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ChristinaWor667
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3 years ago

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I saw an email about using sliders and progress indicators and thought it would be great to add that to one of my courses.  I have the progress graphic with 7 states.  The problem I have is that I have six items that need to equal 100% so they can't be worth the same percent.  I created a state for the progress bar that reflects: 0, 20, 36, 52, 68, 84, and 100%, but I'm not sure how to write the variable condition to show the correct state since they don't have to view the items in a specific order.  The first item is worth 20% with the rest worth 16% each.  I might be approaching this in the wrong way but any guidance you can provide would be appreciated.

  • No matter how you divvy up the graphic, it still has 7 states of progress. Just consider those numbers 0-6.

    Use a number variable that starts at 0, and then add 1 to its value when the user completes a given item.

    • Be sure the counting variable is not adjusted if the user repeats a given item.

    Adjust the state of the progress graphic based on the value of the variable, which should also range from 0-6.

  • @Judy Nollet - please elaborate on the statement below. this is exactly the problem we had trying to use a custom progress bar - when someone goes backward using previous button, it did not recognize that they have a higher percentage of progress and reverted backwards. if this is a condition of the counting variable, I would like more detail. thank you for sharing.

    Be sure the counting variable is not adjusted if the user repeats a given item.