable means and how they are calculated (so I can understand when to choose project vs menu vs scene etc.)? I couldn't find it but I didn't look that hard really :)
YES!!!!!!!!
Has anyone encountered problems with certain slides not wanting to show slide numbers? Some of my slides look like this: ! / 86 instead of (i.e.) 12 / 86. I've added the slide number and total slide number to my slidemaster.
Michael, if you hover over the "!" it should tell you why it is not visible. Normally it is because the slide is not in the menu or has been excluded from the list.
Thanks Phil. Hovering doesn't do anything, but resetting the menu solved the issue. So - slides that are not in the menu causes an error? Sometimes I remove certain slides from the menu, as i don't want it show everything, but I would still like the user to be able to see his/her progress. Also - the slide number makes it easier for user to report errors - although my courses are always perfect ;-)
Michael, my courses are always perfect as well, or at least until someone sees them.
There are tow types of slide numbers one is based on the menu. Also you can choose to exclude some from the count. There is some documentation somewhere.
Odd about the hover because I always get this.
Yeah, if only we could keep the user away from our material many a headache could be avoided ;-)
It just dawned on me, that all I need to do is to go for the "Slides in project" option instead, right?
Nice feature.
For everyone who want to learn more about the new variables, I created a project where you can see them all in action. This project has a:
- normal scene
- scene with a different order in the menu
- scene with menu sections
You can preview the project on:
- http://www.dorna.nl/built-in-variables/ (here is also the download link to the SL-file)
- https://360.articulate.com/review/content/97a03b81-35fc-42ab-ba68-84f8dfec6890/review
- http://www.dorna.nl/sl/built-in-variables/story.html
Building this example I ran into these issues:
- There is no variable with the name of the active scene.
- The vertical alignment in textboxes and tables cells is a problem because of the extra pixels on the bottom.
- It is not possible to reset the progress.
Thanks for sharing Chris. Definitely need to be able to reset the progress.
