Previous button

Hi Rachel

just a stab in the dark, is that a quiz question with feedback removed?  I had something odd happen once where a slide was branching strangely because of this

Phil

I agree with Alice.  I hope the next major update provides us with an easy option for how the Previous button works. Going back sequentially makes more sense from an e-learning perspective.

If changing the behavior of the Previous button is allowed I hope the behavior defaults to "go back to the last slide viewed."  That is what users (end users of the eLearning, not the creators) expect when they click on the "Previous" button.

Agree here last slide viewed is what users expect

I definitely agree that the designer should have a choice on what the previous button should do.  I don't want to lock down my users to having to go sequentially, but I also don't want them to have to use the menu to go to the numerically previous slide if they skip around.  Perhaps a 'last viewed' vs 'previous' would be good, or have a 'back' button which does what your 'previous' button does.  I do not like not having a choice unless I manually set triggers on 70 slides - which would have to be updated if, god forbid, I add or delete a slide.  Very user-hostile.

Finally someone that gets it. You need to design your course

Finally! Someone that gets it. The way I design my courses the "back" button does take them to the previous slide but the behavior of the "previous" trigger is, in my eyes, incredibly hostile to changes.

I agree. In some cases history stack based navigation is the wrong and unexpected way, sometimes you want navigation following a fixed sequence. There is no one and only pattern for this... even if some guys wants to tell us that.

I hope this will be put on the feature list for one the next updates.

Jakob

Hi there,

I'm a bit of an Articulate "Newbie"

I'm not sure why, but the previous button for any of the scenes that I have created is not doing anything. I've tried creating a player trigger that navigates to the "previous slide", I've tried creating a play trigger that navigates to a specific "title" slide I've even tried to create may own "previous" button after having removed the original prev button from the multiple slide navigation controls.

No luck.....the scenes refuse to allow me to "move backwards".........not sure if I have accidentally enabled or disabled something at a master level.

Cheers.     

Hi Robin and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! Would you be able to share your .story file here so that we can have a look at what may be going on?

Okay Robin, I'm not sure if I'm missing something here. I took a look at your file. 

Slide 1 - Next button enabled, but no previous button (which makes perfect sense)

Slide 2 - Next button enabled, but no previous button, but you have a custom one on the slide that works

Slide 3 - Next button and previous button enabled and the previous button works